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by bsza 2y ago
I would rather have unpleasantries that make the language safer vs unpleasantries that make it more vulnerable. Especially when the unpleasantries in question don’t even make the language easier to use.
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by bsza 2y ago
> Pretty much looks the same in all C-like languages Because it’s ancient; that doesn’t necessarily make it better or clearer. Look at it like you’ve never seen it before. It has an entire line of boilerplate smack bang in the middle. Su
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by bsza 2y ago
Yes it does. Being a small business does not entitle you to share the addresses where your customers live with everyone.
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by bsza 2y ago
You are only assuming one kind of attack vector, which is a landlord discovering this exact site. Whereas the more impactful scenario is a web crawler discovering this site, grabbing its content and making it Googleable, so that not one b
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by bsza 2y ago
You’re assuming that all of this is caused by employers having a bias against shorter people. What if shorter people are simply less healthy on average, say, because of the countless genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome, that result in
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by bsza 2y ago
> if it’s been automated Bcrypt has key stretching, brute-forcing every address in existence would cost a lot of CPU even for one city. How will the attacker get compensated for that?
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by bsza 2y ago
It does though. It eliminates the need to ever include an address in plaintext on the site, making it a lot harder for data harvesters to extract private information from it. Landlords likely won’t iterate through each and every similar sit
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by bsza 2y ago
And because of that let’s expose everything to Google Search so landlords don’t even need to know about this site?
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by bsza 2y ago
For starters, they could hash every address with bcrypt and only show reviews to people who search for that exact address. Then they could hide the review pages from search engines (which they are currently not [0] doing). They also have no
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by bsza 2y ago
This site isn’t even trying, they just shove random reviews with the exact address in your face on the front page.
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by bsza 2y ago
Pairing languages with anything is incorrect, because “language” is an ill-defined term, an attempt to loosely group together similar methods of communication. But not having a flag is even more incorrect, because then all you have is a l
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by bsza 2y ago
That makes more sense, thanks for clarifying.
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by bsza 2y ago
> Nothing resembling modernity is possible with horses being the primary mode of transportation. Or bicycles, for that matter. Amsterdam has somehow managed to solve it (with bikes, not horses). I think the biggest blocker is people un
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by bsza 2y ago
Where I’m from, exhaust gas creates a phenomenon called smog that can make the air toxic. In environments that were supposed to be designed for humans to live in. One day, as I was walking to the local grocery store while choking in said ga
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by bsza 2y ago
As someone who has smelled both horse shit and car exhaust on many occasions, I’d choose horse shit any day. It just smells like old wet hay (because that’s what it essentially is).
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by bsza 2y ago
What really made cities ugly is when we demolished half of each to make space for cars. A bollard is a weird place to start caring about aesthetics.
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by bsza 2y ago
The largest diaspora in the world (India’s) has 30 million people, and most of them (18M) are immigrants. I have trouble believing more than 1% of people worldwide would prefer something other than one of the national languages of the count
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by bsza 2y ago
See? You’ve already managed to figure out which flag to click despite your VERY exceptional situation. This is great UI design.
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by bsza 2y ago
> Only if the symbols make sense and there's a one-to-one relationship A flag paired with a name, which the UI used to show, is as close to that as you can get. You can’t get exactly that because languages are not mathematical obj
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by bsza 2y ago
It really isn’t. You presumably live in a country. That country has a flag. If you click that flag, there is a high chance you’ll get a language you understand - and if you don’t, you probably already know the reason and how to fix it (dias
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by bsza 2y ago
Because law-abiding Christian traders don’t make headlines in Bloomberg.
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by bsza 2y ago
The linked writing takes an inventory of the sex and skin color of the authors and voices concerns about the lack of diversity thereof.
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by bsza 2y ago
Whether or not this is the case, an ad hominem attack against the race of the authors and a strawman that presents their method as a cake recipe only convinces me about the reviewer being an asshole. One could turn the proof of the Pythagor
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by bsza 2y ago
True, but on the other hand, it would only take one headline about people losing their lives while trying to drive off a bridge about to collapse at 20 kph to spark public outrage. We tend to be less sensitive to tragedies that occur due to
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by bsza 2y ago
Edge cases like medical emergencies, natural disasters, terrorist attacks etc., where speeding can actually save lives. You can’t account for all of those in an automated system.
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by bsza 2y ago
They should also come with shock collars that give the driver a little zap whenever this feature has to be activated. Just so they get some feedback for doing a no-no.
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by bsza 2y ago
It probably also doesn’t help that some cooking techniques, like wok hei, involve heating the oil past its burning point.
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by bsza 2y ago
It’s not halfway across the globe. Not even quarter way. Meanwhile, the US one dollar note is made with flax imported from Belgium (also not halfway across the globe, but farther away).
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by bsza 2y ago
> assuming the network is not majority compromised There is no such guarantee AFAIK, as long as a bad actor controls all the nodes in YOUR route, they can deanonymize you.
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by bsza 2y ago
Typo in title, should be “shikaku” (Japanese for quadrilateral).

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