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by geocar 5y ago
That doesn’t answer my question at all, unless you mean that people make bad engineering decisions because they like using cute things. dig is not affected by alpine’s decision here because dig does not use gethostbybame. No DNS client woul
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by geocar 5y ago
If someone on my team had built an application and put 100 hosts into a DNS server, I would suggest they upload their hosts file to a webserver someplace. 100 hosts just doesn't do anything useful with most applications using gethostby
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by geocar 5y ago
The smartcard is an ID card.
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by geocar 5y ago
I believe id.me is a corporation that sells your personal data, and the identity-holder doesn't benefit from id.me selling their data. Their privacy policy makes mention of list-scrubbing services and marketing uses of data, and other
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by geocar 5y ago
> I have yet to encounter any real solution to this problem that allows someone to prove they are who they say they are I think the solution is third-party attestation. The government can offer an identity service - it doesn't need
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by geocar 5y ago
Sure. Let's say Apple users gobble it up. Apple's shareholders won't. They'll want to know where their 10bn (ish) USD went that Apple currently gets from Google. Is Apple going to increase their device sales substantiall
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by geocar 5y ago
Here are just a few of the things you aren’t considering: * how many people worldwide keep their google places information up-to-date and not their local government office or their website. * how advertisers can get value for their search a
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by geocar 5y ago
I think a lot of people overestimate how easy it is to make a search engine, and underestimate how hard it is to sell search to advertisers. I think this is closer to a 50B problem than a 1B problem. Not impossible, but I don’t know anyone
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by geocar 5y ago
> Are you able to hum a song you've heard before? If so, I think that could potentially require a kind of ability to represent the song in your mind If I pay attention I can tell that a sound is higher or lower than another. I can a
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by geocar 5y ago
> If so, you've never listened to a song and later had some sort of experience where something about that song stayed remnant in your mind? With listening? Never. I can remember the lyrics of songs, and I can remember (sometimes) th
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by geocar 5y ago
> Isn't this exactly what an internal monologue is? Lack of internal monologue would be someone who thinks only abstractly or visually, without any words. I don't know. It's like reading though. I definitely don't h
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by geocar 5y ago
I participated in the Prosopagnosia study at Imperial a few years ago. I also don't hear any internal monologue; When I think, I think in words, and it is very similar to reading. I think I can imagine sounds in my head, but it is a
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by geocar 5y ago
> IP ranges have owners and if an address is consistently used for abuse (attacks, spam email, ...) IP ranges have registrants. Servers usually are assigned IP addresses temporarily by the registrant, or by someone the registrant has ass
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by geocar 5y ago
Yes. Email has a "from" address that the SMTP protocol (the thing that often carries emails) that is separate from the IP address of the sending server, the exact same way "CALLER-ID" is a separate field from the billing
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by geocar 5y ago
> until there is a human set threshold hit by a human programmed algorithm. Humans at Apple thought nobody would have percent signs in their wifi names. Programming is hard, not because knowing how to tell the computer what you want is h
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by geocar 5y ago
The NCEMC was created by a child abuser[1] and his victim whom he groomed, and they asked Apple to send them pictures of suspected abuse. Pictures they can’t use as evidence, or use to “discover” evidence due to fourth-amendment protections
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by geocar 5y ago
Do you have any documentation on that? The benchmarks on their website[1] compare it running on a 4 x 3.20GHz with hardware AES-N instructions, against an in-kernel implementation of a different cryptosystem running on a 2.7GHz cpu that doe
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by geocar 5y ago
You sell ads. That's where your money comes from. Even if your internals were indeed "some of the most robust software" ever , your users didn't see the internals, they just saw the ads. Even if you were (are) one of th
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by geocar 5y ago
> it can just be building a minimal chess quickly using methods/frameworks that are not easily extensible to future requirements related to chess. You should not build something you do not need if you know it is wrong and you will n
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by geocar 5y ago
> "Technical debt is the burden that implementation choices may place on future development." > With regard to its coherence, I say that it is empirically verified: it actually happens! Something happens, on this we can ag
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by geocar 5y ago
It is hard to speak about the exploits we don’t know about, but for the ones we do: There are vastly more exploits on Android, evidenced by for no other reason than because handset manufacturers refuse to upgrade.
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by geocar 5y ago
> I think this is sarcasm Yes. Maybe satire as well. It’s hard to tell because most comments about rust’s Memory Safety are utter gibberish as well. > no compiler can make guarantees about the behaviour of a different computer. Honest
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by geocar 5y ago
> fortunately the programmer does and they can use Rust's type safety to reduce the opportunity for foot guns. And what, they just didn’t? This is an ordering bug. You could encode that into types perhaps, but I do not think that wo
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by geocar 5y ago
Wait wait wait. Are you telling me that writing this code in rust created bugs that weren’t in the C implementation? I thought Rust was supposed to eliminate Memory errors and “foot guns” and other programming mistakes idiots make.
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by geocar 5y ago
> Isn't the order of operations important when talking to I/O? Sometimes, yes. It’s hard to tell if this is one of those times without a closer look at the documentation or at least some experimentation, but because “Rust is Me
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by geocar 5y ago
> If I make software I can see that if I hacked a giant crap of code together that I would want to clean it up before releasing it to public and save my self the embarrassment knowing I could do it better. I think hardware is the same wa
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by geocar 5y ago
He was also the multi-millionaire son of a multi-millionaire at this point. I think if that's you, then maybe his advice will help you, but if it's not you, it will probably just be confusing.
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by geocar 5y ago
When programmers get tired, some take a break, but others write more code than they need to because they can no longer think clearly. You're right that Bill writes code like that, but I don't think this is something young programm
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by geocar 5y ago
No. I mean, I have used sqlite with dbmail (not a web app) in this way sometime late 2000s, but if you're just going to load the table into memory anyway, you might as well skip the SQL and just record the data. For example, I did a
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by geocar 5y ago
Yes. I even go so far as to embed the database in my applications. In general, this is implemented as two main flows: - Data collected from "the edge": Web servers that serve ads, or receive form fill-outs for lead generation, t

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