greenleafjacob

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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
You are best off buying a “USB condom”, a USB 2.0/3.0 connector with the data pins removed.
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_China
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Former Imgur engineer here who worked on the desktop site and helped on mobile when I could. A lot of the code that is loaded supports features that are used by a long tail of users [1]. However, they do serve the javascript with appropriat
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
They don't (currently) issue dividends because the expectation is they will buy back their stock or will issue dividends in the future. If a company never issued dividends and never bought back their own stock, then there would be no r
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Suppose you follow your argument to the conclusion, and no companies issue dividends. What is the point of owning a share of a company then?
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Unfortunately Dropbox recently dropped support for certain Linux file systems like XFS, BTRFS, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Article is from April 2019.
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
In that case you would probably still roll back to prevent further data corruption and restore the corrupted records from backups. There are certainly changes that cannot be rolled back such that the affected users are magically fixed, whic
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
If rollbacks are not safe then you have a change management problem. If you have a good CM system, you should have a timeline of changes that you can correlate against incidents. Most incidents are caused by changes, so you can narrow down
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Private letters have long been acknowledged as covered by the fourth amendment, that is that searching requires at least a warrant based on probable cause. It’s changed over times whether searches of papers are per se unreasonable [1]. Cons
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
You should return the data in multiple pages for example, or exempt that query from latency SLA.
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
People have programs that scan github uploads for AWS, etc credentials accidentally uploaded by victim and spawn images that mind crypto for the attacker’s. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/dev_blunder
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Why can’t the gas tax be extended to electricity provided to vehicles (ie superchargera) rather than ownership of EV?
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
It’s increasing at about 1.5 ppm per year.
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Sam Gerstenzang (formerly of a16z) runs Umbrella [1]. You should check it out. [1] https://www.askumbrella.com/
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
forward compatibility?
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
I would trade double digit thousands of dollars per year if I had a private office.
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Logs tend to be ephemeral with limited retention.
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
So you can vandalize my car with chalk all you want as long as it doesn’t violate my possessory interest?
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
Check out this flow diagram for Varnish 2 [1]. [1] http://www.kalenyuk.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/varnis...
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
> the potential ability to avoid third parties taking a cut of all of your digital transactions Other than mining fees?
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by greenleafjacob 7y ago
> If I were in that situation today, I'd see if I could find someone who would give me money at today's price and get N shares of stock in 6 months (the duration of the lockup period). Employees are typically prohibited from sh
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
I'm currently working on a tool that would force callers to answer a small math problem (similar to a CAPTCHA) before the service would forward the call to you. Effectively robot call screening. https://callshield.io/
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
Presumably that nation state puts someone in jail.
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
Service fees are not charged on tips to drivers [1]. [1] https://www.uber.com/drive/partner-app/how-tips-work/
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
Not sure if this was intentional but in security, Alice and Bob wre the names in hypotheticals for the attacker and unwitting victim since the RSA paper. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
predict: China will increase their cap on solar production in 2019 to at least 20 GW. https://predictionbook.com/predictions/194304
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
More precisely, if you only select indexed columns you can read only from the index rather than read from index then read the rest of columns from table. Usually the indices are entirely in memory as well, so it's buttery smooth, where
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
https://predictionbook.com/predictions/194051
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by greenleafjacob 8y ago
Why, and how, would one "tweak" a machine?

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