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by uvesten 4y ago
https://archive.ph/miSbe Argh.
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by uvesten 4y ago
Didn’t see that plot twist coming!
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by uvesten 4y ago
Well, luckily China does not control the language used on HN or in the world in general, so stole it is.
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by uvesten 4y ago
Ouch! That felt like a longer-than usual list of bugs, especially the memory mgmt bugs leading to arbitrary code execution. And a sizeable number of remotes (if you include webkit in that category.) I honestly don’t know what to feel; ”grea
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by uvesten 4y ago
666 comments, I won’t fall for it.
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by uvesten 4y ago
Anecdata, but I did a master’s in bioinformatics a few years ago, and as part of that I spent about a year in a human genomics lab. I fully agree that the software used is really bad in general, but what is worse is the level of IT literacy
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by uvesten 4y ago
Yes! Now I know what I’m doing tonight.
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by uvesten 4y ago
As someone who uses `jq` almost daily, this looks like a great tool I didn’t know I needed. Thanks for the tip!
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by uvesten 4y ago
I had a CTO like you once. Totally destroyed morale, made the best people leave, and created a toxic work environment where there was no trust in management at all. If that’s your goal, good work I guess.
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by uvesten 4y ago
Heh, same here :) I guess a fair percentage of HN commenters live in Switzerland.
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by uvesten 4y ago
How many EU beaureaucrats got their training in East Germany, I wonder? Or is it rather that they are too young and do not know about/remember what constant surveillance does to trust in a society?
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by uvesten 4y ago
Looks neat! The documentation does not seem to have any examples of the generated docs, though. I think that would be a good addition, because it’s a good selling point for the project. (I.e I don’t think I’d go through downloading and runn
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by uvesten 4y ago
I wonder about the psychology of the people (researchers) working on "innovations" such as these (other things also come to mind, e.g. face detection in crowds, optimizing fragment distribution from bomb/granade explosions).
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by uvesten 4y ago
Off topic, but please consider using the correct tense when talking about people. E.g ”Uses” instead of ”used”, otherwise you are implying that the person in question is dead… (After reading your comment I went to wikipedia to check that B
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by uvesten 5y ago
Yup, typo!
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by uvesten 5y ago
It’s just a great internet provider, which very much caters to techies. They supply the plug in the wall, you provide your own router etc. I guess the key is that they _are_ actually more expensive than the competition here, and they provid
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by uvesten 5y ago
This is the ISP that I’m using, and they are insanely great, imho. I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free, something that has finally made me learn IPv6 in depth. Still only on 1 Gb/s fiber though, because I hav
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by uvesten 5y ago
I went way down the rabbit hole on this one. Seems that they are still made and used, fascinating!
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by uvesten 5y ago
It seems there has to be some amendments to rules about releasing raw, anonymized trial data when the state is sponsoring development of the drug. Also, how can Pfizer claim that their "study" ends in 2023? Several hundred millio
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by uvesten 5y ago
IIRC, this is basically a U.S-only phenomenon. In Europe and most other places of the world, there is the understanding that a grave will not last forever. In most parts of Europe, the grave is actually "guaranteed" to still be yo
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by uvesten 5y ago
I decided to have a quick look, and this caught my eye: —- zx_cprng_draw() terminates the calling process if buffer is not a valid userspace pointer. —— ”Terminates the calling process”? That sounds different and interesting, do you know mo
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by uvesten 5y ago
3 kids, max age 5. Watching children’s programs on the iPad, twice a week, about half an hour. Always with one parent watching with them. FaceTime with friends and extended family once in a while together. Other than that, no screen time.
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by uvesten 5y ago
I did a short stint in the automotive industry ~10 yrs ago (on the software/safety side) at one of GM’s brands. The lack of forward-thinking was absolutely horrible, as was the constant insistence that anything new would never work (yo
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by uvesten 5y ago
Thanks! So, given the recent license changes to Oracle’s distribution, why would anyone use it? ”Support”?
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by uvesten 5y ago
I’m slightly confused as to what the relation is between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK. Are they based on the same codebase? I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that OpenJDK and the ”official” (Oracle) JDK were totally different imple
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by uvesten 5y ago
From the article: ”Often they have not even bothered to do basic troubleshooting, things like read the documentation on what the error message is attempting to tell you.” This has been the bane of my work happiness for a while now. I keep h
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by uvesten 5y ago
I got a /48, and I think it will take me a while to put all those addresses in use. I'm using 9-10 now, so while I've certainly started down the path, the end is not in sight just yet.
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by uvesten 5y ago
:facepalm: Why didn’t I think of that?
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by uvesten 5y ago
How would this even be theoretically possible? I mean, if you know someone’s personal details, they per definition has lost that privacy towards you.
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by uvesten 5y ago
Great :) I’ve been wondering what equipment to get when I upgrade to the 25 gbit connection too. Maybe a custom build is the way to go after all!

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