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by emn13 4y ago
Why do you think he's wrong? He's essentially saying IT systems need to be designed with the expectation that cryptographic algorithms will be attacked and may need to be replaced, as I understand it.
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by emn13 4y ago
I think you're overstating the issues here; and it's necessary to take what you can get in hard-to-do comparisons like this. There are caveats: certainly. The Ryzen chip's TDP is configurable between 15W and 28W, which would
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by emn13 4y ago
I think option 1 is the worst, because it's not actually optional; it's required precisely when css selectors become complex. That the kind of gotcha that just makes everything harder to explain and read. I hope the proposal fail
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by emn13 4y ago
To play devil's advocate: there's a case to be made that reverse nesting is precisely the the _most reasaonable_ case for nesting, and that forward nesting is the one to be avoided. The problem with nesting is that it is seductive
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by emn13 4y ago
Regardless of the merits and feasibility of implicitness vs. explicitness, I seriously question whether it's ever a good idea to mix the two. That's just asking for confusion exactly in those cases where selectors are confusing al
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by emn13 4y ago
Stuff like that is, however, complex. Complexity breeds both slowness, expense to implement, and security risks (at the very least DoS risks). It may also require a pretty significant rearchitecture of existing css parsers, which will hin
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by emn13 4y ago
It's not just about family; it's about friends too, and perhaps the periphery of extended family. Losing contact is a price. Is it worth paying? That'll vary from person to person, but my personal experience with this was tha
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by emn13 4y ago
Perhaps this is an unconstructive aside, but it's a pet peeve of mine how often we present this kind of thought experiments in a way that pretends it's just the unwashed masses that are vulnerable to whatever manipulation is being
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by emn13 4y ago
Clearly twitter is in the wrong here. But making a fundamentalist point about every minor issue you encounter isn't ideal either. I think it's entirely reasonable to expect people to pick their battles, rather than expect the who
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by emn13 4y ago
I did this for years. I regret it. It's overly simplistic to think this works well. The devil is in the details; and being a decent human being also means adapting to other's wishes, needs and habits. Being a small-scale dictator
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by emn13 4y ago
Part of the issue here is that we regard (not just legally, but even in how we talk) corporations as people. Or perhaps that we try to use the same rules for small-scale "ownership" as for vast almost monopolistic levels of contr
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by emn13 4y ago
Is that distinction really helpful? The App Store has _rules_ some of which relate to user privacy, and some of which are in a grey area, and some of which don't relate to user privacy. Is needing to use Apple's payment provider
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by emn13 4y ago
That pattern may be reasonable for "Are you sure" kind of requests for actions that the user explicitly wanted - because then there really is a sane default; we expect the user didn't click on some button by accident. But it
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by emn13 4y ago
It strikes me as hard to be believe it's that much - surely Apple does not pay 5% in CC fees. They _must_ have managed a better deal than that...
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by emn13 4y ago
The linked article lists a bunch of those. Most of that bullet-point list of required or conversely prohibited behaviors apply to Apple. And all of those are justified only by self-interest. Incidentally, that doesn't mean the alternat
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by emn13 4y ago
It would indeed be bad if the requirement were to scream YOLO and allow all apps to always access potentially privacy eroding features like NFC. But surely the proposal isn't that - is it? If it's merely that the OS be required
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by emn13 4y ago
Yeah, I'm lumping them together because that's the way they're talked about in the media and I'm not knowledgeable enough to know off the top of my head what the exact distribution of which pollutant is. And I'm al
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by emn13 4y ago
Random guesswork trivia: it's probably not a relevant greenhouse gas because it's so soluble; it just rains to the ground? Because it does have the structure and absorption spectrum that otherwise might make it a greenhouse gas:
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by emn13 4y ago
Let's not quite overlook the fact that the farmer's actively lobbied to be ignored for years. They knew these rules were coming, and worked to shield their business from environmental rules. This isn't some sudden surprise;
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by emn13 4y ago
This story about the nature reserves plays well in Dutch media, which isn't surprising as it supports the national pride at being particularly diligent. However, it's a little misleading; the Netherlands is dealing with what look
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by emn13 4y ago
To read this charitably, interpret that statement not to mean that kubernetes-the-software itself is the best gift to OSS collaboration ever, but rather that Kubernetes-the-project "brought open-source collaboration to a new level&quot
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by emn13 4y ago
No it doesn't; it comes from _my_ judgement. The fact that you actually use those items and appreciate hiding the other ones behind an extra click is fine, but it's purely a usability regression for me. If I could exactly revers
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by emn13 4y ago
In my experience so far, I _exclusively_ use the options in the new submenu. It's purely a usability regression so far. You can make the case for a new API to avoid orphaning, and for greater traceability - and also, hopefully, for be
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by emn13 4y ago
It's possible to unclutter the normal menu, and the nested menu always requires extra clicks, and additionally - all the options I ever use are always in that new submenu. The whole argument is bogus anyhow - if win11 wanted to avoid o
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by emn13 4y ago
I live near a mixed use cycle+pedestrian underpass under a railroad that has curves into and out of it. It's mildy terrifying in a way that's surely by design. I don't know how safe it actually is, but it _is_ used very heav
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by emn13 4y ago
I'm not sure there's a "they" here; IIRC this is and always has been one man project by Igor Pavlov, who incidentally didn't just write the software, but also created the LZMA algorithm which has had an absurdly lon
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by emn13 4y ago
Add to that the corporate tax cuts a few years ago which are of a similar scale (though harder to account for), and didn't even have the excuse of pandemic to support it. I do think that there's a bit much teeth gnashing and blame
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by emn13 4y ago
The difference likely is that they didn't do what these people did - try to use some package from scratch. It's much easier to take a sample and extend it, especially if you can join a team and hop onto their running, fully-fledg
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by emn13 4y ago
But picking the right abstractions that aren't leaky in any of the aspects you really care about is critical, hard to measure (leakiness isn't obvious, nor what kind of aspects you care about), hard to get right, and hard to maint
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by emn13 4y ago
Yeah. And it goes beyond solution-in-search-of-problem; money clearly makes things worse here. Finding great solutions might sometimes need thinking outside of the box; I can see solutions in search of problems as being that kind of long s

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