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by eurleif 5y ago
https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-your-own-bad-u...
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by eurleif 6y ago
Wouldn't that only help with the average case, not the worst case? Either you have multiple copies of every character (in which case you're still flipping through the same number of characters as the original stack), or some chara
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by eurleif 6y ago
Huh? SQLite is public domain.[0] There are paid extensions for encrypted and compressed databases[1], but those cost a flat fee for unlimited devices:[2] "Your license is perpetual. You have paid a one-time fee that allows you to use a
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by eurleif 6y ago
Is there any evidence that RYB is more than a historical mistake which our culture has been slow to grow out of? We know now that the correct subtractive primary colors are CMY. Your informal experiments with art students may speak more to
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by eurleif 6y ago
> Google: nullpointerexception -> 4.360.000 results > Google: undefined is not a function -> 800.000.000 results You didn't put quotation marks around the second, and the first has no spaces, so this is not a fai
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by eurleif 6y ago
>Also, since grand juries do not decide on guilt, there is no 5th amendment right to abstain from self incrimination. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that's not how the Fifth Amendment works. Wikipedia notes the Fifth Amendment righ
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by eurleif 7y ago
You didn't understand this sentence: "Simply buying a new cable does nothing to fix that because the springs are in the phone." With Lightning, the springs are in the phone. With USB-C, the springs are in the cable. Springs a
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by eurleif 7y ago
From what I've read, the primary goal was to cut it without thinning it very much, in order to pass the "bubble test". Consumers would test viscosity by observing how quickly the airbubble in the cartridge moved. Vitamin E
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by eurleif 7y ago
> no ability to store notes What? It can run custom programs. Of course it can store notes.
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by eurleif 7y ago
> At its core, bitcoin is just an extension of the old PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy encryption protocol. Grampa Simpson: "Oh, everything's stolen nowadays. Why, the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached!
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by eurleif 7y ago
FYI, a YubiKey (but not a lower-end Security Key by Yubico) supports OTP in addition to U2F. I have my GitHub account set up with U2F and OTP as the two 2FA options, both from my YubiKey. No SMS. This also works for pretty much any site tha
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by eurleif 8y ago
The precedent for regulating content on broadcast networks is based mainly on scarcity of radio spectrum; something that does not apply to the Internet. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasti
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by eurleif 8y ago
"Far less valuable" depends on whether access to your site is particularly valuable. If you hash passwords once on the client and twice on the server, your site itself is no more secure than if you only hashed passwords once on th
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by eurleif 8y ago
That defeats the purpose of hashing. In your model, the hashed password is all an attacker needs to log in, so the hashed password essentially IS the password. Thus, when you store hashed passwords, you are doing the equivalent of storing p
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by eurleif 8y ago
I'll bet you could get California to vote for a ballot measure banning all finite things with a little work.
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by eurleif 8y ago
Ok, and right now I'm "regulating" my fingers into typing a comment. Or maybe there's more to the word, particularly in context, than the shortest dictionary definition you were able to find.
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by eurleif 8y ago
My ISP is capable of determining the services it offers to me, its customer. Your ISP is capable of determining the services it offers to you, its customer. No ISP is capable of mandating behavior from third parties who haven't chosen
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by eurleif 8y ago
You're confused. ISPs aren't regulators. They're incapable of regulating anything.
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by eurleif 9y ago
>Although if birth-related mortality is rising while home births are dropping, doesn't that suggest there's something else going on? Huh, where do you see mortality rising? The link refers to a decrease: "Historical data s
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by eurleif 9y ago
>different depending on where they are imported and when Er, no. Their value depends on where in the callstack you read it, not on where/how they're imported. They're like global variables but with thread locality, and wit
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by eurleif 9y ago
>global variables for current request Not really global variables. I would analogize it to dynamic variables from Lisp, which are a feature I wish every language had. I strongly disagree it's a hack or gets in the way. Having access
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by eurleif 9y ago
No. Are you willfully ignoring the statistics? The death rate for low risk births is 320% higher. http://www.skepticalob.com/2014/01/homebirth-midwives-reveal...
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by eurleif 9y ago
Home birth is not safe. In the Netherlands, as elsewhere, it causes deaths: http://www.skepticalob.com/2010/07/netherlands-homebirth-and... And the majority of Dutch births are not home births. Due to the safety i
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by eurleif 9y ago
No, one wasn't safe. One was risky, but luckily happened to end all right. Just like driving drunk is unsafe even if you make it home in one piece. Safety is statistical, not anecdotal. Here are the statistics: http://www.sk
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by eurleif 9y ago
Which shows that a high infant mortality rate is insufficient to extinct a species, not that home birth is safe.
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by eurleif 9y ago
It sounds like you're referring to welfare cliffs. Practically the entire point of UBI is that there are no cliffs.
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by eurleif 11y ago
Absolutely, the primer has a lot of great info. :) I didn't mean to imply there's any competition between the two; just linking another resource.
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by eurleif 11y ago
This animated demo by Jason Davies makes the basics very easy to understand: https://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/
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by eurleif 11y ago
>It seems odd having to worry about that kind of thing. It seems odd having to worry about things that aren't Web apps? Why? Containers are also language-agnostic. .war files are only for JVM languages.
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by eurleif 11y ago
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

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