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jsjohnst
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Since the majority shareholder(s) can decide to replace the board of directors, it’s not the board of directors who holds the (ultimate) power, it’s the majority shareholder(s).
jsjohnst
·4 месяца назад·discuss
> There are competing terms currently being decided on by the market at large: AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

It really annoys me the industry seems to be narrowing in on the two worse options rather than AIO.
jsjohnst
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
> i'm actually not sure which is more risky: holding bitcoin or real estate

Both can have wild swings in valuation, but at the end of the day, you still hold something by owning real estate.
jsjohnst
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
> anyone know of an iPad ssh client with mouse support?

Prompt 3 from Panic
jsjohnst
·5 лет назад·discuss
> Now, the default assumption is you can call for help--which isn't always the case.

Exactly. I had an emergency situation where I needed to be taken to the hospital over a decade ago. I had a satellite phone on me, yet it was still difficult to get help due to a combination of satellite coverage (Iridium phones would have periods of no coverage due to satellite orbits) and just having a number to call (great thing about 911 is that it works from almost any phone in the US, except satellite phones).
jsjohnst
·6 лет назад·discuss
More details here then if you are still unclear...

https://wiki.osdev.org/PE

tl;dr: Yes, it was originally by design, but very rarely used in practice (most use the default text you mentioned), and isn’t exactly straightforward in some tooling (but not hard either, as evidenced by the simple Python script here).
jsjohnst
·6 лет назад·discuss
(Update: yes, by design, the paragraph I quoted was meant to confirm that, but guess I should’ve been explicit)

From the intro...

> DOS and Windows .exe files both start with a common header (the DOS "MZ" header), which might suggest that you can run programs for one OS on the other one. However, this is complicated by a few facts: DOS support was dropped in Windows a long time ago (DOS binaries don't load on Windows 10, for example), and DOS programs use a completely different execution environment.

> This repo builds a single .exe file with a "polyglot" MZ header which allows it to load one program (the original DOOM) when running inside DOS, and a different program (a custom static build of Chocolate DOOM) when running on Windows.
jsjohnst
·7 лет назад·discuss
From your link:

> Your supporting documents should show the amount paid and a description that shows the amount was for a business expense.

A credit card statement typically doesn’t fulfill the second half of that requirement. That doesn’t mean the card statement isn’t a valid supporting document, just that it wasn’t enough by itself.

I too read an IRS document once, that doesn’t make me an expert on accounting. However, when every single finance person has stated that the WHAT was as important and then your own link says that too, I generally would back down and admit maybe I misunderstood and/or made a mistake. YMMV.
jsjohnst
·7 лет назад·discuss
This is just flat wrong advice in every jurisdiction I’ve worked in and further wouldn’t fly at any employer. The bank statement may provide the WHO in the transaction, but the invoice / receipt / similar provides the most important part, the WHAT that was paid for.
jsjohnst
·7 лет назад·discuss
Chrome wasn’t written from scratch in 2008. Chrome was a fork of WebKit, which was a fork of Konqueror, which was a fork of KHTML.
jsjohnst
·8 лет назад·discuss
All of which are overcome by nation state actors if they want too.
jsjohnst
·8 лет назад·discuss
Do you honestly think any of that is not something a nation state actor could pull off though?
jsjohnst
·8 лет назад·discuss
> as once they were closed they would have anti-tampering mechanism activated so that later it would not be possible to open the device without setting the tamper flag

You didn’t specify what type of anti-tamper was used, but I wanted to jump in and say usually that means nothing. The US government intercepted packages [0] and put in back doors (removing and replacing the seals), so I’m not sure why you were so quick to dismiss state sponsored attacks by something as simple as an anti-tamper seal. You can learn how to do it yourself at most medium to large hacker conferences too (DEFCON, BlackHat, HOPE, and CCC to name a few, but there’s more with it).

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/networking/routers-storage/ph...
jsjohnst
·8 лет назад·discuss
As there were quite a few analytics companies for RSS when it was more popular, your comment couldn’t be further from the truth. The founder of one of the most popular RSS analytics firms (FeedBurner) later went on to be the CEO of twitter in fact.
jsjohnst
·9 лет назад·discuss
Used to get told the same thing for GP2 EBS and R3.8xlarge limits in us-west-2 all the time. On a couple occasions was told no, that increasing the limit wasn't possible due to existing commitments in the region, so I'm not entirely sure if it's a canned response or actually a legit concern of theirs.