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by k1t 4y ago
Someone just needs to learn you some better Google skills. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14778/is-learn-t... https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/teach-em-or-le...
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by k1t 4y ago
It's most likely faster to photograph things (for insurance purposes) than to pick it up and carry it with you.
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by k1t 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that's Netflix.
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by k1t 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2005/10/16 The implication is that only color printers are affected. "The U.S. S
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by k1t 5y ago
This (2013) article[1], when talking about "High Entropy Bottom-up Randomization" says that: "For compatibility reasons, this feature is disabled by default and must be enabled on a per-application basis. This is because so
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by k1t 5y ago
I assume it's because you could read it as: the union leaders view this big union victory as an existential threat to labor standards. (When instead they view Amazon as the existential threat)
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by k1t 5y ago
You can use the default of your choice. Previously, if you didn't choose a default, Android would ask you every time you opened a url - which browser? Now, if there's no default set, it just uses Chrome instead. Workarounds are di
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by k1t 5y ago
When I see that emoji I think of a sales chart, not stocks. I feel like the sales charts are usually red, even when increasing - presumably becauseit stands out.
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by k1t 5y ago
Yes: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bussard_collector
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by k1t 5y ago
Let's demolish this building. How about we just rotate it 90°? Yes, that seems like a fair compromise. In case anybody was wondering - the important part was that it was moved to an adjacent lot (to clear space for a new building) and
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by k1t 5y ago
Sometimes liberties are taken here, such as California originally separating carpool lanes with yellow lines (when they should have been white). Presumably they felt that even though yellow was incorrect, it sent a clearer "do not cros
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by k1t 5y ago
Might be this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-23/how-will-south-austra... https://katv.com/news/coronavirus/new-program-tracks-quarant... [Home quarantining] participants will recei
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by k1t 5y ago
Isn't hard to plenty of articles like these, so it certainly seems like they'd be ineffective at preventing an actual terrorist: According to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security Inspector General’s repo
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by k1t 5y ago
Not fingerprinting, but related issue for microscopic hair comparisons: The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which
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by k1t 5y ago
I found this hard to believe, but it's correct. Downdetector only reports an issue if a significant number of users are impacted. To that end, Downdetector calculates a baseline volume of typical problem reports for each service monit
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by k1t 5y ago
Perhaps the recovery process for people who forget their passcode? Easier to implement if you have other verified communication methods.
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by k1t 5y ago
> Converting from string datetime to a datetime object will automatically convert the time to the local tz This happens in C# too: DateTime.Parse("2021-06-28T12:00:00Z").Hour Outputs 5 instead of 12 (for me, US Pacific)
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by k1t 5y ago
Not GP, but perhaps he's thinking of the TcpStream, which is a sort of "shared state" between executions of parse_line? Canceling an async task feels a lot like aborting a partially executed DB transaction without rolling bac
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by k1t 5y ago
In the UK you must give 1 week's notice, but it is common for employment contracts to extend this to 1-3 months.
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by k1t 5y ago
Presumably the issue is that you have defined 1+1 as an operation, rather than just an alternative representation (of 2).
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by k1t 5y ago
They are code names. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_codenames
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by k1t 6y ago
Isn't it best this way for security? Eg. to prevent something that looks like apple.com but is actually some weird unicode alternative
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by k1t 6y ago
Terrible - which I assume was the point. The interviewer is clearly trying to do the right thing (own laptop, well known problem, your choice of tech) and the candidate is clearly talented, but the result is an unmitigated disaster. Obvious
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by k1t 6y ago
I think it's just pattern matching - Rust example: let a = "Rock"; let b = "Paper"; let result = match (a,b) { ("Scissors", "Paper") => "A wins", ("Paper&
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by k1t 6y ago
Is there really a difference though? To me a "trigger" is the initial event that begins a sequence. Isn't that also a "root cause"? Since everything is connected to everything else, it seems like the point that you
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by k1t 6y ago
It is illegal to kill bees in certain situations in California. An exterminator might refer you to a beekeeper just to avoid any potential liability.
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by k1t 6y ago
If all you are comparing is HASH(random_string + hashed_password) then it will still work. The server will give me random_string and I know hashed_password from the DB leak. Obviously this assumes the login process actually works as describ
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by k1t 6y ago
The danger with that approach is that the hashed password has become the password. If the hashes are leaked, they can be used to login.
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by k1t 6y ago
What if you believe you're able to live in your home, but your (children/doctors) say otherwise?
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by k1t 6y ago
> For example, in the classic case when a user adds a new device and wants history to be available on both you can't let the devices controlled by one person simply sync with one another. > To do so would be making a security con

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