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by quackerhacker 8y ago
If Discord is basically proxying the raw packets from one client to the others, isn't that wasted bandwidth (for discord, not the clients). I understand from the post that the goal would be to mask the ip of the users, to shoulder user
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
So I have an affection for Discord...so I appreciate posts like this. >"Using the WebRTC native library allows us to use a lower level API from WebRTC (webrtc::Call) to create both send stream and receive stream." So I'm g
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
>"The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016." First gripe....why oh why could they not
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
It takes about an hour before I can start churning clean code and start any code reviews, so I think I’m ok. Really, it’s the 3 in the afternoon feeling that is the drain for me. Alertness fades and I can’t even listen to music without an o
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
As a coder, the only real drug I’ve ever really needed has been caffeine. This didn’t start until recently so I’m not sure if I can attribute it to age (early 30’s). My real dependence on caffeine is mainly due to staying up too late the ni
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
> "I’ve been able to almost double it by adding a ferrite sheet to the back side of the stator coils to contain the coils’ magnetic field lines." I never heard of a ferrite sheet, completely awesome! I liked the article, but IM
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
> “Tell me something good” isn’t meant to be a magic solution. From a user aspect, I'd imagine the news that's curated to me would be arbitrary. A better phrase for Google to listen for is..."What a shitty day." Then
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
I don't see that implication in the article. I think you're referring to this part " your guys were detected. They were trading with very big money and there was a lot of fuss about them, about how it’s not the season and whe
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
There absolutely has to be tech analysis of a trader's entire portfolio or majority of their trades in order to really investigate before it passes off to human review. The real beauty in this statement is the merging of fundamental an
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by quackerhacker 8y ago
"Their algorithms are designed to pick up on stock prices fluctuating before major corporate announcements, indicating that those buying or selling have insider knowledge..." As someone who has coded high frequency algos that trac
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Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript NPM Package(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by quackerhacker 8y ago|0 comments
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Net neutrality to die on June 11, as Ajit Pai blasts “special interests”(arstechnica.com)
2 points by quackerhacker 8y ago|0 comments
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Quantum computing closer thanks to successful creation of ‘Fredkin gate’(pcworld.com)
1 points by quackerhacker 10y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Had Cyberattack Plan If Iran Nuclear Dispute Led to Conflict(nytimes.com)
1 points by quackerhacker 11y ago|0 comments
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by quackerhacker 11y ago
I haven't experience any error 53 codes on the devices I've repaired, but if this is true... Wow! That's really shady of Apple. I'm starting to get the feeling that the moves they're making (like charging for Apple
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by quackerhacker 11y ago
So does that mean now companies can have their AI programs compete against each other in a Go match for the "title."
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Web link crashes Safari on your iPhone or Mac(engadget.com)
3 points by quackerhacker 11y ago|0 comments
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Combining topology and quantum computing = huge analysis of data sets(pcworld.com)
2 points by quackerhacker 11y ago|1 comments
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NASA, Google reveal quantum computing leap(pcworld.com)
3 points by quackerhacker 11y ago|0 comments
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by quackerhacker 12y ago
The article is very short and vague...just go tot the direct link it is referring to: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campa... I think this part is the most interesting: by manipu
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by quackerhacker 12y ago
I've been using mongo on 39M+ records (tracking financial tick data) across 73 assets (collections) and my queries take anywhere between 2-3mins depending on complexity. You can always run db.currentOp() in the mongo shell to see what
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by quackerhacker 12y ago
I have applecare for my 15 MBP w/retina (THANKFULLY), and I can attest that I've had to have Apple replaced the logic board twice. Both times, the screen's backlight would just go out. Great to hear Apple is doing this, but t
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by quackerhacker 12y ago
Wow, just looked over the API, this api method GET /currencies , gives me hope that in the later future Coinbase will provide exchange rates for foreign currencies. That would be amazingly awesome!
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Court rules FAA can regulate and enforce rules on drone flights(mashable.com)
2 points by quackerhacker 12y ago|0 comments
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Sheriff's office pays $500 ransom to remove malware(newsmax.com)
2 points by quackerhacker 12y ago|0 comments
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FBI Arrests Former SpaceX Employee, Accused of Running Silk Road 2.0(smallbusiness.yahoo.com)
3 points by quackerhacker 12y ago|0 comments
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by quackerhacker 12y ago
Just seeing the dates that the companies complied (or were forced to comply) is disappointing. A full year after Steve Jobs passes and stepped down as CEO, then Apple is added to that list. Way to go Yahoo for sticking it our then.
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Ikea's (Apple inspired) marketing ad for the BookBook. [video](youtube.com)
4 points by quackerhacker 12y ago|0 comments
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by quackerhacker 12y ago
I wonder if I'm the only one who gets annoyed by how many suggestions of evolutionary theory there are in the article. we acquired our mites from our ape ancestors... as early humans walked out of Africa... I believe in evolution..
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by quackerhacker 12y ago
It's amazingly sad that instead of competing through innovation, marketing, or price adjustments...that capital would get devoted to competitor sabotage of QOS (almost like a real life DDOS attack). What a terrible usage of capital and

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