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by gregmac 4y ago
Many of these have a `TryParse` method [1] which makes for nice syntax, and of course then you get a variable of the correct type. if (int.TryParse(userInput, out var number)) { total += number; } This is cleaner co
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by gregmac 4y ago
Does anyone know of (or work on) an app still doing user-agent sniffing to determine browser features (as in, the sniffing code has been touched in the last ~decade)? If so, why do it that way?
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by gregmac 4y ago
My office (near Toronto) was up for lease renewal about 1.5 years ago. Pre-pandemic about 50% of people were working from home at least some of the time, and by 2021 there were maybe 2-3 people in the office regularly (in a space that could
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by gregmac 4y ago
I also transitioned to bitwarden about 18 months ago, but I haven't deleted my lastpass account yet. I've used LastPass for password history once, and a couple times for notes (which don't get exported). Now I want to delete
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by gregmac 4y ago
> it cannot be read by exploiting a buffer overflow What does the attack that does this actually look like? Lastpass reads text off an html page and decides when to inject auto-fill prompts and/or enter in a password. Is it possible
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by gregmac 4y ago
Absolutely. I've bought several things specifically because they use esp32 and I can flash Tasmota or EspHome on them. In fact it's a far bigger factor than price.
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by gregmac 4y ago
Does anyone buying an "exclusive" copy actually believe they're getting that? The pricing is also interesting from another angle, if we take them at their word ("5 copies" vs "exclusive"): why accept 25% l
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by gregmac 4y ago
I see a few things that might be worth adding, as some were explicitly why I switched from LastPass a few years ago: * Security model. What is stored server-side unencrypted? In what circumstances is the server-side encrypted data available
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by gregmac 4y ago
What's described here is not a website; it's not even HTML (it's "HXML" [1] ) Ignoring that, and addressing your question: there are several things apps can do that websites can't, even if the app is really jus
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by gregmac 4y ago
It's possible to silently do this as part of logging in. I've done this with normal login for several (legacy) systems I've worked on, migrating users from md5 or sha1 to better algorithms.
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by gregmac 4y ago
> at least on the App Store and Google Play you can't verify that the open source code is what's shipped Is there a reason Google and Apple couldn't change their deploy flow to pull from a git repository? As in: 1. Develop
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by gregmac 4y ago
When I've heard people making similar claims, what I've usually found is they're testing "glue" code: controllers, routers, etc. Personally I find this a near total waste of time: it's hard to write the tests,
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by gregmac 4y ago
You can pretty much say the exact same thing about stealing someone's wallet or purse. There's a lot of travel advice to the effect of "don't keep everything in one place". A phone is no different. A phone at least
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by gregmac 4y ago
There is a spec (RFC 4180 [1]) but it's definitely not widely followed. Worse, for a lot of data there's no problems for potentially years , until your numbers get too big or the first time a quote or comma gets in the data. In m
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by gregmac 4y ago
What the GP is talking about is not letting developers install stuff on their PC. I assume this is also "run unknown exe" because.. well I can't see any reason local root could hurt the network in a way my user account couldn
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by gregmac 4y ago
I wonder how this type of question even gets written. Does the author purposely put in these "gotcha" questions to see if you read the textbook? Or are they literally unaware of how bad the question is written - ie: their knowledg
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by gregmac 4y ago
I actually don't think I've ever seen that one in the wild! I've seen 7-Dec-2022 which looks goofy to me but is at least unambiguous. What does a full timestamp look like? For consistency I hope it goes all-in on being little
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by gregmac 4y ago
> it requires a development team to realise that just because they're good at programming computers it doesn't mean they're good at administering them. Yes, it sucks that you're not allowed to install bonzibuddy.exe f
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by gregmac 4y ago
"This date format works for almost 61% of the year" isn't a great selling point.
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by gregmac 4y ago
> Apparently some folks, like the people running ccTLD registries, believe that allowing the public to know IP addresses for large numbers of domains is a "security" issue. There's some merit to this. Doing the reverse l
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by gregmac 4y ago
Another big difference is the way we consume. "Watching TV" used to mean watching whatever was on in the current timeslot, which often meant flipping through channels until you found the least-bad thing you could tolerate. In the
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by gregmac 4y ago
FWIW I used to use software (Speedfan, and later something else I don't remember), but after upgrading to Noctua fans, I found whatever is built-in to the motherboard works just fine and gave up on the complication of software. I'
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by gregmac 4y ago
Do we need to have a single letter? Is it acceptable to combine prefixes? Eg: 1 QB (quettabyte) == 1,000,000 YB (yottabytes) == 1 MYB (mega-yottabyte) Without the new prefixes, we could have gone to 1 YYB (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
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by gregmac 4y ago
I agree with the other comments about it often being a hint to break apart a method, but there's still valid reasons to reassign. I'd rather focus my energy on adding unit testing, and refactoring to be testable. If you have easy-
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by gregmac 4y ago
> A problem I have at my current place is that the dev team in my opinion is far too happy to add new features whenever they're requested. > And you might argue, "well why don't you abstract more". A place I work w
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by gregmac 4y ago
> When you're starting those "replace X system" projects, what you're not anticipating is that half of those projects fail: they're either end up taking way longer than planned, or they don't get finished at
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by gregmac 4y ago
I have the same reaction. Sometimes there's multiple problems that can all be solved at once, and it is like a force multiplier. Often it's from what you could call "outside the box" thinking, where you maybe take a tota
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Arduino unveils the Opta – “Micro PLC” for industrial IoT(hackster.io)
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by gregmac 4y ago
The problem is your comparisons are off. It's like the $3k MacBook pro has worse performance than the $500 generic, the $20k car is a better drive, or the $10 meal is better food than the fine dining. Sure, the aesthetic and convenie
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by gregmac 4y ago
A lot of managers were well-performing ICs that got a promotion, either because a manager position needed to be filled (and they were the least bad option) or they needed to be promoted to keep them (which in some cases is the only way to g

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