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by xfs 12y ago
The backlight issue is not a bug inherent to Thinkpads. The kernel works very hard to sort out the whole vendor specific mess about backlight interfaces and works out an appropriate place to manage the controls for users (what users? system
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by xfs 12y ago
Have any of the critics you refer to here actually used the current keyboards? For over several months? If that is even the case, they are probably those who prefer form over function, because the current keyboards are objectively no worse
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by xfs 12y ago
Linus explains his stance on Linux security, issues with security people, SELinux, CVE commit log, etc. at DebConf 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo#t=3936
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by xfs 12y ago
"Anything humans can do in 0.1 sec, the right big 10-layer network can do too" Actually this was argued by Connectionists in 1980s. It is called Feldman's 100-step rule: The critical resource that is most obvious is time. Ne
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by xfs 12y ago
Linux kernel does have a lot of non-functional formatting commits. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.... These non-functional commits happen more in areas under active deve
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by xfs 12y ago
TL;DR: He overflowed inotify queue of /etc/init which is the Upstart configuration directory being monitored. Upstart doesn't deal with the overflow, exits, and causes kernel panic. The bug is not fixed because in order to tr
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by xfs 12y ago
Injuries per billion miles are often unreported, thus it is not a reliable statistic to talk about and compare with.
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by xfs 12y ago
Note that I was comparing with Google's methods of testing self-driving cars: idle roads, good weather, precision maps, human monitoring, no accidents. If Google's miles of safe driving mean anything, if means it has 99% more mile
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by xfs 12y ago
All the effort is spent for safety. But is it worth it? The fully autonomous approach may never make Google's self-driving car economically viable to reach the same level of human driving safety. Note that humans are actually decent dr
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by xfs 12y ago
This libsystemd points to a dangerous habit of the certain group of developers who prefer strong interdependency and monolithic architecture. In similar way, you have libdbus which is technically not the actual dbus, but tries anything to l
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by xfs 12y ago
Core package bsdutils predepends on libsystemd0. Now it is impossible for any Debian jessie systems to be without systemd code. https://packages.debian.org/sid/bsdutils
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by xfs 12y ago
Many applications will try to print their own stack before exiting on SIGSEGV.
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by xfs 13y ago
The maintainer of mdadm migrated two nfs-utils sysvinit scripts of 801 lines into 14 systemd unit files of 168 lines.[1] Complexity won't go away with migration. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/584175/ (Subscrib
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by xfs 13y ago
The Golden Shield Project is an internal police network. The "Great Firewall of China" is several systems of very lengthy official names, but basically a dual-use firewall of CNCERT. CNCERT does not report to any police.
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by xfs 13y ago
The Golden Shield Project has nothing to do with the GFW. The whole Wikipedia article is a misnomer.
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by xfs 13y ago
uses what we know of human vision to minimize filesize while keeping the image visually the same. This is what JPEGmini is doing, perceptual compression metric. gaussian smoothing instead of just truncating the high-frequency components
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by xfs 13y ago
Gaussian Blur JPEG Optimization Blurring reduces noise/entropy so that JPEG compresses better. You can use a bilateral filter (Photoshop: Surface Blur; GIMP: Selective Gaussian Blur) for larger amount of smoothing while preserving ed
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by xfs 13y ago
Drone delivery being developed in Shenzhen, China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GDnFbTL5vc (3 months ago)
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by xfs 13y ago
Actually Brown teaches Intro to Programming Languages using Pyret. http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2013/software.html
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by xfs 13y ago
Wow, this story has already been flagged into oblivion and disappeared from the front page in under one hour.
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by xfs 13y ago
Before piping to your shell, don't copy-paste from website to terminal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508225
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by xfs 13y ago
Whatever accidents happen on a car driven by human, it is usually the fault of the driver. For self-driving cars, then it becomes that the manufacturers are responsible for all accidents. This is unmanageable liability.
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by xfs 13y ago
Captcha itself is by no way a security measure.
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by xfs 13y ago
This. Acquire access to major routers, send routing commands, route target traffic into their hidden networks, and avoid physically wiretapping anything. And this framework can be done globally: Your target's communications [...] flow
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by xfs 13y ago
Update in the original article: Besides: you guys have systemd, which if I'm going to treat it the same way I treated NTFS, is an all-devouring octopus monster about crawl out of the sea and eat Tokyo and spit it out as a giant binary logf
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by xfs 13y ago
You can expect most bugs in 3.2 has been fixed so it's very stable. Old doesn't mean unmaintained. Debian's kernel developer Ben Hutchings has been backporting for 3.2 for a long time with lots of security fixes and hardware enablement. In
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by xfs 13y ago
Adobe's post http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2013/05/adobe-contribute...
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by xfs 13y ago
It's funny how people here automatically start the reactionary rejection of a new technology taking over our current way of processing information. It is not really a competition about who lives a better life, or what is the true experience
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by xfs 13y ago
How does DDoS mitigation look like? Do they use realtime dashboard with similar visualization to cut off hotspots?
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by xfs 13y ago
Seconded. Chromium, Linux.

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