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by pdpi 5mo ago
As always, the TIOBE Index is of dubious value. The fact that it ranks Delphi above both Go and Rust should give you an idea of why.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
They only allow private repos as an exception, and only insofar as they're ancillary to open source projects. From their FAQs[0]: > Codeberg's mission is to promote free/libre software. Keeping software private is obviousl
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Shamir's is based on the fundamental theorem of algebra — you need n+1 points to uniquely define a degree n polynomial. So you achieve an n of k setup by building a degree n-1 polynomial p(x) and taking k random points from that po
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> Hmm I don't think it's as black and white as just blaming airbus. Then it’s a good thing they didn’t. Both Airbus and Air France were found guilty, and poor pilot training was specifically called out as a reason why Air Franc
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by pdpi 5mo ago
The comparison with Ruby is spot on. I always thought that DSLs were the one thing Ruby did better than the competition, but Kotlin's combination of receiver lambdas plus syntactic sugar for calling higher-order functions make it an ev
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Qualified immunity, as a concept, makes perfect sense. Police officers are not jurists, and they will make mistakes in enforcing the law. Making those officers personally liable for ho
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Given it comes immediately after the bit about philosophers comparing memories to furniture, I simply assumed that was meant to be read as “Pratchett, who knew more about the goings on inside people’s heads than most”.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Let's save the accusations of sweeping things under the rug for if and when they actually release this rewrite in a sloppy, buggy state.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> formal systems that are sufficiently expressive One of the more interesting bits about this is understanding what "sufficiently expressive" means. The Naturals are incomplete, the Reals aren't.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> Germany's domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France, instead of US-based Palantir. That's the summary from the article, and directly contradicts your point that they're snubbin
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Offering clarification is good, shitting on the article is bad. The article does, in fact, do a perfectly fine job of explaining what a swift brick is. GP could easily have said “I couldn’t quite picture what a swift brick is”, but instead
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by pdpi 5mo ago
The photo is somewhat NSFW (lots of exposed skin, no “naughty bits”), but it’s well worth looking at in some detail. It’s an amazing photo!
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by pdpi 5mo ago
And here's yet another four-lowercase-letter-name for you, then. Dunno about the other two, but I've been using this handle for over twenty years, it was originally the auto-generated username I got assigned on one of my universit
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Given that you’re forced to rent the cap and gown, I think it’s safe to say that competitive forces are entirely absent in this scenario.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
... and sending a cease and desist to OrcaSlicer somehow mitigates that DDoS?
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by pdpi 5mo ago
My current Ghostty session on macOS is holding on to 127.8 MiB of real memory, and only 37.5 MiB of private memory. What's the Linux build up to that makes up for that difference?
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> You simply can't expect every software that wants a plugin system to have the same security practices as the most used software in the world. I'm not saying that I think they should, or that I expect them to. I'm saying
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Software engineers at large would benefit from playing World of Warcraft, and seeing the ongoing fight between Blizzard and add-on authors. WoW's whole UI is built in the same Lua environment as add-ons, and Blizzard has implemented so
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> Partly because it was founded (in part) by oppressed minorities fleeing states where the were constantly harassed by authorities Nah, it's a principle that was brought in from English common law. E.g Blackstone's Ratio[0] was
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by pdpi 5mo ago
It's diskless from the point of view of the device being booted.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> You can automate away 80% of CEOs by Markov chains, and it would be a benefit to society at large. Yet it doesn’t happen, why? Because, at some level, people understand that a CEO’s job is largely about the human interaction part, so t
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by pdpi 5mo ago
The actual content of the post is straightforward and not particularly novel — YC has a stake in OpenAI, that creates a conflict of interest, and the New Yorker is negligent (in the informal sense) for not putting that in their piece. It’s
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Yeah absolutely. That was precisely my point — Requiring a secret (be it a password or the private part of an asymmetric key) isn't security through obscurity, and finding the sequence of knocks is equivalent to finding a password of e
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Port knocking isn't security through obscurity. Given the knowledge that you have a port knocking system in place doesn't tell me what specific sequence of knocks will open up the service I want to target. Even just a two knock se
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by pdpi 5mo ago
We're in a technical forum, discussing a term of art that refers to a very specific bad practice. Lucketone's argument is essentially saying that the bad practice itself isn't actually a bad practice by equivocating the term
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> All modes of cyber security depend on some obscurity (e.g. password) That's not what the expression means. "Security through obscurity" has a very specific meaning — that your system's security depends on your adver
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by pdpi 5mo ago
There's still a difference — GOG provides you with downloadable installers you can archive, Steam doesn't.
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You have a set of diagnosis criteria, and matching those criteria gets you the ADHD diagnosis. This study takes people who fit the diagnosis, and says there's a test you can do to split those people into three groups. But yes, once the
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Sure :) Though I'd argue that the metaphor only works insofar as we believe that toasting bread is something are uniquely qualified to do, just like the original statement assumes that poetry is a uniquely human skill. (Though I do agr
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Sort of how programming isn't the same as writing code — it also involves a bunch of other thing like all the design and planning work.

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