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by avian 8y ago
> it's only latin-1 or utf-8 There’s no other way, is it? You basically have to have the complete string library re-implemented for each supported multi-byte encoding.
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by avian 8y ago
> Python 3's unicode model is completely outdated but was supposed to be the big feature of the version. While that was happening however the rest of the world started moving over to UTF-8. I’m not sure what you mean. Are you sugges
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by avian 8y ago
It really depends on architecture version and profile. Recent application profiles allow it. On microcontrollers misaligned access is still mostly forbidden as far as I know.
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by avian 8y ago
The “unsolvable problem” the parent refers to is the problem of geometrically constructing a square with the same area as a circle. It has been proven to be impossible. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circl
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by avian 8y ago
On my aging Lynnfield i5 and spinning-rust HDD, GIMP takes 2 seconds to open (I just timed it - from pressing return in a terminal, to all windows appearing on screen). That is faster than most websites load these days. And I should add tha
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by avian 8y ago
pdf.js had its share of security vulnerabilities in the past. e.g. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit...
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by avian 8y ago
For Spectrum, at least as far as ROM loader is concerned, decoding the signal is basically the matter of deciding whether a pulse is length t0 or t1. Technically it's FSK, but since each symbol is only one period long, it's more c
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by avian 8y ago
> If a chicken was born with some form of defence, its likely to be killed before it could spread its DNA. Exactly. For some trait to evolve, individuals with it must be more likely to reproduce than others without it. In a hunting scena
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by avian 8y ago
Also bastet http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html
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by avian 8y ago
Same here. It must have been sent out to everyone with an account.
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by avian 8y ago
I guess it's a matter of preference. I often dislike this approach in talks on technical conferences, where the current trend seems to be to spin everything into a personal story, even when it's clearly forced. I don't mind r
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by avian 8y ago
This is good advice, because it also forces you to learn to edit what you've written. What I've seen is that editing is a separate skill from writing that needs some effort to learn. Maybe editing is not that important for blog po
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by avian 8y ago
Security researcher A opens a bug report on a tracker and writes a technical description and it sits there for five years and it gets zero replies and nobody cares. Security researcher B hires a designer, makes a logo, catchy name and a web
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by avian 8y ago
An honest question: Did you read the relevant text of the directive or is your opinion based only on the second-hand interpretations?
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by avian 8y ago
> Release and Beta versions of Firefox do not allow unsigned extensions to be installed I'm really disappointed at Mozilla regarding this. I recently wanted to do some Firefox customization for my own private use (not even an extens
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by avian 8y ago
> the problem is not that they add a root ca to the store. Yes there is. There is no valid reason for a glorified headphone driver to mess with what website your browser trusts.
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by avian 8y ago
I run some services for my private use. It's crazy that I need to have them certified by some third-party over-seas CA since I can't get my own devices to trust my own certificates. We're not at that point yet, but running yo
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by avian 8y ago
That green dot chart on your profile is trivial to fake: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
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by avian 8y ago
> I'd love to know why this project specifically chose Python 2.7 too. My guess is they just went with whatever was most convenient and worked. I doubt if this kind of questions were even on the radar. It's security research, n
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by avian 8y ago
Interesting that these all look black-and-white. I'm guessing using VHS's low-bandwidth chroma channels for additional capacity wasn't worth the added complexity.
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by avian 8y ago
"The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov also has a similar premise. It seems that the idea of forgetting basic mathematics due to computers was quite popular in science fiction at that time. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by avian 8y ago
There are 512 GB micro SD cards on the market today. So at that density roughly: 2 MB / 512 GB * 100 mm2 ~= 400 um2 400 square micrometers is an area of a square with 20 micrometer sides. Approx. 1/100th of the cross-section of a
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by avian 8y ago
My understanding is that the authors of the paper were speculating that this object might be debris from an encounter with another star that later flew by our sun by mere coincidence. As far as I can see, the observed hyperbolic trajectory
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by avian 8y ago
I wonder how well this works. Word blacklists tend to be very crude tools. For example, how often must people actively spend effort working around all the blocked past tense forms? How do you express that something used to work differently
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by avian 8y ago
This begs the question: why was BGR popular among camera engineers while RGB seems to be common in software?
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by avian 8y ago
Look up the Novena laptop project. It was an ARM-based, completely open source laptop created around 2015 by Andrew “bunnie” Huang and others. He wrote about his experience in designing and manufacturing it in his book “The Hardware Hacker”
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by avian 8y ago
Off topic, but is anyone else consistently getting a plain “you don’t have permission to access” 403 error for this link?
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by avian 8y ago
> Most also don't know that accounts such as Authy and other non-SMS 2FA authenticators can still be stolen if your mobile number is stolen. I was under the impression that apps like Authy and Google Authenticator have no connection
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by avian 8y ago
My experience comes from continental Europe. Most people I know here switch at least between their local national keyboard layout and the US layout. US layout lacks the characters necessary to write in the local language. European layouts o
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by avian 8y ago
Don't be so quick to dismiss something you don't understand as outdated and in need of replacement. If keyboards would send characters instead of scancodes you would lose the ability to switch keyboard layouts in software (or it w

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