mxscho

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by mxscho 2y ago
Just the raw amount of data is not enough metrics to judge whether postgres is "enough". They seem to value horizontal scalability e.g. in terms of write throughput, which is easier to handle with something like their solution com
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by mxscho 2y ago
This is also my experience. It's always that projects grow large in terms of people working on them and that is when you want to create independence between teams by reducing the amount of cooperation needed on a very defined boundary&
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by mxscho 2y ago
It could be that there is no such case of someone being swatted and killed in Germany because of smaller population, or because of differences in police training. In the end, the pathway to police not having to draw their weapons is the pat
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by mxscho 2y ago
I agree that just from the picture side, this looks very similar. However, in Germany, police is taught in a very different way than US: They are only allowed to use firearms as a last resort, and only to use it after non-lethal measures li
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by mxscho 2y ago
As can be seen from the comments, the person concerned probably felt that he was being treated disproportionately. Regardless of the fact that it would of course be better for the police if they were better able to recognize fake reports, I
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by mxscho 3y ago
Not necessarily, as there are other exceptions to this rule. A person can also be "Beiwerk" [1] (= accessory/props) which in the context of personality rights means that you are not the main focus point of the picture. [1] h
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by mxscho 4y ago
> everlasting There are many non-constitutional rights (such as this one) that are not everlasting and laws can also be adapted. I really don't understand the value of your post as it sounds like speculation based on wrong precondit
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by mxscho 4y ago
The commitment to a 2 year grace period for deprecated API versions would only start at the release date of the succeeding API version, right? Many consumers are maybe only interested in the time they have to switch, not the general lifetim
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by mxscho 4y ago
> I don't understand this argument, isn't Japan known for its earthquakes? I think the argument would be that the risk wasn't mitigated although it should've been known. There may be other known risks as well.
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by mxscho 5y ago
In Europe, "Computer Science" is translated with a word that is a mix of "information" and "mathematics". University course names are: > [...] informatique (French), Informatik (German), informatica (Italian
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by mxscho 5y ago
Still impressed every time how well Sanderson is able to use his visualization and presentation skills to make explanations so good.
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by mxscho 5y ago
In times where one of the biggest messaging application providers is able to leak hundreds of millions of personal records, I'd rather don't want governments to make laws to expand that risk to all of my private conversations as w
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by mxscho 5y ago
> Valve has been pretty aggressive about rolling out these kinds of policies compared to the rest of the industry. True indeed. > Are you saying that they're polling all the hijacked accounts at a high frequency to detect trades
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by mxscho 5y ago
Doubt that. There is this so-called "Steam web API key scam" which is ongoing for years at this point: Scammers create phishing Steam login pages to grab people's credentials. Just with these credentials, the damage an attack
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by mxscho 5y ago
According to a tweet that was also retweeted by the user @floesen_ who was mentioned in the original thread, the initial report 2 years ago was done using HackerOne but has probably not seen any helpful response from Valve [1]. There are al
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Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in Source games for 2 years(twitter.com)
225 points by mxscho 5y ago|119 comments
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by mxscho 5y ago
Strictly speaking, you could still use one-time pads. So it's not "no" message.
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by mxscho 6y ago
The people behind RH may come back, but the brand seems to be burned at this point. We're not talking about a non-tangible issue here like Facebook abusing their users' privacy. Customers see their raw money being lost by this ser
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by mxscho 6y ago
Seems almost like an unpopular opinion, but I think Cyberpunk 2077 itself is really not that bad. And on PC, it runs pretty well already. I think the main issue is the false marketing w.r.t. last-gen consoles. Hyping their product more than
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by mxscho 6y ago
Steam and especially CS:GO has a problem with phishing sites (with fake Steam OpenID pages) where attackers (after getting access to the Steam accounts) can automatically create permanent access to accounts by generating API keys to control
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by mxscho 6y ago
Discords around financial or economic topics (e.g. cryptocurrencies, Steam trading) are heavily abused by scammers that use large numbers of bots to attack or phish users. I could see an argument where Discord wants to keep control over how
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Double to string conversion different for .NET Framework and .NET Core(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by mxscho 6y ago|0 comments
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by mxscho 6y ago
Well, we came to the conclusion that there is no hard border and therefore good answer to that question. But we also agreed that it's not the most important factor whether it's code, a graphical user interface or a command line in
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by mxscho 6y ago
> A machine learning tool that allows you to train/fit, test and use models without writing code I recently had a discussion about the requirements that a text file format (like YAML) has to fulfill to be considered "code"
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by mxscho 6y ago
> *Anmerkung der Redaktion: In einer früheren Fassung hieß es, der Bund habe wegen vermeintlicher Kapazitätsprobleme der Mobilfunknetze und aus Datenschutzgründen Abstand von einem Cell-Broadcast-System genommen. Das Bundesamt für Bevölk
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by mxscho 6y ago
https://www.streamhatchet.com/pdf/report2019.pdf Some 2019 streaming numbers from pre-Corona era which I found interesting at that time. Mixer declined in hours watched after summer of 2019. Also interesting to see tha
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by mxscho 6y ago
Technically, you are free to implement the Exposure Notification [1] API for your own potentially open-source alternative of Google Play Services, right? Or why would this currently not be possible? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by mxscho 6y ago
So you're saying as long as someone else did something illegal I am free to rip him off whenever I want to? Wtf?
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by mxscho 6y ago
No. You don't know, that you'll die before the average time on which people die that was used to calculate the insurance fees.
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by mxscho 6y ago
Earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17358103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20731160

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