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by tritium 9y ago
You mean you really don't suspect that Ian Murdock was murdered in a manner consistent with the appearance of suicide?
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by tritium 9y ago
If you've ever used Microsoft Windows Encrypting File System (EFS), you'd know that it's pretty much useless. The file table is not encrypted, exposing valuable details about user activity. Sure, you can't read the conte
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by tritium 9y ago
Yeah, that's worse, not better.
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by tritium 9y ago
To be honest, this sounds like a terrible idea, but then again something really should be done about the level of obnoxious nonsense on display.
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by tritium 9y ago
My statement was written in such a way, so as to deliberately avoid this part of the conversation, forcing you're use of the word " seem " to be injected into your conclusion. I am aware of the charged concepts of Bell's
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by tritium 9y ago
And travelers can now promptly regret Facebook's Real Name Policy.
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by tritium 9y ago
The "randomness" of QM is merely an aspect of the discipline humans have designed, in order to digest the predictable parts of the systems examined. We know, that due to differences of scale, and due to the fact that we must make
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by tritium 9y ago
Man, wouldn't it be awesome if there were something to inform the reader what is meant by "hybrid app"? ...because neither "hybrid" nor "app" is an ambiguous term taken on its own. Hey, look, here's s
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by tritium 9y ago
The thing that kills formal dress is the total bullshit known as dry cleaning. Basically fuck dry cleaning. If clothes can't withstand soapy water and hot air, those clothes can go get fucked and eat someone else's paycheck for no
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by tritium 9y ago
I'm going to speculate wildly, and declare that IBM has several serious self-driving-car-related engagements that it must commit to, while exiting other engagements that involve stagnant technologies. It's migrating away from some
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by tritium 9y ago
What do so many of these thinkers (or any in all of history) have to say about machines that act of their own volition to complete tasks that render most or all human effort unnecessary?
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by tritium 9y ago
Has anyone ever listed the group policies that cause Windows to lock up while they are updating every day at 3:00 PM? I know they exist... I can't wait to hear about this one. In all my years of reading about security
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by tritium 9y ago
There's a small but serious niche developing, where VR turns out to be not only useful but probably necessary. Places you can't physically access, but need to go, and require situational awareness of events in the surrounding envi
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by tritium 11y ago
I mean, it is still 2015, though, right?
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by tritium 11y ago
I'm not really sure how to take this recent and emerging narrative that software source code compilation is actually an unreliable, unpredictable activity. I find it really strange that there's a sudden, intense focus on the premi
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by tritium 11y ago
I have a hard time reading this graph: http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Dqp5VJzn4SRzlKiWcVdavOWhYIu... I can see that on either side of the graduated tiles, the diagonally adjacent plots are mirrors of one another. But the
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by tritium 11y ago
It is disturbing to know how many web applications simply forgo any sort of strong type enforcement on arguments and variables supplied directly to SQL as raw strings, simply because developers "don't like" or rather can be b
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by tritium 11y ago
Thus one may say that passenger trains are potentially energy efficient, but in actual practice such trains turn out to be little more energy-efficient than the airplane. What institution changes are needed to realize the p
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by tritium 11y ago
My God. That video of the monkey compulsively pecking away at that touch screen for rewards... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEeU8CV_3Mo That video hits so much closer to home than it should. I see a lot more of myself in
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by tritium 11y ago
Darkness at 4PM on a December afternoon feels like the world is conspiring against you, while you're being robbed of your youth. I honestly despise the mornings. I'm not the kind of person who relishes a schedule, and when I'
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by tritium 11y ago
No! Things like package managers and git, however pervasive, are agents and not the testable, serialized representation of data. Why wouldn't you make the same file set available as a single download via plain, old HTTP(S)? What&#x27
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by tritium 11y ago
From the sound of it, you'll probably be able to transmit much lower amounts of electricity over a much longer distance in a conductor, and expend less effort sending the weak transmission. 200 amps proportional to an amount of work, m
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by tritium 11y ago
As eusocial creatures, the bees don't precisely "learn" this sort of thing, or pass information on by "teaching" other bees to coordinate this sort of behavior. It's an instinctive reaction, deeply ingrained in
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by tritium 11y ago
Just a quick interjection: Something that one smart developer can do in 100 lines on any interpretter is never worth billions of dollars. Someone who can do it, on the other hand, is certainly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, annuall
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by tritium 11y ago
open, remote updatable, sandboxed, cross-platform, app platform The problem isn't that we haven't faithfully accomplished all of those ideals set forth. The problem is that there were much too few, sophisticate
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by tritium 11y ago
Gravity's Rainbow is a cool book, but it's actually about the V2 rockets (roughly 1,300 of which hit London), that started being used in 1944. Meanwhile the "blitz" and The Battle of Britain were an entirely different pa
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by tritium 11y ago
Sometimes I find myself wrestling with the other side of the coin. Lots of us sit around contemplating whether we're slowly programming ourselves into obsolescence. Or maybe not contemplating the "ifs" of it, so much as the &
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by tritium 11y ago
I'd say copy protection, in the spirit of this particular article, still lives on in the type of copy protection applied to video content provided on optical media. Walled gardens, and the like, are really about server side retention o
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by tritium 11y ago
...and 5 x 5 miles (plus one additional square mile), in terms of area, isn't very big at all.
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by tritium 11y ago
tracking != advertising

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