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unclepresent
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unclepresent
8y ago
chisel made from steel may be but even then... try it on concrete or rock just for experiment (I tried). But if chisel is made from cooper or iron ... good luck ... may be you have 10000 years in your life
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unclepresent
8y ago
How did they make this tomb. Even ignoring weight factor, what type of saw could they employ to cut it from the block? Right now companies use diamond wire blades to cut granite and it is not so fast and easy. Can not imagine ancients Egypt
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unclepresent
8y ago
this is a smart dude, he invented one of the most popular algorithms of finding a shortest path in a graph.
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unclepresent
8y ago
I do use docker. Do not worry about this part. But first of all development without docker is much faster. Setting up a docker container takes some time (especially with a custom built apache server). Secondly running a docker machine (need
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unclepresent
8y ago
for everyone who wants to expirience a hell of developing software for linux under OSX i suggest to try to build apache httpd server from source on mac. it seems to be a trivial task on Linux but it is a hell of nightmare on OSX. I am sayin
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unclepresent
9y ago
Not a good read to be honest. Author does not sound like a solid programmer. Examples he is giving actually say he might be a “change chaser” - A person who would make a change just because he can add something new to his CV. The fact that
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9y ago
I doubt it is possible to be done on JavaScript. Timing cache access is a challenging task for such high level language. The key to the attack is to figure out latency of memory access. A JavaScript app that is dealing with 100 layers of in
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unclepresent
9y ago
yep, corrected. at the end it is a bit more complex than that as cache is populated in 32-128 bytes increments but I leave it out for simplicity
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unclepresent
9y ago
Here is the same in 10 lines of pseudo-code http://zergo.me/meltdown.html
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9y ago
There is a strong racial component everywhere. However a grown up person already knows what to expect from mostly black-populated city. White people leave such area for a reason. No one need to explain and give its own ideas about it. We al
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unclepresent
9y ago
Can any news from Detroit be presented now without giving story a racial twist. I clicked the link expecting get details of what had happened and found a person giving me a moral lecture.
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unclepresent
9y ago
weight is probably a driving factor. When you save 100-150 pounds of weight by using some aluminium parts you can use this weight elsewhere. Not sure I am right. Just thinking.
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9y ago
If you are not getting subsidized because of income, you have to pay for everyone else who is subsidized. I was buying plans from health care exchange for 2 years and my last plan for two (parent and child) cost me 500$ per month with 6500
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9y ago
Price of healthcare is driven by a luck of supply (medical professionals, hospitals, affordable drugs) and supply is limited by regulation (expensive and ridiculously long educational process for physicians, huge liability and regulatory bu
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9y ago
Uruk is a derogatory word in Russian language commonly used to discribe immigrants from Muslim countries.
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unclepresent
10y ago
all private security firms ? name one, please
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unclepresent
10y ago
everyone is innocent until proven guilty... there is no any prove in report that hacking even took place, date, time, size of materials, exact mechanism of attack, which email address was compromized, which link was attached to email, what
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unclepresent
10y ago
nobody except complete amateurs is using its own computer to do hacking. there are thousands if not millions of compromized computers in aws cloud and similar hosting services that in turn work as robot-hackers to compromise other sites. it