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by hrjet 12y ago
Sorry to hear about your bug hunt ordeal. I have had a similar bed-bug problem once; albeit on a smaller scale. Catching them turned out to be simple in my case. Hopefully this will be useful to someone: I used a mosquito net which tied on
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by hrjet 12y ago
Adding to that: In Android Lollipop, One can't edit / delete local (phone-stored) contacts. They have to be synced to cloud in order to edit / delete them. If this is intentional, it is a sick dark UI pattern.
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by hrjet 12y ago
This raises two interesting questions to me: 1. Are technological advances required for re-living experiences? Wouldn't (some forms of) meditation achieve similar results? Personally, I have found myself remembering many past events, a
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by hrjet 12y ago
Thanks for the answer. I am really not familiar with the mathematics of hash algorithms and I ask just to learn. Why is length essentially a weak hash? Isn't it an additional constraint that works orthogonal to the hash? It serves to r
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by hrjet 12y ago
Genome by Matt Ridley.
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by hrjet 12y ago
One possibility for a gradual approach: sites which have both HTTP and HTTPS servers, are marked insecure when user browses to the HTTP version. The knowledge about the presence of both HTTP and HTTPS can be hard-coded for popular websites*
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by hrjet 12y ago
I perhaps used the wrong term. I meant straight-up collision with a modified length. The known MD5 collision attack needs to modify the length of the message; finding a collision with the same length is extremely difficult. It would be reas
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by hrjet 12y ago
This is very interesting; thanks! I am not very familiar with hashing algorithms, but why isn't the length of the content specified in the `integrity` attribute? Wouldn't it help avoid length extension attacks?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Oh, thanks! I didn't know about it. But it is still very difficult to know which fork is more active. For example, see this: https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/network/members
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by hrjet 12y ago
Another common non-browser example: `curl`
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by hrjet 12y ago
A part of the problem is that GitHub makes it difficult to find forks. If a project is not being maintained in the original repository, and somebody else is maintaining it, it should be made easier to discover those other forks. Right now,
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by hrjet 12y ago
One more called cdiff: https://github.com/ymattw/cdiff (works with repositories; not a general diff replacement.)
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by hrjet 12y ago
I have blogged about an alternative [here](1). The summary is: ask them to contribute to any open-source project of their choice. Win-win for all, IMO. (1) : http://lavadip.com/3948_opensource_hiring_and_lowhangingfruit.h
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by hrjet 12y ago
While I think this is an ideal approach for selection, how does it work out in practice? How will the candidate find the time to do all that while they are (most likely) employed somewhere else, and are trying other options too?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Did you mean the browser code itself? We are actually trying to do that in gngr[1]. (1) https://gngr.info
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by hrjet 12y ago
Yeah, I have noticed it improves compression on many of my photos. Why isn't it the default? It probably takes more time / memory to decode.
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by hrjet 12y ago
The image classification yes, but if the questions are worded intricately, then it might still be a challenge for bots.
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by hrjet 12y ago
1. Java apps are inherently portable, and there is atleast one mobile platform that supports it. We don't have it immediately on the roadmap since our current focus is on the desktop version. 2. Needs more thought from my side, but my
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by hrjet 12y ago
> Heck, pick a more easily optimizable language than javascript as the default scripting language, have built in GPG so we can throw away passwords, force HTTPS everywhere, use a non-centralized dns like namecoin - why not just go all th
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by hrjet 12y ago
> As far as I'm aware the security record of that platform isn't exactly stellar as well and especially older versions are widely reported to be vulnerable to exploits (admittedly usually using applets as a vector here). Yes, h
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Gngr – A new browser championing privacy(gngr.info)
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by hrjet 12y ago
I must say, it does help. Just today I was creating a simple web-page (with my developer-designer chops) and remembered the complaints that people have about contrast. I went back and tuned the colors to make them readable as much as possib
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by hrjet 12y ago
But you don't know what advances would happen in 40,000 years, that too on another solar system. Maybe alien kids would be playing in their back-yard beside their Oort cloud equivalent and might check out Voyager just for fun.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Even today, the celestial co-ordinates we use are based on references to the positions of extra-galactic radio sources. See for example ICRF (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Celestial_Refere...
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by hrjet 12y ago
And then, there are carnivorous plants too.
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by hrjet 12y ago
It's a bit of a catch 22 situation though: if mega-corps did contribute large amounts to the project, there would be suspicions raised that they are "influencing" the project. There is often an expression of disappointment wh
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by hrjet 12y ago
Thanks, but now I wonder. Mass is different from Weight (absolute and relative respectively). Are we comparing apples and oranges here?
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by hrjet 12y ago
> It's good to ask to learn. In that spirit, I have a question. How heavy are the solar panels? If their weight is comparable to 40kg then it makes RTG more attractive.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Nice. Why do you say "nearly", what is the missing piece then?
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by hrjet 12y ago
That is a good distinction to make. But then, you need to consider other factors as well. How powerful is the API, how honest is the API (doesn't hide internal gimmicks), how consistent is the API across the lib, and how DRY it is (to

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