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by yuubi 12y ago
> double write buffers were disabled on a non-atomic FS Surely just sending SIGKILL will allow the writes already issued to complete, regardless of the FS type/options? Nobody kicked the plug out of the wall.
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by yuubi 13y ago
> parallel to USB Last time I looked at the spec for those, it supported send-byte-to-printer-with-IEEE-1284-handshaking as a primitive (the USB interface saw data bytes, not instructions to set, clear, and read control lines). The para
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by yuubi 13y ago
RFC1876 says WGS84 in several places, including one of the parts quoted in the Cloudflare article. I don't spot an explicit statement that lat/lon are WGS84 (only altitude, p. 3), but it's the only datum mentioned and assumi
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by yuubi 13y ago
However, the suggestion upthread wasn't P(NSA abuses H's access) > P(someone abuses H's access), which would be an example of the fallacy you cite, but P(NSA abuses H's access) > P(H abuses H's access).
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by yuubi 13y ago
http://linux.die.net/man/4/tty_ioctl suggests that TIOCCONS, which xconsole uses, has been supported as recently as 2.6.x, when it started requiring privilege (before, it allowed anyone to call it). Maybe that ch
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by yuubi 13y ago
Chasing links from footnote 1 of the paper, one finds that the statute is supposed to prohibit possession, so whether waving it around on air counts as "brandishing" isn't obviously relevant. http://www.washingtonp
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by yuubi 13y ago
The hosts.allow and hosts.deny files only affect incoming connections to services that read them (whether by being invoked through tcpd, or by otherwise using libwrap. You could prevent Twitter from connecting to your FTP service or whatev
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by yuubi 13y ago
Probably only the sort of fractional-reserve banking in which the banker lends out for a year or 30 deposits accepted under the promise to return them upon demand. That's the sort that can have bank runs. If depositors agree that the
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by yuubi 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurion suggests currency has some common features.
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by yuubi 13y ago
> Nobel[sic] leaurate[sic] Alfred Nobel had nothing to do with the Swedish Bank Prize. It's a scheme between a bank and the Nobel Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...
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by yuubi 13y ago
> I can't remember where the article is that I read about all this though. http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949... ? > Another novel way to use a progress gate is to make it
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by yuubi 13y ago
Earlier articles [1] have said that one could click "Like" on a company's page and then have one's name and picture show up in a sidebar ad apparently endorsing a later post that one had never seen and perhaps found dist
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by yuubi 13y ago
If you use OTP (gen_server, etc), your code is a set of callbacks that return promptly, so it never stays "old" until the next upgrade. Your callbacks produce and use a "state" object (opaque to OTP) that OTP passes aro
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by yuubi 13y ago
Pure Al does form a passive layer, but apparently not 2024 Al alloy as used on aircraft (trades more strength for corrosion susceptibility). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_aluminium_alloy Some corrosion pics still
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by yuubi 13y ago
Well, yes, that's what support groups are. Not all problems require drugs (the psychiatrist's USP is the ability to write prescriptions).
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by yuubi 13y ago
The interfaces of a unix-like OS are better understood now than the interfaces of a second-system mainframe OS ("this time we'll get everything right for sure") in the 1960s.
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by yuubi 13y ago
In at least the ADT assembler and gas a few years back, the assembler provided syntactic sugar: ldr r0,=0x123456578 assembles to ldr r0,pc+xxx ... and then somewhere later ... .word 0x12345678 The assembler had som
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by yuubi 13y ago
In the Dark Ages phone I saw, the processor got to turn on a transistor that passed current to the vibrator. Normal operation was either off or full on; there wasn't a way to write a bit greater than 1 to the port pin that controlled
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by yuubi 13y ago
It seems aimed at cases where someone would spend about as much time setting up the problem and solving algebraically as dragging the numbers around for a single instance. Now let's talk about REPLs, where you have to type in your prog
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by yuubi 13y ago
Maybe the Heroku trouble? http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-money-trees-rap-genius-respo...
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by yuubi 13y ago
CDMA also has optional timer-based registration, with intervals between ~12 sec and ~55 hours (depending on what the base station wants; search 3gpp2 C.S0005 for REG_PRD for the gory details), or the base station can send a Registration Req
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by yuubi 13y ago
I don't see where the OS's RNG functions are being deprived of such entropy as the hardware RNG provides; it looks more like the hw RNG is being used as one of many inputs to the OS RNG instead of as a completely trusted substitut
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by yuubi 13y ago
It had most of the language of a DMCA notice and was headed "DMCA Takedown Notice". Now that you mention it, the actual text doesn't exactly say DMCA.
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by yuubi 13y ago
Please cite the bit of the DMCA related to either of those?
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by yuubi 13y ago
I've heard otherwise elsewhere: that grid frequency was initially imprecise, was made precise to enable synchronous electric clocks, and then grid interconnection became feasible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele
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by yuubi 13y ago
"system of repression . . . in which deviance isn’t furiously stamped out . . . but pathologized instead." For instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggishly_progressing_schizop...
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by yuubi 13y ago
> If the addresses are sequential They aren't normally so. The bottom 64 bits of an IPv6 address will typically be either based on an ethernet address or random; see RFC 4291 section 2.5.1.
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by yuubi 13y ago
Or track the seen items, then start back at the beginning and fetch pages till about a page worth of unseen items accumulates?
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by yuubi 13y ago
> try pleading ignorance of the law when you're arrested for breaching a traffic regulation That won't work for a mundane. However, if you're a cop, and you arrest someone under the pretext that it's for driving with
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by yuubi 13y ago
http://wikileaks.org/static/html/faq.html says > For this release we are releasing the documents in a gradual manner, reviewing them with the assistance of our media partners. which doesn't exactly sound &

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