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931.
by zurn 13y ago
But your unprivileged user account is going to have all the stuff that matters anyway.
932.
by zurn 13y ago
That's not really different from piping to shell, risk-wise.
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by zurn 13y ago
Firefox OS and Jolla. Firefox OS + ZTE Open: cheap and good battery life (70€ / $80, 2-7 days).
934.
by zurn 13y ago
That thread starts with a pretty well reasoned argument for dropping MathML ("Summary: MathML is a vestigial remnant of the XML-everything era, and we should drop it."), and a later message provides more background for WebKit&#x2F
935.
by zurn 13y ago
"We believe the needs of MathML can be sufficiently met by libraries like MathJax and doesn't need to be more directly supported by the platform. In areas where libraries like MathJax are not good enough, we'd love to hear fe
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by zurn 13y ago
The UKUSA intelligence aparatus has been long used as a justification to increase powers of spy agencies in other countries. For allies it's the perceived political returns when they deliver more intelligence and get in exchange get
937.
by zurn 13y ago
Wars between neighbouring countries are a common case & main reason for existance of many armies. I suppose you could make the case that a few hundred km is "distant", but at least one party is at home.
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by zurn 13y ago
Citizens are responsible the same way parents are responsible for their childrens shenanigans, and company management is responsible for acts done by the company.
939.
by zurn 13y ago
These are 4 TB units of 5900 RPM spinning rust.
940.
by zurn 13y ago
Compresed ram ships with with distros since some time, eg in Ubuntu 12.04: https://petermolnar.eu/linux-tech-coding/add-ram-to-ubuntu-1... The LWN article is about it shipping with the Linus kernel.
941.
by zurn 13y ago
See also: http://www.medicaldaily.com/diabetes-vaccine-breakthrough-fi...
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Finnish team makes diabetes vaccine breakthrough(yle.fi)
6 points by zurn 13y ago|1 comments
943.
by zurn 13y ago
They are programmed the way shared memory parallel machines have been used since time immemorial in the HPC world. Hundreds of cores is normal there. The same Intel software stack (OpenMP, Threaded Building Blocks, parallel Fortran etc) is
944.
by zurn 13y ago
It's a multicore x86. It resembles GPUs only in the sense that it sits on its own PCIe board and has a lot of cores, but the programming model is just x86. It would have been very different from the NVidia/AMD competition if it ha
945.
by zurn 13y ago
> run Windows on the hardware Out of the frying pan, into the fire...
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by zurn 13y ago
It's also not generally necessary.
947.
by zurn 13y ago
If you just want source code reviewability you can use a restrictive license for the source. IIRC some vendors of sensitive software have done this. FOSS or open source ode doesn't stop NSA infiltration though. See http://un
948.
by zurn 13y ago
At any given moment there are "plenty" of people who think the sky is falling. How do you account for survivor bias.
949.
by zurn 13y ago
Really. The 286 is a 16-bit CPU so there would have been various memory limits. http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?page_id=313 has some details on what it can do, but not much mention of limits...
950.
by zurn 13y ago
Interesting that this is C++ (vs Docker in Go).
951.
by zurn 13y ago
From README: > lmctfy was originally designed and implemented around a custom kernel with a set of patches on top of a vanilla Linux kernel. No sign of said patches though. Anyone know if they're available?
952.
by zurn 13y ago
You could do preemptive multitasking with memory protection on a 286. IBM & MS did it in OS/2. Actually looks like Xenix used that too. http://www.tenox.net/docs/microsoft_xenix_30_286_press_relea...
953.
by zurn 13y ago
A firm doing currency speculation with bitcoin is treated differently though and then bitcoins are taxed like current assets.
954.
by zurn 13y ago
> I hate this attitude - the costs of the produced energy is not everything. Put another way, for apples-to-apples you have to compare against the real cost of fossil fuels (including externalities).
955.
by zurn 13y ago
There have been these baby steps lately, enabling the 2d support on the tegra 2 and now supporting "out of the box" functionality (i guess getting a functioning 2d desktop). I wonder what the relationship is with their stance on 3
956.
by zurn 13y ago
Has there ever been any confirmation for the "PS3 runs FreeBSD" rumor? I've just seen FreeBSD mentioned on Sony's page listing open source components, along with stuff like expat and freetype. They've probably just
957.
by zurn 13y ago
We've come pretty far if without blinking it can be said that 8000 API calls per second is fast and you can get there only by using a language like C++, in 2013...
958.
by zurn 13y ago
Well put. It's like Perl but in self-denial - for each way to do it there's a bunch of people claiming it's the only right way to do it. And it changes every year.
959.
by zurn 13y ago
The central banks lower interest rates when the economy is stalling. Conversely, central banks set high interest rates when the economy is overheating. If low interest rates would make housing overpriced and high rates would make housing un
960.
by zurn 13y ago
> However he has tended to speak his mind too freely for a job requiring the approval of our timid politicians. Krugman thinks the problem with Summers would have been too much timidity: "Summers, on the other hand, while he often e

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