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by dathery 2y ago
Windows 7 is older today (15 years) than Windows 95 was when Windows 7 was released (14 years).
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by dathery 2y ago
I've usually seen it come up when people try to hash the objects to use as dictionary keys or in sets, and then encounter very hard-to-troubleshoot issues later on. Obviously it's a bit weird to hash a bunch of objects of differen
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by dathery 2y ago
Another problem brought about by their design being backwards-compatible with tuples is that you get wonky equality rules where two namedtuples of different types and with differently-named attributes can compare as equal: >>&gt
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by dathery 2y ago
How does lack of understanding of the mechanism by which something works imply that it is useless at best? I do not think that follows and can think of many counterexamples.
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by dathery 2y ago
I hate to run PR for Uber, but the battery story is just urban legend. If you dig into the headlines, they all trace back to one article written by a small Belgian newspaper [1] which is barely more than a blurb. The evidence in the article
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by dathery 2y ago
That makes sense. I was thinking they could use something like DTLS [1] and tunnel just the one UDP port needed for their VXLAN connections, rather than use full-blown VPN software. I have never actually tried this myself though. [1] https
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by dathery 2y ago
Is there reason to think AES used appropriately would be any less secure here? Not trying to be argumentative, genuinely curious. My understanding is that AES has some design warts that make it not ideal (basically, it's easy to both i
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by dathery 2y ago
Really cool article, I enjoy reading through all the details behind the decision making. Just spit-balling a little, but I wonder if Wireguard is the best tool here given that the author is only using it for a single point-to-point link and
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by dathery 2y ago
Right, but I was trying to understand the author's motivation, and this was me handwaving about if it could be about compiler trust. The article discusses bootstrapping but not explicitly why the author cares—is it just a fun exercise
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by dathery 2y ago
Not dismissing the usefulness of the project at all, but curious what the concrete benefits of that are -- is it mainly to have a smaller, more auditable bootstrap process to make it easier to avoid "Reflections on Trusting Trust"
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by dathery 2y ago
Not a traditional streaming service, but Plex offers sonic analysis: https://support.plex.tv/articles/sonic-analysis-music/ > Plex Media Server uses a sophisticated neural network to analyze each track in the m
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by dathery 2y ago
It would be hard to do end-to-end TLS (where the server proxies the raw connection) because (a) you can't share one TLS connection to the host between multiple clients; if you wanted multi-client support while preserving end-to-end TLS
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by dathery 2y ago
The bacteria behind botulism can't grow in oxygen-rich environments, so I think the makeup of the solution is the main thing to worry about. That's why botulism is mainly a concern with canning, oil suspensions, etc.
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by dathery 2y ago
You can use a pH meter to monitor the sauce while it's fermenting if you'd like some extra assurance. Hot sauce is one of the safer things to do at home (in terms of things like botulism risk) due to the acidity and saltiness.
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by dathery 2y ago
You can have Caddy return the user's IP address directly: https://caddy.community/t/caddy-server-that-returns-only-ip-... Similar things are also possible with nginx and Apache.
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by dathery 2y ago
I could see this happening. Zoom for example already uses ultrasonic sound to detect what conference room a laptop is in for one-click screen sharing.
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by dathery 2y ago
I'm very interested to see what that kind of competition would do to ticket prices. I've often seen Ticketmaster painted as the "designated fall-guy" for consumers to hate instead of the venues and acts which are (accord
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by dathery 2y ago
Here's a similar project with a PlayStation 1 if people like this kind of thing: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/ps-hanami.6279...
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by dathery 2y ago
It also creates a bad safety culture to over-punish mistakes, because then people don't report them for fear of being fired and the system can't be improved to minimize future mistakes.
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by dathery 2y ago
My experience has been that it's really easy to damage your USB-C port like this if you keep your phone in your pocket while walking/running. I always end up with the port loose and making poor connections. I ended up buying a sma
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by dathery 3y ago
Previously people basically didn't bother to write multithreaded Python at all due to the GIL. Threads were primarily used when you had multiple pieces of work to do which could end up blocked on independent I/O. Which is common a
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by dathery 3y ago
Yes, which is why it's not ideal to reuse the folder metaphor here. Users have an idea how directories work on well-known filesystems and get confused when these fake folders don't behave the same way.
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by dathery 3y ago
Directories actually exist on the filesystem, which is why you have to create them before use and they can exist and be empty. They don't exist in S3 and neither of those properties do, either. Similarly, common filesystem operations o
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by dathery 3y ago
By this logic isn't it still better to make whatever profit they can by releasing it? Yes they would increase their net income (and thus tax burden), but they should still end up ahead (it's not like they're paying >100% m
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by dathery 3y ago
Could you identify the strawman attacks you see? I'm trying to interpret your comment charitably but I'm having trouble identifying what you object to specifically. I don't think it's much of a stretch to assume these ki
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by dathery 3y ago
You don't need active coordination for this. APs serving the same SSID could verify client certificates issued from any other AP by verifying that the certificate is signed by a trusted certificate authority. You'd just need each
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by dathery 3y ago
They're talking about transformative with regard to copyright law where it is an important part of determining fair use, not the dictionary definition you're using here. I can't take NY Times articles, translate them into Spa
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by dathery 3y ago
I get why Chrome has to prioritize the things it does, but this kind of reasoning feels so backwards to me. I'm sorry that blocking cross-site tracking makes it harder for ad companies to make money, but that's just not my concern
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by dathery 3y ago
I don't think this is meaningfully true for modern phones. The passcode is used by the phone's TPM to derive the actual encryption key, which never leaves the TPM. TPMs are designed to be impossible to retrieve the secret key from