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by jstanley 11mo ago
It's not confusing that this works in Go. (In my opinion). A straightforward reading of the code suggests that it should do what it does. The confusion here is a property of C, not of Go. It's a property of C that you need to care
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by jstanley 11mo ago
You're more likely to get a ball-of-yarn if you try to separate things into unnatural layers than if you let it be a single layer.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> At first, there were many people typing, then later [...] There were more people typing than ever before? Look around you, we're all typing all day long.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Centering text boxes in competent design software is easy because it has a tool to align things to the centre of other things. For example, Inkscape has this and it is easy to use.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
It solves the rigging problem, it doesn't necessarily make claims as to whether that is the only problem that exists.
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Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck(equilibriabook.com)
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by jstanley 11mo ago
If you're worried about someone exiting the protocol, you can use a smart contract to lock their funds so that if they simply exit then they lose all their money.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Because you can rig the answer if it's just one person. But if two of you use the method from the post, and both commit to your answers before revealing them, then neither of you can rig it.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
That you don't understand something doesn't mean everyone else is wrong.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> Users who go to http://mysite.example/ would be "redirected" to https://mysite.example/ but that redirection wasn't protected so instead the active bad guy ensures they're redirecte
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by jstanley 11mo ago
That's an implementation detail of the bank. You might just as well say that E2EE messaging is impossible because you are sending a message "to" Signal, and they need to read it in order to act on it.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
This FUD comes up whenever Tor is mentioned on Hacker News. The answer is: let's say you think Tor isn't 100% flawless. What are you going to do? Not use Tor? It's better than any other option.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Yes, banks have a bunch of regulations which means they can't run an end-to-end encrypted payment service. That's an argument that their payment service is not end-to-end encrypted, not an argument that you can simply redefine t
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Alternatively: why spend an extra 15 mins on protobuf every other day, when you can put off the 3-month JSON-revisiting project forever?
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by jstanley 11mo ago
They're not my arbitrary requirements, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof Specifically: > In light of the fact that one should be able to generate a proof of some statement only when in poss
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> A zero knowledge proof (ZKP) answers a question without revealing anything more than answer. For example, a digital signature proves your possession of a private key without revealing that key. I don't think a digital signature is
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by jstanley 11mo ago
That's just progress. Things that used to be hard become easy. Things that used to be impossible become hard. Hard things become easy when for example it becomes feasible to connect to RDP instead of mucking about at the driver level.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> If you actually prefer the spelling “miniscule,” you must wrestle with autocorrect. I was not previously aware of any alternative spelling! Apparently "minuscule" is not considered an error.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> Vaporware is when things don’t appear, not when they are on their way How do you tell the difference? Wait infinitely long and see if it appears?
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Oops, I missed that!
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by jstanley 11mo ago
People say that 2-dimensional life is impossible because it's impossible to make a 2-dimensional digestive system. But you just need to make it work like a zip. The two halves of the body have interlocking hooks, and they move out of t
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by jstanley 11mo ago
This one in particular stood out: > we also have lots of crazier tricks we could pull out like panopticon viral screening or toilet monitors or daily individualized saliva sampling or engineered microbe-resistant surfaces or even dividin
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by jstanley 11mo ago
So the power plants lend dollars to the state so that they can pay to build the power plant? Or else I don't see how the power plants are collecting the interest?
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> Anyone claiming they can 10x the speed of a physical process that has been worked on by thousands of engineers over more than a century is full of shit. Metal machining processes had been around for well over 100 years when tungsten ca
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Tables were definitely around before programming languages. There are clay tablets from ancient Sumeria that represent information using tables.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Weirdly I've had history turned off for just over 10 years (I can tell from the date on the most recent entry), but my YouTube homepage shows me videos related to things I've watched recently anyway. I just deleted the all-time hi
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by jstanley 11mo ago
I tried to make a custom Subscriptions view for YouTube but they kept blocking me for trying to scrape hundreds of RSS feeds.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
So, not available until 3 years after the site was made?
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by jstanley 11mo ago
The article is admittedly very difficult to follow, but that's not what it is saying. That is something that it is quoting . Including a "community note" that it is a map of male circumcision from some academic paper. The ar
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by jstanley 11mo ago
My point isn't that American products aren't expensive to import into Japan (I don't know). My point is that even if they weren't expensive to import into Japan, what American products would you even import? Most stuff

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