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by knome 1y ago
Only for chrome. I finally went back to firefox, recently. I needed to update some of the flag defaults to turn on tab changing with mouse scroll and similar, but they are unlikely to break things like ublock any time soon. I was a frequent
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by knome 1y ago
Expecting a formally reviewed citation in response to a vague three word query in an informal conversation on a forum wholly unrelated to specialization in that topic is a bit silly, but if you do bother to do the legwork and find a citatio
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by knome 1y ago
The Catholic Church. The fourth century. https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-christmas >In the fourth century, church officials decided to institute the birth of Jesus as a holiday. Unfortunately, the Bible
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by knome 2y ago
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html 'computed goto' is used in gcc to mean the same as assigned goto in Fortran. The Fortran variation appears to have more restrictions than the gnuc
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by knome 2y ago
>it is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, possibly the smallest measurable space. But even th
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by knome 2y ago
It does make traceroute, where each packet is fired with one more available step than the last, feasible, whereas 'up' wouldn't. Of course, then we'd just start with max-hops and walk the number down I suppose. I still e
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by knome 2y ago
Sounds like a manual form of clojures recur function. https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/recur
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by knome 2y ago
It's hardly unreasonable to expect your peers to at least _try_ to understand what they are doing. Copypaste coding is never conducive to a good codebase.
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by knome 2y ago
could be a good place to sequester a swap file, similar to zram
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by knome 2y ago
Which is why it's reasonable to have configurable limits for both processing space and time in anything handling untrusted data.
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by knome 2y ago
hopefully, anything triggering a panic should be an exceptional case that the caller cannot purposefully put the server into. restarting the app without a full process reload shouldn't be any more of an attack vector for denial of serv
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by knome 2y ago
you may want to take a peek at INTERCAL. you think GOTO is bad? wait until you have to deal with COME FROM, especially in "Threaded INTERCAL" where arriving at the location that multiple active COME FROM statements are pointing to
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by knome 2y ago
rather they should detect that output is a terminal and enable the coloring
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by knome 2y ago
the reasons a person does something are important, because those reasons influence every decision that goes into doing that thing. the difference between the perspectives of "yes, we go into this knowing it is dangerous and that the ch
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by knome 2y ago
>Life is not as precious as it is often thought to be by most of us here on this site starting anything by throwing out the value human life seems like a bad direction.
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by knome 2y ago
you cannot be serious. disease among husbanded animal populations has been a problem since mankind began keeping animals. before vaccines, the only options available were cleanliness, inoculation, and culling, to include killing entire herd
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by knome 2y ago
>For almost twelve hours, she was six This is an incredibly poetic, heartbreaking statement.
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by knome 2y ago
>it accounts for 17% of the US GDP, so although it's parasitic for everyone involved, it's basically indispensable to the economy if people weren't forced to spend it on healthcare, they would spend it elsewhere. if health
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by knome 2y ago
censorious appears to mean 'severely critical of others'. I expect they meant 'censoriously', with the full intent being that the embarrassment felt by the critical reactions of others when reading the instructions out l
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by knome 2y ago
Having to keep track of what branch has been arbitrarily tapped as the trunk in a repo is not reasonably comparable to stripping Americans of recognition and rights. The former may annoy some folks until they standardize or figure out a way
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by knome 2y ago
if the program doesn't pin certificates, you should be able to intercept them by telling your machine to trust a certificate authority of your own creation and performing a mitm attack on the process's traffic. if it does do certi
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by knome 2y ago
I suppose if you were so unfortunate as to have two interfaces name the same function with different expectations on what it does, you'd end up having to use an intermediate object to wrap around your base one, to ensure it matches the
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by knome 2y ago
I can program in a dozen languages or so, so I'm not coming at it from some place of knowing python and complaining about C#. There's plenty to complain about in python's typing. Having to hand annotate classes to indicate in
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by knome 2y ago
thanks for showing me that, as I had no idea. it looks rather gross to me, and more dangerous than useful. why bother with a half check that can only see if the methods/attributes are present, but that can't guarantee they do what
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by knome 2y ago
Protocols allow you to explicitly declare a class implements them by making them a base of the class, but do not require it. Every class that implements the specification of the protocol is usable where the protocol is specified, not only t
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by knome 2y ago
You were going to have to deal with that complexity either way. Now it's expressed somewhere, and if you craft it right, enforced so it's harder to get things wrong. https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019&#x2
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by knome 2y ago
I didn't get the general idea that the author thought they hid the complexity, but rather that they exposed and codified it. They gave the complexity that would previously live in your head somewhere it could be expressed. And once exp
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by knome 2y ago
the only thing that I've seen growing that I hope is pushed back is the growing number of jokers. I see people posting here like it's reddit or slashdot. it's not, and that's part of what makes it valuable. every joke co
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by knome 2y ago
The paradox of tolerance specifically states that one must not be tolerant of intolerance. Hence, a paradox. Tolerance is a social contract of leaving alone others whose ways differ from your own so long as they do the same for you. One mus
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by knome 2y ago
probably the same thing that netscape did when adding javascript to the web. "now we can add some basic client-side validation to these forms". PDFs can be used as form templates, so having some basic validation is reasonable.

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