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Due to relentless AI scrapers notabug.org is currently down(notabug.org)
5 points by ankitpati 10mo ago|4 comments
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by ankitpati 4y ago
Not a single other implementation has feature-parity with Perl. Perl regexes are not only Turing-complete, but can also execute arbitrary code¹ as part of the regex evaluation. PCRE is the pinnacle of deceptive advertising. It is emphatical
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by ankitpati 4y ago
Core, not chore. Most pertinent advice I’ve seen in a while.
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by ankitpati 4y ago
Every OS released in the past ten years supports it.
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by ankitpati 5y ago
This, right here, is why I never use acronyms with the sixth letter of the English alphabet anywhere in them. Heck, as you might already have noticed, I don’t use said letter at all, unless it is part of a word. This is one “human corner ca
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by ankitpati 9y ago
I am a C coder, and I cannot wait to have my code on the web, decimating inferior languages like JavaScript. If a startup relies on JavaScript to keep out competition from C coders, well, too bad. They will be decimated in terms of performa
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by ankitpati 9y ago
1. Sorry, didn't know about that. Just took a cursory glance through the source code. 3. 126 lines in 1 file is still an order of magnitude smaller. 4. The source has a Perl and a sed script, although they are not used in the password
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by ankitpati 9y ago
pwgen 1. Focuses on memorable passwords, and restricts itself to fewer ASCII characters than rpg. 2. Makes no attempt to preserve entropy; waste of entropy is potentially unbounded. This is a performance concern when reading from /dev&
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by ankitpati 9y ago
A command-line password generator that sources entropy from /dev/urandom (configurable in the source to /dev/random), generates printable ASCII passwords without whitespace, and preserves entropy with a guarantee to wast
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Show HN: Random Password Generator(github.com)
3 points by ankitpati 9y ago|5 comments