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by zigzigzag 9y ago
And how about if the vote had been phrased as "do you wish to remain in the EU", with a 2/3rd requirement to meet the bar, meaning 1/3rd was sufficient to trigger Brexit? Would that have seemed fair? Democracy evolved as
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
To not only use UTF-8 as the internal string encoding but practically mandate it, if you want to remain safe. UTF-8 is a fine transport format, but for raw runtime performance it's obviously going to be an issue if you ever need to ite
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Are you sure? I thought Algolia literally was Solr (which is ElasticSearch which is Lucene).
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
That seems like a really unfortunate design decision. I used to think that Java's use of UTF-16 for strings was just a problematic legacy thing, but compared to this it seems quite good. Strings are pretty high performance and there ar
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
The direction of the nation is decided by less than a majority in every vote. So why would this one in particular require "special measures"? I think what you're getting at here is you support the EU, so would prefer if attem
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
IPv6 is less common at work, more common at home.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
But are you roaming in those places? For reasons I don't understand fully but are presumably billing related your IP traffic gets tunnelled back to your home ISP when roaming, or at least, it used to.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Isn't it "people an NSA analyst believes are Russian hackers"? I read the Intercept story but didn't see where it showed convincing evidence of that. It just says they showed no doubt.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
The problem with insisting on roundness, which has been a focus of the education system for years, is that it generates tons of generic shapeless people who specialise in nothing and find themselves unable to obtain the best, high paying jo
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Eh? UK engaged in mass telephone/fax taps during the Troubles with wild abandon. http://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html The inability to monitor suspects telecommunications is a very recent phenomenon. G
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
There is also the opposite problem. The public aren't asking for it not to be done either. Internet surveillance isn't a hot button political topic either way. However, terrorism is. Hence the problem.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Thought crime already exists for a long time already. Planning to commit murder (thinking about it) is punished nearly as harshly as succeeding. Is it really so controversial?
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
You're comparing the UK to the USA there and assuming the USA is saner. The origin of the USA's prohibition against self-incrimination was people who were tortured into confessions and other forms of undermining their own freedom.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I've never liked May's authoritarian tendencies - no way does that stuff remain restricted to targeting Islamism - but your last paragraph is in fact exactly what they are doing. Having asked the question of "why do they want
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
They did that. It was the first iteration. The problem is that - as described above - many websites use ads from multiple networks, so actually even if you paid, most ads did not disappear. It was more or less random. Also, it turns out ads
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I know for a fact mine weren't, because the profs tended to tell us so. Also, many of the academics could barely code themselves. Instead they found creative ways to set mark schemes such that the code didn't matter, even for prog
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Learning to read errors is itself a skill. The number of professional devs who ask questions of the form "I got this message what do I do" and the message itself tells them what to do is astonishing.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I seem to recall that in prior HN stories about CRISPR some poster was saying he believed CRISPR didn't work the way people thought it worked. He said it was simply killing cells that didn't have the desired mutation and biologist
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I saw the same thing. I had to kill the entire Chrome process. There's something being loaded, probably via ads, that totally wrecks the entire Chrome process group not just the renderer, which is impressive.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
That's completely wrong I'm afraid. ART is a standards compliant JVM and Android has supported the native development kit (NDK) for C/C++ apps for years. You can't do everything you can with the Java APIs, but you can op
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Well, I hope we're not getting sentimental about Win16. I've written more than my fair share of Windows API code and even though some of the concepts are now coming back into fashion again, largely due to the limits of browser eng
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Thanks for the correction - that's neat. They really pushed a lot of high level detail into the draw lists!
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
There is/was an extension that did that at some point, but it was never used (on Linux) due to poor implementation and a desire to target low RAM machines. Mac's backing store implementation was quite heavily optimised - macOS ca
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I found the article a little confusing to be honest. I wonder if the author has written a traditional widget toolkit that isn't Firefox oriented. In old widget toolkits, going back to the 90s here, there was a single UI thread per app
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I looked there. It doesn't explain anything beyond mentioning that the exploit involves heap manipulation. The Metasploit eternalblue module simply runs an interpreter for a long set of commands that send massive binary blobs over the
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Yes they did. Nobody so far has posted a reverse engineering of exactly how EternalBlue works (I saw an article in Chinese but it was hard to tell if it had a real explanation given the auto-translate). WannaCry is simply using the actual N
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
What I don't get is how Chinese people don't already know this. I know nothing about fighting at all but from the article and the comments on the NYTimes site it seems it's common knowledge in the west that MMA fighters alway
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
There are a handful of Bitcoin exchanges that don't follow anti-money laundering laws and presumably that's how these ransomware guys cash out, as it's been a problem for a while now.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Does Debian still support Woody? Does Red Hat still support whatever OS they were shipping in 2001?
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Linux doesn't have a magic fix for buffer overflows in networking stacks written in C.

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