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by cwmma 10y ago
As somebody with synaesthesia this doesn't really sound related, my synaesthesia is basically that there is something intrinsically mustard yellow about the number 4 and something red about the letter k (and words that start with k).
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by cwmma 10y ago
I'm trying really hard to figure out what's bad about 'Lightwater Country Park'
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by cwmma 10y ago
Ah something for the day xkcd[1] makes https mandatory. 1. http://xkcd.com
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by cwmma 10y ago
It's main claimed benefits are that it is resistant to side channel timing attacks, simpler (easier to implement correctly) and faster . all things being equal, in practice AES is often implemented in hardware which gives it an advan
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by cwmma 10y ago
If backdoored constants are easy enough to find that you are able to find them AND they are appropriate English phrases then the cipher itself is likely broken doubly so as the origional version of chacha had 2 key sizes 16-byte and 32-byte
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by cwmma 10y ago
From wikipedia[1] it looks like the previous countries to switch were Turkey in 1926 and Greece in 1923 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption
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by cwmma 10y ago
> The dev-leads of the different javascript engines should not just be able to veto. They should be able to veto people out of the room, out of the debate. And we should celebrate it every time they take advantage of that power. Or just
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by cwmma 10y ago
Google is honestly not alone in this, tail call elimination is being blocked by safari, websql was blocked by Mozilla.
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by cwmma 10y ago
Bingo, it turns the same thing wasn't wasn't obvious to everyone
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by cwmma 10y ago
With this canceled there is no official direction, and any further movement will likely be based on what is decided in the community.
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by cwmma 10y ago
> Why do you say "bizarre meme"? the bizarre meme is that they are 'replacements' for promises, they are really intended for (as you rightly put it) push streams which is a different, though occasionally overlapping,
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by cwmma 10y ago
fixed the spelling and you're right it's not a super common requirement, but it comes up in context of designing APIs to use promises, and if you are trying to add promises to an API that is cancelable, you'd want some way to
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by cwmma 10y ago
and you've missed the last part of that paragraph where I mention unhandledRejection events becoming a defacto standard which straddles a nice line between avoiding false positives (error listener attached latter in the program) and er
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by cwmma 10y ago
Promises have always been extremely contentious in JS for a couple reasons and Domenic has had the patience of a saint getting the original proposal through so it's totally understandable that he might not want to deal with this anymor
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by cwmma 10y ago
> They are not randomized strings of insider shibboleths. the joke is that from many people's perspective real papers are indistinguishable from this. > Their work is not easy to understand and, yes, they can be interpreted in ma
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by cwmma 10y ago
But it's much better at streaming reads then zip so depending on the context might be better.
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by cwmma 10y ago
For a lot of things zip files are used for tar.gz isn't just an alternative but what you should have been using all along as you can do streaming reads, that being said it dosn't have as good support and can't do random acces
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by cwmma 10y ago
can we talk about how github has code highlighting supports brainfuck? I didn't really expect that
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by cwmma 10y ago
> We had some nasty one-off surprises. Last one was with an object that had 1700 or so revisions in couch and once it synced to PouchDB it would crash the Chrome tab in a matter of seconds. Due to the way PouchDB stores revision tree (lo
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by cwmma 10y ago
I don't think her phone has NFC, it might but she wouldn't know if it did. But I don't always see her in person that often, which means we'd have to wait until we were face to face before we could even try to see if she
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by cwmma 10y ago
Yeah good point, it's less the infosec community that has the knives out for signal as much as the other messenger app folks and the HN diehards that will never accept a protocol that isn't totally federated and maximally secure.
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by cwmma 10y ago
> That's because when it comes to security often theoretical vulnerabilities end up being protocol-destroying vulnerabilities in practice. Security folks are notorious for saying, 'that won't work,' being ignored — an
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by cwmma 10y ago
It sometimes feels like the security community is a bucket of crabs where any time something starts getting traction due to ease of use a lot of others try to pick at it due to it not being perfect even if many of those things are trade off
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National Popular Vote Interstate Compact(en.wikipedia.org)
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by cwmma 10y ago
Forever Free by Joe Haldeman does something similar, an attempt to leave the galaxy causes the simulation to be terminated
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by cwmma 10y ago
This list seems to imply relatively is only important orbiting black holes but the GPS satellites are far enough from earth or orbiting fast enough (both apply to satellites depending on orbit height) that relatively applies and the clocks
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by cwmma 10y ago
Is a 'tax residential address' that a Canadian thing your guaranteed to only have one of world wide and it would never make sense to live at an address other then your 'tax residential address' for legitimate reasons ?
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by cwmma 10y ago
I vaguely remember firefox choking on try/finally but not try/catch, may have been fixed could have been a dream but in generally try can be tricky
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by cwmma 10y ago
it looks like they have removed that one after I (and others) left comments
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by cwmma 10y ago
Back when I worked at a coffee shop and had to get up to open it at 6am I had a roommate that worked second shift so we mainly interacted when he would still be up when I would get up or when one of us was hanging out with friends after wor

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