minitech

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by minitech 9y ago
> Isn't Haskell's "Int" an arbitrary-sized integer That’s "Integer". "Int" is fixed-size.
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by minitech 9y ago
When it runs out of space, it resizes to (at least) a multiple of its current space to avoid having to resize too often, making pushing a constant-time operation on average. 1304209 is the smallest size in the sequence starting with an empt
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by minitech 9y ago
That’s dangerously wrong. If you generated a password using only microseconds as a seed, an attacker who knew the day you did it could crack (an MD5 hash of) the password within a few minutes, for example.
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by minitech 9y ago
> 10M iterations took 8 minutes for a single hash. ~: time node -p 'crypto.pbkdf2Sync("password", "salt", 10e6, 32, "sha256").toString("hex")' 3c0873fa17659d22450cfcc4a7dd8e51e66db2
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by minitech 9y ago
Can you list some alternatives you’d like to see it compared to?
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by minitech 9y ago
> Over the years, I've come to believe that using a hanging indent for alignment is actually better in terms of readability as opposed to aligning at a column after the opening parenthesis, brace, or bracket. It's also easier t
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by minitech 9y ago
I break lines if it looks like they’re getting too long, where it feels right to do so. Setting a fixed number of columns causes people to align hanging lines to the right in my experience: some_example_code = LongTypeName(argument_one=
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by minitech 9y ago
What do your computer model and school have to do with Flash?
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by minitech 9y ago
> I think anyone who uses the CLI is either trying too hard or hasn't realized the beauty of a git GUI. Nah, it’s just a lot easier than you make it out to be. GUIs are fine too, but if you read the documentation and don’t just memo
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by minitech 9y ago
> Good ORMs help tremendously with maintainability and security. ORMs don’t help with security compared to query builders or even typed text.
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by minitech 9y ago
> But compare it even with a GIMP is a joke. How?
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by minitech 9y ago
Content-Type whitelist, CSP, and a separate domain for proxying please? I don’t feel safe using DuckDuckGo now.
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by minitech 9y ago
> We require an open proxy in some form to protect our users' privacy Which feature relies on this?
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by minitech 9y ago
Python is very much alive. Not sure where you’re getting that. Perl 6 and Python 3 aren’t really remotely comparable, either.
615.
by minitech 9y ago
Ctrl+K is already search in both Firefox and Chrome.
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by minitech 9y ago
In addition to the middle-click refresh and context menu entry that others have mentioned: you can hold down Ctrl and drag the new duplicate tab anywhere.
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by minitech 9y ago
Maybe an example will make it clearer to you what #3 means. Firefox stops supporting certain types of extensions. Firefox stops making security patches to this (eventually) removed feature. Because there are no patches, you can’t backport t
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by minitech 9y ago
#3 is a weird one to take issue with. Unless by “demonstrably wrong” you mean “objectively right”? You can’t backport a patch from a fork for a feature that doesn’t exist in that fork. You can make your own patch. XUL ones can come fr
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by minitech 9y ago
Sure – not trying would be obscenely irresponsible. But: 1. I don’t trust them to do that right 2. You’re later to get the same patches 3. You can’t backport patches for removed features
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by minitech 9y ago
Using forks of unsupported Firefox versions/features (this, Pale Moon, etc.) is a good way to introduce vulnerabilities into your daily browsing. Firefox ESR should be the addons stopgap of choice while they’re ported.
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by minitech 9y ago
> NoScript classic has a lot of functionality that helps you keep sites usable when scripts are blocked Sounds good, but have you looked at the code behind this? The XSS filter is the same way – a giant mess that only protects against th
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by minitech 9y ago
The shallowest feature of NoScript – content blocking – is the only useful thing it provides. The rest of it, like the XSS filter, is poorly-written misfeatures, or stuff that’s available in about:config. (To be fair, µMatrix has its own mi
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by minitech 9y ago
You can just close the tab regardless of whether it’s showing an alert nowadays. (I also recommend µMatrix – it’s pretty much a better version of NoScript.)
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by minitech 9y ago
> type safety The text changes are type safety, but there are many more miscellaneous type safety improvements (like the default comparison between types (alphabetically by type name, except NoneType!) being removed, so now you can use
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by minitech 9y ago
> We’re so lazy about it that our modern languages don’t even support the ability to distinguish user strings from application strings (perl’s taint mode). “User strings vs. application strings” is too coarse. You just need to enforce ty
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by minitech 9y ago
> They aren't going to put in the effort to work out your slightly different hashing method and make a GPU based cracker for it. If you have a “slightly different hashing method” – especially one for which a GPU-based cracker would
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by minitech 9y ago
Maybe I’m misinterpreting that part of the original article, then. (I read it as implying that everything is hated, but UTF-8 and TCP are the least-hated – meaning someone quoting UTF-8 from that list of good things and implying it would on
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by minitech 9y ago
Why would a Python programmer hate UTF-8? Python (3) is even one of the better languages when dealing with encodings.
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by minitech 9y ago
"Download ZIP" downloads the repository’s files as a zip. No Git involved for the downloader.
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by minitech 9y ago
Eh… I wouldn’t call this phenomenal. https://i.imgur.com/X8g7J1D.png The design extends about as far as “blur the background of everything”. Beyond that, the choices are not so good. The file explorer’s sidebar was nice, at

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