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by dwheeler 6y ago
In memorium, I recommend playing "Badgers | 10 Hours": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlyFc79BUE&list=FLqVd9KhDa2...
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I also love this point. It hints at a rule-of-thumb I use: try to wait making an important technical choice until you can explain a pro & con of each option (or, similarly, explain when you'd use each one instead of the other).
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by dwheeler 6y ago
There's a set of 3 free courses on secure software development fundamentals developed by the Linux Foundation Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Just go here: https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/li
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by dwheeler 6y ago
> A company censoring information on their platform seems deeply different, no? Not necessarily; I think that is the crux of the discussion. From a legal point of view it is deeply different. From a practical point of view it's not
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Youtube, at least up to now, is a platform not a publisher. Part of the muddying is that it is very difficult for people to see information if it is not on one of these major publishers or platforms. Information that is legal to present, b
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I do not believe there was widespread election fraud, but having a private company control what information people are allowed to see & hear is also dangerous. YouTube has the right to do this as a private company, but it's als
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Right. The sed -i option is incompatible between MacOS & Linux, and it isn't in the POSIX standard. The POSIX folks don't want to add it because it's possible to do work without it, even though no one wants to. Maybe spon
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I would claim that this is a technological advance that is likely to lead to many scientific advances. Perhaps a good analogy are the inventions of the microscope and telescope. They were advances in technology, which then led to advances i
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by dwheeler 6y ago
If someone wants you to run code that's obfuscated, and it's not a game, it might be a good idea to ask "why"? It might be legitimate code... but it might not be. Yes, yes, some proprietary software is shipped that way
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Mailing lists are still around, and they still work. Even better, you don't have to log into 50 different sites to see the discussion. They're also not necessarily beholden to a single central organization. Before doing anything f
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Have you used fragment caching (in "Russian Doll" style)? In my experience, that's the key to making Rails applications fast. Ruby is slow, so there are definitely situations where it's not a good choice, but in many &qu
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by dwheeler 6y ago
There are indeed several different proof systems. "Formalizing 100 Theorems" tracks the progress of the "top" ones compared to a set of well-known proofs: http://www.cs.ru.nl/%7Efreek/100/ The
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by dwheeler 6y ago
A CEO who has only a non-technical education (such as an MBA) is VERY unusual for hardware or software companies that are successful . Often the CEO of this kind of company has at least some technical education, and usually the CEO has l
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I did say, "If this is a real DMCA takedown...". You are legally correct that GitHub in isn't obligated to take down a work if they receive a DMCA notice. But that would be very bad advice to take. GitHub handles millions of
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by dwheeler 6y ago
The world is poorer without Dan Kohn. He has improved the world in so many different ways. He was always kind and thoughtful to others.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Sorry, I did read the complaint and it appeared what I said earlier was correct. It sounds like I misunderstood things; thanks for the correction! My main point still stands, though: They need a lawyer.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I think the youtube-dl folks need to talk to a lawyer quickly. Like many products, youtube-dl can be used for legal and illegal purposes (just like a baseball bat can be). However, it was foolish to include links in their documentation to w
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by dwheeler 6y ago
This sounds too good to be true. I want to see a double-blind test done ASAP. I'm rather skeptical, but the potential upsides are so huge that it's worth rapid additional investigation.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I love it. Thank you!
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Attackers will then work to find domain names that generate similar identicons. But maybe the identicons don't need to be meaningful or the same for everyone. You could hash the domain with another value, like a computer name or userna
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Why must there be exactly one solution that solves everything? We don't expect that anywhere else in life. Obviously it's best if there was a simple automated solution that worked in all cases, but there is no such thing. Password
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by dwheeler 6y ago
No, I think buy should have a very clear meaning. No one is going to read all the legal gobbledygook. When I buy something, I assumed it cannot be taken away. If it can be taken away, then I did not buy it. Ileased it or rented it, but I di
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by dwheeler 6y ago
What a garbage argument. We can do both. We can look outside Earth, and take care of what we have. There is no reason we can't do both, so let's do both.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
As far as I know CPython is quite welcoming. However, per the blog post, this version of Pyston is closed source. So CPython won't be interested, and many others won't be interested either.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Has anyone talked with Ubuntu about tweaking its install process to make this easy? I imagine many people have a machine they want to run Windows on & don't want to pay for (or lug) an extra drive. It's probably a relatively s
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Um, what? Our expectations about cars have definitely changed over time. I don't think it's even legal to sell new cars without seatbelts, something that did not exist when cars started. Even low end cars in the US have added feat
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by dwheeler 6y ago
That's not really a reasonable expectation, as PDF is and output format not an input format. If you want to make a PDF that others can read, the best solution is to generate a PDF that embeds the original input. LibreOffice can do this
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I presume you mean a proprietary license. Probably yes, you just have to obey the license. The Linux kernel and git are also GPL. In general, if you're not linking it into your software you're fine, but see the license for details
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by dwheeler 6y ago
One interesting thing about consent under the gdpr is that users can later withdraw consent, and if that is your only legitimate reason, then you have to get rid of all the related data. It's best if you can show that there are multipl
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by dwheeler 6y ago
The title should be "6502", not "6052"... correct?

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