zorbo

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by zorbo 12y ago
> Initial appraisals are that public-facing systems are likely not subject to shellshock. All the managers I know will stop reading after this, sit back and think "aaah, those silly techies. Worrying about nothing". I gave exac
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by zorbo 12y ago
> Just small additions like the following would help a lot: "[The X seconds] spent in fsync [seen in diagram A] accounts for almost exactly the delay we were seeing [in diagram B]". Exactly. I try to always point to the actual
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by zorbo 12y ago
How can you write tests if you're familiar with what the code is supposed to do?
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by zorbo 12y ago
I don't agree or disagree, because I honestly have no idea, because I don't think I've been getting much official Russian media information. It don't think it's much different then it is over here in the west. Peopl
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by zorbo 12y ago
> needless escalation, when part of Ukraine is occupied by Russia? The occupation of Ukraine is something that's only happening as of just now. Before that, the situation in Ukraine was much more akin to a civil war. The escalations
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by zorbo 12y ago
I'm in a position where I'm mostly exposed to non-western information regarding the situation in Ukraine, since my girlfriend is Russian. It's funny to see the exact opposite story as the western media is giving. Stories abou
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by zorbo 12y ago
I was more interested in your claim of "Life on Earth would become impossible". You've shown that there are reactors, and that there is a risk involved with having them. But the claim that a few earthquakes in some parts of t
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by zorbo 12y ago
Can you back that up with some numbers, or a source perhaps? Because that just sounds like fearmongering. We've already had two nuclear plant meltdowns, and life on earth is doing just fine.
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by zorbo 12y ago
There's a nuclear detonation simulator here: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Here's a link with the numbers plugged in: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=9000&lat=34.74648
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by zorbo 12y ago
While driving a car, I get stung in the neck by a bee. I freak out. I hit someone. It's unintentional, there's consequential failures. Yet it's not negligence by any definition I know. Language is so hard. It's no wonder
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by zorbo 12y ago
Someone driving in a car who's not paying attention for a moment and hits someone else feels like an accident to me. The same could have happened with a missile. Strictly speaking, everything has a cause. So by that definition there ar
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by zorbo 12y ago
> Clean water would become an issue first though. I don't know where the nearest lake or stream is Under your feet. :)
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by zorbo 12y ago
Interesting. I only noticed now that shift-insert in Firefox doesn't use PRIMARY but CLIPBOARD. I'm so used to middle mouse button paste that I never noticed. This is probably due to Firefox not using a native graphical toolkit.
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by zorbo 12y ago
> Copy paste Out of curiosity, what do you feel is bad about copy-pasting under linux? It's inconsistent, but it's still the best copy-paste functionality I've experienced so far on any operating system. It'd be nice
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by zorbo 12y ago
Meanwhile we're stuck with price-fixing on books (by law) in the Netherlands which, IMHO, is a much much larger problem than the legality of reselling of e-books. And although that law doesn't apply to e-books, retailers so far ha
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by zorbo 12y ago
It is possible to use brute-force via timing attacks to determine whether accounts exists on hosts, and then either focus different attacks on those accounts or spam them. It is amazing how much this needs to be repeated, but security is no
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by zorbo 12y ago
It still doesn't belong on here.
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by zorbo 12y ago
Thank you. The story has been removed from the frontpage at least. Worth the downvotes if I've given attention to the 'flag' option to even a few people.
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by zorbo 12y ago
I think it'll "hold up in court", for certain definitions of "hold up" Judges are not stupid. No single piece of evidence is 100% reliable and enough to get a conviction. A MAC address will just be another piece of
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by zorbo 12y ago
Can you point out those comments, because I see nothing of the kind? The only thing that comes even close is "Of course it's Texas I men where else would it be..." and that is obviously a jab at the unique way in which Texas
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by zorbo 12y ago
I use a lot of terminal applications for mail, irc, music player, chat. Then there are always about 9 permanent terminals for generic local stuff such as setting up tunnels, man pages, socks proxy, a calculator, etc. Then I've got 9 te
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by zorbo 12y ago
These alternative shells always get me really excited, until I try them out. Then the drawbacks become immediately and very painfully obvious: - Some are extremely slow, especially those that rely on complete webservers / node.js &#x2F
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by zorbo 12y ago
> How can you blame a company for doing something they are legally compelled to do? They're not legally compelled to take action on every request they get. It's just that it's too expensive to look at each request individu
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by zorbo 12y ago
> is practically guaranteed to be set by the manufacturer at its optimal value The optimal value for what? Speed? Performance? Comfort? Economics? I don't drive a car, but wouldn't trade-offs apply to car tuning just like it do
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by zorbo 12y ago
Ever since the introduction of roundabouts, car-on-cyclist accidents have risen in the Netherlands. Why? Because when a car leaves the roundabout, it basically has to take an almost blind right turn, where it's very difficult to see a
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by zorbo 12y ago
No, I've never heard of anyone having a dashcam in the Netherlands. I've also never heard of (liability) insurance companies not paying out. Jumping in front of a car in order to sue for damages is pointless here, since you cannot
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by zorbo 12y ago
As a Dutch person, I think the US has a long way to go, and these proposed bike paths won't really help all that much. I also feel that the US and the Netherlands can't be compared when it comes to biking. Some of the problems I s
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by zorbo 12y ago
I don't consider what happens in religion bullshit as defined by the article. I think this sums it up pretty well: > The liar, by contrast, is concerned with the truth, in a perverse sort of fashion: he wants to lead us away from it
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by zorbo 12y ago
The whole Game Theory element the bitcoiners keep throwing around surprises me the most. It's not as in you can apply game theory like that in practice. It also assumes rational players. People are anything but rational. Game theory wo
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by zorbo 12y ago
Ah yes, the old X is faster than Y pointless nonsense. Let's ask the basic questions that always come to mind: - Does X do all or at least most that Y does? - Are the benchmarks sane? I.e. not the pointless arithmetic fibonacci that no

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