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by TillE 3y ago
Even if you're not much of a tinkerer, Ben Eater's videos are massively helpful if you want to truly understand how computers work. As long as you come in knowing the rudiments of digital electronics, just watching his stuff is a
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by TillE 3y ago
The article focuses on social risks, but isn't this just a gaping MITM hole? If we're talking about text messages, they're not encrypted.
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I got my undergrad CS degree (a good mix of theory and practice) about 20 years ago and I can't think of much that's truly outdated. I certainly don't use Java or MIPS32 assembly or Solaris these days, but that wasn&#x27
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by TillE 3y ago
To improve things, we need to talk about common user scenarios. Problem is, normal users will approximately never have to format a disk, and it's a perfectly adequate interface for nerds. If this were the 90s and everyone was still usi
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by TillE 3y ago
Honestly I can't think of many notable abuses of operator overloading in C++. The worst is probably the original idea to overload the bit shift operators for stream I/O, something which never really caught on outside the standard
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by TillE 3y ago
Note that most of those games are 2D. This was an era when a major developer could take a fairly small team with a moderate budget and make a big, innovative game in a couple years. It's just impossible in an environment where nearly e
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by TillE 3y ago
"Visual Studio for Mac" never had any relation to Visual Studio proper, it was just a rebranded Xamarin Studio. It didn't support C++ at all.
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by TillE 3y ago
That was always by far the most likely explanation, it was the general opinion of top-level SMM players. Something like 10 frame-perfect inputs with a lot of precise movement, it's just not plausible. He's not really clear about h
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by TillE 3y ago
World famous mathematicians will have written all their well-formed novel ideas up in academic papers, which are readily available. I don't know what you would learn from a conversation, except for the half-finished stuff they're
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by TillE 3y ago
> Suyu unlawfully uses unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys I thought that's not true, and that was the major change Suyu was making to avoid legal trouble.
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah the last time I had a btrfs volume die, there were a few troubleshooting/recovery steps on the wiki which I dutifully followed. Complete failure, no data recoverable. The last step was "I dunno, go ask someone on IRC." G
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by TillE 3y ago
PHP uses PCRE, so it more or less serves as a stand-in for Perl in this case.
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by TillE 3y ago
The description implies they found some clever way to trick iocccsize at the time. Using the current version of iocccsize, it weighs in at 3842, well over the max of 2053. https://www.ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.htm
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by TillE 3y ago
The development of Stardew Valley is such a heartwarming story about how if you're a wonderfully talented artist, musician, writer and programmer, all you really need is XNA to make a fantastic game beloved by a massive, diverse audien
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by TillE 3y ago
I don't think the title is correct, this isn't "a new kind" of anything. This is the usual well-known attack on MD5 where you can create a pair of inputs with the same hash.
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by TillE 3y ago
Swipe up from the bottom of your iPhone. Oops, you're suddenly doing 3D transformations. There are dozens of UI effects which rely on the GPU, and there's just no such thing as a 2D GPU these days, it makes no sense unless you&#x2
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by TillE 3y ago
It has been a few years, but top-level statements in C# are still a fairly recent thing (C# 9 in 2020).
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by TillE 3y ago
Sturgeon's Law says 90%, but that is probably an underestimate. If you trawl YouTube for acoustic covers of rock songs or whatever, it should quickly become apparent that even just making a different arrangement of a song is an incre
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by TillE 3y ago
There's obviously nothing inherently evil about "processing". If you put some fruit in a blender you've made no significant changes to its nutritional value. The terminology is so annoying because it's hopelessly va
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by TillE 3y ago
"Ride sharing" is the silliest euphemism, it's not sharing a ride unless the driver was going there already. If you don't want to lump them in with taxis, they're a car service with contract workers. That's all
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by TillE 3y ago
In America, refute = disprove. In Britain, very commonly, refute = deny. As with most ambiguous words, the intention is usually clear from context anyway.
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by TillE 3y ago
"How do we solve problems?" - the core of software development - is an endless high-level topic that doesn't really require you to dive into specific code.
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by TillE 3y ago
iTunes is still the canonical place to post a podcast and get it picked up by nearly every app. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...
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by TillE 3y ago
My understanding of the level submission process is that you send Nintendo the level data and the inputs required to complete it. So theoretically, if you cheat by injecting artificial input data, you could submit a level that's effect
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by TillE 3y ago
Sentencing takes so long because the judge is allowed to consider basically anything, and there's a whole data-gathering process to facilitate this. It's just not likely to be a major factor.
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by TillE 3y ago
I've been using a Philips 100W equivalent bulb for about 12 hours a day for almost 9 years now. Companies can always manufacture garbage if they don't care, but LED technology is fantastic.
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by TillE 3y ago
They plead guilty, which would have been the smart thing for SBF to do even if there was no deal on the table. At least he'd have avoided annoying the judge with hours of blatantly dishonest testimony.
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah it's odd to see a bunch of people proposing ideas for cryptographic timestamps (on the blockchain!) when anyone who has worked with digital signatures should know about RFC3161. Of course for verification it's important that
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah the irony of the focus on PornHub is that 1) they were never any worse than the other dozen major sites which still accept anonymous uploads, and 2) they're now one of the most squeaky-clean porn sites out there.
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by TillE 3y ago
Avoiding making money on this is just a total red herring, it has zero bearing on copyright law in general or the DMCA. Though if you're careful, not accepting money has the useful side effect of making you much more difficult to ident

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