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by trotsky 13y ago
Offering a random anecdote: I wasn't particularly aware of systemd's emergence and the squabbling that went on at the time, but I got exposed to it a gen or 2 after it first hit fedora through a fedora centric project. At first I was non-pl
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by trotsky 13y ago
It seems like you've been putting a lot of effort in, but posix uid/gid isolation is increasingly pourous with the typical desktop environment these days. It sounds like you are ready for real RBAC - if you put the time in selinux (or appar
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by trotsky 13y ago
I wouldn't count on it - it seems they plan on a rather limited trial on fios where they control 100% of the CPE. They only started shipping the router they've qualified for it late last year, and even so they are pushing a lot of firmware
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by trotsky 13y ago
just like they could replace a binary, backdoor the Makefile or hide something bad deep in the repo. And of course their hash of their signing key for their apt repo and any shasums are provided on the same webserver.
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by trotsky 13y ago
So you're trusting opscode to provide the primary centralized control system of your entire server ecosystem but you're concerned they might be embedding something malicious in their installer shell script? Don't get me wrong, i'm no fan of
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by trotsky 13y ago
The huge amounts spent on campaigns are merely the result of the ruling class having optimized the equation of how to get your guys in office. If you somehow totally eliminated the role of money in campaigns, the next most efficient solutio
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by trotsky 13y ago
This made me think - It would be kind of awesome to have contest or show of extremely convoluted Rube Goldberg style systems to obtain run of the mill targeting data. My entry would be to mass import everyones commit logs and use a machine
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by trotsky 13y ago
git was designed by and for people who read man pages. the fact that it has significant usability problems is a problem for them only in so far as they are interested in having you contribute code to them, which is to say very little. Githu
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by trotsky 13y ago
The only way you could think bitcoin is a threat to state revenue is by misunderstanding methods of taxation. Income and corporate taxes are determined almost entirely by self reporting and laws that shift tax burdens from one entity to ano
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by trotsky 13y ago
The games you played as a kid will always be the best ones.
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by trotsky 13y ago
The interesting thing about the bitcoin community is that they've discovered that nearly everyone else besides themselves and F. A. Hayek is stupid.
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by trotsky 13y ago
The third level is java based frameworks that are making heavy use of highly optimized native code paths for string handling.
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by trotsky 13y ago
Heh. I'm suggesting their trading platform is having trouble scaling, not that they're doing it on purpose.
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by trotsky 13y ago
Mt. Gox is in the midst of a major technical overhaul of its exchange. Gay-Bouchery said Mt. Gox is rebuilding its trading platform from the ground up. We're throwing out our entire OLTP system, but trust us - the lag and error pages that
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by trotsky 13y ago
Crunchbase data backfills, you'll usually see the most recent 1-2 quarters lower than what they'll be a year from now.
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by trotsky 13y ago
The key is the word that traditionally comes before bubble, speculative. When price action is more or less entirely driven by speculative forces as soon as you get a shock everyone runs for the exits.
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by trotsky 13y ago
Why would you ever think entities that provide extensively tested skinner boxes designed to provoke compulsive behavior and extract money are making decisions based on actual care for their customers?
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by trotsky 13y ago
For whatever reason, most unsolicited leads from websites or email turn out to be garbage in that business. Meaning if you pursue all of them very close to 0% will turn into real work. Most emailers are dreaming, fishing for some free work,
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by trotsky 13y ago
Deduplication is just an extremely efficient form of dictionary compression. Surely they're not storing raw ATSC.
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by trotsky 13y ago
I assure you that previous privileged generations didn't refer to themselves as "rich and the right ethnicity".
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by trotsky 13y ago
Ivies added essays to the applications in the 1930s to deal with the "Jewish problem" - a significant influx of jewish students being admitted based on numerical admissions standards to what were traditionally WASP dominated campuses. Writt
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by trotsky 13y ago
Degrees from these schools serve as class signaling devices. They wouldn't be very effective if they recruited more than a token of poor or disadvantaged.
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by trotsky 13y ago
Exactly how convinced are we that college students that report that they don't really "believe in science" are being honest?
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by trotsky 13y ago
You know you've pretty much hit rock bottom as an industry when people are complaining about Robert Scoble being mean about their fake business that they created while on a bus to an expensive party.
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by trotsky 13y ago
I got my first real computer around 1982 as well, a Heathkit/Zenith Z-100. Thinking back, I'm amazed at the amount of high quality documentation that came with it. Full schematics, lengthy component level trouble shooting workflows, s-100 b
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by trotsky 13y ago
216M/sec - rewrite is suffering from a striding mismatch there with the COW, bs is 32k while stripe is 128k. Consumer uses 1M. I'm wondering which volume manager and fs under linux you'd expect better performance from in this configuration?
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by trotsky 13y ago
Performance seems ok to me. 6x500gb 7.2k sata raid10 + 96gb ssd, 8gb ram. Run began: Fri Mar 29 08:32:24 2013 Include fsync in write timing Include close in write timing Command line used: iozone -ec -r 32
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by trotsky 13y ago
Just knowing there is a preauth RCE in the code base buys you very, very little. Statistically speaking there are probably quite a few unexposed flaws right now in any compact, core linux distribution. The fact that no one yet knows what th
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by trotsky 13y ago
As an observation, the same day the new york times story ran sharespost announced that they had just added cloudfare to their secondary market platform. This typically means that an insider such as a founder or early investor plans to aucti
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by trotsky 13y ago
I think this is actually a restriction of their current backlight controller. As far as I know the apps that reduce brightness below one square actually do it by placing a black element over the entire screen and adjusting its transparency.

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