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by byuu 12y ago
That would be absolutely lovely. Since we're not viewing headers manually on 80x25 terminals anymore, we could do away with multi-line header values. That alone would drop off most of the complexity. (Being perfectly honest, even thoug
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by byuu 12y ago
> May nobody else have to suffer through writing an interoperable HTTP/1.1 parser! Yes, now it'll be much easier than parsing plain-text. Now they just have to write a TLS stack (several key exchange algorithms; block ciphers;
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by byuu 12y ago
The problem is that the malware is going to find a way through anyway. Even if it has to replace firefox.exe with a custom compiled binary that removes the signature checking function; or simply patches out the check in the binary on your s
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by byuu 12y ago
Likewise. I am currently running Classic Theme Restorer, oldbar, Cookies Manager+, Download Cleaner, plus the usual stuff (Adblock and such.) Not only do I have to trust a bunch of third-party devs I don't know; it also takes longer an
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by byuu 12y ago
I think it's part of the dark side of open source software. When your product is free, you feel no obligation to your users whatsoever. We see it time and time again. Firefox, Ubuntu, Gnome 3, KDE 4, systemd, etc. The attitude is alway
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by byuu 12y ago
> That said, the CEO comment was a bit unproductive. I thought about leaving it out because it wasn't a technical issue, but being honest, it was one of the bigger disappointments I've had with their project, so it seemed impor
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by byuu 12y ago
With each passing day, Mozilla tries harder and harder to get me to stop using their browser. If not for Chrome being the only viable alternative, they would have long since succeeded. Wreck the address bar algorithm? Ugh. Move the tabs on
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by byuu 12y ago
Will they give out wildcard domain certificates?
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by byuu 12y ago
Everyone loves consistency, but it really is a fools errand to try and make a universal OS experience. Desktops with keyboards and mice require different design paradigms than touch screens with no physical buttons. Vendors like Microsoft t
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by byuu 12y ago
The current state of the web is the result of too many cooks in the kitchen. Nobody is ever willing to stand up and say no to countless new additions that often simply replicate old behavior, or don't add anything compelling or likel
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by byuu 12y ago
Yes, I agree with the article. I'm saying that people in general (even in this topic) seem to not mind the issue when it's personally advantageous to them. (if that weren't the case, the article would merely be stating the ob
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by byuu 12y ago
It's funny that when Netflix has to pay for preferential treatment, it's a bad thing ("my bill might go up!"); but when it's Spotify getting unlimited data, it's a good thing ("my bill might go down!"
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by byuu 12y ago
> The part about money not being able to influence politics does not ring true to me. Yeah, it's true that you can't outright buy an election wholesale. But rich people are rich for a reason: they don't just throw their mo
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by byuu 12y ago
> let’s stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer, potentially leaving us to die a much more horrible death. If the author wants to forgo treatment upon a cancer diagnosis, more power to him; but I'm extremely grateful for continu
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by byuu 12y ago
> A fair argument, but what's the gradual approach? Site blacklists (a list of sites that should be secure.) Start with all of the banking and payment sites. Then add in sensitive topics to the person's country (eg atheism, h
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by byuu 12y ago
But the host is not, and many services exist to categorize the content of domains already. What is the statistical difference between innocuous-site-with-every-kind-of-content-ever.com/friendship-is-pornographic and mlp-fip.com? If mor
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by byuu 12y ago
I don't think SSL is all that great for protecting broad interests. If you are going to ten different domains in the same span of time that all contain suicide content and someone is snooping your connection, they can correlate what yo
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by byuu 12y ago
I like yours for the minimum number of operations needed: 28+((0x3bbeecc>>(m*2))&3) But here's my own attempt anyway, which wins on number of characters typed =) 30+(m&1^m>7)-m*(m==2)
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by byuu 12y ago
Interesting article ... > "I'm trying to make a software version of Stephen's voice so that we don't have to rely on these old hardware cards," says Wood. So back in 2010 we had someone help us extract the progra
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by byuu 12y ago
> and natto ... erm, well ... maybe chest pains aren't so bad after all :P
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by byuu 12y ago
Exactly how I felt! I'm 31 now myself. I'm really hoping my experience is like yours, because I'm still not 100% myself again. Currently 2.5 weeks in. I can't even imagine what my levels were prior to taking the 500% RDV
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by byuu 12y ago
I have strong upper chest pains (constant pressure), regardless of position. Went to first doctor, was told "it's just bruised ribs", even though I don't play any sports or do any serious workouts. Went to a second docto
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by byuu 12y ago
Sure, it's my own software. I hook up saving and loading states to key presses, so eg F5 would save, F7 would load. And then F6/F8 would increment or decrement the save slot number. You basically have to capture everything possibl
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by byuu 12y ago
I've always thought it would be nice if the kernel exposed this ability to regular userland applications. On Unix systems, Ctrl+Z of a terminal application will suspend it, but not across reboots. Core files are very close, yet typical
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by byuu 12y ago
That's always an issue, but in my testing with emulators, once you rule out external inputs (eg keyboard input), it tends to become predictable and reproducible. And using a VM should help dramatically in reducing randomness. And you k
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by byuu 12y ago
So it's said to take days of stress testing for the crash to occur each time. I've had to trace bugs under emulation that took substantial amounts of time to trigger. Thankfully in my case, I was able to serialize the entire syste
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by byuu 12y ago
I worked with a professional who helped decap and extract firmware from various DSPs. It was enthralling. He succeeded, too. I've also read at lengths the attempts at the hobbyist level. While also very fun, these attempts were not suc
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by byuu 12y ago
Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply! That did help a lot. > you have chosen the worst possible piece of Rust code for someone who has never looked at the language before That's my luck :P I was in the middle of turning my HTTP
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by byuu 12y ago
> Aren't there C++ compilers that will compile to C code? Uh ... no? CFront did that when it was just "C with Classes", but nowadays with C++14? That would be absolutely terrifying.
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by byuu 12y ago
Pretty much all of it. For example, let's take http://chrismorgan.info/blog/teepee-design-header-representa... impl<'a> AnyRefExt<'a> for &'a Header { #[inline] fn

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