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by ben0x539 9y ago
Having read the article and the comments above yours, and being generally aware that there's some truncation thing related to SHA-256 and SHA-512 somewhere, it still took me until your comment to catch onto that.
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by ben0x539 9y ago
I think the idea is that every article is a freely available promo article as it comes out, and then gets relegated to the subscribers-only backlog afterwards.
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by ben0x539 9y ago
The security model for nacl is afaik that you run almost arbitrary native code. It was compiled by someone else, your input is basically machine code that you don't know anything about except for some please-dont-break-my-sandbox check
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by ben0x539 9y ago
I imagine asking a major social media platform for permission is not gonna get anyone anywhere. What should stop people is looking into whether the framing is obviously fake.
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by ben0x539 9y ago
So we're not allowed to draw inferences now? It's not like tumblr is gonna issue a press release to spell it out, so waiting for that before talking about the thing seems counterproductive.
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by ben0x539 9y ago
Why stop there and not disallow sub-minute trades?
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by ben0x539 9y ago
Another fun one is that set -e export x=$(false) echo ok prints ok, but set -e export x x=$(false) echo ok exits early because of the `false`.
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by ben0x539 9y ago
Slightly more useful than `set -e` is `set -E` and `trap exit ERR`. But still there's basically no way to make this consistently useful. Even if you religiously set -e/E in every scope just in case, if you're anywhere in a sc
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by ben0x539 9y ago
I unironically agree with this. That's not a use of the generic German word for lightning, it's a specific reference.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I feel like comments like this only serve to further downplay how abusive selective enforcement is. It can't be so bad if there's in theory a legal remedy available, right? But whether you prevail in court or not, if you try to go
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Yeah, looks like my mail backlog for that account falls a few years short. I guess I didn't know about IMAP back then, or had weird ideas about data retention. :/
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Also this is a great example of having rules that are bullshit enough that you can basically do anything to anyone and technically be perfectly justified according to some agreement, but also enforcing them arbitrarily enough that anyone wh
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Is there a way to find the precise age of your paypal account retroactively? It says mine was created the year of my 18th birthday, and I'm sure I did it all above-board, but it'd be nice to have it confirmed. Update: It looks l
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Can I just call mmap instead of anything requiring userspace coordination beyond function scope if I need dynamic memory in a signal handler? How easy is it to fuck up the signalfd thing and end up not responding to SIGINT in a timely manne
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Submissions of articles from YC/by YC people always have the least descriptive titles. :( Edit: Thanks!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
`FnMut` just means that the iterator methods don't artificially restrict the user-supplied closures. `map` itself doesn't become impure just because you can map `|x| { counter += x; x+1 }` over your list if you really want to. I
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by ben0x539 10y ago
The way iterators are used in Rust is reminiscent of the use of lazy lists in, like, Haskell, enabling a distinctly functional-ish style.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
your chart is defective, the y-axis is supposed to continue indefinitely in either direction
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by ben0x539 10y ago
The fact that you can spell out the motivation of someone's shitty behavior doesn't elevate it above criticism!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
It sounds like the authors' motivation is to create something that doesn't need a central hub to compete, to fight centralization. I expect their idea of success is also very different from github's.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I hope other countries introduce that requirement for US-based travelers too, that'd probably be the quickest way to get the US to knock it off.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
> atoi fopen FILE fprintf M_PI fabs sqrt cos sin erand48 They finally standardized M_PI? Sweet, that was always awkward.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
They're probably more of a shot at creating lock-in than a profit center.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I never hear anyone use the -bi units unless they're trying to be clever, and I'm fairly sure at most storage devices use the power-of-ten units. Am I alone in that?
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by ben0x539 10y ago
worked well for me here!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I give up too, because the HN formatting is actively fighting me.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
fwiw, in C++11 onwards, apparently NULL is allowed to be nullptr and not an integral constant.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
There isn't a guarantee that NULL has a bit pattern that's the same as a true (void )0 C-style null pointer either. I didn't look it up directly but apparently NULL is allowed to be nullptr instead of 0, and nullptr converts
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Having to scroll the textbox right to continue is a bit of a drag.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
If it was only possible to do things in Haskell that are also possible in Java, that 'd be an indictment against it.

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