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If the time differential is too extreme it will skip ahead or back instead of just skewing. > ...The ntpd algorithms discard sample offsets exceeding 128 ms, unless the interval du…

And when someone embeds an entire book (that was otherwise written and they have the rights for) into the handshake, what then?

> there are cases where the firmware inherently requires copyrighted material (For instance, requiring a (copyrighted) poem in a handshake).

> Nothing says you can't acquire parts from another manufacturer, nor is there anything preventing you from performing the repairs yourself. Incorrect. > I'm not sure if you've bee…

> If you want to blow away the firmware... False premise: you often cannot blow away the firmware, because it is either hard-coded, or signed. And even when said premise is correct…

That has been tried before: https://web.archive.org/web/20140412085458/https://revokame....

It isn't.

You have a problem. You use a regex. Now you have two problems.

Not possible. There are > 2 intersections with an odd number of streets. (Note that this includes dead-end streets)

> You can do exactly what java calls enums with classes in C# No you cannot. You lose the single biggest benefit of enumerations - namely compile-time checking. (For instance: warn…

Again, "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation)."

So is it acceptable to post separate threads about the topic of paywalls, then? Because if so, please make that explicit. At the very least, I did not get that impression, and read…

I think it is a subject that should be brought up. I do not think that a flat-out "stop complaining about it" is the proper response - and, to be frank, it disappoints me that that…

What bugs me is not so much caching as redundant caching. I've seen applications that have 5 redundant caches, if not more (on-disk cache, OS cache, VM OS cache, stdlib cache, prog…

For one, I do not consider this OK. For two, declaring rules and then declaring that no-one is allowed to talk about said rules sets a very dangerous precedent. For three, pretty d…

Elaborate? I find it really annoying that C# enums cannot have constructors and variables.

Look at birds. Bird lungs aren't actually continuously-pumping, but are a relatively small step away from being so.

Note that there are organisms that include "wheels" (Or rather, rotary motion in general). It's "just" that the only organisms on Earth that do so are microorganisms. Look at flage…

Again: I prefer longer lines and shorter line height. I am aware that I am in the minority on this front. I just wish that HTML had a sane way to allow client-side preferences (Lik…

Ah, so not misunderstanding but difference of opinion. You consider software complexity comparable at a broader level than I do. A rather fundamental difference, and we have both m…

I like C#. There are two reasons why I don't use it more. First, the whole .NET thing (Or rather, the lack of cross-platform compatibility). Yes, Mono is pretty good, but nowhere n…

Ah. A misunderstanding. What was meant was "for each , doing X correctly is improbable enough that the existence of any piece of software doing X correctly may be considered to be …

Considering that is not what I was asking for (I quote, "a functional browser that doesn't have bunches and bunches of exploitable bugs in its JS engine"), it, although impressive …

I don't mind having a filesystem that works reasonably well on most devices. But I would consider "being able to append to a file reasonably quickly" as part of that "reasonably we…

Again, there is a (massive) distinction between Turing-complete languages and non Turing-complete ones in terms of how often they are exploited (and in terms of how severe said exp…