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by Thiez 4y ago
I had a coworker that would type in something random as his new password, then immediately fail to login three times in a row so his account would get locked. To fix this the sysadmin would reset the password, and allow you to choose a new
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by Thiez 4y ago
https://adventofcode.com/
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by Thiez 4y ago
That's fine, but then you should aggressively limit scope expansion.
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by Thiez 4y ago
I just type "No thank you, I have no questions yet!" in those boxes. Then shortly after you will something like "<Support person Foo has entered the chat.> <Support person Foo has left the chat.>". If everyon
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by Thiez 4y ago
What makes you think that humans are better at solving np complete problems?
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by Thiez 4y ago
It's a bit sad to see it coming up to regularly. On the one hand it's a very classic example of programming bugs leading to injury and death. On the other hand it's so long ago that bringing it up so often makes it seem lik
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by Thiez 4y ago
I should hope HN hashes our passwords, instead of encrypting them. And for encrypted data I would expect them to use symmetric key encryption, rather than certificates with RSA or another form of public key cryptography. Your post contains
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by Thiez 4y ago
Browsers don't differentiate between the SSL certificate validation level. Because it has been shown that the higher validation levels aren't actually significantly more secure, so the distinction is pointless.
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by Thiez 4y ago
The COBOL developers might be invaluable, but statistically their pay does not reflect this at all. Is there any reason to believe it will be different for C++, if it were to become a legacy language?
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by Thiez 4y ago
I am not from a country that uses juries, but your hypothetical situation probably happens daily already. You need only look at the statistics to see that being black (or to a lesser degree: being a man) significantly increases the odds of
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by Thiez 4y ago
The police and prosecutor already have that power, to decide randomly if they want to enforce something. What harm would a little additional capriciousness do?
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by Thiez 4y ago
There is a finite amount of (usable) land in the world. If it is all for sale, what is there to stop the rich from buying all of it, and then collecting rent for eternity, becoming ever richer in the process? How is a return to feudalism yo
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by Thiez 4y ago
One child per couple means every generation will be half as big as the generation before it. That is such a ridiculously fast decrease that it is no surprise that population aging will be an enormous problem. Having 2 (or 2.1 or something l
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by Thiez 4y ago
You don't need an engineered superplant for that feeling, though.
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by Thiez 4y ago
Getting epidurals (or pain medication in general) is a cultural thing. Just compare with the Netherlands, where home births are fairly common and pain medication is relatively uncommon.
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by Thiez 4y ago
Perhaps democracy is fine, but we are just doing voting wrong. See this page for some interesting alternative voting systems that have different / better outcomes: https://ncase.me/ballot/
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by Thiez 4y ago
Free will is sometimes failing at things you set out to do? We hardly need quantum theory to explain that humans are clumsy or sometimes mispredict the trajectory of a thrown object.
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by Thiez 4y ago
In Rusts defense, I can't think of a situation where you would need `OsString` in a frontend, and I don't think you will need `CString` either since strings are passed into webassembly by address + length (so exactly what Rust exp
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by Thiez 4y ago
Except that C targets the C abstract machine, which can't do a lot of stuff that is perfectly acceptable in assembly. Such as reading uninitialized memory, padding, overflowing signed integers, forging a pointer (e.g. for memory mapped
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by Thiez 4y ago
What a nice and condescending reply. Do you believe that anyone who knows about these considerations and tradeoffs would automatically conclude that type erasure is superior, so someone who disagrees with it is obviously uninformed? Since y
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by Thiez 4y ago
Just using C# and the nice generic `Dictionary<int, int>` will fix this. The memory overhead is really Java's fault for sticking with type erasure.
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by Thiez 4y ago
I have been typing Dvorak for about 15 years, give or take (I had been typing qwerty before that). A couple of years after the switch I started to play World of Warcraft, and I thought it was too much effort to rebind all the keys (they ass
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by Thiez 4y ago
Not all interrogation approaches are like that. For example, the Reid Technique is nothing like you describe, and would probably be exceptionally good at implanting false memories (and is known to lead to false confessions). https:/&#
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by Thiez 4y ago
Are you going somewhere with these questions? If you disagree with the quote just say so, and say why. Discrediting the show, its fans, or its creator is just an ad hominem attack. And not a very good one at that, since you seem to be guess
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by Thiez 4y ago
There are several variants of FGM, and not all involve removal of the clitoris. The most benign forms involve a symbolic pin prick that is certainly less damaging to the genitals and future sexual pleasure than removal of the foreskin. And
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by Thiez 4y ago
The article is literally about a band not trying to charge the highest price they can.
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by Thiez 4y ago
Like with Loki's wager, it's hard to say exactly where to draw the line. But I think most would agree that a company buying massive amounts of ticket with the sole intent to resell them at a profit is most certainly not a true fan
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by Thiez 4y ago
The system where each fan that can afford the ticket price set by the band/venue has the same chance to get a ticket seems pretty fair to me. If you are one of the wealthiest people perhaps you should consider the fact that you have be
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by Thiez 4y ago
Life cannot exist without excrement, but relatively few people think highly of poop. What is your point? If you go far enough with your reasoning you have to basically value the entire universe and everything in it to be allowed to say you
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by Thiez 4y ago
So you basically want gemini? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

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