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by gvx 9y ago
Note that the submission is not about IPFS itself ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System ), but about Decentralized Cloud, which is a project that is built on top of IPSF.
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by gvx 9y ago
I'm on Fx 56.0.1, but I already enabled the date/time functionality in about:config (key: dom.forms.datetime). I think you can enable the time picker by toggling dom.forms.datetime.timepicker on. It's on for me, but it isn&#x
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by gvx 9y ago
And experts have been calling for a long time to at least limit the power of witness testimony, precisely for those reasons.
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by gvx 9y ago
I agree it's not a perfect metaphor. I do think Xanadu is an extreme case of The Right Thing style of thinking, even if Xanadu would never have actually been Right: the creator still thought of it that way, and IMO that is one of the c
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by gvx 9y ago
I've always found it interesting how Xanadu was basically The Right Thing to WWW's Worse Is Better. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better )
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by gvx 9y ago
We don't really have those folk intuitions. That is just our cultural baggage. No form of property is universal. No form of intellectual property existed until the 17th century, and it took until the 20th century before it IP worked th
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by gvx 9y ago
This is basically UUIDv4, encoded with a url-safe variant of base64 (except UUIDv4 reserves a few bits for saying "this is a UUID, specifically version 4").
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by gvx 9y ago
The parent didn't call you a concern troll, though. They said "this is some top-level concern trolling". Criticizing behaviour is not the same thing as name calling or personal swipes.
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by gvx 9y ago
Assuming the internet has been growing exponentially since the beginning and will continue to do so indefinitely. IPv4 has 32 bits and lasted us 34 years so far. Let's call it 32 years. Address space would need a nice and tidy 1 bit ex
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by gvx 9y ago
It should always be possible to upgrade a patch level. How else would you get security updates?
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by gvx 9y ago
I think namedtuple is a terrible hack that never should have been (at least not this way), but changing it is going to be a PITA.
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by gvx 9y ago
Namedtuple is used a lot in the standard library to return struct-like results which used to be returned as an actual tuple, so making them non-indexable would break a lot of code, some of which was written before namedtuple even existed.
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by gvx 9y ago
Note that it's not just write vs read, it's write vs read + branch.
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by gvx 9y ago
`is` is also useful for things like detecting cycles for walking object graphs. But I'd estimate 99% of the times I've used `is` was for comparisons to `None`, and 90% of the rest of times for comparisons to other sentinel values.
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by gvx 9y ago
Except when that value is NaN.
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by gvx 9y ago
It's more that a lot of people really don't care one way or another, and will neither go out of their way to opt-in or opt-out. Additionally, it's not that Mozilla just disregards user privacy here: differential privacy bei
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by gvx 9y ago
> Currently we can collect this data when the user opts in, but we don't have a way to collect unbiased data, without explicit consent (opt-out). That to me suggests the problem isn't that too many people are opting-out, it&#x
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by gvx 9y ago
I'm sure there's a law that no matter how carefully you proofread something, you'll find at least one typo the first time you read it after it's been published.
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by gvx 9y ago
That is certainly one definition and use case of heuristics. Another example might be the travelling salesman problem, where we know how to calculate the exact solution for every instance, but it is prohibitively expensive (unless P=NP). Th
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by gvx 9y ago
A heuristic is always an algorithm. What's important is what is it a heuristic for and what is it an algorithm for (by which I mean: what function does it approximate and compute, respectively). If algorithm A is a heuristic for f(
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by gvx 9y ago
AFAIK, they don't use Google's software updates, because they have their own "distribution" that's mostly the same but slightly different from the vanilla Android version, so they need to merge those changes and tes
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by gvx 9y ago
It looks very nice. By the way, why didn't you make a landing page for Appster with Appster?
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by gvx 9y ago
Exactly. Another way of looking at it: If we have a function f(x), we can have an algorithm that computes f(x). In fact, there are an infinite number of algorithms that compute f(x). But there are also an infinite number of algorithms that
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by gvx 9y ago
I think they meant "count down to moment X, when something special is scheduled to take place" rather than "count down from 100".
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by gvx 9y ago
> $ node > [] + {} '[object Object]' > {} + [] 0 Note that that has nothing to do with math. It has to do with braces being used for both blocks and object literals. Of course, I'm not too happy about the automatic c
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by gvx 9y ago
So this is something I found interesting: The number of rules is listed in the TFA as O(sqrt(n)/log(sqrt(n)), which is the same as O(sqrt(n)/log(n)), and slightly better than O(sqrt(n)), which is the number of rules needed if you
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by gvx 9y ago
I don't know if CSS is Turing complete already, but I'm pretty sure it would have to be if it allowed you to implement something like that...
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by gvx 9y ago
Since downloading the file has side effects, I assume Mozilla would require the user to push a button that initiates a POST request. And I don't think any modern email service would initiate a POST request, because that would be a mass
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by gvx 9y ago
I don't think that's true. The scenario you presents requires the user to already be compromised by the attacker. What does it matter if they use a password manager or remember and type their passwords manually, if the attacker ha
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by gvx 9y ago
It was intended as an innocent tongue-in-cheek joke, not to insult or vandalise. In that, I've failed completely. I can see that now. I'm closing the pull request with an apology.

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