Perseids

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by Perseids 13y ago
What about all those friends and relatives we do tech support for. Most of them have not installed their addons on their own.
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by Perseids 13y ago
And with what logic does it help to post it again with basically no change to the content? You make it sound like downvotes are a calamity of nature and not a deliberate process. (The old post for reference: https://news.ycombina
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by Perseids 13y ago
Snowden [1]: > Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Of course you can infiltrate the facility to access the keys or attack the management systems with zero day exploits. But every bit
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by Perseids 13y ago
Actually I see Python as a good example why you want to change. Python 3 has much cleaner concepts than Python 2: Strings are not byte arrays, use efficient generators by default, etc. On the other extreme take a look at C++: Lot's of
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by Perseids 13y ago
If you fear breaking it, why not replace / revolutionize instead. See GCC vs LLVM, X vs Wayland, C++ vs Go.
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by Perseids 13y ago
> One allows you to make the document to look exactly how you want. Are you talking about InDesign? Exact placement of anything is really a pain with Latex, choosing "normal" fonts requires you to switch to a different compil
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by Perseids 13y ago
Can one not value the simplicity of an apple, the juiciness of an orange and compare it to a Pomelo, wishing the latter had both? I would say LaTeΧ can be perfectly well seen as a combination of many aspects of Word and Markdown in the sens
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by Perseids 13y ago
Just as a clarification: Why do they ask for a minimum word count (or space count for that matter) and not for a minimum quality of the content. If students can accomplish the same with less words, then so be it.
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by Perseids 13y ago
You should take a look at Threema. That does exactly what you describe afaikt - except XMPP, its a walled garden - using NaCl. Edit: I should probably elaborate: - It uses the internet connection to transfer messages - You can choose not to
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by Perseids 13y ago
> Exactly what's the threat model here? I can't conceive of a malicious attack that exploits gits reliance of on SHA1 as a message digest that doesn't also require write access to your filesystem. Write access to your file
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by Perseids 13y ago
Interesting… Note that they also add sha256 specific instructions. Which is good, because sha1 should no longer be used for new application and existing application should definitely start looking into an update path. See [1] for a rough es
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by Perseids 13y ago
To be honest I don't buy his argument. If it is not about security, why not use md5? It is faster after all and gives you the same protection against accidental data corruption as sha1. And if he cared about security then he should hav
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by Perseids 13y ago
In git a commit is basically the root of a Merkle Tree [1], i.e. every reference is the sha1 sum of the object being referenced. If you take a commit apart what you see is a commit message, a hash of its parent commit and a hash of a tree
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by Perseids 13y ago
Zooko's triangle is about secure name systems like DNSSec or Namecoin, not about user logins.
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by Perseids 13y ago
> They honest to god think CS is an actually hard science on par with math and physics. Theoretical computer science is a branch of mathematics. Don't dismiss the whole field just because your university chooses to under represent
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by Perseids 13y ago
Why do you assume it is not base64 encoded? I have always come to believe it is some encrypted data. If I was Google I would probably give every server a UUID and a symmetric key. If an error occurs encrypt (and authenticate) the stacktrace
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Nukes over wind turbines? UK R&D policies are warped(newscientist.com)
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by Perseids 13y ago
The article confuses two things: 1. Live interception of SMTP communication going in and out of Lavabit and 2. Interception of the encryption key to access the stored emails. The first would be relatively easy, in that the post is correct.
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by Perseids 13y ago
He didn't say they aren't "us". They do legitimately and regularly fly and are thus those that are to be protected by the security mechanisms and thus by his/her definition a part of "us". Also that they a
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by Perseids 13y ago
Not exactly a black swan (because afterwards you know of black swans and can anticipated them) but more a lottery ticket. There is no recipe or logic behind why Flappy Bird got immensely popular, just sheer luck.
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by Perseids 13y ago
Nonetheless, you should reconsider from time whether those idioms are actually helpful for those in the community. I personally dislike 'if name and pets and owners:' because it removes the information of what is happening at th
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by Perseids 13y ago
It's a problem I have with hacker news comments as well... Are there any statistics how many participants here are male, female, etc.? I just assume something about 95% male commenters so I automatically assume a boy or a man on the ot
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by Perseids 13y ago
I like that very much. It accurately describes my use case for bropages. And - getting back to some cultural neutrality - you can explain its meaning just fine without referring to the recent usage context in "the" Internet.
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by Perseids 13y ago
> The usage of it in that context for X years has superseded the default association with gender. Well, no. ^^ I just looked up `man` in the book I learned basic Linux usage from and the section is labeled "Manpages" and before
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by Perseids 13y ago
> How about just: don't use it if you don't like it. But I want to use it, it looks like a great tool. Forking it just to use a different name seems unfair and waste of everyones resources. > Are you suggesting that people s
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by Perseids 13y ago
I would like to add that the German distrust of government is fundamentally different to what I've come to know about the American distrust of government. We are very careful to give the government power that might be used to control t
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by Perseids 13y ago
And maybe it is a tale promoting more theoretical computer science in the education of programmers. For example monoids should be familiar because the states of a minimal DFAs are essentially the elements of the syntactic monoid [1] of the
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by Perseids 13y ago
> I could imagine a terrorist living in Germany and the US asks for assistance obtaining him and the Germans tell the US to fuck off. I don't think that will ever happen. Dismantling a terrorist group is such a decidedly good thing
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by Perseids 13y ago
Also, availability is a huge issue. For me in Germany it is nigh impossible to legally watch a recent episode of Game of Thrones. And Breaking Bad or Doctor Who has only recently become available via the new service watchever.de. And even t
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by Perseids 13y ago
Oh, that was the point being made. My view is that VLC essentially is a public facing system, in the same sense that my browser is a public facing system. Sure, it is not as easy to do a targeted attack against my VLC as against my mail

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