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by dual_basis 7y ago
Oh, I see. I interpreted "context" as current working directory. I took a look at your .bashrc but I couldn't detemine any sort of partitioned history. Are you saying that you have something like a virtual environment (as in
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by dual_basis 7y ago
This is exactly why something like reCAPTCHA exists and is used prevalently. To me, it sounds like your system is just security by obscurity. It wouldn't scale, if it did become used prevalently then it would be very easy for bots to c
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by dual_basis 7y ago
This seems like it would be very easy to game
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Of course that's what they're doing... I thought this was well known? I don't think they claim otherwise.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
They have some known right answers and some they don't know. They check that you get the ones they know correct, and then they take the other info you provide and add some confidence that they are correct. This bootstraps the system.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Fish does this by default (and much more as well).
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by dual_basis 7y ago
In fish, suggested autocompletions are contextual. For example, if I am in /home/dual_basis/projectA and I type `cd some/subdir` then a bunch of time goes by when I come back to /home/dual_basis/projectA a
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Really was expecting this to be an XKCD thing.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Sure, but so is clicking open websites unless you have Javascript disabled, in which case half the web is broken for you.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
What? No, you would drown if you tried to walk there. I'd say that's about as broken as it gets. What are you talking about?
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by dual_basis 7y ago
While I now understand "free-as-in-speech" is meant to refer to "free in the sense of Stallman's ideology", I still don't think the following makes any sense: > free-as-in-speech (where you can easily recre
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Or the car doesn't have TPMS... Like any car I have ever owned...
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by dual_basis 7y ago
1. The grading system in school is supposed to / used to be very similar, in that a C was actually average and very few people got As. 2. I don't want the driver to do anything "special", and I can't even imagine wh
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Then you have way too much HTML formatting in your email. Maybe people are using something like Word to create it, which will add all sorts of duplicate and remnants of tags everywhere. 102kb is a lot of text.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Those are attachments, even if they don't look like it in Gmail. Images aren't subject to this particular constraint.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Most print magazines are 90% ads. As for the "local newsletter" style, at least where I live these have all been bought out by larger media groups. To say the content is anemic would be generous, but I can't "unsubscribe
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by dual_basis 7y ago
> We can argue about whether emails should be chonkie-bois or not. But they are. People want full styling, images, and fancy features - not just ASCII text and the occasional uuencoded attachment. That's the world we're in now.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Yes, but maybe they do want to be paid for their posts. They can choose to write for free, but they didn't.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I agree with incorporating negative externalities into the cost of a product, but if the money isn't actually going toward paying for those externalities then it's just profit for the owner.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Finding out what thing meets the criteria is sometimes hard. I wanted to buy a set of nail clippers the other day. I wanted a nicer set than the last one I had, which had slowly loosened up while I used them which led to me twisting and rip
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Sometimes it can't be cleaned up, or the process of cleaning it up takes too long or is more expensive than the company wants to spend. Sometimes the clean up process is error prone, or leaves you with too little useable data. Sometime
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by dual_basis 7y ago
But... why? Maybe we need a tech version of /r/diwhy to put this and all the "I rewrote my toaster's firmware in Rust!" content.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Attackers also have to consider cost/benefit analysis when evaluating methods of attack. Claims that "CSS is Turing complete" require a user to act as a "crank" [0], so there are lower-hanging fruit out there than t
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Fair enough :) My recommendation would be to check out CS50: https://www.edx.org/cs50
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I'm quite serious. It is a very badly written piece of software with a huge amount of legacy code. The moat for new competition is wide, because it requires knowledge of all the intricacies of dental practices as well as agreements wit
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Sure, but we all take risks every day. If you're worring about turning-complete CSS files exploiting Spectre and Meltdown then you probably don't leave the house much.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Yes and no. It is possible to exploit Meltdown / Spectre via Javascript. From [0]: > This can happen when one has opened the other using window.open, or <a href="..." target="_blank">, or iframes. If a webs
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I don't think that's how it works. The CPU can adjust it's frequency through a much larger range, the base clock is not the minimum frequency it will run at all the time. (I agree, it's confusing.) https://ian
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Not a recommendation for how to learn software engineering, but rather a suggestion because I know your industry: team up with a good software developer and build a SaaS to replace Eaglesoft.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Marketing.

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