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I hoped to see a paragraph on hexadecimal notation (eg: 0xbeef), alas we'll have to settle for Stack Overflow's [1] wisdom on this: > Short story: the 0 tells the parser it's dealing with a constant (and not an identifier&
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Pretty much, the same way fractions carry over inches as decimals carry over the next power of ten, and as a developer I find powers of two more intuitive. Example: I mostly work with 3/4" thick material, which is a breeze to divi
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Disclaimer: I'm French, we use metric everywhere. I've picked up woodworking and imperial inch fractions are a much better mental model for simple math (doubling/halving/dividing lengths, centering things etc) than arbit
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For those who may be baffled at the result, it comes from parseInt accepting two arguments (string & radix), and map providing three per iteration (the value, index and whole array). The whole array is omitted, but the radix passed to p
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If you're a billionaire, maybe. For everyone else, the current climate trajectory doesn't bode well.
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Gary Bernhardt's hilarious predictions [1] are truly becoming closer to completion. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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High Performance with Node.js(nearform.com)
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A side effect of this technique is that the "obvious next step" to fix the broken code left over lives rent-free in my mind until I can come back to it. For some people, leaving things in a broken state when the solution is known
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If ever such a study is attempted, it should look into a correlation with vehicle mass, speed, and energy requirement from the operator.
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I'll raise you on the report and propose that scooters should report themselves when badly parked. Unless incentivised, nobody would report bad parking, or it could be abused and whatnot. Most of them already have a GPS system for flee
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+1 on this. Interestingly, I use a car sharing service which has fixed stations (cars have designated parking spaces where they're picked from, and you leave your car where you found it), and I find myself multimodalling (walk or cycle
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One major annoyance with these e-scooters is their "take it from anywhere, leave it anywhere" rental model. Sure, it's practical for the user, but it litters the pavement for everyone else with scooters badly parked, sometime
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We should also not divide people into Elon and non-Elon.
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> Other ideas include: do not index new packages before they've garnered enough downloads. Which would be trivial to automate.
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"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks" -- Jeff Hammerbacher
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I've owned an MK3 since 2018, since then some defects have started to appear (the LCD has a contrast blob at the center, and I cracked the X-axis stepper bracket), but nothing that prevents the printer doing its occasional job. I print
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Self made, but you can't be sure I'm not a large language model.
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Avoid listing every possible association, lest entity Paypal adapts logic evaluating perpetrators.
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Thanks, updated.
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0°F: cold, 100°F: warm 0°C: cold, 100°C: dead 0 K: dead, 100 K: dead
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If anyone from GitHub is reading, the docs page for testing SSH keys needs an update on the RSA key fingerprint: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith... (it would actually be best to update
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> You can migrate to a Free Team organization to a Personal account by opening a support ticket. No action will be taken against your account while your ticket is being processed. Support request sent, I wish there were more clear on wha
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> The worst part is how the public now thinks if you’re involved in software you must be a massive believer in cc/NFTs because they keep hearing about it so all techies must think it’s awesome, right!? This used to be the case about
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Should mention the year (2004). I knew Catmull as the co-author of the Catmull-Rom spline [1], didn't know he was a Pixar co-founder. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_Catmull%E2%80%93Ro...
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Even if we assume a proper protocol is in place (secrets remain in the HSM which is doing secure computation), the problem of trusting the hardware remains: how do we know a three letter agency isn't tampering with the HSM hardware ass
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> Do "secure keystores" just not exist? Probably not if we consider threat models evolving in the same userspace as where they're implemented (eg as cited: keyloggers and malicious native programs). HSMs may provide an ent
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Another footgun is that Curve25519 has a cofactor of 8, which may reveal some information about your private key if some high-order points are used [1]. Some curves (eg: Ristretto) were designed to alleviate this problem. [1] https:/&
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Adding a pre-hash is the overhead here, because of the internal hash. Granted, verifying only that hashes match for integrity would be cheaper than checking the signature. But since you need to to that anyway for authenticating the payload,
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Both ECDSA and EdDSA hash the message internally before signing. The only advantage of signing a pre-hash, other than convenience of computation (eg: if a streaming implementation of the internal pre-hash is not available) would be to allow
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> stronger digest algorithm for repository signing: We now use SHA256 instead of SHA1 for the index signature Neither SHA-1 nor SHA-256 are signing constructs, they are hash functions. They provide integrity, not authenticity. For this

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