penguindev

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by penguindev 12y ago
- I went through clinical depression myself 10 years ago. I think the OP deserves a second opinion. - I would tell someone with type 2 diabetes to stop taking drugs and instead stop eating the carbs (of course the politically correct pharm
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by penguindev 12y ago
I had to think about your question for a while. However, I think the issue is the premise: you imply "has it better" = "how you feel". Whereas Dr. Frankl says (and has observed) "you always have the power of choic
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by penguindev 12y ago
Have you read "mans search for meaning"? That guy lived in a concentration camp, so you probably don't have it that bad... Hope you find something better than pills and/or paying a shrink for the rest of your life. I k
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by penguindev 12y ago
So when are they going to stop suing android for having the nerve to try to interoperate with their shit FAT filesystem?
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by penguindev 12y ago
>If I ever again have quite some money to spend Sounds like voice of experience from both sides... ?
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by penguindev 12y ago
This article is conflating two things: - two factor login (you need password + sms text) - account recovery (using only a phone) THIS IS DUMB. I only use an alternate email for recovery (my wife and I cross). Thus, each recovery account i
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by penguindev 12y ago
To me it's clearly simpler. Paxos involces special client numbers (to guarantee ordering), but you still have to fall back to randomized delays to avoid livelock; raft just starts with randomized delays up front. If you can read the r
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by penguindev 12y ago
hmm, actually watching the paxos video posted above - even basic paxos needs randomized delays to avoid livelock with multiple proposers. ouch. so why would people choose it over raft?
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by penguindev 12y ago
This is pretty awesome and I think only real hardcore folks who need time-guaranteed leader failover (like, I don't know, a heart pacemaker or something) would stick with paxos. (Assuming paxos can provide that).
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by penguindev 12y ago
horrible intro; tl/dr. Someone tell me specifically WTF I give a shit about this, what the pros/cons are. And write a concrete intro.
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by penguindev 12y ago
One puppet (WH) appointing another puppet (fed chair) IMHO. We all know it. Re: BIS, I haven't looked into that much; I'm afraid I'm depressed enough already :-)
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by penguindev 12y ago
I would like to offer a small historical perspective on the power of banks: Legal Tender Act, 1862 [1]: "Thaddeus Stevens, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee of Ways and Means, ... denounced the exceptions, calling
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by penguindev 12y ago
I disagree about the federal reserve being a government entity. It's owned by banks - a "self regulating" private cartel by charter. Even congress can't "audit" the fed. The fed controls the government much
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by penguindev 12y ago
> this is nothing compared to the banks getting caught fixing the LIBOR rate a few years back It's really nothing compared to the fact that banks can print trillions of dollars of credit out of thin air - and not go to jail for cou
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by penguindev 12y ago
Man, if you thought there were too many lawyers in programming already... just wait until we have retroactive protection of (corporate owned) APIs (and instruction sets?). Talk about a 'submarine' attack.
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by penguindev 12y ago
as far as cravings - that's a bit strong of a word but here are some things I missed and was glad when I found a substitute: * there's a really good pizza recipe that is just cheese for the crust. amazing. Its better than regula
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by penguindev 12y ago
Congrats on such a long time sticking with it. I've been on low carb 2 years, no wheat, down from 225 to 180 with 0 exercise, and I'm 34. In the middle of that stretch, I had a regression due to eating too much fat (fat bombs, so
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by penguindev 12y ago
So low tar cigarettes are not as deadly as regular. Let's all have low tar cigarettes, because they're healthy. Yeah, that's shamelessly ripped from Dr. William Davis, but it shows the logic problem. I have to shake my head a
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by penguindev 12y ago
That's how I was until I hit my 30's. Insulin problems take a while to develop. I've been on low carb, no wheat for 2 years now. It's been a miracle, really...
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by penguindev 12y ago
1. nothing generic is as fast as making your own custom solution 2. a lot of libc is lowest common denominator / tons of bloat. printf/sprintf probably does extra locale, multibyte charset, and thread locking shit you don't
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by penguindev 12y ago
Amateurs. We're all prisoners to ZIRP, QE, 'collectible' taxes on gold, and central banking which is all legalized counterfeiting for the .01%
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by penguindev 12y ago
I totally agree; many drugs are a racket these days, made only for profiteering "sick care", and the government is totally on board with it. Two examples I can personally testify to: treating people who don't yet know their l
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by penguindev 12y ago
I should have said "all credentials". The local one may unlock all of the other remote ones. Or you just enter the remote ones directly. Point being, theres a lot to protect. Is a keepassx password a "local credential&quo
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by penguindev 12y ago
That overpopulation isn't binary, it's qualitative, and having more than two kids/family is reducing the well being of the rest of us.
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by penguindev 12y ago
As a 15 year vet, I agree, surely its time for something with new design goals. - safe by default: you have to opt in to extra magic / conversions. c++ is totally broken here. sure, we'll let you easily use uninitialized data&#x
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by penguindev 12y ago
You'd be preventing your local credentials from being phished / stolen, keyloggers installed, your machine from being in a botnet...
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by penguindev 12y ago
A comprehensive post. Just to add to 2) Chromebooks are DRM friendly, and chromecasts are locked as well. Google bought wildvine DRM and my guess is DRM can be pretty much expected to win for media/software, since hardware makers are
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by penguindev 12y ago
It appears they are talking about requiring prefixes for these vars (finally). Still, you look at the c code / macros that parse this shit and have to shake your head. This is what they mean by "attack surface". http:&#x2
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by penguindev 12y ago
I agree with drepper on this; it's a solution in search of a problem. You should either know WTF you can accept or use a higher level construct that can resize. Silent truncation seems bad - truncation attacks are a real attack vecto
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by penguindev 12y ago
maybe this will actually work in more browsers than svgs do. I tried about 15 inkscape-made svgs the other days, really simple clipart, and out of 3 (current!) browsers most of them rendered differently :-( One svg was different in all 3

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