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by nathanb 4y ago
Container checkpointing -- very cool from a forensics use case! I hope someone produces a useful "container diff" tool to make visualizing differences between checkpoints easier!
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by nathanb 10y ago
Location: Auckland, New Zealand Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, SAN, SCSI, Ruby Linkedin: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/nathanb-nz Email: nathanb+hn@vt.edu I have 8 years of experience doing OS-level coding
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by nathanb 10y ago
This is an excellent point. Your communication is only as secure as the weakest endpoint (in the same vein, perhaps your correspondents might be of the opposing viewpoint and might feel weird about their personal mails being stored by someo
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by nathanb 10y ago
That seems pretty cool. How long have you been doing this? For your primary email? How has it been working for you?
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by nathanb 11y ago
"Build and develop cross-platform applications using this application that only works on one platform"
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by nathanb 11y ago
So what if I were, say, a US citizen living abroad? I am legally able to work in the US and in my home country, but of course since I'm not actually living in the US some companies might find that problematic. Do you?
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by nathanb 11y ago
A fair comment. I think it's important to note that a fear or anxiety reaction may not, as you say, keep us safe. When I'm calm and rational, I make better decisions than when I'm gripped by fear. As an avid hiker and explore
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by nathanb 11y ago
Yeah, that paragraph was where she completely lost me. The desire to ensure the poor are taken care of and given opportunities for advancement is not mutually incompatible with the automation of rote tasks. It is not incumbent on society to
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by nathanb 11y ago
I work for a company which makes network devices. We've detected many hostile intrusions in our network. If you make hardware or software that runs in enterprise datacenters, someone is surely going to be trying to steal your source co
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by nathanb 11y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's not unprecedented, but I also don't think a lot of the companies that get hit by something like this talk about it so publicly.
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by nathanb 11y ago
Can someone explain this to me? Windows version: x64 Mac OSX version: x64 Linux version: x86 Why? Why do companies not release 64-bit versions of their programs for Linux? This seems to happen all the time, and it utterly baffles me.
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Pro-Airbnb political TV ads air at rate of 100:1(jwz.org)
1 points by nathanb 11y ago|0 comments
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by nathanb 11y ago
This is interesting, because you're ignoring the fact that the author worked in this exact business for some time and claims that it did once work and doesn't anymore. Either he was deluded at the time and overcame his delusion wi
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by nathanb 11y ago
Either the article doesn't make it clear or I'm bad at reading, and the YT Red site itself just tells me it's not available in my country: I assume this is $10 US a month?
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by nathanb 11y ago
Let's not lose sight of one thing -- this doesn't make chip-and-pin less secure than swipe-and-sign, it just makes it no more secure, in the worst case.
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by nathanb 11y ago
That's a very positive spin on the message. The way I read it is that developers and maintainers are encouraged to make Emacs work better on free than non-free platforms. This is, sadly, self-defeating. If Emacs were widely recognize
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by nathanb 11y ago
Thanks for the advice. I was not aware this was an option.
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by nathanb 11y ago
Is it "silly" to buy a house when you don't have $50k in your emergency fund? I have been very financially lucky, but I'd still have to sell a lot of stock -- dipping significantly into funds earmarked for other things -
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by nathanb 11y ago
It's kind of scary that something of this magnitude would depend on the kindness of the claims inspector. The one I dealt with was professional yet friendly and helpful (and climbed my wooden stepladder while wearing heels without a se
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by nathanb 11y ago
When one of my upstairs toilets started leaking in my house in the US, it finally got so bad that I noticed a stain on the garage ceiling. The insurance inspector said that insurance would not cover a "slow leak". I was very nice
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by nathanb 11y ago
Seriously. I don't know a lot of people for whom a surprise $50k bill would be "unfortunately" rather than "disastrously".
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by nathanb 11y ago
This is actually really cool. I can't tell you how many people I know whose livelihood essentially depends on their single, aging vehicle not dying. These are often folks whose university debt is, essentially, a monthly car payment. I
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by nathanb 11y ago
Even more so with paywave, which is all over Australia and becoming more common in New Zealand. I don't think I actually inserted or swiped my card more than once a week in Brisbane.
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by nathanb 11y ago
I like where your head's at
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by nathanb 11y ago
If a picture contains comic sans, I don't need to view it that badly. I smell an opportunity for a new browser extension ;)
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by nathanb 11y ago
That works for stuff like emails and documents, but apparently not for web pages (I have actually done that on my Mac).
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by nathanb 11y ago
I support iFixit in their quest to get useful information about hardware to the masses. If you own a device, why shouldn't you be able to disassemble and repair it yourself? And why shouldn't we be able to know what's inside
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by nathanb 11y ago
I can understand why you're being downvoted, but I also understand the sentiment. There needs to be a way to tell the OS "I never want to see Comic Sans again".
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Man builds house, then finds out cable Internet will cost $117k(arstechnica.com)
16 points by nathanb 11y ago|1 comments
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by nathanb 11y ago
Your point is valid, though perhaps misapplied in this case due to nostalgia-tinted glasses. FFV is a tremendously fun game, but I don't think it's accurate to say it received artisan-level craftsmanship. I don't think it was

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