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   by beefsack 9y ago

   Relevant to your question, there's work towards a bare metal ARM stack for Rust, called Zinc: https://github.com/hackndev/zinc
2. 182.▲
   by beefsack 9y ago

   > But why - I still don't understand what is causing the problem in the US? Even in the non-US systems, somebody has to pay, so how can they afford it, given that all other countries are poorer than the US? Perhaps the issue isn&#x2
3. 183.▲
   by beefsack 9y ago

   National health care systems are incredibly common outside the US, and they're often in countries with sliding scale income tax so it impacts the poorer much less than those well off. A lot of countries have hybrid systems where there
4. 184.▲
   by beefsack 9y ago

   Maybe I'm becoming a bit of a killjoy, but I'd prefer stuff like this stayed on Reddit. HN feels like the last place around where interesting technical discussion happens and I'd love it to stay that way.
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   by beefsack 9y ago

   > GIMP is a steaming pile of shit. Hyperbole much? GIMP is high quality software and I'm sure I'm not the only one who prefers it to Photoshop.
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   by beefsack 9y ago

   That's correct, but the context of this discussion is cracking hashes locally. Note that using salts don't necessarily slow down brute-force cracking of a specific hash if the salt is known and understood.
7. 187.▲
   by beefsack 9y ago

   I tried under Arch a few months ago and found swathes of the standard library didn't appear to work, is this something which has been fixed?
8. 188.▲
   by beefsack 9y ago

   Swift is useful if you're an Apple developer only targeting Apple users, seems like a bit of a niche.
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   by beefsack 9y ago

   We all know MD5 is broken, but looking at it from purely a brute-force perspective: If you look at a US English keyboard, you've generally got 47 unique character keys. Let's double it and say there are 100 different characters yo
10. 190.▲
    by beefsack 9y ago

    This is a very minor release, mainly just covering some bug fixes and deprecation warnings. It's not terribly noteworthy.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    Possibly scarier than the fact that crap like this even exists is the amount of ecosystem aligned zealotry that you see even on places like HN, vehemently defending anti-developer policies purely because of the amount of personal investment
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    Last paragraph of the page. > All of the MIX programs in Volumes 1--3 will need to be rewritten in MMIX, before I finish the ``ultimate'' edition of those volumes that I plan to write after Volume 5 is completed. The current ta
13. 193.▲
    by beefsack 9y ago

    Many people may have had negative experiences but I feel very few of those would post here, for a variety of reasons.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    For a square room, that would be roughly 2.7m wide. Single garages are often 3m x 6m to give it a bit of perspective, less than half a single car garage.
15. 195.▲
    by beefsack 9y ago

    This is often how proto-languages are reconstructed in linguistics too. I find it's one of the really interesting topics in historical linguistics.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    It seems like Google has created a chicken and egg problem for themselves. I won't be willing to take on Google products until they've been around for a few years and become entrenched, but with people becoming more and more reluc
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    It's likely any tracking mechanism would be implemented inside the hardware, not as part of drivers.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    Phone based payments seem to have really failed to gain momentum here in Australia too; we've had contactless cards for a few years now and they've become the norm, using a phone seems to have marginal benefit over that.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    I actually think it's great that it starts by showing something that looks really impressive, it immediately made me think of list comprehensions in Haskell. I was very keen to keep reading as soon as I saw that.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    I started using it since it was last mentioned on HN and it's really impressive, I've been converted.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    The screenshot suggestion is a good one, whenever I open a GUI software page and see a screenshot of Windows or MacOS I often just close the tab and move on.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    Nitpick: Google opted to pull out of mainland China instead of self-censoring. They moved Chinese operations to Hong Kong, but operate uncensored there.
23. 203.▲
    by beefsack 9y ago

    Just saying "no" will work in very few countries.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    I completely understand where you're coming from, but the User-Agent string is included in regular HTTP requests and you don't need to resort to overbearing client-side analytics to aggregate it; it's right there in the acces
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    Whenever a company says "one way hashing algorithm" without specifying the algorithm, we should all assume it's MD5.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    Given the name of the company and how that FAQ reads, I feel there's a good chance it's satire.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    For those who don't realise immediately, Snap Inc. do Snapchat.
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    If anyone was interested, the markup theme is Dracula[1], which subjectively feels like the most readable highlighting theme I've ever used. [1]: https://draculatheme.com/
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    by beefsack 9y ago

    For those interested in following the project or participating in discussions, there's a subreddit over at https://www.reddit.com/r/xi_editor/
30. 210.▲
    by beefsack 10y ago

    Updated my post, cheers.