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by maggit 10y ago
Not really, but I miss it. Not that it ever had the popularity it needed to be really useful, but I did use it to reach out to my programmer friends. As a kind of minimal effort blog. The biggest advantage with G+, as I used it, was that I
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by maggit 10y ago
If it's any consolation, this seems to be rolling out to everybody regardless. I'm pretty sure I'd never opt in to beta testing iTerm2, yet here I sit, having just gone through an automatic upgrade. Weird. (See also https:&#
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by maggit 10y ago
You shouldn't feel embarrassed about how you pronounce LaTeX. In the words of its creator Leslie Lamport: > One of the hardest things about LaTeX is deciding how to pronounce it.This is also one of the few things I'm not going
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by maggit 10y ago
The title specifies that it is talking about naive steganography. So, yes, your less-naive implementation would thwart this analysis :)
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by maggit 10y ago
W^X stands for "writable xor executable": > What this means is that each page holding JIT code is either executable or writable, never both at the same time. For anybody, like me, who didn't already know :)
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by maggit 11y ago
More important than knowing "hue 30 == orange" is the fact that one can decompose the color to "The hue of this color is orange". Then, finding orange on a color wheel is not so difficult. Especially if you can put in ap
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by maggit 11y ago
To elaborate a bit, in C++ the relevant exception class is called `std::logic_error` (contrast with `std::runtime_error`). I like it. It is a bit more descriptive of the actual situation than "this should never happen".
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by maggit 11y ago
Can you pin leaf certificates? Quoting https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/Security/Public_Ke... : > Firefox (and Chrome) disable Pin Validation for Pinned Hosts whose validated certificate chain
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by maggit 11y ago
You can certainly try it out for web applications. It has shortcomings, but I assume that by "try Rust" you don't mean "immediately develop something for production"? :) I have a deamon running that does a specific
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by maggit 11y ago
> By default, any users are able to install firmware to removable hardware. The logic here is that if the hardware can be removed, it can easily be moved to a device that the user already has root access on, and asking for authentication
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by maggit 11y ago
I don't think it is simple to do successfully, but it is certainly a way to make difficult stuff more approachable. If you want to convey difficult stuff, you should make it approachable. Feynman, for example, was a master of using s
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by maggit 11y ago
I am currently running Android 6 (Marshmallow), the official version pushed to my phone as an OTA update, and I am able to turn on and off individual permissions for apps. When installing a new app, it initially has zero permissions enabled
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by maggit 11y ago
Isn't Google's Native Client exactly an example of a safe bytecode? Moreover, it is a safe subset of an already existing really large byte code language (x86 machine code), which inspires me to believe that it should be possible t
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by maggit 11y ago
Slack "supports" IRC in that you can allow IRC connections, and then people can connect to your Slack instance via IRC. This might also be the case for some of the alternatives. And it's a pain in the neck! It means that some
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by maggit 11y ago
Is the author of this around? There's a rather prominent spelling mistake in the first sentence; it says "prominant" where it should say "prominent" :)
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by maggit 11y ago
I remember it was possible to play Settlers 2 in two-player split screen with two mice in DOS, and it seems possible to recreate in Dosbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfpx0siF5TU If I remember correctly, the trick here
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by maggit 11y ago
I'm unsure of what you mean to be confused about, but maybe I can attempt to clear it up anyway. There are both kinds of waves. Sound waves, propagating from mouths and into ears, and waves in a spring along the direction of the spring
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by maggit 11y ago
Cream was more available than butter. I guess most people would rather drive to Sweden than whip cream. However, cream was also in high demand for Christmas, so I suspect that it couldn't offset much of the demand for butter anyway.
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Working with the JPEG/EXIF orientation tag(magnushoff.com)
2 points by maggit 11y ago|0 comments
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by maggit 11y ago
Is it a trend? Note that this is the Wall Street Journal. I think they are targeting a readership that is particularly interested in stock information.
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by maggit 12y ago
As I've heard it explained, the server will push what it thinks is relevant [1] and if the resource is already cached in the client, the client will ask the server to stop the push. The relevant mechanism seems to be described here: h
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by maggit 12y ago
> If quantum mechanics makes Newtonian mechanics (NM) "obsolete", then what does that imply for Special relativity (SR)? Ah. That's unsatisfying :) It would be super satisfying to have one coherent theory of everything. [1
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by maggit 12y ago
(Disclaimer: I don't know Special relativity, so I might make mistakes that betray that fact ;) We are certainly in agreement about the facts of the matter :) The thing I find unsatisfying is specifically the phrasing "Newtonian m
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by maggit 12y ago
> we can't measure what we don't know. I guess another interpretation of that statement is more along the lines of "We can't measure how much we are currently unaware of", which seems to make more sense. ---- &gt
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by maggit 12y ago
Your comparison to OS/2 may be apt. The details are a bit murky for me, but as far as I can tell from Wikipedia[1], OS/2 3.0 was at some point simply renamed to Windows NT, which of course is the underlying technology for Windows
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by maggit 12y ago
It is presumably being down-voted because it is off-topic; This is not a post about web design. Sure, CSS is on-topic on HN, just like this article about cryptography is on-topic. However, commenting on the HTTPS certificate particulars of
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PlainTalk – a simple network protocol syntax(magnushoff.com)
5 points by maggit 12y ago|0 comments
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by maggit 12y ago
An unfortunate reality is that IMAP is a really bad protocol. I encourage you to try implementing a client to get a feel for how difficult and quirky the protocol is. (Be sure to try implementing IDLE) I'd love to see a better base pro
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by maggit 12y ago
Hmm, let me try to make my point clearer. What's happening now is a competition in taking the most drugs while avoiding getting caught. The possibility of getting caught limits what you can do. Isn't the idea here to remove this l
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by maggit 12y ago
I know there's a lot of "drugs aren't that dangerous" and "certain currently illegal drugs are entirely risk free" sentiment on this site, and there's probably some truth to it. However, organizing world w

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