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by adtac 7y ago
Nobody would willingly run outdated, vulnerable software if there was an easy, direct, and supported way to root your phone. Sell phones locked for security or whatever, I couldn't care less, but give people the option to root when the
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by adtac 7y ago
Race conditions aren't necessarily data races. This article and the parent comment was about race conditions in general.
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by adtac 7y ago
The language a program is written in has no bearing on whether or not the program is susceptible to race conditions. You can have data races in Python, Javascript and Rust as easily as you can in C.
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by adtac 7y ago
>The breach happened on May 4 I don't believe for one second that they didn't know about it for five months! Can someone in the EU please report this so that it's investigated for a GDPR violation? Edit: from the official
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by adtac 7y ago
Not bizarre in absolutely any way. The free software movement is a real thing that lobbies for you and me. Unlike silicon valley products, GPL and its siblings actually made the world a better place and to not recognise it is to be ungratef
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by adtac 7y ago
This is the textbook definition of security by obscurity.
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by adtac 7y ago
Not if you already have 2^n bits at hand. In fact, if you have 2^n bits of entropy, popcount is probably more efficient than generating n more bits randomly.
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by adtac 7y ago
They sold it when it hit 80 cents for 10,000 coins.
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by adtac 7y ago
If anyone else is interested in understanding the internals of flash memory, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7JLXs5es7I (I was curious to see why flash memory has error rates and wears out on multiple writes.) You may
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by adtac 7y ago
Someone for the love of god, please introduce the USB committee to the concept of semantic versioning. Stop this Gen madness.
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by adtac 7y ago
What do you mean, Facebook is right there
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by adtac 7y ago
This isn't deleting your account, it's just removing your access to it. Don't do this. This will prevent you from actually deleting your data in the future because you're now locked out.
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by adtac 7y ago
No one said anything about SPAs. You can keep the site modern whilst still serving content in separate pages with a little JavaScript here and there. Being ideologically against any and every form of JavaScript is being pretentious and holi
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by adtac 7y ago
Aha, this is what the cool kids call growth hacking! Exponential growth in net loss YoY. I've been a complete idiot trying to grow the curve in the other direction.
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by adtac 7y ago
Did anyone else notice Mastercard's easily breakable captcha? It's just unmodified text with the same noise filter added to all codes. Perhaps there's opportunity here for someone to be Robinhood here and improve the privac
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by adtac 7y ago
lobste.rs is infinitely more advanced than HN, interface-wise (and it's also perfectly lightweight, so that's no excuse for HN to hide under)
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by adtac 7y ago
so list all ads for every category under the sun in every page?
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by adtac 7y ago
>we value your feedback at Amazon And its exact value is $5!
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by adtac 7y ago
sometimes I try to mess with sites that ask for an email address for a mailing list by entering their own addresses: like "support@domain.com", "webmaster@domain.com", etc. let them deal with their own spam, then they&#x
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by adtac 7y ago
http://zerodium.com/
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by adtac 7y ago
I understand the point of using a special user-agent to crawl webpages for indexing, but search engines should use a "regular" browser UA string (full JavaScript, etc. to simulate an actual browser) occasionally. From a different
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by adtac 7y ago
4 is the average of 3 and 5, so its km value is the average of 5 and 8 (assuming the Fibonacci series to be a geometric progression as described in the tweet). While I can do this for 4km, I can't for different values like 9km. I'
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by adtac 7y ago
In laptops, you can. Lenovo launched the T495 and T495s a couple of months ago. AMD being a part of the venerable T-series is a huge testament to their come back. Not sure about desktops.
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by adtac 7y ago
>What the hell is wrong with you idiots, safer than cigarettes is not the same as safe I don't see anything wrong with the second part of that statement. Of course, the first part comes across as being an pretentious twat, but it&#x
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by adtac 7y ago
why not let people syntax highlight the way they want? some people dislike syntax highlighting, some like high contrast highlighting, some like blue-tinted highlighting, etc. why do you get to decide for everyone what colour strings should
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by adtac 7y ago
That's called interleaved posting and it's the preferred style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_styl...
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by adtac 7y ago
>"But if plaintext is so good, why is this page written in HTML?" >This is a reference document, not an email, you twit.
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by adtac 7y ago
yeah, but sound
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by adtac 7y ago
Site best viewed with Internet Explorer 8^W^W^W Apple Safari
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by adtac 7y ago
Is it not possible to disable battery usage completely using circuitry if connected by wire? Draw and use all power from the cable? What impact could that possibly have on the battery? I imagine it'd be similar to keeping a mouse unuse

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