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fidget··on Does 1+2+3+... Really Equal -1/12?
Length of the coast of Britain?
fidget··on Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification
Rallies aren't a very good indicator of popular support. Having 4 million or so more votes is.
fidget··on The Brexit Possibility
Maybe. No one knows.
fidget··on Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity
So that's why Clinton's winning...
fidget··on An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver
I mean, it's been 20 years, and people seem to be using them sensibly still. I'm not convinced their misuse is a given.
fidget··on Why aren't PGP and SSH keys popular as a second factor for authentication?
If you loose your github 2FA, they will ask that you prove your identity by SSHing to some host and providing them with the token returned by that host
fidget··on Go stack traces and the errors package
A stack trace is not an error stack. The GP was lamenting the fact that a 3rd party package is required to create error stacks, not stack traces.
fidget··on Moving Forward on Basic Income
BI is the flat tax of the welfare world
fidget··on Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
Oh, do treaties no longer need to be ratified?
fidget··on Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
Depends what. We pay significantly lower than label price for Cloudfront prices. EC2? Never seen a reduction in that
fidget··on The F-35’s Software Is So Buggy It Might Ground the Whole Fleet
The only people who prefer longhand are those who want people to evaluate the number without context and just see a big number. $130000000000 is just a big number to many people, regardless of how many zeros are in it
fidget··on Segmenting Customers with One-Click Surveys
Self segmentation is a big deal right now
fidget··on Weave and Docker for Mac: The bridge between local and remote services
IPSec is still pretty slow. While it might be fine for X DC stuff, without a real private network you're not going to find the low latency that makes microservices attractive.
fidget··on GCE down in all regions
Though notably, EC2Classic ELBs only
fidget··on WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web
`First, so that the device can protect itself from malicious sites it can provide a set of origins that are allowed to connect to it.`

Sounds kinda DRM-ey. The CORS system works because the owner of a URL is the person who can attach headers to responses. That doesn't sound the same in this case, as the owner of a device is the person who owns it, not the manufacturer who decides what metadata it broadcasts (though obviously working out what the UX should be is a hard problem)

fidget··on Show HN: Make Ubuntu/Debian packages for Nginx with your patches in one command
Soon it shall. Tengine is the solution to that in the meantime though
fidget··on Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, to Global Trade
Why is it better to be repressed and out of work than be repressed and in work?
fidget··on Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, to Global Trade
The places that are currently the most anti free trade are not SF/NYC/etc.
fidget··on Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer
My guess is that it's pretty much just BigQuery. No one else seems to be able to compete, and that's a big deal. The companies moving their analytics stacks to BQ and thus GCP probably make up the majority (in terms of revenue) of customers for GCP
fidget··on FBI’s Comey Concedes Mistake Was Made Over iPhone in San Bernardino Case
Once you've changed the device id check code, you'd still need to sign it again if you wanted to distribute it widely
fidget··on The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013)
> The long litany of examples includes Ubuntu Unity, Gnome Shell, KDE 4, the /usr partition, SELinux, PolicyKit, Systemd, udev and PulseAudio

Strange list of examples if you're trying to show how terrible modern Linux is.

fidget··on Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads
Another one for the list of meaningless benchmarks
fidget··on Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?
In the UK, it's as simple as just requesting it from the company
fidget··on How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired
Way too many children with gender dysphoria commit suicide
fidget··on Tableau stock down almost 50%
Oh god, don't do it. Running E is a bitch, and incredibly expensive. To get L running over any kind of load, you need to do so many hacks.
fidget··on Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux
Wait, the future of Alpine is dependant on 1 person? I'll stick with Ubuntu I think
fidget··on Tableau stock down almost 50%
OpenID in 9.2 also
fidget··on Tableau stock down almost 50%
Sunk cost
fidget··on Docker 1.10.0 is out
Wow, user namespaces! That was quick!

EDIT: And a default seccomp profile! Did I miss the memo about containerisation suddenly becoming a competative industry?

fidget··on The Security-Minded Container Engine by CoreOS: rkt Hits 1.0
God yes. No more fucking docker daemon with lots of lovely shared state to fuck up, just one simple command that runs the container I ask it to.
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