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lisivka commented on Do we really need swap on modern systems? redhat.com/en/about/blog/... · Posted by u/omnibrain

sddfd · 9 years ago

I don't have swap either. On 8GB it is pretty annoying, because a program I often use frequently overcommits and the system hangs.

Is there any way to tell the OOM killer which program to kill first?

lisivka · 9 years ago

Use cgroups or `ulimit -m`.

lisivka commented on The Holocaust’s Great Escape smithsonianmag.com/histor... · Posted by u/diodorus

hackuser · 9 years ago

I've heard the same number, 6 million, my whole life.

lisivka · 9 years ago

I pointed to official site with same number, but I downvoted. :-/

Why?

lisivka commented on A command line script to remind you to drink water github.com/lakshaykalbhor... · Posted by u/mirceasoaica

mikestew · 9 years ago

No offense to your sister, but I've heard a lot of crap prefaced with "$PERSON works in $FIELD, and they said...". Her suggestion is demonstrably one of those things, as other data [and, no, I'm not finding a goddamn citation] imply that there's little basis for her suggestion.

lisivka · 9 years ago

Do you need a scientist to flush toilet? Basically, it's same, but for your body.

lisivka commented on Google and Mozilla's message to AV and security firms: Stop trashing HTTPS zdnet.com/article/google-... · Posted by u/jgrahamc

cesarb · 9 years ago

If you're using Firefox or Chrome, go to a site with an EV certificate (for instance https://twitter.com/), and check if it shows the EV bar. These two browsers only accept EV certificates from a few hardcoded CAs, so if it's still being intercepted, it won't show as EV.

Another option is to check the certificate for any website; for instance, the one for this site should chain to "COMODO RSA Certification Authority", and for me shows the SHA1 signature BB:DD:64:6F:EB:11:0C:D5:EC:CF:57:D1:F7:52:AA:99:50:1B:44:FD.

lisivka · 9 years ago

No EV bar at twitter site in Firefox in my case, nor at google.com, Facebook, etc., but thawte.com is displayed properly (Thawte, Inc. (US)). :-/

lisivka commented on Expanding Fact Checking at Google blog.google/topics/journa... · Posted by u/mpweiher

godzillabrennus · 9 years ago

So few companies have so much power with generating and spreading information.

This is a good time for the industry to organize a new open and transparent Wikileaks style organization to make the decisions on what's fake or not.

lisivka · 9 years ago

Only court can prove that something is fake or not fake. Other solutions are vulnerable.

Extreme example: Russian plane was shoot at Black sea in 2001, and Ukraine is blamed by every article in internet you can find, but not by court.

I'm 100% sure that every fact-check organization, except court, will confirm mainstream «fact».

lisivka commented on Theories about a link between the human mind and quantum physics bbc.com/earth/story/20170... · Posted by u/tdurden

CuriouslyC · 9 years ago

That is awesome, I am totally going to steal it :)

lisivka · 9 years ago

You are welcome! I'm not a native speaker, so it's better to rewrite text into something readable.

lisivka commented on Theories about a link between the human mind and quantum physics bbc.com/earth/story/20170... · Posted by u/tdurden

CuriouslyC · 9 years ago

I'd argue that even bad articles can stimulate good discussion.

lisivka · 9 years ago

You asked.

Good discussion from bad article.

I found surprising link between quantum objects and socks. Socks can be left, or right. They cannot be partially left, or partially right, but they can be left and right at same time! Trust me, I checked that.

Moreover, when nobody is watching, socks are spreading in the room in wave-like pattern. It demonstrates wave-particle duality of socks. However, if somebody watching, socks are demonstrating particle only behavior. Moreover, they are demonstrating particle only behavior even if somebody will watch them in future!

Socks can be entangled, so if one sock is the right sock, then other one is instantaneously collapses to the left sock via spooky action at distance. This feature of socks can be used for FTL communication.

I have theory, it's called «string theory». In this theory, our Universe is made of little strings, which are creating space-time fabric, in which socks are living. In the process of entanglement, socks are somewhat connected by a string, which allows them to communicate via large distances.

Can anybody suggest me how to create a powerful theory from that, e.g. x in power of 10 at least?