jarman

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by jarman 12y ago
Pascal's wager at least involves widely known and culturally influential concept. This is more like small kid drawing a bogeymen, being scared of it and throwing a tantrum
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by jarman 12y ago
It will be worse than that. Pixellation destroys information, it's not reversible in general. But in this case, what is left is enough for recovery, as source domain (check number) is small. Gaussian blur is theoretically lossless (rou
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by jarman 12y ago
Yes it is reversible for practical purposes. There is some data loss on edges, which will manifest as noise on recovered image.
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by jarman 12y ago
Internationality of bill comes from it's usefulness for savings. So 100$ is international, and 1$ is not
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by jarman 12y ago
New business model? Hyping and selling worthless junk to suckers is probably the oldest scheme. From magic trinkets and panaceas to 100500% guaranteed profit investments
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by jarman 12y ago
> to avoid the risk of unnecessary reputational damage to Goldman Sachs What horrible injustice, being known as failure in security for being failure in security. Poor Goldman Sachs.
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by jarman 12y ago
In case of UTF8, BOM isn't information at all, it's always the same 3 bytes (endianness mark is meaningless on byte-based encoding). And being added by default Windows plain text editor, it's fingerprinting usefulness is rath
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by jarman 12y ago
1) It can be done without shortening and obfuscating URL 2) Wouldn't call it link shortener, as redirector and target are in same administrative domain. 3) I doubt the possibility of meaningful automated fixing of arbitrary links, beyo
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by jarman 12y ago
+ pay for any damage caused by SWAT response + punishment for exploiting the state
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by jarman 12y ago
Saw it used as adjective and noun, with multiple meanings, akin to usage in english language. And I don't see much sense in '.сайт' too, but I don't see much of it in most new gTLDs.
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by jarman 12y ago
'pseudonymous' is pretty much opposite of this. Identity local to service, but not bound to anything beyond it's scope
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by jarman 12y ago
They are legitimate words. It's called loanword
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by jarman 13y ago
Brave new world castes where created by inducing birth defects, not avoiding them
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by jarman 13y ago
They might have static xml files on server and XSLT template engine to produce html
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by jarman 13y ago
eval("datePickerController.createDatePicker({ formElements: { \"" + $(this).attr('id') + "\" : \"%m/%d/%Y\" }})"); Why, just why.
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by jarman 13y ago
Does being overweight male with excessive facial and body hair, wearing nothing but underpants counts as black ICE?
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by jarman 13y ago
слишком толсто you are trolling badly
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by jarman 13y ago
Potential PR problems
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by jarman 14y ago
For one-off, transport xml it's not much more. It's proper escaping, declaration with character set and not using features you do not know how to use. First two are solved by using proper library, third - by common sense
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by jarman 14y ago
Because it's available everywhere, including shared hosting. IIRC it can be reconfigured to other storage mechanism
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by jarman 14y ago
All modems have setting where you can set up password.
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by jarman 14y ago
Difficulty obtaining meaningful transaction records. Transaction are public, but often obfuscated.
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by jarman 14y ago
Problem is not depriving users of control, problem is transfer owner's control to third party. So (in your example) it's not about giving train control to passengers, it's about train being controlled by transport company who bought it, not
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by jarman 15y ago
It's still in private beta
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by jarman 15y ago
There are perfectly good ways to provide this capability in a manner that has far fewer costs. Not really. It's either some specialized tools (throwing away all environment uniformity benefits) or another layer of indirection (display nam
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by jarman 15y ago
Spaces (parenthesis, semicolons, bangs etc) in file names are not subtle edge cases if you consider system as tool for reaching user's goals. Programs have to process file names with spaces not because kernel aesthetics, but because users w
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by jarman 15y ago
I am not in any way against file naming conventions, i am against enforcement of convention, specific for one use case (programming) in general-purpose system. When shell script is written for some specific task, you can relay on convention
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by jarman 15y ago
YES! And while we are at it, let's get rid of SQL injections by forbidding spaces and quotes in [VAR]CHAR fields! Limiting valid file names won't protect from injections, won't make such protection easier (asserting lack of special characte
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by jarman 15y ago
Vaguely like a heat pump - electrical energy stimulates conversion of thermal energy to light. So instead of using electricity to produce light and heat, LED uses electricity and heat to produce light.