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JTbane
8y ago
>try to visit site >immediately get certificate warnings hilarious
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JTbane
8y ago
The so-called 'war on cash' seems to be progressing nicely. Don't the bankers know that this will only make cryptocurrency more attractive to those who want privacy?
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8y ago
>Two areas in particular: (1) lack of a shared real whiteboard, and (2) video-call quality. Amen to that. I recently was interviewed remotely, and the voice call quality was unacceptably low- I could barely even understand the questions
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8y ago
Great introduction for a beginner. C remains my favorite programming language, even after all these years. It's one of the most simple languages, yet also very powerful. Yes, it is easy to make horrible bugs- but that's the price
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8y ago
Pretty amazing that the simple Stirling engine can be the best choice for generating kilowatts of power in a hostile environment.
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JTbane
8y ago
These types of articles are fear mongering, pure and simple. Just like eating a banana every week gives you more of a radiation dose than living next to a nuclear power plant- the possibility of getting cancer from a cell phone is almost ri
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JTbane
9y ago
Surprising that no mention is made of rainbow tables or lookup tables. If you hash something that can easily be looked up in a table, it's obviously not anonymous. Passwords are stored as salted hashes for these obvious reasons...
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9y ago
One can see why they chose a more-safe version of C for an intro course- beginner C programmers can fall into a wide variety of difficult to debug pitfalls (memory leaks, out of bounds reads and writes, undefined behavior) that can make the
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9y ago
>Does anyone want to live near a nuclear power plant? Do you? I sure as hell would not. Using logic instead of emotion, yes I would. Hopefully the electricity costs would be cheaper.
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9y ago
Now you have a single point of failure- namely your master password. Remember the LastPass debacle?