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by mcbits 7y ago
Never trusting the client just means the server must assume any messages from the client may have been manipulated or fabricated. A message like "the cursor is over this guy's head" would be an egregious mistake in the protoc
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by mcbits 7y ago
Lag compensation is a (negligible?) violation of never trusting the client, as it gives the client the ability to inflate its own latency statistics until some critical moment. Not sure how reliably it can be exploited in practice, but if t
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by mcbits 7y ago
If a substance improves certain cognitive metrics in healthy adults, then it qualifies a nootropic, even if it has harmful side effects. Purported nootropics are often also marketed as, or alongside, purported life extension products. Maybe
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by mcbits 7y ago
That article says he took "two doses", which could mean just about anything but likely means at least 200-400ug, or at least 8 to 60 times the doses in the microdosing trial. The highest dose in the trial was where users just star
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by mcbits 7y ago
Your total size numbers are almost entirely dominated by Bootstrap and a font, which are the same for all the tests (and not something that would be used on a site where payload size matters). Svelte's JS output, gzipped, is about 40%
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by mcbits 7y ago
Yes, searching for a local file or program 100% of the time because I would never intentionally search for anything else from there. That's specifically for Windows Start. If Ubuntu or Siri "web searches" are clearly distingu
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by mcbits 7y ago
I had pretty severe carpal tunnel syndrome for about a year when I did data entry full time. What helped was improving my posture, not tensing up and slamming the keyboard at full force all day, and resting/shaking out my wrists every
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by mcbits 7y ago
> Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP were all best in class I know some OS/2 fans who wouldn't go along with that, but I will. They were best in a class that was inundated with crippling bugs and vulnerabilities. Can we credit checkli
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by mcbits 7y ago
I'm really not sure what changes they've made, but I think it's just a coincidence that -36% and +37% are similar magnitudes. E.g. imagine instead the lithography shrank by 99.999%. Is there reason to expect 0.32 fpsw?
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by mcbits 7y ago
From your defensive tone it sounds like you think I was talking about you, but I really wasn't. It's a phenomenon I've observed here and on Reddit and elsewhere for many years. And it seems like a perfect fit for a tool such
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by mcbits 7y ago
Ever notice when someone criticizes a company on HN, and suddenly the CEO shows up and engages after 6 months of inactivity? Likely they are using a tool like this along with Google Alerts, etc, to monitor sites for mentions of the company
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by mcbits 7y ago
The lack of universal undo, a.k.a. non-destructive editing, has been a showstopper for a lot of would-be GIMP and Audacity users for a decade or more. Literally none of the other features matter because using the software is not an option.
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by mcbits 7y ago
The Web and email are both federated and thus theoretically decentralized, but in practice they're highly centralized. Yet another federated protocol (sitting on top of an already centralized federated protocol) is probably not a relia
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by mcbits 7y ago
> Or maybe you are not bothered about time and want to drop in that seed and grow a chair? If you don't mind giving the tree a little guidance as it grows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping
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by mcbits 7y ago
The BBC doesn't write for Hacker News. And I would argue that just about everyone here understands what "hacked" means in this context anyway.
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by mcbits 7y ago
Disney apparently wasn't hacked, but the users were. Password guessed/stolen = account hacked in common parlance.
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by mcbits 7y ago
I think it should be all be declassified for the public good, but I can understand why they would want to keep it classified: by revealing where they've mapped, they reveal where they've been. Quality variations in different parts
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by mcbits 7y ago
Every crime is unique, but I think a lot of criminal behavior boils down to the inability to constructively interact with a world that often feels like it's fighting back. I wonder if prisoners participating in the design of their spac
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by mcbits 7y ago
Statistical controls can remove much of the effect from known confounders, but they don't turn an observational study into a controlled experiment. Sometimes you can use common sense to infer a causal relationship (violent crime linked
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by mcbits 7y ago
> So the government patents them to preserve broad access to the invention. I would assume or at like to believe this is true with federal government patents, but it's not true for state governments, government-funded universities,
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by mcbits 7y ago
Originally, disingenuous words and actions intended to build rapport with people of a particular ideological persuasion. Nowadays, nothing, in the same sense that quantum foam is nothing.
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by mcbits 7y ago
"select id, name from ..." "from c in customers select ..." Fill in the blank. They're not equally readable to the IDE that's trying to provide $1,199 worth of code completion for a partially typed query.
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by mcbits 7y ago
It would be more interesting if the number 1,488 never appeared in any of the millions of papers containing numbers in the low-thousands range.
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by mcbits 7y ago
If we find life surviving on one of the planets that we've been exploring, and it's so similar as to be indistinguishable from Earth life, then it almost certainly came from Earth on one of our missions. Even if an asteroid transp
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by mcbits 7y ago
Workers dig holes. Managers dug holes. Executives decide if holes can be profitable. Directors know a general who needs a lot of holes dug for the empire's war effort.
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by mcbits 7y ago
What you're calling a "how" can be a list of simple "what"s. > In an electronic word processing system for creating and editing a document, the document comprising a plurality of sentences, a combined spelling an
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by mcbits 7y ago
Styling an anchor as a block element has never violated the spec, and HTML5 deliberately added support for wrapping anchors around block elements because people had been doing that anyway, even though the browser wasn't required to mak
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by mcbits 7y ago
It's not clear why the number of cameras in a city would fit a power law, which usually arises from some kind of feedback effect. More cameras -> something -> more cameras. Any ideas for what "something" is? (Also... ho
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by mcbits 7y ago
The "correct" conversion to (modern) miles would be 20, both because 30 has only one significant digit and because it makes more sense to round 18.x to 20 than to 15.
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by mcbits 7y ago
It's possible because "empty" is a relative term and the solar system is big. Hell, a whole 'nother star system passed through the solar system (if we include the Oort cloud) just 1,000 lifetimes ago. https://

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