alwaysbeconsing

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by alwaysbeconsing 4y ago
As with nearly all security, nothing is perfect. You are just raising the bar high enough to lower risk to an acceptable level. Cutting an entire row of racks and hauling off all the bikes is a bigger, noisier, longer job, requiring more co
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The Compiler Explorer aka Godbolt also would be a good example: https://c.godbolt.org Source: https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer
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> Keep your accounts lower than 250k For full precision, if you're concerned about this, be aware that it's 250K per depositor at a given bank, rather than per account . That is, all your qualifying accounts at the bank are
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by alwaysbeconsing 4y ago
This is a clear case of blaming the tool for its misuse. A hammer helps you build things, but you can also break your thumb with it. Yet many people keep hammers at home.
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But the other side of that token: people who show interest in something don't necessarily constitute a viable market. We're in a novelty and entertainment phase with Bing right now, and access to it costs nothing. Turning momentar
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Their handling of the in-place flag is different enough to cause irritation if you forget which one you're invoking.
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There's no Swift involved here; this is in WebKit.
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Your doc links are slightly broken. On the page https://xcfile.dev/task-syntax/ the links don't resolve, although the ones in the sidebar do. The former are missing the trailing slash that the sidebar links contai
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by alwaysbeconsing 4y ago
Fascinating, thanks!
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Complete tangent but I was struck by the typo in this sentence > Millions of links around the web - including many on the Grauniad itself - are all now broken. Which made very large positional changes but to just the right combination le
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Oops, I confused the title with the earlier book
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FYI there's also a newer book by the Nim creator; I don't think it's available in stores, only though Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Nim-complete-programming-la...
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choosenim has two bullet points as its raison d'etre (quoting from its Readme): - Provide an easy way to install the Nim compiler and tools. - Manage multiple Nim installations and allow them to be selected on-demand. The first one I a
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by alwaysbeconsing 4y ago
> it's not on Macports, what do you do? Portfiles are definitely a little more outré than brew's Ruby, but I've found it's not too hard to make one for a tool by starting from another similar existing port. You get
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Well, they can't make it a simple checkbox or everyone would just check it (see how many people already download Developer Betas of the OSes every summer). But if you really do want this, you can have it: disable SIP, done.
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These are stored in the defaults system, by program, under `NSUserKeyEquivalents` For example if you have some set for Firefox, run $ defaults read org.mozilla.firefox NSUserKeyEquivalents The encoding for the modifier keys is give
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Frankly I think everyone should have this attitude, seniors as well. (I try to) I am experienced but I know I write bugs and code that may be not as clear as it could be. We all do: we're only human. Also depending on the codebase (and
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> "closures are just a poor man's object." Yes; the inverse is also true :) The "koan" is on c2 here: http://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent (with a link to its original source).
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The blog post itself shared yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33923484
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How many Swift users consider that a good thing though? Swift is on railroad tracks: you have to upgrade on Apple's schedule or eventually you won't be able push your product to the store. Also, 2 to 3 was a nightmare and the Swif
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Can you point, please, to these best practices documents that would have helped the author avoid the problems?