josefx

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by josefx 3y ago
Humans with less than 5 fingers per hand do indeed exist. How does that lead to a default of 7?
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by josefx 3y ago
base64 encoded fields it is.
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by josefx 3y ago
Does it have nesting operators? I want to embedd ASCII within my ASCII fields. So I can have a table within my table.
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by josefx 3y ago
That sounds like hard mode, the easy solution is to just initialize them the first time they are used. GetInstance(){ if (!instance)instance = new Foo; return instance;}, add a lock if you need thread safety and done.
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by josefx 3y ago
My point was that it was wrong. I do not agree with casting wide nets in the hope that someone might fit whatever profile the police or other agencies have pulled out of their asses.
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by josefx 3y ago
> No they're not. Which ones will live a day less of their lives? There are cases like the bombing in Madrid where the US agencies cast out a wide net over possible suspects using data about people who converted to Islam and then us
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by josefx 3y ago
> As far as I can tell, cloudflares DIY lamps/pendulums are not NIST certified. That makes them by definition worse than the OpenSSL version that leaked user keys on request. /s
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by josefx 3y ago
So why does Google seem to have such significant issues trying to catch up despite violating these laws and agreements at every chance it can? Apparently using all this data does not help them all that much.
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by josefx 3y ago
I think it is used to avoid doing null checks on every pointer access.
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by josefx 3y ago
Cleopatra was also part of a greek dynasty that had been ruling egypt for centuries, since the times of Alexander the Great.
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by josefx 3y ago
Is this the cambonian version of holocaust denial?
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by josefx 3y ago
Wasn't the worst that happened with it that the guy who took over uBlock tried to take credit for it and asked for donations? Not like he could get away with anything outright illegal when everyone knew he was running the project.
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by josefx 3y ago
> The thing is, it’s still technically illegal not wearing a seat belt Check if the law in your state actually applies to a tractor. Some states explicitly list which motor vehicles the law applies to.
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by josefx 3y ago
> It’s not ok to let your five year old play with a soccer ball on a busy neighborhood street unsupervised. When I grew up the road by my grandparents house was wide and empty and you could see anything coming a mile away and drivers cou
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by josefx 3y ago
So they can push the kid over and it ends up stuck lying on its back like a turtle?
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by josefx 3y ago
He could have just added a few months to the current year and would have been done with it.
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by josefx 3y ago
> I financed my phone for free via Klarna So how do they make money? Sounds like they would be losing money to inflation by offering that service for free.
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by josefx 3y ago
Youtube can crawl its way into irrelevancy if you leave it running unsupervised for too long. I had autoplay try to make me listen to Disney music for a while after letting it run over night and the recommendations can stick around for ages
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by josefx 3y ago
> because performance matters - concat(a,b) is just "{a}{b}" if and only if a compiler is sufficiently smart to reduce it to the minimum of operations needed If I remember correctly these kinds of format strings have to be reso
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by josefx 3y ago
Which http are we talking about? HTTP3 that people wanted to use before the security portion of the spec. was even done? HTTP2 that had an entire section dedicated to possible exploits that where later found on major sites? Or HTTP 1 which
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by josefx 3y ago
> There was no scenario in which the shareholders could lose money from the comp package. Even in the case where the company didn’t grow If I understand other comments correctly then one problem was that the growth was predicted before M
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by josefx 3y ago
Best selling car over a cherry picked time span is quite far from "best selling car of all time".
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by josefx 3y ago
The 5$ wrench is just a simple example of social engineering. No amount of cryptography will help you if the guy holding the keys can be talked/pressured into handing them over. https://xkcd.com/538/
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by josefx 3y ago
> because it was in range/sync with events/storys/news that actually happened. As far as I understand he never wrote anything special or world changing, he took stories you already heard a million times and created pieces
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by josefx 3y ago
> There are ways to exploit this system, but it probably helps against a non-sophisticated attacker. The LockPickingLawyer on youtube demonstrated that you can just unglue the commonly used tamper seals with a bit of alcohol and reapply
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by josefx 3y ago
That is a one and a half our long talk, can you point to the timestamp where he talks about determinism? > and how performance workarounds turn out a poor man's GC. If you need performance then it doesn't matter if it is a &qu
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by josefx 3y ago
Something similar to jpeg artifacts on any surface with a normally smooth color gradient, in some cases rather significant.
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by josefx 3y ago
Didn't it come up during the epic lawsuit that google going downhill is irrelevant since most users will use the default no matter how bad it is?
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by josefx 3y ago
Early .Net is hardly an independent data point from early Java. Not only was .Net directly influenced by Java, it also had to support a direct migration from the Microsoft JVM specific Visual J++ to J#. The handful of languages I know eith
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by josefx 3y ago
> have a good chance of using "synchronized" instead of other kinds of locks; and "synchronized" can be more robust than other kinds of locks (no risk of forgetting to release the lock, and on older JVMs, no risk of a

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