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by adekok 10y ago
That's pretty much what the LibreSSL people have done. And no, they didn't get much response or buy-in.
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by adekok 10y ago
There is a lot of room for improvement in the current OpenSSL code base. Simple cleanups, for one. Code formatting. Removing duplicate code. Static analysis. Unit tests. The OpenSSL maintainers seem to be doing something other than
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by adekok 10y ago
For the record, the fixes for that CVE contain new CVEs. https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160926.txt <sigh> No one can reasonably say that the practices of the OpenSSL programmers result in secure c
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by adekok 10y ago
I've done the same with similar people in Europe. If they don't understand a polite but firm "No", and keep bugging me, then a firm "FUCK OFF" is what they deserve. Oddly, I've never had any animosity ret
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by adekok 10y ago
Related: http://www.sciencealert.com/1-000-year-old-onion-and-garlic-... People 1000 years ago were smart, and understood "scientific" practices such as trial and error, running multiple experiments, etc. Since t
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by adekok 10y ago
1) Which product is more likely to be secure? a) one which has tests, no build warnings, and is run through 3 different static analysis tools? b) one which has none of those things? 2) Also, which of these products is more likely to be secu
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by adekok 10y ago
I maintain a project ( http://freeradius.org ) which a similar amount of code, and (arguably) similar complexity. While we've had issues, they aren't as numerous as OpenSSL. And, the issues in the latest major version
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by adekok 10y ago
Presumably because fewer applications use SSL_peek(). But yes, that issue is a serious problem, too.
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by adekok 10y ago
> ~14,000 years as separate populations. Perhaps even less. http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/romanbust.htm There was at least some contact between North America and Europe, close to 2K years ago.
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by adekok 10y ago
> Can somebody who knows about this tell me how much of the novelty in this is CS and how much physics? It's not so much a novelty as it is pushing the envelope. The main problem with these kind of simulations is that they're O
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by adekok 10y ago
That reminds me of the story of university walkways: https://books.google.ca/books?id=JEuYpTC-mQYC&pg=PA242&lpg=P... In short, students walked over the grass, despite the "keep off the grass" signs. The s
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by adekok 10y ago
> There's absolutely no evidence to support that position, and plenty of evidence to refute it - not least the incredibly stupid and destructive decisions made by corporate "winners" for reasons of political advantage whic
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by adekok 10y ago
> i think that is a distorted generalization It's a generalization, but it's based on my experiences. It's not wholly wrong. > the comment i am replying to posits that "critical thinkers" are the effective pe
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by adekok 10y ago
Or, someone who enjoys getting things done can move to another company, where the management goals are aligned with the corporate goals. Sometimes I don't want to sell my soul.
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by adekok 10y ago
> In every place I've been, school, university, corporate jobs, the "critical thinkers" always got marginalised. Because while they get things done, they challenge the status quo. When I've worked for large companies,
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by adekok 10y ago
A technical review of code isn't a personal attack. Please learn to tell the difference.
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by adekok 10y ago
I'm sure everyone has worked with someone who has memorized a lot, but doesn't know how to do much. Their productivity is limited. There are also people with innate "know how", who can get things done without much backg
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by adekok 10y ago
> This is the crux of what most white Americans don't get about race in America. The dictionary definition of racism would be the one most people agree with. Which then means that black people making anti-white statements are bein
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by adekok 10y ago
For reference, the tweet says: > @whitebecky1776 bitch I want to tell you about your self but I'm gonna let everybody else do it I'm gonna retweet your hate!! Get her!! And the Twitter rules say: https://support.twit
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by adekok 10y ago
In the interest of facts, can you point out where these people have said racist things on Twitter? Dismissing them as "racist trolls" is a bit odd. Milo is a well known journalist, who doesn't seem much worse in his way than
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by adekok 10y ago
> Actually, the configure debacle doesn't have anything to do with terrible software practices. I don't mean that reason to use configure is bad. There are many different systems, and being compatible with them all requires
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by adekok 10y ago
> who cares for some extra 5-10 seconds of the "configure" command For me, it's closer to a minute. "configure" is good enough that it does the job, and it's hard to replace it. "configure" is ba
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by adekok 10y ago
I'm looking for quantitative measurements of "difficulty". You've admitted you don't have them, and are unwilling to look for them.
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by adekok 10y ago
> It doesn't change the fact that given a man and woman of the same class, it was generally more oppressive to the woman, Please define "oppressive"... using either gender neutral measurements, or measurements which balanc
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by adekok 10y ago
As I wrote below: However, as shown in another comment, the typical "everything is misogynistic" comment is due to intersectional feminism. Which in my experience, largely does claim that men have it very good just for being men,
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by adekok 10y ago
True. However, as shown in another comment, the typical "everything is misogynistic" comment is due to intersectional feminism. Which in my experience, largely does claim that men have it very good just for being men, and women
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by adekok 10y ago
> Your logic is unsound to the extreme. Your entire line of reasoning is specious at best and employs reduction to absurdity throughout. You are reacting emotionally to the first sentence of my comment. And are then ignoring the rest of
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by adekok 10y ago
> Pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies were non-patriarchal and patriarchal societies ... i.e. unorganized societies are largely egalitarian, and small. Organized societies are not egalitarian, but are larger than unorganized ones.
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by adekok 10y ago
> That's because most ancient societies were blatantly misogynistic. I have serious ethical concerns with such a claim. It gives a simplistic view of history, to the point of severe distortion. It implies that all women terribly op
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by adekok 10y ago
> Just knowing what changed often isn't enough to do proper resolution. This is why my git commit logs are sometimes: perl -p -i -e 's/FOO/BAR/g' $(find src -name "*.[ch]" -print) Having

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