TheLoneWolfling

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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
If the time differential is too extreme it will skip ahead or back instead of just skewing. > ...The ntpd algorithms discard sample offsets exceeding 128 ms, unless the interval during which no sample offset is less than 128 ms exceeds 9
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
And when someone embeds an entire book (that was otherwise written and they have the rights for) into the handshake, what then?
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
> there are cases where the firmware inherently requires copyrighted material (For instance, requiring a (copyrighted) poem in a handshake).
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
> Nothing says you can't acquire parts from another manufacturer, nor is there anything preventing you from performing the repairs yourself. Incorrect. > I'm not sure if you've been keeping up with US news, but this isn
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
> If you want to blow away the firmware... False premise: you often cannot blow away the firmware, because it is either hard-coded, or signed. And even when said premise is correct for a device, there are cases where the firmware inhere
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
That has been tried before: https://web.archive.org/web/20140412085458/https://revokame....
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
It isn't.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
You have a problem. You use a regex. Now you have two problems.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Not possible. There are > 2 intersections with an odd number of streets. (Note that this includes dead-end streets)
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
> You can do exactly what java calls enums with classes in C# No you cannot. You lose the single biggest benefit of enumerations - namely compile-time checking. (For instance: warning when a switch statement does not cover all cases.) Tr
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Again, "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation)."
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
So is it acceptable to post separate threads about the topic of paywalls, then? Because if so, please make that explicit. At the very least, I did not get that impression, and reading through this thread it would appear I am not alone. And
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I think it is a subject that should be brought up. I do not think that a flat-out "stop complaining about it" is the proper response - and, to be frank, it disappoints me that that is the approach you seem to have decided to take.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
What bugs me is not so much caching as redundant caching. I've seen applications that have 5 redundant caches, if not more (on-disk cache, OS cache, VM OS cache, stdlib cache, programmer-visible cache). And then you end up killing th
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
For one, I do not consider this OK. For two, declaring rules and then declaring that no-one is allowed to talk about said rules sets a very dangerous precedent. For three, pretty darn ironic that both this and http://deathtobul
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Elaborate? I find it really annoying that C# enums cannot have constructors and variables.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Look at birds. Bird lungs aren't actually continuously-pumping, but are a relatively small step away from being so.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Note that there are organisms that include "wheels" (Or rather, rotary motion in general). It's "just" that the only organisms on Earth that do so are microorganisms. Look at flagella. But there's nothing inher
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Again: I prefer longer lines and shorter line height. I am aware that I am in the minority on this front. I just wish that HTML had a sane way to allow client-side preferences (Like, say, line height and width) to be expressed.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Ah, so not misunderstanding but difference of opinion. You consider software complexity comparable at a broader level than I do. A rather fundamental difference, and we have both made our points on the matter without swaying the others opin
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I like C#. There are two reasons why I don't use it more. First, the whole .NET thing (Or rather, the lack of cross-platform compatibility). Yes, Mono is pretty good, but nowhere near perfect. (Although note that this is changing). And
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Ah. A misunderstanding. What was meant was "for each <thing X that is done by complex software>, <a piece of software S> doing X correctly is improbable enough that the existence of any piece of software doing X correctly m
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Considering that is not what I was asking for (I quote, "a functional browser that doesn't have bunches and bunches of exploitable bugs in its JS engine"), it, although impressive in its own right, is irrelevant. (Not to ment
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I don't mind having a filesystem that works reasonably well on most devices. But I would consider "being able to append to a file reasonably quickly" as part of that "reasonably well". Note that it's entirely p
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Again, there is a (massive) distinction between Turing-complete languages and non Turing-complete ones in terms of how often they are exploited (and in terms of how severe said exploits tend to be). I don't mind non Turing-complete lan
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
And now you know (one of the reasons) why I don't own property.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
How long until we get a heartbleed-like attack where some software overruns its GPU buffer into a webgl buffer?
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Or you have one filesystem that is geared towards dumb flash, and another that is geared towards smart flash. I don't see why people try to design filesystems that do everything. As usual for hybrids, they try to do everything and as a
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
> I'd rather hear my fan rev up a little bit while Firefox renders a big graph instead of waiting for a server to generate a picture of one and just send it to me. You are not me. (Not to mention I am not against doing most things c
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
It's magnet wire. It may appear to be all-copper, but it is in fact coated with an insulator. (It's often called enameled wire, but it really generally is a polymer coating)

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