d_theorist

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by d_theorist 10y ago
Why don't we just stop allowing users to choose their passwords?
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by d_theorist 10y ago
>Your browser can easily distinguish these two cases if the new key in the header of the webpage is actually signed with the previous key for the same website (whose public counterpart is stored by the browser). I don't see how this
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by d_theorist 10y ago
The Netherlands is an 'evil government'?
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I don't think it's worthless to point out that a number of strategies are bad, and likely counterproductive. It might just be the case that there are no good foolproof methods for getting through the US border without any negati
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by d_theorist 10y ago
Google clearly just doesn't have the enterprise-support mindset in their DNA in the way that companies like Microsoft do. Google's core business is search and ads. Everything else is either an afterthought or a dalliance, and it s
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Million requests per second with Python(medium.com)
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by d_theorist 10y ago
That's because it's a completely new website. Happens with every new administration.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
"Thirty students will meet with Facebook every week to make the world a better place (or that’s how I think about it)." Fantastic neutral reporting here from TechCrunch. Not at all just a recycled press release.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I think this is quite a good example of why protections like the 5th amendment are important. A person might be tempted - in such a case - to confess to the crime and take the fine simply in order to avoid getting entangled in a bureaucrati
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by d_theorist 10y ago
While I think your general point is probably right, I don't agree with your last point that 'Parliament governs by wielding the power of the monarch". That - to my understanding - is backwards. The power of the monarch is sub
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by d_theorist 10y ago
Yes. Yes. Yes. This is exactly what public education systems should be teaching. I'd almost say that next to basic literacy and mathematics, this is the most valuable subject to teach. It lays the groundwork for so much else.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
It's a bit confusing, but I don't think this list is supposed to be a list of tasks we can do now. I think it's a list of well-defined (ish) tasks that are milestones to look out for in the future. Or something like that anyw
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by d_theorist 10y ago
David Davis is the one who's now in the cabinet. Tom Watson is now Labour's deputy leader, and therefore quite decidedly not in the cabinet.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I remember once my code worked on the first try. I found it difficult to believe.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
This will probably be an unpopular thing to say, and I understand that people have different opinions and preferences on this question. However, for me, every time I see one of these Python 3 releases it makes me appreciate Go's model
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I'm actually surprised (pleasantly) to see that adoption is that high. I would have guessed at less than 10%. I suppose the sample set (projects using a tool like Semaphore) is likely to be biased towards more forwards-looking teams, b
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by d_theorist 10y ago
It might help if they just said what each of these things is .
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by d_theorist 10y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by d_theorist 10y ago
Oh! Because both ends have access to the same random bits. Thanks.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I had thought that quantum entanglement could not be used for communication because the state that is transmitted is random, and cannot be controlled at either end. But, there are quotes in this article to the contrary. e.g.: “Such a networ
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I agree. But, we learned from C that the possibility of trying to access arbitrary parts of memory means that programs will end up trying to access parts they shouldn't. So, higher level languages like Python solve the problem by hav
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by d_theorist 10y ago
Programmers should not try to access memory beyond the end of an array. They should not attempt to add ints and strings. They should not give a function a float when it expects a struct. But they do. So we try to design languages in such a
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by d_theorist 10y ago
> If none of the training material says or implies that the keys will always be ordered, why would a programmer? Because people make mistakes.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
This was my thought as well. I haven't really followed the discussion around the decision, so perhaps I am missing something, but my initial feeling is that either ordering should be required by the spec and implemented, or the orderin
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by d_theorist 10y ago
Here is what was actually agreed: http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9526-2016-IN... (PDF direct link) The intention sounds good, but it seems like there is still a lot of detail to be worked out.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I certainly would not attribute it to oversight or misinterpretation of arcane laws. Obviously they knew what they were doing. And, I'll leave aside moral considerations because they are not strictly relevant to the point of whether th
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by d_theorist 10y ago
Thanks. I'll take another look at chroot jails when I do my next periodic "Install OpenBSD and see if I can use it as a day-to-day work OS" experiment :)
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I love OpenBSD, but one reason I don't use it for my day-to-day work is that it lacks some tools that I now find indispensable. For example, LXC containers are incredibly useful for creating isolated, lightweight, development environme
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by d_theorist 10y ago
I think Ireland and Apple would argue that Apple was legally entitled to do so because: 1. Irish law (according to their interpretation) says it is ok 2. This interpretation was upheld by an Irish court.
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by d_theorist 10y ago
It appears that this is the crux of the disagreement. Does the loophole that Apple used constitute "giving one company a tax break"? There seem to be reasonable arguments on both sides.

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