TheCraiggers

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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
> Some of the world's most used and innovative software was crafted by smart people all over the world whose small talk was mediated almost entirely over email, BBS, IRC etc. At what speed though? You're obviously correct that
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
> Not very sophisticated, but very effective, glad they shut him down but we really need to teach basic internet security in schools. They could start by following basic security. My kid's school sets everyone's passwords to
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
I think you misunderstood my post, and considering the surprising number of downvotes on it, I wonder if others did too? Can you explain further though? I don't understand your case. It sounds like an aimbot, which is what would be pre
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Why would a client need to know of such things? If the player can't / shouldn't know of something, then the client shouldn't either. There are some interesting repercussions of this train of thought though. Take an enemy
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
But wouldn't the measuring device also be curved?
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Thanks. I just looked and yup, 92 of student loans are owned by the government. That seems.... very bad for all sorts of reasons.
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
I'm out of my depth here; if I'm wrong I would love to be educated. My assumption is that the debt holders would be the ones losing. I don't know about you, but I don't hold any person's medical or education debt. I
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Just because pigeons can deliver messages doesn't mean it's turing complete. Although they could be used in data transfer. I've never seen anybody suggest that RFC1149 is Turning Complete, anyway. Game of Life is totally Turi
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Another choice line: “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.” Which I guess makes sense. We're all nowhere near equal when it comes to food or shelter, so why would anybody expect equality for any other basic human necess
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Perhaps they have; you're just thinking of the wrong films. I keep wondering if this is a The Producers situation, with the caveat that I can't imagine this being as wildly successful as Springtime for Hitler. Frankly, they are ru
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
No, no, and kinda. My TV is supposedly "smart" in that it has Netflix built in, but that functionality isn't used and can't be used as the TV is blocked at the firewall. It's as open as my old CRT, I suppose.
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
> many of us don’t want our iPads or iPhones to be like our computers And many of us do . I would never buy a locked-down piece of hardware like that. But I don't think it matters either way what either side wants, because it'
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Sure, but it would surely reduce the scale of these fake reviews. Right now, companies can buy reviews in batches of thousands; the only actual cost is in somebody/something creating that review and some overhead. If Amazon also requir
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
The shaky video could easily be fixed with some anti-shake algorithms. Well, "easily" in that it's already a solved problem.
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
> Many people don’t regard “you’ll be in pain and then forget” as the same as “no pain.” I find this incredibly fascinating. If people were to be offered a sum of money in exchange for feeling immense pain for an hour but then having tha
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Many people don't have a clue what "30-fold" even means, and therefore it sounds big and scary. Basically, it's just one of the tools in the sensationalist headlines toolbox.
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
He explained the point. Just because the system can't drive me to work while I get an extra hour of sleep doesn't mean it can't prevent a car crash while I'm trying to find the right Steve to call in my contacts list. Th
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Are they high compared to other cars in the same price range and similar cost to repair? Remember: insurance rates aren't just based on how often cars get into accidents; those that cost more to repair after an accident will have highe
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Perhaps you could say why it's such a big deal?
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
This is the first time I've ever seen this usage of NAK. I'm used to the ACK/NAK jargon, but this one is new to me. I can figure this one out by context I think, but I find the new usage interesting. Can anyone shed light on
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
The cost of doing that would likely be orders of magnitude more than just keeping an NTP server operating for a couple of decades.
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
That's pretty commonplace to clean up worms and the like. Once security professionals decompile the code enough to figure out where the control mechanism is and how it works, they will take control of it and use its own methods to get
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Where is the totalitarianism in the article? I get the feeling you think that totalitarianism is when the government does something you don't like, when actually it's when a dictator removes all power from the people. Until the Qu
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Awesome. When I noticed the Unity plugin, I came here hoping there would be somebody asking about Godot. Thanks for the link!
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
I think we can all agree that APUs have come a ways since first coming out. The poster you replied to was more lamenting how the inclusion of a GPU into my CPU didn't create something bigger than the sum of its parts. What we have is s
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
You seem to be confusing paying for Signal (there is no way to pay for it, but you can donate to the foundation) and exchanging money with your friends.
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Scope creep? Perhaps. But then so are voice calls, video calls, sending pictures, GIFs, etc. None of those things are core to the experience of sending "lol" to a friend. Despite the very correct statement that there already exist
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Signal is competing against some big players in the messaging space, at least some of which have money transfers. As long as they abide by their principles and none of these features impact privacy, I don't see how it wouldn't be
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
Frankly, I think that would be more HN worthy, and much more interesting as it would like likely involved a clever hack.
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by TheCraiggers 5y ago
I miss parties my friends throw because I'm not on FB. I miss neighborhood activities such as coordinated yard sales because I'm not on FB. I miss out on events from my local Hackerspace because they often forget to post on anythi

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