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by vimax 6y ago
Sure, and that's a terrible metaphor for computer security.
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by vimax 6y ago
Just wait until you're home to write the review
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by vimax 6y ago
Clearly, she has not lied under oath. It is the prosecution that lied in misleading the witness on material facts, in which she is assisting. In these new times we might say she has conspired to commit perjury in High Court.
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by vimax 6y ago
Reading Don Quixote I was amazed to find people 400 years ago complaining about needing a prescription from a guild barber for a potion from a guild apothecary.
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by vimax 6y ago
Our phones can't upload all the user data they could collect. Our phones can't download the all the ads that could be sent to them fast enough.
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by vimax 6y ago
Or for system monitoring. You could have different function play different sounds so the whole program sounds melodic in normal operation. If the melody is off or you hear discordant notes then you know something's up.
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by vimax 6y ago
The more I use systemd the more I love it. It simplifies so much, and adds all the little features I see so many projects using custom implementations for. The people who keep complaining about it seem more and more like children who just
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by vimax 6y ago
Your package manager will still see that the two packages want to own the same file and give you a conflict error unless you force install which it's very messy. Namespacing the commands would solve this. But in general it is bad pract
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by vimax 6y ago
I prototyped a glove with hall effect sensors and vibration motors to allow sensing magnetic flux without needing to implant a magnet in your finger.
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Ask HN: GPT-3 for Software Documentation?
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by vimax 6y ago
I was always under the impression that journalistic integrity was staked on providing anonymity to anonymous sources. In the past it was something the most respected journalist would have gone to prison over, but in today's world I gue
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by vimax 6y ago
I've become a big fan of systemd timers over cron jobs. The command itself is separated out into a service with all the isolation and journalling features of a service. You're able to test the command and know 100% it will run wit
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by vimax 6y ago
Also, the large corporations have the lobbying money to influence regulation. Once their behavior is egregious enough to warrant regulation, they able to twist it to be a barrier to entry for new players further entrenching their own posit
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by vimax 6y ago
Make is an extremely simple syntax for declaring file dependencies and then shell agnostic for all of the build rule scripting. If you want to use python, put this in your makefile: SHELL=python .ONESHELL:
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by vimax 6y ago
Make has no way by itself to know what headers a c file needs. It would need to parse c code to do that. C files typically compile independently and then get linked together, so there are no dependencies between c files the make needs to
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by vimax 6y ago
To do it in true FAANG style, you'd need to collude with all the other parents to set the market rate lower and ensure noone offers your babysitter anything higher.
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by vimax 6y ago
Everyone is focused on this being a means of controlling the selection process, but just look at the money. CollegeBoard had a 2017 revenue of $1.07bn with an astonishing $928m in expenses. If the new UCSAT displaces the SAT, UC gets to ad
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by vimax 6y ago
Such a short signed message could be used out of context in the future. Bob somewhere else is talking about a different idea, and I claim to be Alice and send Alice's signed "this is a great idea" message. The signature chec
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by vimax 6y ago
New branch, make two commits. Squash merge the branch as a single commit.
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by vimax 6y ago
Just make sure to use 'git mv' for all your files so the history can be tracked. 'git log myfile' will only show the history for that file, but 'git blame' will follow the line changes across file moves. That
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by vimax 6y ago
What world are you living in that customers don't ask for software complexity? I've spent so much time shooting down poorly thought out ideas, explaining why it is just too complex and not what they need.
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by vimax 6y ago
Check out the SANS Institute https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/hipaa/what-pro...
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by vimax 7y ago
That made me think of something along the lines of "backdooring a dataset" by introducing some hard to find but easy to trigger failure modes or fingerprinting for any application built on top of it.
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by vimax 7y ago
This is java, it would be -D-XX:VerboseRuntime=true
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by vimax 7y ago
Every time I wind up doing > java -v > java --version > java -version
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by vimax 7y ago
Anyone more in this field know if this has been reviewed by others, or the likelihood of it standing in the way of practical quantum computers? It sounds pretty damning to QC if true.
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by vimax 7y ago
It's hard to miss when your company is making headline news around the globe with data scandals involving interfering with US elections. It's damn hard to have not heard of Cambridge Analytica or possible Russian interference in t
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by vimax 7y ago
Okay, so then let's go by the numerous fines they've had to pay for not following data and privacy regulations along with a looming antitrust case. Pretty sure that goes beyond just some commenters on HN.
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by vimax 7y ago
At this point the way Facebook abuses privacy and data is general knowledge to the tech crowd. Anyone working on Facebook knows enough about how the platform works on a high level that claiming innocence through specific technical ignoranc
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by vimax 7y ago
You could breathe one, but I imagine you would not usually encounter a single one by itself. They would always be in the form of a connected cloud with arms stretched out attached to another. If you walk through the cloud, they'd deta

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