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331.
by gpvos 1y ago
That would make the calculations more complicated and a little slower. Now you can do a few quick bit shifts. This was more of an issue back in the '90s when UTF-8 was designed and computers were slower.
332.
by gpvos 1y ago
I doubt you can interpret the rules better than the combined postal services of Europe and their legal departments, and so should you.
333.
by gpvos 1y ago
It's a company, not a person.
334.
by gpvos 1y ago
A company losing money is way less bad than a mugging.
335.
by gpvos 1y ago
He could prevent logins of other people. That means a rather high level of access.
336.
by gpvos 1y ago
One incident like this is not a huge problem, but it sets a terrible precedent that could turn Wikipedia into the same sludge as the rest of the internet. Best to nip this kind of thing in the bud.
337.
by gpvos 1y ago
CD = Certificate of deposit, a bank account in the United States with a fixed maturity date. (I assume.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_deposit
338.
by gpvos 1y ago
In the 1990s, with the processing power of the time, /o was a reasonable compromise. The language later evolved to do the smart thing you describe, but you can't just remove features. A warning would be in order though.
339.
by gpvos 1y ago
The implications of "statically allocated" are less clear than if you'd just write "compiled only once".
340.
by gpvos 1y ago
It's a feature dating from the 1990s, when Perl (and I guess Ruby?) didn't have a way for the user to store a compiled regex, and this was a useful shortcut for a very specific optimization, which Ruby documented badly. Perl (and
341.
by gpvos 1y ago
Note that vim is not POSIX-compliant, as it has no open mode. Open mode is a kind of single-line visual mode. I actually used it quite a bit over a 1200-baud modem line.
342.
by gpvos 1y ago
I wouldn't mind if Google et al. went bankrupt. Only Youtube would be somewhat of a loss.
343.
by gpvos 1y ago
Ubuntu.
344.
by gpvos 1y ago
> you want to display the time in the local time of the restaurant Many European railway timetable amd booking websites fall foul of this.
345.
by gpvos 1y ago
Neither does big business, so you have to take your chances anyway (or make the extra effort to do it yourself, which just isn't worth it for many).
346.
by gpvos 1y ago
Not yet obviously, they just started. 1.1.1.1 started with 0 users too.
347.
by gpvos 1y ago
No, Github is squarely to blame; the permission system is too detailed for most people to use, and there is no good explanation of what each permission means in practice.
348.
by gpvos 1y ago
I did't have to. I don't know what you saw, but you can probably click it away.
349.
by gpvos 1y ago
Except most are compressed or contain binary streams. You can transform any PDF into an equivalent ASCII PDF though, e.g. using qpdf.
350.
by gpvos 1y ago
Postscript fits that bill better.
351.
by gpvos 1y ago
Hmm, so for ESMTP it doesn't tell you the ciphersuite but otherwise it does.
352.
by gpvos 1y ago
Does Gmail support receiving unencrypted SMTP? And can you see whether encryption was used during transport?
353.
by gpvos 1y ago
How vague.
354.
by gpvos 1y ago
Sound like it's good enough for headers and footers, which is 80% of what people need.
355.
by gpvos 1y ago
> The results were all about obtaining an ETA and I picked a link that looked like the official UK government site. It was not; [...] If you want an official website, always follow the link to the Wikipedia article, and there click on
356.
by gpvos 1y ago
I expected this to be about data found in the memory dump of a crashed process. (And was surprised they would post about this at all, given privacy issues.)
357.
by gpvos 1y ago
Going against someone is not the same as rebutting, the quality of the argument counts.
358.
by gpvos 1y ago
But then, why is it one pixel above the baseline?
359.
by gpvos 2y ago
TFA says the astronomers checked for that. It's still a possibility, but pretty unlikely.
360.
by gpvos 2y ago
The most foolproof way to verify the results would be to have the client return all the 100 million values back to the server. This may be a bit much though, so alternatively, after submission, send a random selection of numbers in the rang

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