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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> you cannot cancel the actual (OS controlled) asynchronous operation This is way too broad a claim. If I do something like: (sleep 1 ; echo "done") & kill $! I'm pretty clearly "cancelling the actual (OS
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
You mean "breaking the fourth wall" a la Deadpool ? He at least skirts that line in some places (e.g. Wit/Hoid/etc.). I'd probably class those parts similarly to Shallan's puns: Moderately annoying but tolerab
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> The object is still passed by value, however the object itself contains references, which may be mutated. This would imply that: var v = 1; (function (o) { o.a = 2; }({ a: v }); console.log(v); // => 2
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
If you're cringing at it, I think you must be getting more from it than I am. The only thing I get out of it is the surface level pun, so I feel the same way as with pretty much all of his other puns: slightly baffled as to why they&#x
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Her wordplay often feels weak (though "hip" seems like an odd way of describing it), but you could probably fit all of it in one page and there are over 2000 pages in the first two books. If you feel disinterested after reading 20
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
[Obsolete; new HN title is fine]
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Two bytes extra for the length, but one byte saved from the marker character.
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Unless you have vm.overcommit_memory set to 1, then AIUI you can implement malloc s.t. a read/write to the returned memory won't generate a SIGSEGV, e.g. using mmap sans MAP_NORESERVE. Even if vm.overcommit_memory=1, you can still
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> Doesn't making a variable constexpr ensure it is a compile time value It ensures that the variable could be evaluated at compile time, where "could be evaluated at compile time" means "conforms to the rules set fo
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Any evidence of this being used in the wild, particularly where the attack is only trying password variants if the initial failure indicated the user exists? Not disagreeing with the point, just would be interesting if anyone's seen su
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Doing it every time a user login failed is probably infeasible if you have even a moderate number of users, but you can presumably do it on an ad hoc basis unless you have a ton of users. Or am I missing something?
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
The point is that sites generally leak this anyway via signup. With github it's even easier, e.g. https://github.com/someuser -- I looked through my settings and their doesn't appear to be any way to "be invi
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Thanks for all your work. If you had a donation option, I'd be happy to limit my contribution to what I've gained from the past ~10 years of usage with literally no expectation of continued development.
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Note that the shortcut is equivalent to hitting the "Tree Style Tab" button in the main toolbar, so if you're like me and want to show the tabs all the time you don't need to worry about having a keyboard shortcut. If yo
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Manually call e.g. /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (man ld.so for more info).
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Consider: 2-3^4
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Consider static type checking when adding a new value to the enum. If the switch has a default, then obviously you lose this, but it's nice for the others.
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
If you invent a Quantum Fusion Plasma Turbine Terraformer, I imagine people will be happy to let you name it whatever you want. Whether due to extreme gratitude, extreme terror, or both.
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Unless you're running it with additional configuration (e.g. the -g option), I don't think ntpd will save you from any bit flips other than the 10 least significant: You'll be outside the 1000s panic threshold.
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
If anyone's confused, parent is presumably intended for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302267 .
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> Are you saying that the person being female casts doubt on the initial analysis of the person as a warrior? No -- Her being a female makes her classification as a warrior interesting (i.e. worthy of publication in American Journal o
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
If someone claims that a certain class of problem that no one particularly cares about is in P, and then I prove that said problem is NP-complete, jumping up and writing a paper titled "P = NP" would be vastly premature. The previ
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
The linked article raises four concerns: 1. It's not clear whether the skeleton goes with the grave -- The excavation was in the 19th century and there are various methodological concerns. 2. It's not clear that the graveyard wa
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> stop couching our barely-disguised political motivations in pedantry? While I'm also a little dubious as to this article's relevance to HN, nothing in the linked article strikes me as "pedantry".
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Curious if anyone's done any work to determine if changing the P-value threshold for e.g. Psychology studies (as they call out Psychology in particular) measurably affected replicability with p > 0.005?
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
This view always seems to get crucified in these discussions. While it is certainly true that a NAT is neither necessary nor sufficient for the kind of protection provided by a properly configured firewall, it's way better than the r
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> I feel like it's a huge scam and a kind of cultural imperialism from us hacker types to the folks who are late to the party and for whom ASCII++ isn't going to really cut it. It's more pay-to-play than "cultural imp
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> They can all be added, it just takes effort. This, in combination with the fact that developers don't take the extra effort, is exactly what the article is complaining about.
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
Middle-click is not working for me either in Firefox.
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by mnarayan01 9y ago
> If I mis-enter information into a form, your error handling forgets all my information and I have to re-enter it. This really shouldn't be a problem for anything other than file inputs. If someone's form is losing submitted i

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