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by mormegil 5y ago
You don't really need an aircraft motor to have a dangerously fast car: "The Tatra 87 was praised by German officers in World War II for the superior speed and handling it offered for use on the Autobahn. The Nazi armaments and mu
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by mormegil 5y ago
I suppose this was submitted because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052747 (Fundamentals of Piano Practice) and specifically this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29053520
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by mormegil 5y ago
So, why does puts do "return r ? EOF : '\n';"? Some backwards compatibility? Or is there a logical reason for that?
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by mormegil 5y ago
My "favorite" Oracle experience (not): > select count(*) from mytbl; ORA-12986: columns in partially dropped state. Submit ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMNS CONTINUE Well, OK then... > ALTER TABLE mytbl DROP COLUMNS CONTINUE; SQL Err
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by mormegil 5y ago
Collect additional data.
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Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language(slate.com)
61 points by mormegil 5y ago|103 comments
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by mormegil 5y ago
Netcat, for instance.
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by mormegil 5y ago
I think there should be (and probably already is) an FAQ page explaining why a "stateless password manager" is not a great idea for a common user. I guess the answers to this SE question might be a good start: https://s
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by mormegil 5y ago
No, I am pointing out the _bit_ order inside a byte, not _byte_ order. (The mentioned Appendix describes both, I am quoting the intra-byte part.)
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by mormegil 5y ago
Well the whole critique applies directly to the XML Signature Standard, doesn't it (of which the SAML standard is just a user/application)? And sure, it is very complex and prone to bugs and security issues in implementations. Cf.
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by mormegil 5y ago
Dunno, RFC 791 states in its Appendix B: "Whenever an octet represents a numeric quantity the left most bit in the diagram is the high order or most significant bit. That is, the bit labeled 0 is the most significant bit." which I
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by mormegil 5y ago
https://archive.is/qaq3p
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by mormegil 5y ago
Yeah, in the Czech Republic (or especially the former Czechoslovakia), part of the main D1 highway (Prague-Brno) is designed as an alternate airfield. Here is a (then-classified) 1980 army documentary about a large exercise on the highway (
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by mormegil 5y ago
Not OP, probably different numbers, but Snyk has recently published a JVM ecosystem report containing a similar question: https://snyk.io/jvm-ecosystem-report-2021/ (60% of people use JVM 8 in production, but 40% use m
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by mormegil 5y ago
In our software, a minority codepath sometimes reported database deadlocks. Nothing critical but it littered the ops error logs and probably displayed error messages to a few customers. So I added a pessimistic exclusive lock to a query whi
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by mormegil 5y ago
Could you call them with Calling Line Identification Restriction? (I. e. caller ID blocking) There is usually a prefix you can dial to suppress your ID. But the exact prefix depends on your location, I think.
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by mormegil 5y ago
Wikimedia IRC channels are moving from Freenode to Libera.Chat “Earlier we had planned on supporting the Freenode channels for longer with bridges across the networks, but supposedly "draft" changes to Freenode policies and recent
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by mormegil 5y ago
> Imagine being the chief compliance officer at DarkSide. People constantly come to you with crimes, and you are commercial, you are like “sure go ahead do that crime,” but occasionally you have to stop them and say “no the reputational
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by mormegil 5y ago
I use a Firefox addon for that, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me...
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by mormegil 5y ago
Yeah, right, that’s what I considered “acceptable” for such a fun-only functionality, I guess. Not that it would be too surprising, since the behavior is a general property of the (ermph… Laplace? Poisson? oh, whatever) distribution, right?
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by mormegil 5y ago
In MediaWiki, the "Random page" function works using an indexed page_random column, see https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table#page_random For a large enough wiki, the potential non-uniformness is neg
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by mormegil 6y ago
I hit exactly the same issue (no wifi symbol in Unicode) when working on my hobby project of train timetables. Some trains offer on-board wifi and it is indicated in the timetable (along with other icons like bicycle transport available, ac
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by mormegil 6y ago
Not really. Case (in) sensitivity and accent (in)sensitivity are two orthogonal things. If you want to compare two strings, ignoring case differences, converting both to lowercase (or uppercase) is completely fine in Javascript (it might be
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by mormegil 6y ago
Near miss. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinedryl is an antiemetic (preventing motion sickness) based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxastine
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by mormegil 6y ago
One in Prague (CZ): https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9092952
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by mormegil 6y ago
To trigger the behavior, it seems the waves need to be "asymmetric" in that if the leftest one is up, the rightest one needs to be down. Otherwise, it seems to behave normally.
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by mormegil 6y ago
I was of the impression Jetbrains are preparing some remote coding feature but now I found only Code with Me and an unresolved feature request at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226455 so I guess I misremembe
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by mormegil 6y ago
That's not right, the current (global) Terms of Use already prohibit (among other things) "With the intent to deceive, posting content that is false or inaccurate". (See https://foundation.m.wikimedia.org/wiki
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by mormegil 6y ago
> I think we'll see the angry mob go end up at less discoverable, but more robust distributed platforms. Which is a shame, because it means eventually, when I say that you can find me on Mastadon/Scuttlebutt/etc, the avera
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by mormegil 6y ago
There is a Scratch extension using Scratch Link to communicate with the train, so you can definitely build a program using counters and variables. See https://scratch.intelino.com/

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