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by elevader 5y ago
From what I gather this is done to persist the sort order. All calls within the same millisecond will get the same timestamp component so that can't be used to sort the ULIDs. So the "random" part is incremented and the resul
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by elevader 5y ago
Definitely didn't know that, thanks for that insight, really appreciate it! I always just assumed they were hashed but never really bothered to check. V4 shouldn't have this problem, right?
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by elevader 5y ago
Very true and important to state, UUIDs on their own at most provide obscurity, not security. Can the MAC address of the host that is used for some versions be extracted/read from the UUID or maybe inferred by observing a number of UUI
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by elevader 5y ago
I really liked this article but I feel it misses one somewhat important point about using incremental numbers: They are trivially guessable and one needs to be very cautious when exposing them to the outside world. If you encounter some URL
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by elevader 5y ago
I read that point about Discord differently: One of the often stated advantages of blockchain technology lies in the ability to build decentralized and censorship-proof social platforms. And yet there doesn't seem to be such a platform
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by elevader 5y ago
That sounds like a horrible "might makes right" scenario. If everybody just hires their own goons then the actual enforcement lies in who has more guns/people to enforce whatever they want, not in magical internet points.
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by elevader 5y ago
It's not necessarily recommended to mix stable and testing but it mostly works fine in my experience. I'd guess Gentoo gets around quite a few problems as everything is compiled from source. So updating a single libary would cause
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by elevader 5y ago
Honest question from a total outsider: What is the difference between a "shitcoin" and a "legitimate token"? And who gets to decide that?
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by elevader 5y ago
This sounds more and more like running a blog.
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by elevader 5y ago
Yeah, and even if they can't sell collected data because we all agreed to just put them on a blockchain aggregates and whatnot will still be valuable assets. This isn't an issue that can be solved by technology. It will need regul
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by elevader 5y ago
But if you encrypt it so nobody else can read it then the big bad companies of evil will still need to collect your data individually - which brings us back to the initial point, but now with a blockchain for some reason
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by elevader 5y ago
Wouldn't that be just as bad (if not worse) than the current situation? Those huge corporations could just read everything from the blockchain. At least in the current situation companies need to provide some sort of service to get to
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by elevader 5y ago
> Auto-completion is no doubt a large part of what's enabled your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl to get those 33 methods in the first place. Which is a big part of my point, autocompletion shapes the way you think about code, shape
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by elevader 5y ago
I know, I learned ancient greek in school, the history and writing was a large part of that. Most (I'd guess > 95%) of the Greeks weren't able to recite the Illiad if I remember that correctly, oral tradition or not. Even the b
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by elevader 5y ago
But how does memorizing all 33 methods of your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl enrich anything? Learning to play an instrument is enriching because you start to understand the logic/inner workings behind the music you listen to. You ne
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by elevader 5y ago
> Nobody today can memorize an epic like the Illiad today like people routinely would in Socrates' day. It a bit impressive if you can reproduce a 3 minute song text from memory. The Illiad often took days to recite. AFAIK this isn&
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by elevader 5y ago
NFTs stop making sense as soon as anything they are used for doesn't involve the blockchain. Ownership of an NFT that points to some fancy Team Fortress 2 hat means absolutely nothing if Valve decides that it doesn't.
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by elevader 5y ago
I 100% agree and I kind of wonder why this doesn't seem to be a problem with similar repositories like maven. That doesn't seem to hit HN every 1-2 weeks with a new security flaw/compromised package so they seem to be doing s
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by elevader 5y ago
Yeah, that is true. And npm as a whole doesn't really have a good track record in being worthy of a lot of trust.
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by elevader 5y ago
Maybe this is arguing semantics but unless you run something like Gentoo you will most likely get the linux kernel as a binary blob contained in a package your distribution provides. There isn't really any guarantee that this will actu
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by elevader 5y ago
Webpack sure has problems (for example speed) but most of the more niche things that people do aren't actually supported by it but implemented through the plugin system, at which point any category of niche/sane kind of flies out
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by elevader 5y ago
I'm not trying to argue that it is harder, just different in some ways and ignoring that for the sake of "javascript bad" isn' going to change the point that there are challenges involved. Nevertheless I understand your
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by elevader 5y ago
> There is no problem JS transpilers+bundlers tackled that earlier compiler writers had not tackled, better, before. I'm not sure what I am supposed to do with that statement/answer? It's obviously very easy to just assume
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by elevader 5y ago
Sadly it's a lot more than old IE versions, there are a lot of mobile devices with surprisingly old/buggy browsers around. Of course this is highly dependent on the target audience but at my last job we did some runtime feature de
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by elevader 5y ago
Most languages also don't really have to worry about shipping dozens of plaintext source code files over the wire that then might get executed in an environment you have no control over that doesn't actually support the code you w
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by elevader 5y ago
"use subdirectories" is probably the most handwavey answer possible, aside from maybe "just put it somewhere, lol". I feel like the standard could provide some sort of guidance on how to name folders or something.
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by elevader 5y ago
But how does the NFT actually help with that? Couldn't developers/companies just create copies of that item/asset and sell them as often as they want to? If they want to sell assets/items exactly once nothing is stopping
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by elevader 5y ago
But creators aren't actually paid anything if the NFT is sold by somebody else, which seems to happen quite a lot (at least according to twitter).
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by elevader 5y ago
Of course, but they can't just copy&paste their favorite files from the linux kernel sources and call it FancyOs without releasing the sources to that. I think you got my point, I don't really see the benefit in arguing semant
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by elevader 5y ago
Sorry, that might have been a bad choice of words on my part (not a native speaker). I agree that this process would be simple and easy in an ideal world but we can't reasonably expect every developer to think about price structures fo

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