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by wgjordan 6y ago
> I'm over here laughing in my "over an hour of CloudFormation only to have a run fail, and then a rollback fail, and have to contact AWS support" life. Your experience must be over four years out of date, because CloudFor
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> For a healthy young adult, what are the potential long term side effects of covid? From an overall risk/reward perspective, I would include the risk of subsequently infecting your parents, grandparents or other vulnerable/hig
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Thanks for pointing out the mention of representation. However the letter still lacked two required elements for it to be an effective formal counter notice: - §512(g)(3)(C): A 'statement under penalty of perjury' that the materia
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> I don't think that even if the first is true, the second is true: even the courts that hold the "nexus" position don't, AFAIK, hold that Sec. 1201 liability requires that the trafficker be already liable for contrib
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by wgjordan 6y ago
After reading the EFF's letter a little more closely, I realize now that it wasn't even a formal DMCA counter notice representing the repository owners, just an informal legal rebuttal of the original claims. Oops. So GitHub wasn&
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by wgjordan 6y ago
The 'copyright violations' section of the RIAA letter (regarding the unit tests) was clearly a standard §512 notice alleging copyright infringement. Even if §512 wasn't explicitly mentioned, it's still a legally effectiv
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> Infringement of copyright is defined by the statute and does not include the anti-circumvention 1201 provisions. Yeah, my mistake, you're correct the 1201 anti-circumvention provisions do define a new violation separate from copyr
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Rather interesting that GitHub decided to restore access 1 day after receiving the EFF's counter notice, instead of waiting 10 days. As a brief legal recap, in 1998 the DMCA added §512 [1] to US copyright law, which established a mecha
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> I was under the impression that DMCA notices were for the removal of infringing content, not alleged anti-circumvention tools. That's what the law seems to specify. My reading is that the DMCA expanded the definition of 'copy
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> If GitHub really was "standing up for developers", why couldn't Microsoft's own army of lawyers figure this out? I think the 'What we're changing' section is the real interesting part of this post reg
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It's not treated differently at all - that's exactly what the EFF just argued in its response to the RIAA [1]: > Because youtube-dl simply uses the "signature" code provided by YouTube in the same manner as any browse
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> no, the one close to being IE6 is Safari. Google Chrome was compared to IE6 as being close to having 'the monopoly position as a browser'. Indeed, Internet Explorer peaked at ~95% global browser market share in 2003-4 (when I
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by wgjordan 6y ago
The original 2011 report [1] was updated with a note mentioning that an official review conducted in 2017 [2] concluded the official recommendation probably wouldn't have been any different despite the statistical error, so they didn&#
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> As Linux enthusiasts and long-time fans of Linux Journal, we were disappointed to hear about Linux Journal closing it's doors last year. closing its doors, no apostrophe. I take this to mean the editors weren't hired back?
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by wgjordan 6y ago
In order to defend against slow-client (Slowloris) attacks, reasonable timeouts are necessary but not sufficient if your server has a limited pool of request handlers (or if it uses a separate resource-intensive process/thread per conn
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Indeed, overly broad denunciations of 'security by obscurity' come up as a point of confusion often on HN, and this post provides a good, coherent summary of a proper response. A defense mechanism that only partially mitigates an
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Scroll down and the answer is right there: > Q: What does "every pixel is simulated" mean? > A: Basically every pixel in Noita is made of some material. The different materials are simulated. E.g. Water will behave like a li
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by wgjordan 6y ago
According to the game intro, they had a team of 3 lead testers and 25 testers. That should give you a sense of how many human resources went into testing back then at least.
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by wgjordan 6y ago
"The advantage of this pattern is increased application resiliency", as spelled out in the first paragraph. So yes, these technologies are 'biased towards' systems that require this degree of resiliency rather than &#x27
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From the article, data seems to show sellers flooding the market in San Francisco: > In San Francisco, list prices have fallen 4.9% year over year and inventory has risen 96% with a flood of new listings. > When comparing the principa
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Typo in title (not in the actual article headline)- should be 'its', not 'it's'
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Looks like it's now updated!
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slack.com returning 503 Service Unavailable. See https://status.slack.com/2020-05/87ad1d12e36fcf0c for incident details: > [May 12, 4:53 PM PDT] Users have reported general performance issues such message sending fa
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On the other hand, over 200 engineers on payroll is way more expensive than a couple handful! Presumably you're getting significant value out of the additional engineering work in which case the architecture shift probably makes sense
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by wgjordan 7y ago
Currently in Phase 2 Clinical Development since Dec 2018, with interim data expected mid-2020 [1]. [1] https://valneva.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2018_12_17_VL...
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by wgjordan 7y ago
I would also enjoy being able to punch in '12345' as my password everywhere instead of launching LastPass all the time, but I accept that some conveniences aren't worth security consequences.
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> 40% of people in ICU in italy are 19-40, basically, those who make up the majority of the workforce. Correction: 11.9% of people in ICU in Italy are 19-50; 51.2% are 51-70; and 36.9% are > 70 [1]. [1] https://www.epicentr
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by wgjordan 7y ago
This is the first bear market (drop of 20% from a recent peak in broad-based index) Bitcoin or the crypto-currency market has ever seen, 'traditional' or not, so it's really uncharted territory.
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> If we latch too late, after cycle 40, Full Throttle Racing will glitch. But if we guess a value too soon, say on cycle 0, that might be too early, and it might cause issues in another game. > We would have to retest the entire SNES

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