angelsl

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by angelsl 7y ago
Li Hongyi is the son of Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong, as well as a deputy director in GovTech Singapore (the Government Technology Agency). (He's also an MIT CS grad, and a past Googler.) I suppose he wrote this for other people in the
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by angelsl 7y ago
That's essentially what Korean did. They replaced everything with their own morphophonemic orthography. But even then they still use Hanja to disambiguate sometimes.
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by angelsl 7y ago
The Wikipedia article on this provides some background information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemisms_for_Internet_censor... > The 2004 Chinese Communist Party announcement of the goal of constructing a &quot
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by angelsl 7y ago
That's because you are supposed to do bounds-checking yourself in Rust, not because they don't want to handle it gracefully. It's like happens when you read out of bounds in C, except it fails more reliably.
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by angelsl 7y ago
Then you disable overcommit. For the general case though, because of the way programs have been written, it is easier to have overcommit on.
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by angelsl 7y ago
These aren't text files, but Google Docs files, which Google doesn't count against an account's quota.
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by angelsl 8y ago
This runs on proot, which basically ptraces all processes under it and intercepts any syscalls that need privileges or deal with paths, and emulates them. It works pretty well until you start to run many processes, and then proot starts to
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by angelsl 8y ago
If you don't like a law, change it, don't break it and get yourself in trouble. This is basically the difference between East Asian cultures and Western/American culture. We value a balance of order and individual rights, you
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by angelsl 8y ago
The problem is the intent of the gathering, not that it had a foreign speaker. (Not that I agree with the law, but that's what it says.)
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by angelsl 8y ago
Why is everyone focusing on the fact that someone spoke via Skype? The fact is that 1. Jolovan Wham did organise a physical gathering of people 2. The gathering/assembly meets the definition as in the Public Order Act[1] 3. The venue,
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by angelsl 8y ago
Simplicity is nice sometimes.
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by angelsl 8y ago
Windows works on the new MacBook not because it has special drivers for NVMe-via-T2 but because Apple trusts Microsoft's EFI key. So no, stop it with all this "Linux works if you just disable Secure Boot" nonsense. It doesn&#
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by angelsl 8y ago
What? Some GTK themes are really good nowadays. See Materia. And if you mean some (many) non-DE applications have really bad UI, then that's true on Windows too.
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by angelsl 8y ago
My bad, should've said merged. I wrote the comment immediately after reading Linus's email.
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by angelsl 8y ago
FWIW, C-SKY architectural support was recently pulled: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1810.3/03389.html
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by angelsl 8y ago
PRoot's overhead is very significant though. Especially the moment you have more than one thread running..
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by angelsl 8y ago
Yes, you can disable Secure Boot, but Linux still isn't allowed to access the NVMe device.
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by angelsl 8y ago
The GPU is on the CPU die. Hardkernel can't offer a version without one unless different versions have different CPUs. And for that matter I don't think Intel offers any low-power chips without a built-in graphics accelerator.
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by angelsl 8y ago
No, but this does it the way JavaScript wants it. FCVTZS has always been therr. FJCVTZS[1] is new. [1]: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.... Did someone say ARM is RISC?
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by angelsl 8y ago
As far as I understand, the thermal limit at 80C and TDP limit at 15W on Linux is what Lenovo actually intended, and the limits on Windows are broken. At least according to this Ubuntu maintainer: https://bugs.launchpad.net/
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by angelsl 8y ago
You should explicitly say that you wish to pay by "NETS QR". Otherwise they assume you mean by card or NFC.
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by angelsl 8y ago
That's S0i3 for you.
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by angelsl 8y ago
I'm not sure why the author is so excited! But it makes the article a bit difficult to read!
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by angelsl 8y ago
Spoof the adapter's MAC?
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by angelsl 8y ago
What are you saying?? There is a single source of truth for a particular version of Linux.
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by angelsl 8y ago
You can't really compare to Singapore. English is our primary language.
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by angelsl 8y ago
But only the owner of the private key associated with the certificate can intercept traffic. The keys used to sign the certificate have no impact on the actual encryption whatsoever...
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by angelsl 8y ago
This just makes the password the hash of the user's passphrase.
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by angelsl 8y ago
Oh man. Where I'm from (Singapore), tests are more of a never-take-home-unless-you-absolutely-have-to work.
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by angelsl 8y ago
You don't. Use a kernel module.

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