erkl

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by erkl 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
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by erkl 8y ago
QUIC operates on top of UDP, which would make it layer 5.
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by erkl 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by erkl 11y ago
I agree, but in this case we're not talking about reasonable false positives (e.g. toast burning or candles being blown out). I wouldn't put up with a £10 smoke detector waking me up in the middle of the night for no discernible r
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by erkl 11y ago
First off, thanks for the reply. I have to say it feels a bit weird to deduct points (so to speak) from a highly regarded cryptographic hash function because it doesn't outright prevent one particular, broken MAC generation scheme, but
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by erkl 11y ago
Unless you know something about SHA-512 that I don't, calling it less secure than SHA-512/256 seems like a mistake.
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by erkl 11y ago
Now, I'm not sure this is useful at all, but I think it would make sense for the value of an if-expression to be Option<T>.
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by erkl 12y ago
> An unknown address family will return a '0'. In this particular case, returning 0 doesn't necessarily indicate failure. Binding a socket to port 0 means you're asking the operating system to pick an available port f
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by erkl 12y ago
This throws an error: typeof x; // throws an error let x = 1; This doesn't: typeof x; // returns "undefined" var x = 1; While using variables before declaring them is bad practice
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by erkl 13y ago
If a publicly distributed first-hand account by the person in question isn't "solid proof," what exactly are you looking for? What reason do you have to think she's being anything less than truthful?
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by erkl 13y ago
Packages in the Go standard library are no different from user packages – they're just included in the Go distribution. If you find the need to modify anything in net/http (to fix a bug, add low-level hooks, etc), just copy it int
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by erkl 14y ago
I would definitely be interested in this.