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by zzzcpan 6y ago
It's not true, you are just overgeneralizing your personal opinion on what is interesting as if everyone should feel the same way. Other people might disagree and find it interesting to discuss for whatever reason, even without origina
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
I'm not sure what exactly were you trying to argue against. Pretty much all real world distributed systems are perfectly asynchronous, don't have perfect clocks perfectly synchronized to rely on them, don't have bug-free real
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the exact problems the article describes can be solved with proper implementation of actor model, i.e. Erlang-style implementation, where actors can be killed, dying actors can cause messages to be send and messages can
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
All that in-group out-group social identity theory stuff is pseudoscience anyway. But it's not an illusion, it's just a different and just as wrong framework of ideas than what you propose. Although I like yours better, it at leas
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
More competition can't lead to nastier alternatives, more competition leads to both higher quality and lower prices. And power of copyright that protects pretty much just the wealth of rich corporations doesn't simply disappear. T
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
We are not there yet. Musl works great for new projects sure, people should definitely default to it instead of glibc. But a lot of existing software doesn't just work with it, sometimes requiring way too much work and expertise to get
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
Black is also not a color, but the light not being reflected or emitted or let through. Hence the blacklist, it doesn't need to have judgement or historically loaded meaning.
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
Good intentions never had a role in decision making in hierarchical organizations, there is no known history of that. Plenty of the opposite, with subordinates only caring what their bosses think, giving up on moral principles they had, etc
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
Sounds like you are high on power, forcing your own subjective morals on others, thinking you can change their morals and the way they think just like that with silly threats of bans. This is not how people work. They can't get much ou
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
Just ran the test on another machine (different hardware, OS, browser) and got pretty different result. Also uncovered a bug, on my 100 mbit ethernet they show almost 200 mbit upload speed.
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
> but of course most of them don't contact us Not everyone is comfortable talking to you privately, given all the ridiculous warnings you give out. I wanted to talk to you about turning off downweighting of my comments that you se
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
For your third point - the map, all the rendering and javascript overhead screw with the results, especially on weaker hardware, not to mention how loaded the server is and all the links on the way to the server.
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
If nothing keeps everyone together, how can there be a revolution, how can they put the differences aside and unite against the government and political elites? On the contrary, pushing people against each other is how people are kept from
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
Postgres is not a distributed database and doesn't have a single safe default for running it in a distributed configuration, including talking to it over network. It can't claim any consistency guarantee, so there is nothing for a
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
The idea of end-to-end encryption is just too broken. You always need to make sure that the implementation of the idea isn't controlled by the vendor from which it is supposed to protect you. But it is pretty much never the case, all t
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
That would be insane. They probably mean until they figure out how to reopen borders and with whom without risking too much. And given how many countries are doing the same thing maybe even an international agreement of some sort will emerg
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
But this is pretty much at the level of nginx config, except that nginx had more time and has more features and more flexibility because of that.
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
It's not a real problem though. We can give everyone a shot at everything simply because very few will take it and even fewer will be able to reach the point where their claims have to be evaluated by others or someone in a position of
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
> If small-droplet airborne concentrations in unventilated spaces were a common vector for COVID-19 transmission (as with measles, for instance), one would expect whole office buildings to become mass-infection hot spots. There is some
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
Both surgical masks and N95 masks can filter out 2.5 μm particles coming in, the author even cites research showing no difference between them, but it's a trolling piece, not a scientific paper. The author claims a lot of ridiculous th
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
Storage is suited for it though. Most data, and especially photos, stops being accessed after some time and could stop consume bandwidth and electricity given properly designed infrastructure. Not that there is even a need to keep it foreve
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
This is an ancient understanding though, it ignores aerosol transmission. But you are still correct that outside is safe, there is absolutely no need to restrict it at all, it's confined poorly ventilated spaces that are a problem, lik
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
> There's no way 3 rubber bands turns a surgical mask into an N95 mask. There are studies that look at the abilities of different materials, removing the seal component entirely, and the two masks have very different profiles. The
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
No, that can't be it. Ventilators is a last resort kind of measure, most people under ventilators die either way, so they can't affect numbers much. I suspect Germany is just testing more and earlier than others.
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
There are a bunch of research projects that did just that. And even just compiling with address sanitizer makes it "memory-safe" to a significant degree.
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by zzzcpan 6y ago
ipfw would be that one true way on FreeBSD, pf on OpenBSD
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> there are technical measures in place that allow you to verify the build you're using yourself. There are no technical measures for Signal in place that allow anyone to verify the build all ends of said end-to-end encryption ar
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Again, that whole point of end-to-end encryption that allows it to eliminate the need to trust the vendor only works if the vendor isn't the one supplying said end-to-end encryption. Please don't make arguments that "Signal d
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> You can read the source, you can compile it yourself, and you can use it. I can read some source code they provide, not necessarily what everyone has installed at any given moment. Even if I could review it and compile it and run it
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> To add, never rely on products that require you to trust the company respects your privacy. > Always use apps that are E2EE by default (e.g. Signal) You are contradicting yourself here. You are required to trust Signal the comp

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