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by mileswu 10y ago
Forwarding email with outlook.com/Office365/Microsoft Exchange also breaks DMARC. Exchange Server sometimes modifies the headers of emails when forwarding them, invalidating the DKIM signature, so then a DMARC policy rejects the f
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by mileswu 11y ago
CERN still uses AFS extensively for all users' files. I believe they use a forked version of OpenAFS. My experience with it at CERN has been okay. It's been fine to use locally, but transatlantic over the Internet can be very slow
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by mileswu 11y ago
Quantum Key distribution is different from classical ones in that it allows Alice and Bob to detect Eve. This is because a measurement in Quantum mechanics disturbs the state. In particular for BB84, a measurement by Eve in the wrong basis
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by mileswu 12y ago
Author here. Been working on this on and off for about 3 years now as a side project and it's my first 'large-ish' OSX app. Would love comments or suggestions! Thanks.
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Show HN: dokibox – an open source music player for OS X(dokibox.github.io)
1 points by mileswu 12y ago|1 comments
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by mileswu 12y ago
Previous HN discussion (~10 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751710
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by mileswu 12y ago
Just an off-the-top-of-my-head idea: Could you give people a bookmarklet or an extension that they can run when they are on their order history page that exports all the Amazon product IDs?
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by mileswu 12y ago
This is very similar to another product that you can buy today https://www.adafruit.com/products/1652 . It's basically an iPad 3/4 retina display that connects via DisplayPort. The main differences seem to be
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by mileswu 12y ago
I used to use it just for the ability to individually stage chunks/lines, because I find "git add -p" incredibly hard to use. Now I tend to use GitX-dev for OSX [1] to do that instead, because I find it more powerful than Git
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by mileswu 12y ago
For high-energy experimental physics (HEP or particle physics), most tend to use a CERN developed C++ framework called ROOT[1]. It's not overly pleasant, but it gets the job done. There are Python bindings to ROOT (pyROOT) but I'v
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by mileswu 12y ago
An interesting and somewhat related (but only tangentially) article I read a couple of days ago found that nearly 1/3rd of World Bank reports are never read, not even by a single person: http://www.washingtonpost.com/bl
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China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon(cbc.ca)
102 points by mileswu 13y ago|74 comments
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by mileswu 13y ago
There's also a ncurses-based interface for git called tig[1]. I find it a bit easier to stage chunks/lines than git add -p as it's interactive. When I'm not on a command line, gitx-dev for OSX [2] also makes it very easy
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Twitter’s new board member isn’t the only one who rarely tweets(qz.com)
1 points by mileswu 13y ago|0 comments
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Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor(anandtech.com)
117 points by mileswu 13y ago|92 comments
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by mileswu 13y ago
At least on the experimental LHC side, we process/analyse each event independently from every other event, so it's an embarrassingly parallel workload. All we do is split our input dataset up into N files, run N jobs, combine the
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by mileswu 13y ago
If they can make a 20" 4K display and put it in a tablet, then why can't they just mount it in a desktop display and I'd be interested in buying it (though whether I have the money is a completely different question). I'
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Panasonic Toughbook Tablet(panasonic.com)
43 points by mileswu 13y ago|48 comments
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by mileswu 13y ago
> First of all I do not trust any hardware. It’s impossible to verify that the hardware doesn’t have a backdoor and randomness looks random even if tampered with. Well if you can't trust any hardware, how can the author trust any o
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by mileswu 13y ago
It was asking me which SSL client cert I wanted to present to identify to beta.bbc.co.uk. In my case I have my StartCom one and a OSG science one.
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by mileswu 13y ago
There are many rendering filters and pipelines available for DirectShow (and therefore MPC-HC) that VLC does not have. For example MadVR[1] improves upscaling and display rendering quality dramatically and xy-VSFilter can render subtitles m
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by mileswu 13y ago
How about Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing? - Description talks about outrunning cops to deliver illegal goods, but there are no cops in the game - AI opponents never move - No collision detection - Infinite speed in reverse gear - Sometimes
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by mileswu 13y ago
I get my SSL certificates from Namecheap[1]. Here the cheapest ones are $9/yr (they are the same certificates as the OP's cheapest ones) and they're I suppose a well-known domain registrar. [1] https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/co
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by mileswu 13y ago
There is also the Pizza Theorem[1] which says that even if you don't cut the pizza through the middle but so long as the slices are of equal angles, you can divide it equally by area by choosing alternating slices. [1] https://en.wikiped
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by mileswu 13y ago
> In my case the hacker asked to all my contacts with an automatic message for some Liberty Reserve money. Most of them trust me and my account, so they were inclined to accept. I'm not sure why anyone would give money to a friend via L
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by mileswu 14y ago
Have you obtained a license to use the reddit name/brand along with the mascot/logo? "For all of the above reasons, we require a license if you want to use the reddit brand in anything you do, both for free and for profit."[1] [1] http://w
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by mileswu 14y ago
This is how I lean too. A few percent in a mass measurement is a pretty small systematic error and could easily come from something that has been overlooked or miscalibrated. There are a tens and hundreds of calibration and corrections that
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by mileswu 14y ago
He could always sell his software via his own store, as Kindles are not restricted to Amazon App Store sold software (which is one difference between the Kindle/Android ecosystem and an iOS one).
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by mileswu 14y ago
It encrypts all your passwords using AES with a 128 bit key derived from your master password (PBKDF2) [1]. This is very different to what the article is talking about, since it encrypts your passwords, but the article talks about hashing w
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by mileswu 14y ago
“I was extremely disappointed that setting up a clustered VMware instance wouldn’t allow me to create a VM that spanned all the hosts in the cluster. E.g. if i had five VMware ESX hosts with 8 processor cores, I wanted to be able to create

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