BlackFly

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by BlackFly 9y ago
I would say if unit tests, build systems, documentation, abstractions, modern languages, and so on are valuable for productivity, reduced bugginess or ease of access for the next developers then the incentives exist for academic researchers
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Your average developer considering allowing UTF-8 is going to weigh the cost benefits of unicode normalization vs. just forcing the user to use the lower ASCII code page and is going to opt for the lower ASCII code page. If you are randomly
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by BlackFly 9y ago
For anyone who is thinking about using unicode for passwords, remember to normalize the unicode before hashing it. Different human input devices may output different codepoints for what appears to a human to be the same character/strin
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Don't forget to use a throwaway email account! Lot's of good email providers give temporary aliases for this reason.
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Compare the definition of harassment: Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress or deliberate pestering or annoying. With the definition of sexual harassment: The making of unwanted and offensive sexual advanc
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by BlackFly 9y ago
If false DRM initiatives are what it takes to get browsers to implement proper crypto modules, then sign me up. Obviously it can't be used for DRM, I will just capture the frame and redirect it to a codec to re-encode the stream. Alter
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by BlackFly 9y ago
I'm pretty thankful on some websites when there are no password requirements. Like the article states, sometimes I am not coming back to that website. In truth the real annoyance for me is requiring an account. I wish more companies wo
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by BlackFly 9y ago
The article also fails to mention that shutting down your computer and turning it back on will not install updates (by default). So if you regularly turn off your computer instead of rebooting it, the updates never get installed. Then one d
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by BlackFly 9y ago
There are a whole bunch of test for true white noise: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/stats_tests.html For those who don't want to visit the link, some of the more intuitive examples: * R
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Furthermore, the poor sampling near the edges of the plots leads me to suspect that the trend away from a flat line is due to Runge's phenomenon. The peak may be nothing other than the oscillations from this phenomenon leaking into the
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Actually, the quote you highlight is where I started to take umbrage with the blog. I'm willing to listen a person's opinion on what is ideal or fair, but here the author asserts an empirical fact without evidence. The evidence th
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by BlackFly 9y ago
I've paid for IntelliJ and Maple. Yeah, my company would pay for IntelliJ, but I prefer to install it at home and work on my own projects and occasionally change jobs. I am paying for the updates is how I see it. As long as people keep
583.
by BlackFly 9y ago
On the contrary, generating the client code using the same .proto definition as used by the server stops your client from sending bad data to the gRPC endpoint. Your binding code will fail to compile once the data definitions compiled from
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by BlackFly 10y ago
The very depressing opposite conclusion was discovered in the late 70's: DE Denning, PJ Denning, M Schwartz, ‘‘The tracker: a threat to statistical database security’’, in ACM Transactions on Database Systems v 4 no 1 (1979) pp 76–96 A
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by BlackFly 10y ago
1. The flight was not overbooked, they wanted to eject holders of confirmed reserved seats in favor of their own employees in contravention of 14 CFR 250.2a. 2. Overbooking rules can only be used to deny boarding. The passenger had already
586.
by BlackFly 10y ago
The rules regarding overbooking are irrelevant as they can only be used to deny boarding. He was already boarded.
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by BlackFly 10y ago
That is a fantastic link. Summary of the points: CFR 250.2a covers overbooking but only applies before boarding. Since the United employees had no confirmed reserved seats on the aircraft, they cannot be given priority over a customer with
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by BlackFly 10y ago
Could is the most important word in your entire store, it could take that much time. But the story at hand really underlines that 20 years is longer than necessary. Furthermore, the alternative (AAC) is open source. So there obviously exist
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by BlackFly 10y ago
Your contention is simply false as you misunderstand the point. Atheists expect to be mocked and laughed at by the religious. The point is that religious people should expect to be mocked and accept that fact. They should not argue that it
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by BlackFly 10y ago
The ingenuity of their invention is that it makes the energy storage of a given m^3 of higher more easily. The problem with pumped storage on land is that the work done is V * rho * g * h with h the height you pump the water, V the volume o
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by BlackFly 10y ago
To be complete, it should be pointed out that the signature techniques you mention are signing not the document itself but a hash of the document. This attack does allow a bait and switch attack on cryptographically signed documents that ut
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by BlackFly 10y ago
Agreed; you can reject exponential decay a priori: a code base has some minimal set of functionality that it specifies and there is some minimal set of lines required to provide that functionality. If you believe this, then the "decay&
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by BlackFly 10y ago
I believe one of the first theorems you go about proving in linear algebra is that given a vector space of a given dimension you can find a function that preserves the linear structure to any other vector space of the same dimension. After
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by BlackFly 10y ago
Good point with the null, they have an example without the null keyword which is an even dirtier trick (because it is still null). https://github.com/namin/unsound/blob/master/Nullless.java
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by BlackFly 10y ago
Which is insecure because the creator of the coffee maker didn't consider security to be a necessary feature. The true liability lies with the person that made that decision and should not be transferable.
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by BlackFly 10y ago
As a general problem, when you want to give your vendor the boot, you go to their competitors and say you want a system that does all the things the old system does plus these additional requirements that the old vendor couldn't give y
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by BlackFly 10y ago
I compared my own hours to the ones in the article. I end up with 40 spare hours a week. That feels correct: I have a lot of spare time. I work 40 hours a week (arrive at 9, leave at 6, with 1 hour for cooking/eating). I am married and
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by BlackFly 10y ago
Very solid whataboutism. Yes, Europe is not perfect and has some serious problems with freedom. That being said, the first amendment (jurisprudence) in the USA suffers from two serious flaws not necessarily suffered by freedom of expression
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by BlackFly 10y ago
Much like the dichotomy between violence and obscenity which is the subject of the article, the public and private distinction on the ethics of censorship is extremely American. Consider, a "privately" owned company that opens its
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by BlackFly 10y ago
There certainly is conflict. The same economic theories that lead to the conclusion that low tariffs are good place the same importance on the free exchange of goods as the free exchange of labour. The treaty of Rome is the governing treaty

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