Asraelite

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by Asraelite 2y ago
> my commit history got much cleaner with jj In my opinion the traditional git workflow is flawed, but wanting the commit history to be cleaner is fundamentally the wrong approach. There are basically two main reasons to look at a chrono
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Alright that's fair, in this thread there's not much reason for people to encourage learning it so it wasn't a good example to use. Thank you for helping people to learn more about it. That being said, the sentiment around ro
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by Asraelite 2y ago
It certainly comes across like people are discouraging others from even learning about it. Just read through this thread and see how few people are saying anything like "you should still learn how cryptographic primitives work though&q
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> Eclipse is a full IDE. Sublime Text and VSCode are not. I don't understand what practical difference there is between Eclipse/IntelliJ and VSCode with extensions that makes one an IDE and the other not.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Note the part of the article that says "Lawyers tended to prefer plain English versions of documents, and they rated those versions to be just as enforceable as traditional legal documents."
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by Asraelite 2y ago
That's not really why legalese exists, or at least not why it's quite as obtuse as it is: https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehe...
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Attackers with that level of sophistication could most likely bypass any protective measures the SSD has or find some other way to exfiltrate data, like installing a transmitter on your RAM. If that's your threat model, then an adversa
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by Asraelite 2y ago
So you're saying it will reverse the polarity?
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> First class serde. What do you mean? `Serialize` and `Deserialize` are not part of std.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
The government is allowed to hire a marketing team.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
It reminds me of how subscribing on YouTube and other platforms turned from "inform me when new videos come out" into "I like this channel".
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I've seen this claim multiple times and I don't believe it. It seems to be based on a single study where researchers sampled one small part of the ocean and then extrapolated wildly. Multiple sources also claim that there are arou
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by Asraelite 2y ago
This is exciting. Modern keyboard designs are obviously very sub-optimal compared to what is theoretically possible, but it's a huge investment for an individual to test out new designs. Just trying something out for a day isn't e
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Go, Rust, and Swift are currently at positions 7, 14, and 20 respectively on the TIOBE index.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
That's true, but it's not really the situation I'm thinking of. Your phone is comparing the differences between the timestamps of multiple incoming GNSS signals at a given instant, not using them to set its local clock for fu
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Oh wow, that's impressive. Is that over a standard internet connection? Do they need special hardware?
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by Asraelite 2y ago
How? Unless you have an atomic clock nearby, they will very quickly drift apart by many nanoseconds again. It's also impossible to synchronize to that level of precision across a network.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
It's more complicated than that. You can use subtle differences in hardware and GPU rendering so that syscalls aren't even relevant. And you can never really prevent timing attacks, because you can just use a network request to ge
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by Asraelite 2y ago
The most important anti-tracking feature Tor has other than IP masking is disabling JavaScript by default. That's a complete non-starter for the modern web.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Bits are a perfectly acceptable way to measure biological information processing. These are not the boolean logic digital bits like on a computer. They're the more abstract concept of a bit in information theory. Take the number of dis
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I never eat crackers and I didn't even know that softness is what defines their staleness until now.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Turing completeness ignores performance and compatibility requirements. Two languages are theoretically equally powerful only if they can produce functionally identical machine code in any situation.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I actually don't think the exceptions are much of a problem overall. Most irregularities in a language happen with the most common words. Once you go from learning the most common words to simply learning all the words, the relative
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Related: does anyone know of a bank that allows you to waive all security and protective measures in exchange for ease of use? I would happily sign a contract that basically says "if you get hacked, it's your fault and you lose al
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by Asraelite 2y ago
No. Neither. No. It's the same as whitespace. You don't expect it to be round-trippable, it's just to make the source file easier to read. Likewise I would interpret any expectation of the preservation of comments the same as
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Try asking that after spending a while living in a tenement building with 3 people per room and frequent outbreaks of dysentery and smallpox.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
My original comment was just saying that it's useful to point out to people that the concrete representation of a string in memory is a struct when relevant, since some people might not realize that. I'm not claiming anything abou
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by Asraelite 2y ago
...one is a string and one is a string view? I'm not sure what you're getting at. They're both small structs holding pointers to char data, they just operate on that data differently.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I think it's a worthwhile distinction to bring up because it highlights a common misconception people have about strings and vectors. A string value is not the string content itself, just a small struct containing a pointer and other m
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I don't think it is. The hard part is building Starship, which is being done anyway. After that, it's conceivable that the cost to travel there will eventually fall to a few million or tens of millions of dollars per person. At th

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