toraobo

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by toraobo 6y ago
I like going to the office because it offers a very nice solid separation between "home" and "work" life.
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by toraobo 6y ago
It's common even for embedded systems which use busybox to provide /bin/bash because bash itself is not that large.
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by toraobo 7y ago
> Due to the use of static keys, an authenticated attacker can trick the server into deserializing maliciously crafted ViewState data. Many years ago I was shocked that ASP.net will deserialize arbitrary (potentially unsafe) objects from
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by toraobo 7y ago
> How can rocket lab compete? The biggest claimed advantage is that customers get to pick launch date and exact orbit.
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by toraobo 7y ago
> First day of first grade, I found out no one could competently read a sentence. Isn't the standard expectation that children enter first-grade completely illiterate? I remember learning how to read and write letters one per lesson
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by toraobo 7y ago
This makes a lot of sense: the Atlas V is exceptionally reliable while the Starliner capsule is on its first flight.
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by toraobo 7y ago
> > SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon’s Internet-Beaming Satellites > Amazon is trying to get a waiver to FCC rules that companies like SpaceX and OneWeb had to follow. Title is more than a little misleading. Space is a highly regu
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by toraobo 7y ago
Linux versions are not decimal, you subtracted 1.-2
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by toraobo 7y ago
Your freedom is not being limited, you get control over what applications are allowed to do. Most machines are effective single-user so security boundaries between user accounts are not very useful. Restricting the freedom of applications i
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by toraobo 7y ago
> You can't force a shop owner to sell his products to you if he doesn't want to. Yes you can, for example in cases of racial segregation. But this refusal seems to be based on anti-trust regulation and it seems that Turkey won
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by toraobo 7y ago
From the article: > Picking an arbitrary limit less than 2 32 is certainly safer for many reasons, and very unlikely to impact real usage. We already have some real limits well below 10 6 (such as if/else depth and recursion limit
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by toraobo 7y ago
What would be an example of a good packaging ecosystem?
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by toraobo 7y ago
> Can you get to classes on time and manage a schedule that's more complex than "be at this building for 6 hours a day"? Most jobs don't require time management skills beyond "be at this building for 9 hours a da
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by toraobo 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that twitter also tracks what you read even if you don't publish anything. I also remember there was no way to hide the list of people you follow? > your statement is objectively wrong. this wording may be exces
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by toraobo 7y ago
> It’s economically productive for the 1% to maintain a trade relationship with China. This leading argument is not specific to China at all and would equally apply to India and most poor countries. Severing trade with all those countrie
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by toraobo 7y ago
> Yes, some people are privacy conscious and are going to stop using Fitbit but how many are actually doing it? A lot? A few? If they were truly privacy conscious they wouldn't have a twitter anyway.
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by toraobo 7y ago
> A Google spokeswoman said the company is investigating the employees who were placed on leave. One of them had searched for and shared confidential documents outside the scope of their job, while the other tracked the individual calend
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by toraobo 7y ago
> We were lulled into letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation, because no one else was awake or online at the same time to discuss them. That sounds like a process rather than schedule issues: important architectural dec
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by toraobo 7y ago
> There have been some experiments in this direction, notably Richard Branson's. No? Richard Branson invested in SpaceShipTwo which uses a hybrid rocket motor with liquid oxidizer and solid propellant. It is NOT air-breathing. It&#x
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by toraobo 7y ago
> And yes - the list quoting rules are weird! No doubt about that. Lists might be "native" in the sense that the interpreter knows how to deal with them but in the data model there is no distinction between a "string"
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by toraobo 7y ago
> Python trying to be Bash, or Bash trying to be Python The fact that "everything is a string" is cute and odd but the end result is really closer to shell scripting than a real object-oriented language like Python. You routine