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by hosay123 7y ago
> - Adopt crypto principles. Turn a profit by pumping crappy tech to the masses?
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by hosay123 7y ago
Minor nit, but I always appreciate receiving these -- in US English as well as British I believe it's always written "bury the lede"
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by hosay123 7y ago
Until they fix that weird off-centre trackpad, I'd continue suggesting people go Dell XPS, also the only PC laptop with a trackpad response even approaching that of a Macbook
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by hosay123 7y ago
I have yet to encounter an embedded map that could not have better been - a static image - a table of addresses with an external map link It's not just the idea of wheeling around in some 256x256 box added at the last minute to a Conta
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by hosay123 8y ago
I thought I understood FFT, but totally not getting the relationship to this problem. Someone ELI5 please? :)
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by hosay123 8y ago
This was an interesting point, but prefixing it with a call to authority was both needless and distracting. Why did you include it?
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by hosay123 8y ago
Ebay doesn't corroborate the statement regarding Dell resale value: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=See-All-C...
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by hosay123 8y ago
The XPS 15 has the first non-Apple touchpad to impress me in 12 years. Tap heuristics aren't as nice as Apple, but definitely more than workable
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by hosay123 8y ago
If some condition existed that exceeded GPS intended design, you most certainly wouldn't learn of it first from some random anecdote on HN.. more likely the front page of the BBC as the transportation system instantly collapses So the
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by hosay123 8y ago
> Time SRE has at various points had take measures up to and including calling the USAF and telling them their satellites are fucked up It's another cute anecdote, but Google culture is full of these, always scant on details and alw
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by hosay123 8y ago
Tired meme indeed.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971516
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by hosay123 8y ago
The UK has 4.9x fewer population compared to the USA, yet manages 246x fewer deaths due to policy activity. While some of our police are armed (covering Northern Ireland only - 1.65m population) the majority are not. The real problem is lik
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by hosay123 9y ago
This is so important it deserves its own article
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by hosay123 10y ago
Yes, and consequently the platform should not (and in practice does not) receive declarations of high security in its default state. Ignoring PRISM, this is true of every major smart phone platform as they all have remote install and update
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by hosay123 10y ago
Didn't mean to accuse you of anything :) I just think the real focus should be on how the data is being used so far, and why we can't all see it. The rest is presumably carefully shaped noise that is almost certainly best ignored
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by hosay123 10y ago
This isn't the data, it looks like data about the stories ICIJ have decided to publish, which, having led with a bunch of anti-Putin stories in our media despite Putin having no direct involvement, totally relegates to zero their reput
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by hosay123 11y ago
This seems remarkably sensible, now I find myself itching to research the history of embalming
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by hosay123 11y ago
What it sounds like is they've been asked to prepare a new OS release that allows an unlimited number of attempts to enter the passphrase via some network link. The press release is written to sound like without a software release, it
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by hosay123 11y ago
> Old-Timer Developer: > I will use [a language with mandatory garbage collection] I lol'd
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by hosay123 11y ago
I thought the principle benefit of compiling to C was the ease of bring up on a new system.
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by hosay123 11y ago
How can you spot Prolexic? I just checked their DNS/IPv4 and it seems to be pointing regular hosting
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by hosay123 11y ago
Paper books for me are a universally superior product, they require no battery, don't feature update popups, wifi conncetions, eInk artifacts on page turns, accidental touchscreen events, inflexibility preventing storage in an inside j
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by hosay123 11y ago
Seems a fairly pointless tech to risk upsetting regulators over. What's the deal? "Use our <silly tech> or lose your ranking!"
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by hosay123 11y ago
I don't really get this, the implication is the container becomes more secure without access to the socket, yet it has access to the hundreds of local kernel APIs with which on the average month it can easily gain higher privileges tha
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by hosay123 11y ago
Looks like your support site might need a little.. support http://i.imgur.com/X76QdaC.png You might want to try putting it behind a CDN to cope with the load
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by hosay123 11y ago
ePub conversion of the main article: https://mega.nz/#!hgpB1ShB!VInAzElZFa5VwWz5ydnNLDzwDwOgSlSnc...
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by hosay123 11y ago
Because they're looking for new revenue streams outside of the Google agreement, which stops paying out quite soon. It's a pretty slippery slope, but I don't mind the tradeoff they're making in this case. Certainly beats
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by hosay123 11y ago
I suspect you don't know what disclaimer means
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by hosay123 11y ago
They probably have rights to the project under the respective contracts they have with the employees. That aside, having "<new project> by ((Google(|rs))|<$big_corp>)" in the title has generally been a reliable filter
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by hosay123 12y ago
Hilarious, this one didn't even last 18 months, it's almost like they're doing it on purpose.

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