ivanhoe

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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Ideally browsers would have an API to handle GDPR requests natively, the way they do for hardware access, and users would be able to set the default level of access, as well as lists of exceptions for some domains. Of course, Google will ne
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Just a note for a younger generations that Flash (re-branded by Macromedia as Shockwave Flash) and Macromedia Shockwave were actually two different products - Shockwave being a more advanced multimedia platform inspired by Flash, which was
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
SS7 protocol is still vulnerable even though it's known since at least 2014 that it can be used (and has been in wild) for man-in-the-middle attacks. And we're talking of one of the core protocols of every cellular network in the
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
What to you describe quickly grows into full-blown recommendation engine. And IMHO the beauty of the old-school chronological/category organization over the recommendation engines is that it's super simple and predictable, making
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
More realistic threat scenario is that script-kiddies and actual terrorists might start using AI for building ad-hoc hacking tools cheaply, and in theory that could lead to some dangerous situations - but for now AIs are still not capable o
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
>For example, connecting a LLM to the internet (like, say, OpenAssistant) when the AI knows how to write code (i.e. viruses) and at least in principle hack basic systems seems like a terrible idea. Sounds very cyber-punk, but in reality
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Any recommendation on the time-series DB to try?
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
As someone who grew up in a country where hundreds of millions of $$$ were stolen from the people by the government officials, and than transported illegally out of the country - I can tell you you're very naive about how openly these
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Erlang and Haskell were never really the mainstream so not much changed for them, but Perl was "the language" at one point in time. It was everywhere, and now it's basically in the same box as Cobol - people who use it are 99
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> This tells me that you have never learned a foreign language to a high level of proficiency, and that you know very little about art. Well, I've obviously learned English well enough to fool you :P Anyways, I might have misunderst
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
IQ by official definition measures reasoning and problem solving capacity in people. In some domains (science, engineering) it's a crucial factor for success, while in some like learning a foreign language or music or art it's not
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> I've always seen IQ as a predictor for how fast you can learn material and make connections. This is what we call being talented for something, it's not necessarily related to the one's IQ.
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Not necessarily the true passion for the particular subject, as much as being highly motivated to pass it. I know some folks who were absolutely average IQ and not truly passionate about anything Uni related (except the idea of finishing it
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
It's not about looking cool, it's about not all of us leaving in the same part of the world. Living in the center of Belgrade, Serbia like I do means I have to deal with many potholes, obstacles and generally badly maintained road
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
It will if the air is moving sufficiently fast over it, e.g in combination with the fan cooler. Or you can have a bucket with a mix of water, ice and salt, and point the fan to blow over it (we did this in army and it actually works fine as
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Potentially stupid question: Why all these modern mini cars have to have these super tiny wheels? What I loved most about my old Fiat Panda was that while it was small, it could easily go up over any pavement and with its 4wd drive it could
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Absolutely, there's always a moral to a story in any well-known children book. As for trusting the old, well-tested stories more, I agree, we all grew up on them, but they also hold a darker side as many of the classics also hide a lot
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
I've been looking into nim lately (just for fun with the Advent of Code problems) and it looks fantastic. I plan to allocate more time to it in future definitely.
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
If you have int(percent * 10) + 1 you can just generate that many blue circles (checking for the edge-case of zero, or even better using ceil instead of int), the rest white and return it - no need for manually crafting the array (since the
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Certainly better than in my country where you need to have a windows machine w/ a card reader to use the certificate from the ID card to login.
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
There's a lot of math & physics subjects that I formally learned and passed exams at Uni, but frankly never really fully understood them. I've found clarifications on many of these subjects later on web, in exactly these types
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Does it know any new tricks that lynx can't do?
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> seeing crypto on a resume means the engineer is a true believer in viability of crypto, So if I previously worked on windows apps it means I believe that Microsoft is a fantastic company and Windows is the future of computing? :)
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
IMHO you should never store the data itself in the url, only the params that you use to fetch the data. So if the page is the list of the latest 10 posts in a category, you'll store the category in the url and the sorting criteria, not
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Excellent idea for those apps that need that type of protection. For many apps however ability to manually edit the link to get to the different state is actually a free bonus feature. I've built a CRM/Cases management app for the
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
I don't do one function one class mantra, but I absolutely need the separate controllers to group methods because each set of them does different things and returns different data. If in my 20+ years of web dev I learned one thing, it&
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Let's not turn it into penis measuring contents, please. Code organization and requirements differ significantly between different programming niches, and the today's accepted practices are not some randomly invented caprices, but
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Because often you don't know what to grep for, or search is too general and returns lots of irrelevant results, or perhaps you're just in process of onboaring on the new project and you want just to browse the code and follow diff
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
As weird as it sounds, but even when performance is not a deal breaker for individual users, on high-traffic sites the sum of all energy wasted on unnecessary/unoptimized computations can become so large that it becomes an actual ecolo
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> tbh there is no particular issue with filtering content coming from totalitarian enemies interested in destroying you. Both sides were very much interested in destroying each other (and worked actively on that), but problem is that whe

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