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Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:51AM (#13336587)
FM works, and doesn't need any addition when you increase the number of listeners. I don't get it. Why throw away millions of perfectly fine radios?
I'm genuinely wondering: is pair programming better, compared to doing the design in pair, going to work on your own, then reviewing each other's code?

As an introvert I don't think I could handle the "pair all day" approach.

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!
`python -m SimpleHTTPServer` for the local server (or if you prefer the python3 variant, `python3 -m http.server`), aspell for the spell check, and OptiPNG for PNG compression.

I didn't found something (yet) for JPEG.

Bad wording on my side, sorry. My grief is mostly against some prominent themes that weight 5 MB a page, and feature jQuery to animate the menu.
I generate static webpages from markdown in a < 100 lines bash script. It's just a for loop using sed, pygments and markdown, hosted on github.

It has a local webserver, spell check, optional image compression, and minimal dependencies.

I don't get the need of Jekyll or Hugo. They're bloated and it's a pain to customize so called "themes". I'm OK with 'boring' HTML and CSS.

Re:When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (2014) on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:49AM (#13284104)
The graphics are misleading, the Y axis is stretched to make the change look big.
Re:HandBrake 1.0.0 Released on Monday December 26, 2016 @08:43AM (#13258184)
It has a nice GUI frontend with useful presets, understandable for the layman. Very good tool for the people not too versed in CLI and/or video formats.
Does a coverage-guided QuickCheck exists, à la AFL? AFL is really good at finding deeper code path that the randomness only approach might not find.
Re:Things I learnt making a fast website on Saturday December 24, 2016 @05:15AM (#13249247)
The bottom line is the power consumption. A big fat i7 (desktop) can draw 91W, while a fanless, battery operated smartphone can pull from 5 to 10W.

Power optimization come at a performance cost.

Re:Pokemon Go, Security, and Obsolescence on Sunday October 16, 2016 @06:27AM (#12717938)
It's cheaper than that. A HackRF and some sort of better clock and you're done.

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/cheating-at-pokemon-go-with-a-hackrf-...

Re:GitHub censored my research data on Saturday October 15, 2016 @10:37AM (#12714052)
This censorship show that you don't even begin to understand the problem.

This list could prevent people from getting their card skimmed, and you take it down.

I'm moving away from gitlab.

Re:GitLab Master Plan on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @08:34AM (#12496175)
I use a simple bash script[1] to paste together html headers and markdown files processed by python-markdown.

The resulting .html is pushed with the source to the github repo. This setup, while not very sexy, doesn't even need a CI.

[1] http://toastedcornflakes.github.io/generate.sh

Re:Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230 on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:50AM (#12494868)
It's theoretically possible, provided you have a small trusted circuit. It's an active research area. The basic idea is to use multiple separate, untrusted chips and have them do multiparty computation, coordinated by the small trusted circuit.

With testing amplification, you can then set an upper bound on the probability that the chip will run a backdoor.

Re:A bite of Python on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:15AM (#12452242)
It's in their threat model under 'Module injection':

> The mitigation is to maintain secure access permissions on all directories and package files in search path to ensure unprivileged users do not have write access to them.

Re:A bite of Python on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:56AM (#12451834)
Some points are valid, but come on, if an attacker has write access to your code, you can't recover from that, ever.
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails on Monday September 05, 2016 @02:25AM (#12428493)
Assuming you pay for your hosting in whatevercoins and only connect to it over TOR, you aren't at risk, right?
Re:Micro v1.0 – a terminal-based text editor written in Go on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @10:22AM (#12390404)
All go binaries are statically linked. It's supposed to be one of the selling points of the language.
Once you factor in the environmental cost associated with production, I'm not sure it's as clear cut. Batteries are nasty.
Re:Dropbox prompts password resets on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:48AM (#12365217)
Yes, but it happens only the first time, if you update the stored hash with newHash(plaintext_password)
Re:Dropbox prompts password resets on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:38AM (#12365186)
I know I should, but I can't bring myself to it.

I'm constantly switching between three OS, two browsers, different, sometimes auto-resetting computers, and it seems to be too much of a hassle.

How do I handle this? The only obvious option is a paper notebook.

What was the thought process to add those aliases? "Yes let's implement broken aliases that supersedes actual working windows version of those utilities" ?
Ooh thank you, I thought it was somehow added to the database by a troll.
Why is Donald Trump in the cast of home alone?
Re:“Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser” on Sunday August 07, 2016 @02:28AM (#12241283)
This is awful, how do I turn this off?
Re:The Beginner’s Guide to Freelance on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:11PM (#12220621)
The first part is actually the more daunting one. How do I find work in the first place? I'm only a student with virtually no connection in the industry.
Re:My Interviews with Amazon on Thursday July 28, 2016 @02:00PM (#12181910)
They made him lose his time, I think it's fair game.

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