bartc

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by bartc 2y ago
Zero chance of that happening unfortunately. The current Supreme Court would consider restrictions on corporate media ownership a violation of the first amendment, much like restrictions against unlimited campaign donations and restriction
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by bartc 2y ago
Trees did not evolve with bountiful access to titanium, but it would be interesting to ponder how they would have evolved on a metal planet
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by bartc 2y ago
That sounds equivalent to writing an unconstitutional law and tacking on “btw, you can’t rule that this law is unconstitutional”. Which is actually possible to do by amending the US Constitution, but good luck with that.
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by bartc 2y ago
… … Is it still there?
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by bartc 3y ago
The idea is that if the TV does not have WiFI or microphone capabilities, none of these are security issues.
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by bartc 4y ago
I'm guessing it's more difficult to contract a respiratory illness if your lungs are already damaged, malfunctioning, and covered in tar. Plus, smokers are not exactly the pinnacle of health. They would be less likely to voluntar
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by bartc 5y ago
I think it's because friendship-level connections are a lot easier to make when you are in uncomfortably close physical proximity with each other and/or when you need to rely on others and they need to rely on you. In upper middle
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by bartc 5y ago
Also see the Earth harp: https://www.williamearthharp.com/
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by bartc 5y ago
This is only true in an environment where nobody from any company travels. However in a world where one company travels for conferences, lunches, in-person events, then that company will clearly have an advantage over the company that did n
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by bartc 6y ago
SPAC seems preferable for companies with an inexperienced board or who are trying to hide something from the public before listing their stock. I imagine SpaceX will eventually go public via more traditional means and there's a good ch
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by bartc 6y ago
Assume there are seven billion people on the planet. One of them knows the location of a specific hidden treasure. I know who it is and I ask you to guess who it is, but you have no possible way of knowing or even getting a hint about it.
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by bartc 7y ago
I recently discovered that on iOS, you can press on the scrollbar to get direct control of the scroll knob. That allows you to quickly jump to any part of the document without having to thumb scroll through it page by page.
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by bartc 7y ago
They should be able to obtain a new certificate based on the same private/public key, in which case I don’t think any add-ons would need to be updated.
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by bartc 8y ago
Yes, but unfortunately the executable bit would be preserved if the file was delivered by way of a .tar.gz bundle. A reasonable user expectation would be to double-click on the .tar.gz to unravel it and then double click on the pdf to open
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by bartc 9y ago
Right, in the US, you can deduct mortgage interest and property taxes to lower your taxable income. There is a mortgage cap of around a million dollars where the deduction ends, which is only relevant in a small number of real estate market
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by bartc 9y ago
Probably more like people wouldn’t go out to a cross-town bar or restaurant if they couldn’t take a taxi or lyft/uber to get there. For example, if mass transit is prohibitive (two buses at 1 am) and they don’t want to drive drunk. Ea
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by bartc 9y ago
Our elementary school has no bus and the trip there is about two miles, mostly down a street with fast traffic and poor walkability. The drop off process is at least 30 minutes each morning on average in my experience, even longer if there
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by bartc 9y ago
On my car, when I start the car with my phone attached via Bluetooth, it random shuffles by default. However, if I start the car with my phone attached via USB cable, it plays all the songs alphabetically. The actions available on the iOS
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by bartc 9y ago
When you make a mistake on a typewriter with no delete key and no white-out handy, you could back up to the beginning of the error and type "XXXXX" over everything and start anew on the following word or line. Someone likely carri
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by bartc 10y ago
And the NES robot, R.O.B. ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B .
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by bartc 10y ago
No, with a packet capture and the private keys from both sides, you would still not be able to identify the master secret negotiated out of the dh key exchange. However, both sides obviously know the master secret, so if you can extract it
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by bartc 11y ago
If you have vested options, then you can exercise one of them to officially become a shareholder at which point you will have access to a lot of additional information. As only an options holder, there's no legal requirement for them
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by bartc 12y ago
Cleversafe - exabyte object storage system vendor
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by bartc 12y ago
If your system security depends in any way on a randomly initialized TCP sequence number, you're asking for trouble. It seems it would be preferable to use predictable values so people don't get the impression that random values a
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by bartc 12y ago
Actually, in the case of SNI, the hostname IS sent in plain text. It's sent with the initial ClientHello message so that the server can use it to select the proper server certificate for the session.
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by bartc 12y ago
xmllint - http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html
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by bartc 14y ago
15 years experience (mostly java) here... I agree with senior developer. You're needlessly breaking the logic across multiple files to handle potential use cases that may never come up. It's not horrible, but if you have 100 of these con