ultramancool

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by ultramancool 10y ago
Just that the harm caused by it is not a major factory in its legal status.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Alcohol is probably only legal because it's easy to make and has existed in the culture for ages, nothing to do with any ailments. History defines the laws far more than logic does.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Not getting jailed for the rest of your life most likely.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
If I recall correctly they've had major issues duplicating studies which got positive results on this.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
This can't be top... there's so few technical books and a book about Palm OS programming is showing up here. Is there an 'all time' list that would be better? This contains a lot of garbage that got referenced once in an
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by ultramancool 10y ago
That's a community tutorial, however it does appear their panel is very sparse in instructions, when you add the domain you see a nameservers list. They don't even tell you that it's not pointed at them and that you should no
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Typically when registering a new domain you add it on your panel first and then change the NS as instructed. If you didn't follow that order, well, that's on you. It's the same design just about everyone providing DNS uses (C
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Except this isn't even a vulnerability, this is expected behavior given the design I think, to encounter an issue with it, you'd need to leave your domain with DO's nameservers, but delete it from your account. This would onl
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by ultramancool 10y ago
It's pretty understandable actually. Most DNS providers do similar, it's really just the admins fault for not switching their DNS, likely because they were abandoned and unused.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Not quite, only one person can, so if you add first, it's yours. Typically they have you add the domain and then you switch the DNS and in that configuration you wouldn't be vulnerable at all.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Wonder what else might be vulnerable to this... CloudFlare seems like it may, they only have a handful of nameservers in any case. Sort of hard to call it a vulnerability on DO's part though - more of an issue with the admins. I think
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by ultramancool 10y ago
I've anecdotally experienced very high failure rates on them too, had 3/6 fail in about 5 years. And many other anecdotal reports indicate similarly bad results. Maybe not as bad as Backblaze but pretty damn bad. I absolutely agre
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by ultramancool 10y ago
You're right, but the one catch is you sure shouldn't be using key files with it as they're one of the few things with known issues.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Sure, 'smarter' was a poor choice of words, but the point is I suspect there may be a correlation between general cognitive performance and job attainment.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
I really dislike Slack for work too. A workplace shouldn't be using "cloud" services with company chat which is likely to include private details, financial, server ops, etc. It's just asking to get it plastered all over
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by ultramancool 10y ago
I didn't read it in detail, so forgive me if this was accounted for, but I feel like this would be hard to control as people who are not working at all or working extremely long hours may not be as capable as those working a normal or
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by ultramancool 10y ago
A VM makes it possible to arbitrarily read and modify memory from outside of the operating system in a way that the anti-cheat can't otherwise detect (heck, some VMs have full out integrated debuggers), so anti-cheat and DRM schemes us
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by ultramancool 10y ago
> I wanted to do something like this, but after reading about the failure rates of drives and raid, once one disk fails, it seems like you're fucked. Anybody got some stories or numbers that prove that while repairing my raid for on
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by ultramancool 10y ago
That's what RAID is for, just make sure you scrub it often enough to catch any potential failure. If you're ever looking for replacements, those 4 TB Seagates are hard to beat without paying enterprise-level prices, despite how mu
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by ultramancool 10y ago
How is it for gaming? I'd imagine it's using a VM solution (Xen HVM or KVM so it can do IOMMU?). I've been avoiding it because I figure that VM solution would get detected by anti-cheat in many games (particularly the nasty k
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Those 3TB Seagate drives are literally the worst in the business. The 2TB and 4TB are pretty good (roughly on par or better than competitors according to the backblaze reports) but those 3TB drives were utter shit for some reason, ~20% year
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by ultramancool 10y ago
I actually think the CBC guy has some validity still. Certainly civility falls apart quickly in large groups like Reddit or Twitter where most interactions are one-offs, but in small ones (irc channels and forums), even where there are majo
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by ultramancool 10y ago
This is one I've never quite understood. Having written many scrapers I will say - Scraping is always hard to maintain. I've written regex and parser based scrapers many times, but it's still a need for constant updates as th
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Great business to be in, attach an auto injection mechanism to maybe $5 worth of syringe and epinephrine. Then undercut your competition by over 60%. I hope they do well. If more generic manufacturers get in on this or the patent expires we
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by ultramancool 10y ago
This is trivially defeated though. Simply render 2 copies of the DOM. The first runs all the Javascript, loads all the ads, maybe even fake clicks them just to fuck with ad tech (or fire off a few hundred requests and see what happens to th
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by ultramancool 10y ago
This may be because they fixed the vulnerability with truecrypt keyfiles and didn't want to leave the vulnerable implementation around. Might want to report it and see what can be done.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
I'm hoping this means running EF migration scripts on Linux will be less of a nightmare. It was one of the biggest issues I ran into developing a Web application in .net hosted on Linux.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah... the optimus crap has serious problems. It causes my GPU driver to crash on Windows while I'm trying to give demos at work (not exactly a great look when your screen goes black and then your application's 3d display dies).
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah... between this and the malware, I can't leave my family without ad blockers.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
But you'd think that if their job was law enforcement of internet crimes, they would have to have at least a very basic understand of this sort of thing. It couldn't be more than a 2 or 3 hour training course to teach people a bit

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