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by aewens 6y ago
An open source antivirus program is a bit oxymoronic. Sure, people can contribute new means of stopping more attacks, but it also shows attackers exactly how to evade it. So you'd be losing more than you'd gain in that situation.
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by aewens 7y ago
If this was made for the context of learning Rust, wouldn't it help to have the README explaining the code or at the very least have comments in the code showing what is going on and why for those who are new to Rust and trying to lear
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by aewens 7y ago
This just in, an open source OS has more CVEs over the course of 20 years compared to a closed source OS that is not even 5 years old.
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by aewens 7y ago
Is this implying the debugging was due to the code appearing incorrect or that the previously preceived erroneous behavior was actually intended?
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by aewens 7y ago
Yeah, this technique should really only be used if, and only if, you need the drive itself to be fixed and no longer care about the contents of the drive (e.g. if it was in a RAID 1 and manually cleared afterwards).
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by aewens 7y ago
Depends on how you look at the word "community". One definition of the word, "a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals," can dictate that a community can exist am
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by aewens 7y ago
There is a setting in Plex that will allow it to work without authentication for any devices connecting from a defined subnet. So I just set this to my home network's setup and can use it without issue whether I have an Internet connec
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by aewens 7y ago
While using GPUs is one way to increase performance, with all of those machines at your disposal you can also use a simple MPI script to run the job in parallel across all of them to drastically bring down the total runtime. This is actuall
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by aewens 7y ago
Unfortunately it was discontinued for to low adoption rate: https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/08/mozilla-stops-developing-i...
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by aewens 7y ago
Interestingly, the consequence of releasing that algorithm would make having that private key insignificant since most schemas rely on factoring primes to secure the key pair.
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by aewens 7y ago
Yes! I am one of the IRC operators for the IRC network Tilde Chat[0]. It is the main source of communication for the Tildeverse[1] community which is a group of Linux/BSD servers that offer free shell accounts to whoever wants one. It&
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by aewens 8y ago
Hey, I'm one of the Tier 1 nodes for the Dataforge UUCP project. It's currently a work-in-progress as the Tier 1 guide was only just recently completed. If you are interested in joining as a lead node, you can get help setting it
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by aewens 8y ago
I actually came across this the other day. I recently got into using IRC and wanted to learn lisp, so I decided to make an IRC bot. I wanted to get an idea of how this would work in Chicken Scheme (since the documentation for the irc egg wa
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by aewens 8y ago
The article is about three.js, yes. However, on his channel he is porting things to p5.js, not three.js
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by aewens 8y ago
From looking at the JavaScript snippet that is provided, it looks like I can get around the validation by simply creating a cookie who's contents is "validated=yes" before the qeys script is loaded. EDIT: The part of the snip
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by aewens 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. For your second question, it's a matter of plagiarism. So you'll want to avoid outright copy/pasting the homework and material into your blog. However, you can state similar types of questio
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by aewens 9y ago
The distinct difference is that if the increase is absorbed by the sellers, they either leave their prices the same or raise them, but the buyer is always paying the amount listed. If the increase is absorbed by the buyer, they can see the
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by aewens 9y ago
Back when Firefox originally came out I was one of the first few adopters of it (primarily to escape Internet Explorer), but left it back in 2008 when Google Chrome came out because of it's speed. However, almost a decade later after h
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by aewens 10y ago
Could be because during the second act the first person in line can take all of it. That'd disappoint the entire crew. Your second act relies on the pirates to solve the fairness issue for you, which is no desired in this scenario.
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by aewens 10y ago
Coder Radio, it's a bit more focused on the logistics of being a developer rather than developing itself.
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by aewens 11y ago
I rolled my own version of this plus a few more features a few months ago in Ruby. https://github.com/aewens/gitgot