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by chias 11y ago
That laptop looks amazing! Quick question: does it have a backlit keyboard?
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by chias 11y ago
> For almost everything you can imagine doing, from image manipulation to send e-mail, there is some (poorly conceived) API. My favorite example of this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.gzgetss.php It tickle
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by chias 11y ago
Actually I've gone ahead and worked on it myself, in order to make it compatible with a grid layout (which was the more general problem I was trying to solve). I still need to clean up my modifications, but I should have a pull-reques
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by chias 11y ago
I'm enjoying playing with this. The only bit so far that I don't like is that to trigger a switch, the mouse needs to cross the halfway point of the element you want to swap positions with: in my application, it would be much more
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by chias 11y ago
Glad to see it has garnered a little more discussion / visibility this time. I'm glad to have found it :)
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by chias 11y ago
What does any of this have to do with Dragula?
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by chias 11y ago
I run a nerdy community. #1 and #2 are so impossibly ingrained in my users that this was both painful and cathartic to read. The only "potential fix" the author has is for people to read this and recognize the signs, but #2 preven
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by chias 11y ago
I had the exact same reaction. Either way, though, it's a good indication that perhaps combining PGP with steganography is a good way to go, at least for now.
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by chias 11y ago
> just simple math equations To be fair, you could say the exact same thing about any modern encryption scheme.
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by chias 11y ago
The author is about 30 years old, so this is more or less what I would expect.
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by chias 11y ago
I imagine so. I believe most (if not all) Starbucks are franchise stores. Franchise stores -- where the products are indeed identical and not just similar -- are the perfect-case scenario for this effect.
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by chias 11y ago
They aren't intuitive to those of us who grew up with them either, nor are they meant to be. You learn them, though, if you want a license. It's not easy and is super frustrating and arbitrary when you're first going through
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by chias 11y ago
Not for me it doesn't: https://i.imgur.com/S5bjDuf.png
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by chias 11y ago
Unless I'm mistaken they're also fundamentally misunderstanding SSL/TLS. As far as I can tell, LE never sees your private keys. A Certificate Authority signs your public key, so no, the NSA can't coerce LE to give up y
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by chias 11y ago
Isn't O(log(n)) equivalent to O(sqrt(n))?
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by chias 11y ago
Wouldn't this eventually balance out though? Productivity goes down, supply of goods goes down, price of goods goes up, pay for work producing such goods goes up, productivity goes up?
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by chias 11y ago
That is an extraordinarily dangerous notion.
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by chias 11y ago
It's always fun when this happens to someone who has production's on-call address in their contacts list. There really is nothing quite like having the "everything is on fire" pager ring at 3:25 AM only to find that some
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by chias 11y ago
> To put this in relatable terms, it's like walking down a country road and coming upon a crate of apples. While they don't say they are free, they look kind of free, and you're hungry. This, I think, is where you and I di
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by chias 11y ago
> How is viewing content without seeing ads any different? It's very different, because the MPAA and RIAA do not (and do not claim to) give their content away for free. You can't (claim to) give things away for free and then ar
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by chias 11y ago
Unless the advertising landscape changes drastically from what it is today, I will never not use an ad-blocker, and I reject the notion that it is somehow unethical: for over a decade and a half the online advertising industry has been ex
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by chias 11y ago
I have not heard of Godwin's Law implying that (useful?) conversation after the comparison ceases, but rather simply as: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1
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by chias 11y ago
> The result would be the characters that are in the first string but not in the second string A result would be that, but I certainly would not call it the result. Another result would be to treat the strings as byte arrays and subt
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by chias 11y ago
Better response than I got. This was just a couple months ago, the laptop shipped with Superfish installed on it in spite of assurances that it wouldn't, so I called them to ask where I could get driver installers for after I wipe &#x2
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by chias 11y ago
If you have a malicious person in your home with physical access to your unlocked machine, your wifi password is the least of your worries.
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by chias 11y ago
I'm just waiting for a judge to rule that cable should be treated like a streaming service ;)
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by chias 11y ago
Is that a vertical tab, or a line break? It seems much more consistent with the behavior of <br> in HTML documents (i.e. new line but not new paragraph/bullet/whatever).
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by chias 11y ago
There's also the referrer header that gets sent out, which includes the URL of the page that is embedding the image. Not really "all data on your visitors" but depending on how you use it, may leak sensitive information if yo
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by chias 11y ago
It's hard not to get 8:1 compression when we're starting from a RAW file
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by chias 11y ago
They all have serial numbers, and you had to show ID when buying them. So yes they are registered, you just might not be aware of this fact.

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