FRex

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by FRex 8y ago
That was a reply to the person who has said that it's wrong to say Czech has 42 letters because Germans count their letters differently, not to you. I of course agree with there not being a problem with extra letters because Polish doe
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by FRex 8y ago
Really..? People do say that? That's a gross oversimplification of the problem of learning a language. Learning Cyrillic is nothing compared to learning pronouncing, listening, grammar and vocabulary. There are hundreds of words and gr
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by FRex 8y ago
Are you really telling us Slavs that we are wrong in what we (and our governments, educational systems and language authorities) consider a letter in our native languages and should stop saying our alphabets have however many letters we s
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by FRex 8y ago
It's really not that bad. They've added 9 of their own to 33 of Russian Cyrillic for a total of 42 when using it for Kazakh. Now they're gonna add 6 diacritics and two digraphs, that's much less already. Compare this t
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by FRex 8y ago
How would this help with any kind of Russian insurgency, espionage, etc. at all? According to the article there is 20% of ethnic Russians and more fluent Russian speakers (94%) than Kazakh speakers (74%). Russian is also a co-official langu
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by FRex 8y ago
No way every book, websites, etc. gets rewritten, so between everyone knowing Cyrillic, lots of people knowing Russian and how easy Cyrillic is (I know it and I learned it very quickly) it'll end in a de facto digraphia.
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by FRex 8y ago
It also doesn't cover Polish. It does cover Malay though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_alphabet
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by FRex 8y ago
I have a similar funny story of recovery after a root dir incident. Someone told me their "cygwin just broke". It was indeed broken and the bash was unusable. Long story short: they accidentally ran find with an exec of chmod that
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by FRex 8y ago
It's very educational to dig into stuff that everyone takes for granted or even try implement your own version that does similar things (at a smaller scale and with less features, performance and security of course, just for educationa
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by FRex 8y ago
Godot might be a special case because it's so well made by some Brazilian industry veteran (gaming is kind of a spartan environment, especially on consoles) and is very polished and kinda well funded FOSS project, it's like a crow
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by FRex 8y ago
I'm not really that surprised myself. It's becoming increasingly more okay to just bleed resources and pay your technical debt off or lower your development costs by requiring users to have stronger machines. It's like impl
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by FRex 8y ago
They are rare (and it's hard to google for them..) but I got one in the summer of 2016 for just under 5000 PLN (about 1400-1500 USD and that already includes 23% Polish VAT)[0]. [0] - https://www.x-kom.pl/p/29354
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by FRex 8y ago
Yes, of course! I mistyped because the names are so close. I can't edit it anymore either. There's of course nothing specific to PyPy (or CPython or any other implementation) with being vulnerable to crap code in PyPI being pulled
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by FRex 8y ago
I'm pretty sure I ran across malicious Chrome plugins being mentioned before. Eclipse and PyPy has a problem with it too[0][1]. Apple with their walled garden also isn't a panacea. They let a very glitchy and broken version of c
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by FRex 8y ago
Anything where you don't want a touch screen or want a matte screen (or are there now matte touch screen already) or don't want/care about Android? E.g. turning it into a handheld emulator with RetroPie and a nice custom (3D
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by FRex 8y ago
This doesn't mean Facebook should get a free pass. If anything it should get less of a pass because governments love to use the hands of corporations to do what they do (e.g. Hollywood blacklists of communists back in the day, dipping
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by FRex 8y ago
MD5 is prone to manipulation due to its logic, not the size of the output. It also has many very efficient collision attacks but no feasible preimage attack (AFAIK) and they shave just few bits off 2^128 (which is still a lot): https:&#x2F
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by FRex 8y ago
It's a bit ironic in a special paradoxical math like way (like [0]) that if someone discovers it and posts it online it'll instantly (ca. HTTPS vs. HTTP, other encryption, whether or not someone sees the page, etc.) be wrong by de
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by FRex 8y ago
This is (almost) how Knuth–Morris–Pratt string search algorithm works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93P...
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by FRex 8y ago
My understanding is that even with a perfect server side simulated game you can read memory to find out extra information even if the game logic is on the server, i.e. that's how X-Ray in UT99 and Minecraft works. This is also hardly t
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by FRex 9y ago
I've developed a joke law that says that the amount of genuine information in a statement is inversely proportional to how polite and wordy it is. I.e. the "we take security seriously" PR fluffs. Perhaps Mike knew that law an
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by FRex 9y ago
He has a CISSP (or so says his LinkedIn) though, and on Wikipedia it says DoD, ANSI and NSA value or approve of it and its holders have a higher salary on average. And we're talking about the director of security with 17 years of secur
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by FRex 9y ago
Equifax didn't fall victim to a backdoor but to an outdated Apache Struts that no one noticed.
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by FRex 9y ago
On his LinkedIn page it says he has CISSP[0] and has had four security jobs (Panerabread being his fourth) so far between 2000 and now. He also might have spoke at Akamai Edge 2015 as a security expert (some internal page comes up if you Go
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by FRex 9y ago
The comment I replied to quoted those stats and said that mass shootings (not murders, shootings specifically) aren't a US specific phenomenon nor linked to gun availability. While of course no country can ever be mass shootings free a
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by FRex 9y ago
First of all, ED seems overly focused on USA/West/China, it doesn't list several arson (I assume that's what Fire Emblem means) and stabbing events (Hack'n'Slash) I personally know of. Next, I'm assuming t
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by FRex 9y ago
Some libraries do go with a pair because they find the single header too spartan or awkward. Either way works, the C preprocessor and compiler should chew through either style effortlessly and it's trivial to spit the header into a pai
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by FRex 9y ago
> Being a kid is not a boolean value. You don't go from "being a kid" to "not being a kid". It's gradual. Some people are still kids at 19, others are quite mature at 17. It actually is boolean for many laws
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by FRex 9y ago
So she can plagiarise an app, call her critic a jobless harasser and get away with it all just because she is a woman? If this is tolerated at large it will have a chilling effect on any young person (including young women) who looks and se
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by FRex 9y ago
When someone very prominently says they made an app, someone else says they didn't and the first person responds with calling them jobless, disturbed and a harasser then the gloves are off. And it hardly reads like an attack to me anyw

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