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   by tribaal 12y ago

   It never was.
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   Show HN: Create a full Ubuntu mirror(tribaal.io)

   3 points by tribaal 12y ago|0 comments
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   by tribaal 12y ago

   I've been upgrading my laptop through 6 releases (it's 3 years old), and never had a single failure. Do you use the provided upgrade path? It's very surprising to me to hear that - we test upgrades pretty thoroughly. Disclaim
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   by tribaal 12y ago

   Thanks for your work, seriously, this is one kickass pet project if I ever saw one.
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   by tribaal 12y ago

   Since I'm an Ubuntu user, I use Landscape to keep my system up-to-date: https://landscape.canonical.com/ It did the patching for me during the night (I told it to do so for security updates), so I woke up to already pa
6. 216.▲
   by tribaal 12y ago

   You didn't read the article. The headline is sensationalist, what they are doing it paying for the government not to issue more logging licenses (easy to verify) and putting forests on "protected" status (as well as other con
7. 217.▲
   by tribaal 12y ago

   Well, they will help them build capacity to protect forests, and prevent new logging licenses to be granted, as well as place more forests in a "protected" status. It's not like they just ask to stop and give them cash, like
8. 218.▲
   by tribaal 12y ago

   I live in Africa. When is it coming here? I'd love to have a cheap, supported android phone. Most affordable android phones here are "tecno" (chinese samsung knockoffs), but it's notably hard to flash since not many peop
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   by tribaal 12y ago

   Correct.
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    I do exactly that, using keepassX. Single use, complex passwords that I change every two months, stored in a shared encrypted database. What exactly is hard about it?
11. 221.▲
    by tribaal 12y ago

    Same for Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and I suspect a lot of the rest of the (non-Eastern) Africa. USSD codes are critical.
12. 222.▲
    by tribaal 12y ago

    I personally feel like the "Atheist" position in the US is much more vocal than in the rest of the world. I'm an Atheist, but I leave people alone and don't try to press my view on the rest of mankind, just like I like t
13. 223.▲
    by tribaal 12y ago

    And there is no way to change your password.
14. 224.▲
    by tribaal 12y ago

    Well, I'd love to be wrong really. Pretty please, somebody confirm my reading comprehension skills are complete garbage? :)
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    So, it seems from reading the paper's abstract that they did measure thrust both from the real propulsion test device and from the dummy test device. That's not very promising: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=2
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    Wait, that's basic social competence! Sorry, but I don't think any interviewer in the history of job interviews would give a guy a job if he showed up late without warning - how is your "testing for reliability" any diff
17. 227.▲
    by tribaal 12y ago

    Good to see Google doing this! Let's hope the bugs found are published in a timely and open fashion. Yes they say it will, but the proof is in the pudding :)
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    Yes, you're right. There is some value in repeating the information - but I assumed most people on hackernews would know about this already. It would be great to re-hash the information to the general public, however.
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    How is that even remotely a surprise? You should assume any computer you don't own is keylogged, period.
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    Yes, you're right, they could. But I suspect the decision is made of things like: - If it proves to be actually good, they might actually sell some of those chips, too (it's developing their local high-tech sector. Even a tiny pie
21. 231.▲
    by tribaal 12y ago

    Well yeah, if they were to buy made-in-russia processors. Which is very unlikely.
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    I guess it is purely political. Russia wants to be independent from the US for computers, because they fear (rightfully) American chips to be bugged. Having slow, expensive chips made in Russia is probably more interesting to certain agen
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    Not to mention my very favorite "feature" of being non-revokable. Well, only once per finger. And you only got a finite amount of them by nature. It'll be so much fun when the payment database gets compromised! I always thoug
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    I question the value of websockets in most cases, because in most applications I can think of (except maybe games and high-frequency trading), they don't bring me any value and actually prevent me from interacting with the website in a
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    Mosh is great, I use it on an almost daily basis. Setting an alias like "alias sssh='mosh'" greatly helps with muscle memory, too (of course, don't override "ssh", you might still need it). Funny anecdote:
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    That will introduce yet another delay/flapping point for people on unreliable connections: You start with a longpoll and get some data, then negotiate websockets (hey, my network and browsers are websockets capable!). Then the connec
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    I'm fine with sending a couple of extra kb if that means I actually get an answer :)
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    I live in Africa. Websockets suck here. BGP routers here flap very often, nuking TCP connections because hey, power cuts. Guess what happens? Tip: If you're "out to change the world", make sure you can turn your wifi card e
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    Well, that's throwing people implementing subclasses under the bus, IMO. Why not just add @param annotations in your docstrings instead?
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    by tribaal 12y ago

    The more frequent and dangerous pitfalls are, in my humble opinion: - Bare except: statements (that catches everything , even Ctrl-C) - Mutables as default function/method arguments - Wildcard imports!