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by uasm 6y ago
The "Chief Purpose Officer" at Ethos is working hard these days to keep us all well informed - http://www.circleid.com/pp/dot-org-sale
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by uasm 6y ago
> "I would recommend musl, although the style is a bit idiosyncratic in places: https://www.musl-libc.org" Opened a random part of musl out of sheer boredom. Here's what I see: https://git.musl-libc.
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by uasm 6y ago
> "Tech debt is what the 2nd generation of engineers gets to complain about after the 1st gen made the product succesful at something." Strange and snarky comment for a "Chief Technical Officer". Software constantly e
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by uasm 6y ago
Broader question - is there some-kind of support planned for a DNS-like MX address mechanism, for receiving emails via the .crypto domain?
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by uasm 6y ago
It's 2020 and locking your screen on Linux is unreliable. It's difficult to promote Linux as a worthy consumer desktop OS alternative.
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by uasm 7y ago
> "If Waymo turns trucking into an automated business (or even just reduces the number of humans needed to haul cargo), we could be in for a similar situation." Sure. Tuning in to last week's news - "Mass layoffs repo
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by uasm 7y ago
Thanks. So, a given "specification" (how a font looks to the human eye) can have many different "implementations" (ie. TTF files). The specific "implementations" themselves can be copyrighted, but somehow not t
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by uasm 7y ago
> "I created this font by purchasing a Leroy Lettering set, using Inkscape to trace the scanned letterforms of one of its templates, and some FontForge Python scripting." How does this work from a copyright/legal perspecti
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by uasm 7y ago
Stacks are used extensively across the x86 family [0] [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
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by uasm 7y ago
> "WASM translated to register-based bytecode. That's awesome!" If the hardware executing this code is "stack-based" (or, does not offer enough general purpose registers to accomodate the funtion call) - this wil
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by uasm 7y ago
Friendly reminder: you don't really know whether this person truly works for the NHS, as they claim. Don't divulge sensitive information to random people.
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by uasm 7y ago
> "I am on alexa 1m (50k even). I do not have a load balancer, I do not have multiple servers for redundancy. This isn't even a static site, most of our page views are the wiki, the server running all of this has 8 cores and 4
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by uasm 7y ago
> "Using CPU jitter is a clever solution. I hope it stands up to scrutiny." How safe is it to use CPU jitter in a virtual machine?
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by uasm 7y ago
> "I wish the reporter could elaborate more on whether there are live websites broken due to this or is it a project under development so we can measure the impact more." (Quoted a comment from the thread on https://
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by uasm 7y ago
> "They whitelist domains" That's not a bad idea, actually. Who maintains those whitelists and how do they get updated? If you want to make the web somewhat usable for others, is it enough to whitelist "google.com&quo
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by uasm 7y ago
I'm not for or against Erlang. While honestly attempting to learn something new today, I became frustrated with how devoid of content most of the comments in this thread are. "I'm {senior title}, and {tech name} is great&quot
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Secret Cities(globalsecurity.org)
3 points by uasm 7y ago|0 comments
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by uasm 7y ago
> "Dark definitely won't be for everyone, but it seems to me like it will empower a lot of people to bring their ideas to reality more easily than before." I agree. > "There is a large - and growing - population of
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by uasm 7y ago
> "On this kind of topic, those who know won't say if it's on the record. You're lucky for them to say when it's not on the record." Honest question: Would WikiLeaks "work" if all we had was anonym
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by uasm 7y ago
No proof, no citations, no names. A lot of third person language. Anonymous "former officials". Great journalism right there!
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by uasm 7y ago
> "It doesn't matter how you call it - they will be unable to earn extra money by driving, that is the issue. If they relied on that money to make ends meet, they may not be happy anymore." Your post makes zero sense, so I
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by uasm 7y ago
> "Uber is not Taxi. OP point is still correct. Taxi companies are coming back but Uber drivers get fired" They can't be "fired", since they were never properly hired in the first place! They were never regarded
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by uasm 7y ago
> "I wonder how happy they will be when their job simply goes away because of that bill." Taxis are... not "going away". They may get more expensive. Taxi companies are simply going to make a comeback. Uber was making
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by uasm 7y ago
> "In NLOS (and traditional photography) the scene to be imaged is illuminated with N photons but the detector only receives M photons worth of signal back, where M<<N." How about "averaging" several attempts to
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by uasm 7y ago
> "Disney broke the law when attempting to replace its IT department with guest workers. Proof enough?" You're lying again: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/judge-says-disney-didn..
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by uasm 7y ago
> "It's the employers bending and breaking the rules and regulators not enforcing them" Those are serious accusations, coming with absolutely no proof whatsoever. You can't possibly claim rules are being broken at sca
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by uasm 7y ago
> "You do realize that the "highly skilled" part has been systematically ignored for a couple decades now?" Is that a fact? "Ignored" by whom, and how exactly? Applicants must prove they are indeed exception
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by uasm 7y ago
> "H-1B employees tend to be junior" You do realize that this generalization can't possibly be true? H-1B are reserved for "highly skilled immigrants" carrying out skilled work. You won't find kitchen staff,
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by uasm 7y ago
I like where this is going. Almost daily now, we're seeing reports of "AI startups/companies/products/features" getting unmasked. Technical people knew it all along, but corporate-speak, prefabricated demos, ha
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by uasm 7y ago
> " https://www.mercedesbenzofnatick.com" That's one long domain name...

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