bennysaurus

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by bennysaurus 2mo ago
There were plenty of low level libraries available then, less in the way of frameworks. It was an environment that he was used to coding in and cross-platform (in the PC world anyway). Given what it was in the very beginning versus what it
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by bennysaurus 6mo ago
Likely the emarker chip in the cable is reporting higher power capabilities than the cable can support long term. It'll work initially but then can't maintain that after resistance in the wires increase with wear.
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by bennysaurus 10mo ago
Only a single maintainer for years, and it's fallen now to best-effort.
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by bennysaurus 2y ago
A high voltage DC line is being built to Singapore now from a solar generator in Northern Australia, so it's definitely doable to send over that distance (around 3,000mi). I would like to see more storage though in its various forms; t
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by bennysaurus 3y ago
You're right it is workload dependent. If you're low write but read heavy, you won't see huge differences in performance between RR and Serializable, so it can make sense to shift exclusively to that. The last benchmark here
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by bennysaurus 3y ago
Potential timeouts for clients/workstations trying to reach microsoft.com. Which entry is picked for use is generally random depending on the client. Most systems will retry using another entry though on issues connecting through. That
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by bennysaurus 3y ago
Things is source code management these days even in mainframe but many shops still have you log into the same "box" to do your development. It can get pretty fun when trying to coordinate testing and patches.
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by bennysaurus 3y ago
Do you know what they're using? Are they going to Microficus COBOL or doing something different?
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by bennysaurus 3y ago
Given the name, it'll be Qix, I had a copy as well! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix
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by bennysaurus 3y ago
It has its quirks on occasion and has changed a bit but has been around since 2007 and still going great.
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by bennysaurus 5y ago
It's a fair question and certainly is possible to have firewalls on a per-server basis. We do that for incoming traffic primarily. The catch is if that server itself gets compromised then you can't count on those rules still being
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by bennysaurus 7y ago
This is an advertisement. "How to avoid SIM swapping? Get your provider to use a different authentication method (like this one!)". In reality there is no great way to avoid it for services that have SMS as a fall back measure. So
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by bennysaurus 7y ago
Are they even still in business? That tweet is from 4 days ago.
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by bennysaurus 7y ago
There's knowing to ask the right question, and then there's asking the right question in the right way. That situation is tough though as you're working through both ego and office politics.
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by bennysaurus 13y ago
(The Thomas Covenant series was by Stephen Donaldson by the way) Card definitely has his own style with his work. Whether it's great or not is dependant on the reader - http://one-starreviews.tumblr.com/ gives some fan
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
The windows ones apparently work with this version of Samba.
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
It's an intriguing idea though if nothing else. A question here (I don't know your background if it's biology mind you): what actually happens in the metamorphosis between caterpillar and butterfly/moth or any larval animal for that matter?
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
No trouble and agreed - rumours flying around like that don't help the problem. If there was that level of security breech, outsiders would probably do more than lock everybody out anyway. Finding further information about it: looks like a
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
In IT security here in Melbourne, first I've heard of it. Also why would network security specialists need to fly over 30 hours from Europe? We also have some pretty capable teams on the ground here already. Given the time frame of when i
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
Are you sure? Sometimes wonder if talking to inanimate objects is just standard behaviour in Starbucks...
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
Seconding this. If you remove the '-3' at the end, it redirects back to the URL above. Cheeky, I like it.
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
With such a wide range of kernel versions, OS differences and various flavours of drivers from open, proprietary and closed sources, yep it's going to take some work.
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
The Alzheimer's link is a relatively new one (at least in the media) and looks to be a little bit of sensationalism: it sounds scary, makes for a good story and there's plenty of ways to angle it. Pragmatically, there's little downside to p
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
Try adding '&viewall=true' without the quotes on the end of Wired URLs. It is annoying though, a little bit of jQuery would fix it in about 5 seconds flat.
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
Some banks are researching into extending that functionality too - creating effectively a disposable browser inside your browser to help mitigate against keylogging and screenshotting account details.
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
Absolutely agree with this. Starting at the base with small libraries in your language of choice and working your way up (similar to beginning with picture books and moving onto novels) is a fantastic way to both become more familiar with a
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
Yep but that's up to the banks and their bundles more than Visa/MC; the cards company's mission is more one of convenience.
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
Certainly to build one the theory behind it wouldn't be tough, it'd operate on the same principles as the stove setup. To buy though? There's a story of a boy scout who did something similar as part of a personal experiment in the 90's. (Be
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
I think the OP is looking at using their stove as the heat source, not a nuclear battery. On that note, the idea you're talking about was actually considered for a little while for public use until the dangers were found to outweigh the ben
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by bennysaurus 14y ago
You have to understand what Visa is competing against; it's not against the other card providers, it's against cash. Considering how much money they have spent to be a sponsor I don't think they count their return to happen during the Olymp

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