Beldin

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811.
by Beldin 7y ago
Example from above: Twitter.com/#:~:@user This would behave differently if the browser's user is following @user than otherwise. This convinced me not to dismiss the issue. I'm not sure how that leaks over a side channel. Bu
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by Beldin 7y ago
> if they had a market here worth saving, they'd apply for the licence. That basically amounts to a tautology: if getting a license would be worth it, they would get a license.
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by Beldin 7y ago
How much do you pay the candidates for this exercise? Or do you expect them to put in multiple hours without reimbursement?
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by Beldin 7y ago
My pet peeve: http://phpsadness.com/sad/47 TLDR: checking passwords in php used to rely on using the correct comparison operator. Using the'==' operator would introduce subtle flaws. Using '===', yo
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by Beldin 7y ago
Voluntary disclosure sounds as if it undoes the secret ballot. Just a reminder: the secret ballot is secret to protect those, whose genuine vote would otherwise be manipulated (/forced/extorted/...) Not every individual voter
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by Beldin 7y ago
On the other hand, the niche search engine depends upon having such a web directory (the list of sites to index).
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by Beldin 7y ago
> See it’s the “service good” category that I don’t think will exist. That's how it typically works where i live. servers share the tips and split the haul. I don't know what social dynamics caused this, if it is a fluke or exp
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by Beldin 7y ago
- self driving cars: Improvements and advances, but not enough to handle the complexity of old European cities with their twisting roads and nonsensical street plans. - quantum computing: We at least triple the qubit count. Maybe even quadr
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by Beldin 7y ago
I wouldn't assume that colonies would have anywhere near the technical capabilities of the seeding planet. Just look at what we have achieved in Earth vs. what we have achieved on the moon, or anyone's plans for a Mars colony. Man
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by Beldin 7y ago
To underline this point: we shot a red tesla into space about 2 years ago [1]. We cannot detect it any more. We'd need a telescope with a mirror of 15km to see it. Due to uncertainties accumulating, even if we'd had a scope like
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by Beldin 7y ago
If you have the regex, you'd use it to generate candidate strings. Then, of course you don't have to check any more. For a more complex regex, you could resort to a simplified version (eg, with larger search space). But the space
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by Beldin 7y ago
Under this ruling, Facebook may no longer offer its apps in their current form in the German version of the Google Play store. As the article remarks, the case doesn't involve core functionality of any of the apps, and FB claims to hav
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by Beldin 7y ago
> It [elections] gives you an opportunity to select the type of community you want to live in. I'm curious: how does that work out in practice? Do folks in the USA typically live in the type of communities they'd like to liv
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by Beldin 7y ago
Side note: Diffie-Hellman predates RSA. I attended a talk by Rivest once, where he vividly described how that paper triggered them into exploring whether public key crypto was really possible or not. They ended up constructing RSA from thos
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by Beldin 7y ago
Kids do not grow in lock-step. I.e., kids who will have exactly the same height as adults will have (probably considerably) different heights at the same age while growing up. Given that, i doubt height measured at any one (age)point during
826.
by Beldin 7y ago
> In most American states the customer is entitled, by law, to the lowest advertised or marked price. The store must honor that price. Advertised by whom? If you mean advertised by the very store in which the customer is trying to purc
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by Beldin 7y ago
Of course, we're talking about the Netherlands here... the country is mostly flat. Sure, there are some places with hills, but the majority lives in the flatter-than-pancake flat part. Where e-bikes can really shine, is increased spee
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by Beldin 7y ago
Germany (leading solar/wind): Huh? Germany leading? Their fabled Energiewende was about moving away from nuclear. It had the unfortunate effect of moving to more coal plants to ensure base load is met. One problem with wind power in
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by Beldin 7y ago
I would recommend "The Number Devil" [1] for children (from 11 on) and adults alike. It's a zany story, but in that respect it provides a refreshing intro into some math concepts. In that vein, I also recommend "mathemat
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by Beldin 7y ago
It protects against several forms of banking malware trying to steal your money. Of course, i know this because this is old stuff - at least around here. Both protections and banking malware advanced significantly since .. oh, say 2010. But
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by Beldin 7y ago
In other words, journals try to predict the future (impact) while the Nobel committee looks at the past (impact). More specifically, journals like significant advances in known fields (eg, doubling the efficiency of solar panels), while the
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by Beldin 7y ago
I heard of it from a talk about a bug in the implementation of TimSort in several popular libraries [1]. That bug should be fixed in Java, Android and Python. If you're using another language, you might want to verify that the bug is f
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by Beldin 7y ago
And the WTO rulings on these cases will come about 4 months apart. Airbus now, Boeing probably January. Which might lead to similar option for tariffs in the other direction. Our, possibly all aid to Boeing was legal. But this think that w
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by Beldin 7y ago
Note: The WTO will issue their ruling on the legality of Boeing's subsidies in January.
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by Beldin 7y ago
Yes, there are attacks on paper voting systems. Yes, there are procedural countermeasures against many of these attacks. One of the greatest advantages of paper voting systems is that we have decades (if not centuries) of experience with su
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by Beldin 7y ago
Sidenote: whether this is appropriate is a completely different discussion. To me, as someone from a country where this data is considered sensitive, the fact that you can purchase this data is mind-boggling.
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by Beldin 7y ago
The officials somehow need to verify eligibility. If not with a computer, then on paper... which could also be stolen in exactly this manner. So I doubt it'll have this impact.
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by Beldin 7y ago
Funny. In the Netherlands, there is a law that makes cyclists a protected class. In particular, while cyclist may cause an accident, the one with airbags, cage construction, bumpers and crumple zones has the responsibility to avoid accide
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by Beldin 7y ago
Popular science write-up at Ars: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/trampoline-mirror-ma...
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by Beldin 7y ago
Note that international patent law isn't national patent law. Sure, it's possible to have your patent valid in multiple areas. But e.g. Chinese patent practice isn't quite in line with EU or US patent law. Secondly: patents

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