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by zeta0134 10y ago
This is a noble ideal that will never actually fly in practice. I can protect my site against DDoS by correcting architecture issues with one small set of companies: the hosting providers that my site sits behind, and the computers and arch
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This is one of the main reasons I've stopped taking lunch at my desk. I cheat a bit, eat my lunch right before my long break while I'm getting to a stopping point, then put on my headphones, leave my desk, and wander around our ca
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This is why I've always preferred FOSS, Free and Open Source Software. It's a bit more specific, alas however, FOSS seems to also be some sort of science program in the US, so it's ambiguous.
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think my favorite "feature" of the FTP protocol has to be ASCII mangling, wherein the FTP server tries to mess around with line endings and text encoding mid-transfer. It's so bad that vsftpd, one of the better FTP servers
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think context sensitive filtering is the logical choice at all stages of the operation. Input coming in from a web form should pass through two filters. One context sensitive filter for the form data (Were the required fields filled out,
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by zeta0134 10y ago
A lot of people seem to think that setting up a botnet is difficult, and it's very surprising when you decide to research and actually do it. It's ridiculously easy. You can rent out established botnets with almost no effort, an
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This is an excellent thing to think about when designing dungeons or encounters in any game really. I feel the need to call out Mark Brown, who's doing an excellent analysis series on the Legend of Zelda series, breaking down the depen
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I'm on a Linux machine and figured out the trick fairly quickly: clicking the green padlock does not perform the same action. That's part of the hack too, the interface that pops up is styled like the Windows dialog and isn&#x27
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by zeta0134 10y ago
The only certifications I've picked up so far along my industry journey (I have no college degree and don't plan to get one, so these are necessary) are the Redhat RCSA and RHCE. Both of these certs can't be solved with rote
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I usually pick them up on Amazon. I'm going for popular "good" games at the moment, and these tend to run anywhere from $5 - $30 depending on the condition. Most bargain bin games (movie tie-ins, less popular carts) can be ha
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't see why not! The release itself uses Love2D just because that's easy to run on most machines, but the gameboy module (in the /gameboy folder) has no non-Lua dependencies or code. Its "bit" library or equival
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by zeta0134 10y ago
One day when I was really bored in modded Minecraft, I thought it would be a neat idea to see how far I could get writing a Gameboy emulator in ComputerCraft. That idea fell apart shortly after I had a somewhat working z80 chip and realized
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Show HN: LuaGB – A Gameboy emulator written in pure Lua(github.com)
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by zeta0134 10y ago
So, if I recall correctly, that "tracking supercookie" they're mentining in that account has to be injected in the headers of any request / response, right? Doesn't this mean it's easily defeated by HTTPS? Or a
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I've been using a Zoom modem for years now with no issues at all. The Surfboard series is also pretty well recommended by my friends in the industry. I still prefer to avoid combo modems though, I find that the Wi-fi tech upgrades at a
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Very few mediums are totally ad free, and Netflix is no exception. If a movie or TV show on Netflix (including their original stuff) has product placement, the product placement remains a part of the media and is not altered. That would be
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by zeta0134 10y ago
There are some really good reasons to pick an unusual serialization protocol, and even sometimes reasons to invent your own. (Embedded systems, limited environments, licensing restrictions, etc.) Generally though, you should use something t
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by zeta0134 10y ago
For the graphics question, it really depends on how you define a desktop programmer. Most video game developers need to work with graphics at some point, and a great deal of professional creative software uses GPU acceleration. Whether you
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by zeta0134 10y ago
My mother introduced me to Google back in the day. She and several of her friends agreed that it was amazing because it was fast, simple, and got out of your way. And back then, that's exactly what it was: http://royal.pingd
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This cannot be understated. It really can't. The programmer in me will always be drawn to small, lightweight code that gets the job done while using minimal resources. But that programmer is an algorithmic designer, which doesn'
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I built a working computer in Minecraft, and ended up going with exactly that because the decoding circuits would have been too complex for the project otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XT-dyfEiU This build could
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I've maintained for a long time that the ad networks themselves are the problem, not advertising as a whole. There is a place for video advertising (around content that is also video), there is a place for audio advertising (on the rad
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by zeta0134 10y ago
That works on computer systems because the PCI-E bus is already designed to be external. There's no need to separate it from the system bus because it's already separated in desktops. In an ARM System on a Chip (SoC) like the Swit
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by zeta0134 10y ago
The system already does this to an extent; it runs at a much higher resolution with more GPU power when docked. But I doubt an HD dock with some sort of offloading could work without serious modifications to the hardware; the GPU bandwidth
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by zeta0134 10y ago
In light grey on the bottom of the page, for me: "SHOWTIME® available for extra monthly charge" Yup, this is going to be exactly like Cable television, and it's no cheaper. No thank you, I cut that cord for a reason. Maybe
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by zeta0134 10y ago
The video display is probably the very simplest part of the Virtual Reality experience. While it's directly responsible for a large part of the experience, it's not actually what needs to be standardized. Everything else, from t
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Disclaimer: I am a gay man, and my support of gay marriage has always been a gray area. The elephant in the room that must be established here is a biological one. As much as we can hold hands and sing about the beauty of love, it remains t
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This might make sense if we were talking about actual exclusives, and if we're talking about VR-only games, you're absolutely right. But AAA studios can approach VR as something of a hybrid experience. It requires some development
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by zeta0134 10y ago
While you're deleting stuff, I noticed someone on the new page has posted pornographic images. Alas, I'm not terribly surprised since this is the internet after all, but I'll +1 a feature to report dweets as being inappropria
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by zeta0134 10y ago
You know, I really wish I could buy Youtube Red for my friends more easily. It drives me up the wall when one of them is watching youtube and some obnoxious ad plays at 2x the volume of anything else they've been doing. I already pay f

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