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Obligatory, there are a lot of memes on this subject: https://www.google.com/search?q=arrays+start+at+zero+meme&tb...
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Correct. I've worked in a company which dealt with user money and it was our duty to figure out if someone opening an account was sanctioned. Which was actually hard because you just have lists of names which can be pretty vague like &
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Another interesting idea I've read, I think in a Haskell context, is proofs attached to values. You prove that a string originating from the user was HTML escaped - by calling the HTMLEscape function which attaches the proof - and then
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Right, but people compose. They take this union and put it in another object, which also allows multiple types for some field, and then they take that object and put it in another one, and then you have a 10 line type declaration for 3 fiel
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Python is also very dynamic, yet libraries rarely allow arguments to be number/string/list/dict/function at the same time. Yet in JavaScript I see this all the time - pass a string URL, but we also accept a function whic
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On the other hand some basic armor, including over the face like a motorcycle helmet, will protect you against small charges.
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Small drones have limited range, so you need to deploy them everywhere. The front line in Ukraine is 1000 km. Maybe you can have a big "carrier" drone transport them to where they are required, like in StarCraft. Or maybe you can
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And two years from now it will be removed again in a "de-bloat" drive. Circle of life...
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Even if you don't reuse keys you will be vulnerable the moment you do the first transaction - it will be the miner who sees your public key first. Even if you mine your own transactions you will be vulnerable, because the block could b
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Is it possible for project approval time to be related to color? I would imagine a lot more would file comments against building a yellow house versus a bland gray one. > Lilac house in Watford conservation area rejected by council ht
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> Microsoft might acquire Ubuntu That would make a lot of sense, despite the backlash it would generate. Remember when they acquired GitHub, developers were vouching to move over to GitLab. Yet very few did. The same would probably happe
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LD_PRELOAD, which is basically the same thing, has been with us since forever. Unix security model was never meant to protect user processes between themselves, it only meant to protect system from user apps, which is a bad model these days
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> Nunes, as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee: Russia is secretly funding the environmental movement, particularly in Germany, to help pressure the closure of nuclear power plants. https://www.eenews.net/arti
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Tech people applaud this, but then they are all upset when someone collects 100 mil Facebook/... public profiles.
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Some version of Qt is safety-critical certified, for example you can use it to display GUIs in medical devices: * road vehicles functional safety * railway software applications * electrical / electronic safety-related systems * medica
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By cops I meant FBI/... And the way this is done is you notify the cops first and then coordinate with them if needed. It's not like Twitter learned about this 5 minutes before.
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2020: How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter > When the conversation concluded, management seized Alzabarah’s laptop, put him on administrative leave, and escorted him out of the building. > At 5:17 p.m. he called a handler, identifi
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ISIS recruiting manuals and videos are also free speech. According to your view YouTube/Microsoft should not remove them. Beside the fact that GH is a private company that maybe doesn't want to be associated with some stuff.
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In theory. In practice, if I give you a random analog box, transforming it into an accurate DSP algorithm it's an extremely difficult problem. Which is why people instead of doing that, they recreate the "idea" (reverb, delay
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> Tech consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has warned that China will soon plan the theft of high value data, so it can decrypt it once quantum computers break classical encryption. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11&
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But RSA will 100% be broken by quantum computers. So you have the possibility of new algorithms being broken to the certainty of RSA being broken.
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Somewhat related, urban sniper camouflage: https://i.imgur.com/hhQDS9c.jpeg
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But the question was how many execution ports it has, not what's the latency/throughput of one port.
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Wasn't this the Gentoo philosophy? You downloaded the system source code and recompiled everything targeted to your exact CPU specs.
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This raises the question: how many 32-bit crc32 pipelines do modern AMD CPUs have?
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Lasers are supposedly the next big close range drone killers, less than $100 per shot, and infinite rounds (as long as you have fuel obviously).
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There is a physical theory which postulates that life is inevitable and a consequence of the laws of physics: > The thermodynamic dissipation theory thus assgins an explicit thermodynamic function to life; the dissipative structuring, p
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What happens when you double click a .png file on Linux? It's exactly like Windows, it reads the extension and finds the associated app. I know you meant +x, but that is limited to only some files.
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90% of what you said about Windows stopped being true at least 7 years ago, it doesn't get slower anymore, you don't need to reboot all the time, users are not admins, ... > installing software from untrusted sources is not no
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AI translate has probably a bigger worldwide impact so far.

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