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by techman9 5y ago
This article [0] covers its fascinating history and adoption by somewhat unsavory characters. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
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by techman9 6y ago
> I think very few people realize that many parts of it are closed source Which parts are closed-source?
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by techman9 6y ago
> So – this made me wonder. When we do high performance networking – why do we bother using the Linux kernel’s TCP stack at all, if it’s so expensive? What makes the Linux kernel TCP stack expensive?
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by techman9 6y ago
This is super useful! I've been hacking recently on qdisc classifiers, and trying to set a filter up with BPF, but there's a paucity of documentation on the subject. The tc tools are sorta documented here ( https://man7.
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by techman9 6y ago
I do wonder whether the electoral college system somewhat insulates the US from election tampering or voter fraud. The current system disaggregates election certification to the state level, which is then made official by a discrete vote of
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by techman9 6y ago
It looks like several of the images in this post are taken (without credit?) from Cloudflare's primer? https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-...
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by techman9 7y ago
Build Impossible Programs - Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/18/build-impossible-programs/
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by techman9 8y ago
Hm.. Is Functional Neurology (the journal in which this published) related in any way to the field of functional neurology? I think the latter is a rebranding of chiropractic neurology, which some would argue purports some less than scienti
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Giant lock(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by techman9 8y ago|0 comments
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by techman9 8y ago
- etcd
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by techman9 8y ago
Can you explain a bit more more about why you believe Delaware is the proffered place to register a corporation?
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by techman9 8y ago
> That said, I didn’t want to mislead people. So we chose to be clear to them that there is a technical term; it’s just not going to be important for the rest of the content.
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by techman9 8y ago
Maybe I missed something in the article, but how do you know the phone app is transmitting data to the insurance company?
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by techman9 8y ago
My understanding was that GDPR requirements apply to all citizens of the EU regardless of where the company is located. Someone else can chime in if that's not accurate!
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by techman9 8y ago
I'm hopeful that Zuckerberg has matured at least slightly in the intervening 14 years.
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by techman9 8y ago
Oh my god. And Starcraft, and Axis and Allies, (original) DOTA. I was even a WOW player back in the day before I got fed up buying expansions. Man, the hours of productive time I wasted...
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by techman9 8y ago
I don't know. I grew up in the XP era and I played a lot of brainless games (3D pinball was where it was at) and read a lot of mindless Wikipedia articles as a kid. But then I got curious about how it all worked behind the scenes. Ma
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by techman9 8y ago
I credit much of my current aptitude with (and interest in) computers to getting to use one throughout my childhood with no restrictions. I understand it can be nerve-wracking for parents ceding that much control to children, but I think ch
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by techman9 8y ago
What do you believe defines terrorism?
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by techman9 8y ago
This seems very cool, but it's hard to imagine myself ever using this for anything. What use cases do you imagine this has or have other people found for something like this?
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The “Joys” of Unsolicited Advice(dev.to)
2 points by techman9 8y ago|0 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
How does the JVM determine the number of cores on a Linux system by default?
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by techman9 9y ago
Sorta. The JVM provides portability but has less fine controls for things like disk, network and CPU isolation and limiting.
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by techman9 9y ago
The ad in question was of course totally tasteless and tone-deaf, but I'm curious as to whether Snap is uniquely susceptible to price fluctuations based on the comments of social media influencers for some reason.
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Snapchat's Stock Sinks After Rihanna Denounces Domestic Violence Ad(npr.org)
34 points by techman9 9y ago|26 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
On a slightly tangential note, how do you like the Homepod?
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by techman9 9y ago
I hope I never have to do something like this to keep my beloved 2015 Macbook Pro alive.
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AirBed and Breakfast Takes Pad Crashing to a Whole New Level (2008)(beta.techcrunch.com)
2 points by techman9 9y ago|0 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
Excuse me, the first statue should be 18 USC § 1348, not 15 USC.
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by techman9 9y ago
No. Shkreli is going to jail because he committed fraud.

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