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by disconnected 6y ago
The "free press" doesn't have a "get out of jail free" card of being able to claim that they are just a "platform" and be able to dodge all responsibility for what they print like Facebook does. If the pre
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by disconnected 6y ago
> (To be fair, knowing ffmpeg exists doesn't mean I'd be able to easily write a video player with it without a lot of research. For that reason I find this tutorial is still quite interesting and valuable.) The tutorial is stil
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by disconnected 7y ago
I don't know how long it is "supposed" to take, but you can compile a Linux kernel (27.8M lines of code, though a good chunk of it probably isn't going to be compiled anyway because you don't need it, and another go
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by disconnected 7y ago
You don't have to be a lawyer to understand that subtraction and multiplication are two completely different operations.
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by disconnected 7y ago
The "web" is built around "human readable" technologies. Even actual implementation details that the user doesn't care about - like the application layer protocol (HTTP) and the source code for pages (HTML, CSS) - i
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by disconnected 7y ago
Software certification matters in certain industries. In automotive and airspace, you will find that being certified opens a bunch of doors for you. From a company's perspective, these certification don't PROVE that you know what
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by disconnected 7y ago
The decline of Firefox is largely due to Mozilla's incompetence. If you look at their own statistics [1], you will notice that (worldwide) usage started declining after the introduction of Quantum (November 2017), and dropped substanti
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by disconnected 7y ago
> the market has finally caught up to the fact that Tesla is years ahead of their competitors. Incorrect. The stock value is being pushed up by: 1. Unexpected quarterly profits in October; 2. Tesla planning to open a new factory in China
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by disconnected 7y ago
> Thanks for the warning, are there any good tools that integrate with pull request checks that can be self hosted? Recently at work we've done an analysis of a of CI/CD tools. Many of them are self-hosted, free (and open sourc
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by disconnected 7y ago
sigh That random file you downloaded off the internet was built under a specific set of assumptions - assumptions that only hold true if you are running the specific OS version they were targeting. IF you download the .deb file for your spe
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by disconnected 7y ago
What's wrong with apt is that you can't get what YOU want: you can only get whatever the Debian people decided makes sense for one specific version of the OS - which usually means a 2 years out of date version of the library. If y
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by disconnected 7y ago
What, nobody mentioned Microsoft Bob yet? :) That thing was terrible, but I'm kinda sad that a Microsoft Bob-like window manager (or whatever you want to call it) never panned out. Yes, it blows for productivity, but it had "perso
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by disconnected 7y ago
This seems like a really poorly thought out proposal. From the draft's [1] intro, which provides motivation for the proposal: > When security vulnerabilities are discovered by independent security researchers, they often lack the ch
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by disconnected 7y ago
You are missing the point. The point is that with DDG, you have a uniform syntax for searching multiple services that doesn't require any special cooperation from your browser or those services, doesn't require any setup apart fro
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by disconnected 7y ago
Electronic voting machines run proprietary code which, AFAIK, was never publicly audited (AFAIK, the manufacturers have resisted auditing efforts bitterly). How can you trust that the machine will behave as you expect in a "real world&
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by disconnected 7y ago
Ok, I'm confused. As of my posting, the HN submission title is: > Dow plunges 750 points after China devalues its currency The article title: > Dow plunges 800 points after China devalues its currency And the first paragraph of t
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by disconnected 7y ago
> I don't understand it either [...] Esc is even on the same side as the keyboard Put your hands on the keyboard home row (where they belong). Try to reach esc without taking them out of there. Hurts, don't it? Now try reaching
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by disconnected 7y ago
Use the middle square method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-square_method It can be trivially calculated with pencil and a paper and will be random enough. You just need to pick a seed and off you go. If it was
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by disconnected 7y ago
To put it into perspective: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overvi... According to this (at the time of reading) a one way trip at the speed of light is ~75 minutes, so you will have app
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by disconnected 8y ago
According to this: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#trademarks Hacker News is trademarked.
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by disconnected 8y ago
This article misses the mark completely by assuming that Microsoft still needs Windows to stay afloat. This hasn't been true for years. They have realized that it doesn't matter whether you use Windows, Chrome OS, Android or Linux
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by disconnected 8y ago
> EU citizens have turned into pests overnight. More than USA citizens with dubious DMCA takedown requests?
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by disconnected 8y ago
> Across a span of a year, all of this volatility cancels each other out. Bitcoin price was around $19k in December 2017. The price tumbled all the way down to around 7k in February, came back up to 11k, and now it is hovering at around
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by disconnected 8y ago
Yes, packaging Python applications for distribution is yet another nightmare situation. Back in the day, we used one of the various "freeze" applications (cxfreeze, bbfreeze, probably others) and some tools developed in-house to p
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by disconnected 8y ago
It is not cheating, since no rules were broken. That said, that power and water isn't free. The city must be paying through the nose for all that power and water. It has been a while since I played SimCity 3000, but IIRC those deals be
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by disconnected 8y ago
"People" keep rattling on about how RSS needs to be revived. Do these people live in some sort of alternative reality where: - The guardian - BBC - Reuters - Ars Technica - LWN - Hacker News and a fuck ton others don't have a
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> Instead now I need to write a stupid page where I say "[MY NAME] will manage your data this and this way". Are you referring to the Data Protection Officer (DPO) requirement? I believe this is the relevant article: https:&#x
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by disconnected 8y ago
That is more difficult than it may appear. Sometimes you need people that are pretty immersed in a culture to know about these things and avoid shooting yourself in the foot. Hyundai, for example, almost made the mistake of releasing a vehi
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by disconnected 8y ago
I have a Gentoo system without systemd (I despise the thing for reasons I don't want to get into right now), and I also have Docker running right now. Worst trouble I had with it was compiling the necessary modules into the kernel when
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That is immaterial. The promise of autonomous cars is that they will be better drivers than human drivers. That autonomous car, by going 3mph above the speed limit, already failed at the most fundamental level: following the rules. And it w

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