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by zurn 11y ago
I was going by a "polyswitch fundamentals" doc from a manufacturer[1] - and had the weasel-word "properly" :) Apparently the resistance falls quickly at first but can take a long time to fully return to pre-trip level. T
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by zurn 11y ago
-f overrides -i unfortunately. (trash-cli sounds good, thanks for the tip)
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by zurn 11y ago
> The money you spend on your mortgage (minus interest) is still yours, in the form of equity. If/when you sell, you get that money back, modulo market fluctuations A house degrades with use and has a limited lifetime. You take a hi
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by zurn 11y ago
PC hardware often (including Macs) often have self-resetting fuses on USB ports that make the port look dead but come back to life after some time. Some fuses take longer than others. So it's sometimes easy to think your USB device kil
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by zurn 11y ago
"Undefined behaviour" is a specific term of art in the context of C/C++ and is an euphemism for your whole program state potentially becoming corrupted. With crafted inputs your program can start executing attacker-supplied a
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by zurn 11y ago
The world needs an integration of EXPLAIN + block io profiling.
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by zurn 11y ago
This is a dangerous meme, it's a complete fantasy... Cars in the US do about .4 kg of CO2 per mile on average and flights 0.2. There's 2x. In addition, air travel has a much more damaging effect than the same amount of CO2 emitted
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by zurn 11y ago
Even with that, homeowners get favourable treatment vs renters (if in the rent alternative the landlord pays capital income tax). Some economists propose that this should be fixed by taxing homeowners for the rent that they are virtually pa
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by zurn 11y ago
What's wrong with it?
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by zurn 11y ago
"40 W of light" in physics terms is quite unambiguous, it means 40 W in radiant flux.
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by zurn 11y ago
Yep. TXT or TPM can cryptographically verify boot integrity but aren't magic pixie dust for passphrase recovery via hardware tampering. In the end your adversary can just put in a hardware keylogger between the laptop keyboard and the
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by zurn 11y ago
Docker is Linux-only :) There are tools like docker-machine facilitate running Docker under Linux VMs non-Linux platforms though.
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by zurn 11y ago
Similar project started earlier: http://www.netradar.org/en
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by zurn 11y ago
Countries with high unionization and relatively low income differences between low end and high end workers are excellent performers. Especially if you include quality of life, free time, egalitarianism, low poverty etc instead of just aver
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by zurn 11y ago
Pre-smartphone Sony was mostly just in the Japanese market. Then later in the early smartphone days Ericsson spun off their mobile phone business and got Sony on board, yielding Sony Ericsson. Then Sony bought Ericsson out and renamed it to
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by zurn 11y ago
"Debasing a currency" is a dysphemism for effecting inflation, and inflation is the opposite of deflation. So the lead-in reads in plain English that Europe and Japan aren't able to cause inflation by causing inflation when e
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by zurn 11y ago
Here's some history: http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html For years OpenVZ/Virtuozzo people were happy to keep it as a separate patchset. Their business model seems to have been based on their custom software
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Harvard scholars identify tenets of America’s built-in inequity, offer answers(news.harvard.edu)
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by zurn 11y ago
Chrome sandbox uses seccomp by default on Linux (Normal desktop and Chrome OS, don't know about Android). https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
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by zurn 11y ago
Web browsers were full of security holes in simpler days too. Security gets in the way a lot if you have to take it seriously, especially when you're surrounded by C culture. By now everyone's used to the vulnerabilities.
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by zurn 11y ago
The common food pathogens can survive surprisingly high temperatures, beyond 70C. Eg here they found that the most common food poisoning microbes on chicken fillets survived ~2 minutes in boiling water even though surface temperature reache
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by zurn 11y ago
Sufficiently large integers (and FP numbers too) are directly supported by Go's standard library: https://golang.org/pkg/math/big/
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by zurn 11y ago
Isn't millimeter just one of a zillion ideas that are being lobbied for 5G?
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by zurn 11y ago
More traditional Python: >>> import operator >>> a, b = [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6] >>> map(operator.add, a, b) [5, 7, 9] List comprehensions are a relatively late addition to the language and don't rea
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by zurn 11y ago
The article says Israel only added crypto after Hezbollah used the unencrypted feeds against them on the ground in real time, it sounds like their threat model is not necessarily about NSA intercepting and eventually crackig the encrypted f
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by zurn 11y ago
Despite being critical this sounds like the author is still wearing quite VMware-colored glasses: > Unfortunately, the world that they built is now eating them. Hypervisors became commodity, where "good enough" is an acceptable
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by zurn 11y ago
The idea is that you can switch. Many people need daily breaks from standing, or sometimes just feel like sitting for other reasons.
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by zurn 11y ago
SSL/TLS actually does support unverified encryption, but browsers have decided to disable it because the UI for "encrypted but non-verified" is deemed too confusing for users. See eg https://bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x
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by zurn 11y ago
Countries with generous (compared to USA) per circumstance income transfers don't generally have a big problem with this. People have a pretty basic need to feel useful to society, and for status. It does raise the bargaining position
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by zurn 11y ago
SketchUp[1] is built for ease of use for in mind for people who are not 3D pros but there's actually quite a lot of clever things going on under the hood[2] so it would not be a weekend project to reimplement. But yes, a web based clon

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