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by zahllos 5y ago
The remarkable 2 still doesn't support pdf bookmarks? Seriously? I use a Fujitsu Quaderno (was from Sony). Similar idea, no epub support but pdf links and bookmarks, on device search? These all work.
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by zahllos 5y ago
Another aspect to consider: this is all a very US-centric view. In the UK, getting hired without a degree is not impossible (I did it) but very difficult, and some processes will simply filter you out. Large employers like IBM want a 2.2 eq
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by zahllos 5y ago
Very true, but the role exists by long standing convention, which in the UK is almost as good ;) Whereas the role of deputy PM is much more nebulous. I guess I really wanted to contrast this against the US VP, which while that also hasn&#x2
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by zahllos 5y ago
I forgot about that. I think they wanted proportional representation / single transferable vote and alternative vote was already a compromise. They also promised tuition fees would be abolished. As a junior partner they were unlikely t
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by zahllos 5y ago
Further clarification: deputy prime minister is not a position that exists as a matter of constitution in the UK. The position was created for Clegg as the junior partner in a coalition government. I think it has existed before and no doubt
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by zahllos 5y ago
IMO this: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/fe129956bb1b3f7e3231c1... is the most exciting part. Tiberian Sun remains my favourite C&C game. I know it was rushed and had some bugs but... I mean: The F
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by zahllos 5y ago
I agree, having lived in both the UK and Switzerland. If you can justify the cost, the GA in Switzerland is incredible and works for most trains, buses and boats in the country (the exceptions are usually private touristy rail routes that g
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by zahllos 5y ago
I think this is a little unfair to NIST. Some parts aren't entirely factual. For example while DES was specified at 56 bits if we discount parity bits, I'm not sure how much choice they had in this - I suspect NSA/US gov more
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by zahllos 5y ago
Yes, looks like Russia wants to reduce dependence on iOS and Android: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS#Aurora_OS
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by zahllos 5y ago
Fun fact: in the past, when La Vuelta a España rode into Toledo, the winner of that stage was gifted a sword. I don't know if this happens every time, but it definitely happened to David Millar, a British rider who won the time trial t
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by zahllos 5y ago
Yes it is a real concern. If you're running a Linux distribution, chances are you are downloading your packages from a mirror and not the primary mirror for your distribution. This is done to everyone's benefit bandwidth-wise. How
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by zahllos 5y ago
I'm afraid it isn't free for undergrads, even outside the federal domain. Actually St Gallen is more expensive than ETH! https://www.unisg.ch/en/studium/informationsangebote/gebuehr...
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by zahllos 5y ago
Here you go: the salaries of PhD students at ETH Zürich: https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/working-teaching-and-resea...
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by zahllos 5y ago
Only PhDs are paid. I think the salary scale starts at around 51,000 CHF. That's a lot for other countries but it isn't for Switzerland. The exact amount is public knowledge and you can find it if you look. It is slightly higher f
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by zahllos 5y ago
Here's a quick overview: We have what we call primitives that achieve a certain goal. For example AES on its own does a pretty good job of being a block cipher. However it doesn't fulfil all our expectations for actual secure comm
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by zahllos 5y ago
I'm not familiar with universities outside the ETH rules (ETHZ/EPFL only) but students are paid a salary at these universities and hold dual status as employees and students. I'm not sure if their tuition is waived. Even if t
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by zahllos 5y ago
I only actually pay for 100Mbits symmetric. Quite a lot of VPSes only offer that anyway, even now. But yes it doesn't make sense for local wiring at all. 1Gbit-capable LAN cabling is cheap and ubiquitous. On the other hand it sounds li
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by zahllos 5y ago
It isn't everywhere in Switzerland. I just lucked in to moving to a town that happens to have a lot of fibre underneath. Plenty of places here are stuck on some form of broadband.
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by zahllos 5y ago
Yeah future proofing makes sense. I'd hope they'd do that anyway if only because once they get out of my building it isn't just a fibre cable for me but for business connectivity too. There's a couple of data centres in
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by zahllos 5y ago
So by natively I mean that if you look at the packets there is only ipv6. 6rd, hurricane electric and so on, you can use these tunnels to get the functional equivalent of having IPv6 at home, but between you and the point-of-presence (the o
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by zahllos 5y ago
In Switzerland it is a level of insanity above this. Major ISPs are now promising 10Gbit and 25Gbit fibre to the home, but only one ISP natively supports IPv6 (init7, not the country's major provider Swisscom). This is utterly bonkers.
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by zahllos 5y ago
Yes, I remember seeing this as well. The irony here is that much of the inter-service traffic on the internet could already be sent over IPv6 without anyone noticing. Getting end users onto IPv6 is always going to be a challenge as, well, I
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by zahllos 5y ago
> "because I can't possibly fathom my hard earned money paying for someone else's treatment" seems to be the most common reason. But it is anyway in fact, since that's how insurance works even privately. There is
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by zahllos 5y ago
The Microsoft antitrust thing was about bundling Internet Explorer in Windows, and also Microsoft's Java VM. The argument from Microsoft was that these two components constituted essential parts of Windows (to that end internet explore
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by zahllos 5y ago
I would argue yes and no (for the split). They created two separate legal structures under Barclays PLC, since they had to ( https://home.barclays/who-we-are/ring-fencing-explained/ ) but as a consumer would you not
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by zahllos 5y ago
It isn't about being anticompetitive, it is about regulation, to protect the average consumer from being taken advantage of by unscrupulous people touting scams, and also to protect the government, as the government guarantees deposits
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by zahllos 5y ago
I've been operating my own mail server on the same IP for the last 10 years, so not as long as yours and I also don't have problems. I also disagree with one of the parent comments that you will never know what happens to email: G
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by zahllos 6y ago
.eu domain usage isn't that high, I don't think. I only have anecdata from my time in the UK, but .co.uk appears to be "the" domain to have in the UK. From what I've seen the same is true on the continent. .fr and .
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Designing a clock glitcher around the ZYNQ(esat.kuleuven.be)
2 points by zahllos 6y ago|0 comments
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UK Internet providers tracking sites we visit in secretive trial(theguardian.com)
3 points by zahllos 6y ago|2 comments

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