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by powercf 11mo ago
I didn't know of the existence of SNI and thought that all traffic through TLS was encrypted. SNI sounds like a terrible idea: it should be obvious that leaking domain names will be abused and makes a mockery of any little cute icon in
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by powercf 2y ago
Alone this looks like a reasonable use of auto. In a real codebase, there may be two (or twenty) different connection-like things, multiple of which may be reasonably to call in this context. The "Hungarian notation" comment is co
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by powercf 2y ago
> This isn’t Gunnar’s fault. The problem was whomever stored ordered data in a hash file. Yes. Even if it were, I don't think it needs to be mentioned in the commit message. Gunnar improved something, which triggered problems with o
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by powercf 3y ago
From my armchair I'll add that throwing away the KSP1 engine and replacing it with, based upon the number of bugs, a new implementation of the same basic idea seems like a terrible idea. My understanding is that most of the original Sq
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by powercf 3y ago
> blatant disregard of traffic laws by the many cyclists Enforcement of traffic law for cyclists would be good, but blatant disregard of traffic laws (e.g. running yellow/red lights, not yielding at crossings, stopping on bike paths
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by powercf 3y ago
If wealthy companies should pay French pensions, simply because they can, do you think that wealthy westerners should pay for, say, pensions or services in Africa? Raising taxes on wealthy companies to cover pensions seems arbitrary and unf
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by powercf 4y ago
Sad to see the early reviews being so poor and the game being in a such an incomplete state. From a software development perspective it would be very interesting to see inside and know what went wrong. From the outside looking in, it seems
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by powercf 5y ago
If her focus is on playing tennis, then interviews etc. are just a distraction. She may be contractually obligated to partake in interviews, but does she have another option if she wants to play at top events? In my opinion there is too muc
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by powercf 6y ago
I too, as a regular cyclist, would like to see more cyclists fined when they run red lights, cycle on footpaths, cycle in the wrong direction etc., but enforcement is also lacking for motorists who run red lights, speed, or drive while on t
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by powercf 6y ago
> People who run Arch want this to happen. I've used Arch for the last six+ months and I don't want this to happen. I switched as I couldn't get VFIO to work with Debian (presumably due to outdated kernel/qemu/li
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by powercf 6y ago
The amount of plastic waste around some of these toys is shocking: https://youtu.be/CZpG032TR5A . It reminds me of the packaging around AMD Threadripper and Intel 9900k packaging - both also very wasteful. If they only make
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by powercf 7y ago
The browser can't implement xeyes (the cursor position outside a window is surely not visible?), so it will never be a serious replacement for X11.
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by powercf 7y ago
The car analogy would be: He saw a car He tried the doors until he found one that was open He climbed in and searched everywhere until he found personal information about other users of the system Even though the security of this
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by powercf 8y ago
Excellent article. I especially like "We have to get rid of this notion that the past is a provider of anecdotes and the present is a provider of knowledge". This way of thinking is pervasive everywhere, including on HN. But we sh
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by powercf 8y ago
They have attempted to weasel out of even saying that: "the previous Q2 estimate is now confirmed for Q3 product shipping" as if to say that the product, which isn't ready yet, has shipped in the future. Such mangling of logi
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by powercf 8y ago
> Education in what? Education in how the web works. That typing something into a text field, or moving the mouse, or any interactions with a website can be read on the other side. Many users expect this behaviour when they use, for exam
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by powercf 8y ago
I don't have any problem with this. It highlights a lack of user education, if they expect their typed input to a website to be private. It reminds me of the "talk" (and ytalk, ntalk) programs, where all parties can see in re
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AMD sued over number of cores in FX processors(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by powercf 8y ago|1 comments
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by powercf 8y ago
This is Germany: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.5951409,8.7342041,743343m/da... Disable labels and look at the beige patches on right center (south of Berlin). The vast majority seem to be open mines, presumably
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by powercf 8y ago
It seems they could have handled the doubts of Juan Moreno better. That is an institutional problem that can be improved upon. Re. Class Relotius: It would be meaningless if der Spiegel were to print "we have an institutional problem,
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by powercf 8y ago
My interpretation is that the Spiegel chiefs want to make an example out of Relotius, to send a message to other journalists, that they must stick to the facts, or they will suffer the same fate. I don't think Class Relotius will be wr
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by powercf 8y ago
Google One ⇒ One ⇒ One Two ⇒ Two?
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by powercf 8y ago
Longevity is, supposedly, also dependant on current, and hence voltage. Unfortunately processor reviews don't consider the lifetime of the product, as that is probably only known to the manufacturer https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by powercf 8y ago
> Sorry, where does he say this He didn't state that. That's my interpertation of his well written and very reasonable (at face value) statement. His central messages are "the doctors know best, and we shouldn't liste
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by powercf 8y ago
> I counseled Will on the difference between subjective complaints of pain, which cannot be proven and are often magnified, and objective signs found only on careful clinical examination by an experienced physician If a patient has a pai
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by powercf 8y ago
On the other hand, every time I go to SO to find a solution to problem ${X}, I find very interesting (to me) questions on the right, enticing me to waste time reading them. They are making an effort to keep people on the Stack Exchange site
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by powercf 8y ago
> People that thought the Sun was a perfect sphere would discount things they could directly see with their eyes. What do you mean by this? The Sun is, to a very good approximation, a perfect sphere. Or as perfect a sphere as one is lik
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by powercf 8y ago
Outputting that in lower case could be a small step to making them easier to parse, and therefore more likely to be read. I find the text you posted tiring even to look at. THE REF (B) TURKISH NOTAM A3009/16 LTAAYNYX (111139 EUECYIYN J
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by powercf 8y ago
That is probably a very rare case, and any shell-agnostic-completion-protocol could be extensible to handle such a case. But, I think 99% of completions that people want/use on a daily basis could be covered by a machine-readable versi
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by powercf 8y ago
Shell programmable completion highlights how slow the OS community can be to change/improve core tools (shell, coreutils, ttys). Completion should be specified in the binary, and compatible with all shells. A similar interface could be

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