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by nilved 10y ago
Certainly true. I'm not saying that SQLite is always the best choice. But people like to say "SQLite is not performant" when they really mean "SQLite is not performant for concurrent-write-heavy applications" whic
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by nilved 10y ago
I don't think it would mangle your data directly, but it could lead to incorrect results since there is a degree of mystery from query to query. You should definitely base a conclusion on their words and not mine. https://w
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by nilved 10y ago
This used to be how I felt, since the performance criticism of SQLite is vastly overblown. However, the safety criticism of a dynamically typed database is vastly underblown. Since it completes with fopen(), you get about as much structure
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by nilved 10y ago
Don't implement security questions. Those are no good to begin with.
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by nilved 10y ago
If it is, it's for their anti-fingerprinting features and not for Tor. What I'm saying is that running Tor on a machine that also connects to the public Internet is a bad idea. Use full-system Tor through iptables at the very le
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by nilved 10y ago
Yes, it's happened at least once before with Carnegie Mellon.
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by nilved 10y ago
They're targeting the wrong level of abstraction. I think people should use Whonix or Tails instead of Tor Browser.
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by nilved 10y ago
lobste.rs
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by nilved 10y ago
Not asking you directly, I agree with you and was trying to rephrase the notion.
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by nilved 10y ago
Is Haskell's `(++) :: [a] -> [a] -> [a]` pure? What if I pass `unsafePerformIO` to it? For theoretical purposes it might make sense to say pure functions cannot call impure functions, but I think a more practical definition incl
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by nilved 10y ago
Experience can be a replacement for formal education but you need one or the other. I think that anybody can work at a big 4, but it won't be your first job unless you went the formal route.
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by nilved 10y ago
How are conses in Clojure different from those in Scheme? Is it the implementation? Because the API seems the exact same to me.
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by nilved 10y ago
The title is "a purely functional Scheme..."
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by nilved 10y ago
They'll discover they don't get a validation email.
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by nilved 10y ago
That's interesting. I've never noticed it myself, but it makes some sense.
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by nilved 10y ago
I did just explain that, and was told I was predicting things that have already happened...
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by nilved 10y ago
We're not talking about the future, so prediction is unnecessary. But to your point: in my experience as an experienced and security-inclined engineer, this is an arms race where privacy doesn't win.
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by nilved 10y ago
Nobody wants that, but you better get used to it. The world we live in is post-privacy. I mean, my phone and watch can silently record you, too. As can Google Glass, the dozens of CCTV cameras you encounter daily, and Steve Mann's fa
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by nilved 10y ago
Your inaccurate description gave me a small heart attack. We all know JavaScript is horrible, but that is next-level horrible. null is coerced to "null" when it's needed as a string. This behaviour is similar to printf in C
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by nilved 10y ago
> People are generally nicer to women. This sentence is a lot more contentious than you let on.
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by nilved 10y ago
> Yes? How is this even a question? A company paid them in the form of an outfit for the sole purpose of having it be seen. There is no interpretation of this situation where it's not an ad. Well, except real life, where we need to
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by nilved 10y ago
> Yes. If you are paid to advertise something, it is an ad. Good luck with that definition. Is a person wearing sponsored designer clothing on the red carpet obligated to declare that the didn't pay for it? Or does that obligation
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by nilved 10y ago
I'm disappointed to see that Google is still pushing +. I almost left the platform when they tried to jam it down my throat last time, and it seemed as though they'd come to their senses and shuttered that misguided project. I&#
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by nilved 10y ago
> Modern browser extensions are written in JavaScript, making them portable, verifiable, and easily sandboxed - not something you get with an executable binary blob that until very recently ran in the same permission context as the local
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by nilved 10y ago
>I would like to think that after 20 years of effort, Netscape actually does more than 7.5 times as much stuff as it did in 1996. This is precisely the problem the article is about. Why should one application grow 7.5 responsibilities i
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by nilved 10y ago
That isn't _its_ feature. It belongs in a web browser as much as it belongs in Adobe Acrobat (although you could consider that a VM for executing untrusted code, too -- heoh!) If you want a VM for executing untrusted code, use a VM fo
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by nilved 10y ago
The Web is bad and getting worst, not better. I still don't understand why browsers became operating systems.
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by nilved 10y ago
That's a wonderful idea. I think that all HTML inputs should fork your $VISUAL.
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by nilved 10y ago
Tails is easier to set up, but Whonix is more secure. It compartmentalizes the Tor and anonymizing software away from the browser and other applications. To break Tor on Whonix, somebody would need to break the hypervisor (which is possib
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by nilved 10y ago
This has been well-known for a long time. It's also much easier to circumvent than they project. Write your message somewhere, copy it, and paste it elsewhere in a single keystroke.

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