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by ploxiln 11y ago
You could add one more line of crappy code to work around another line of crappy code, when explicitly asked to by your product manager, but that's a pretty bad way to do it. Even if a lot of people out there are doing it to make a liv
902.
by ploxiln 11y ago
If you have to keep welfare, medicare, social security, etc... then what's the point? Just another bureaucratic money sink?
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I'm kinda libertarian, and I kinda like the idea of a UBI, because it means we no longer need people in power to make decisions about who gets welfare and other social support, and all the gaming and corruption involved. I've come
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by ploxiln 11y ago
libjpeg is silly, but that's why everyone uses libjpeg-turbo now, which maintains API/ABI compatibility with libjpeg v8 http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Jpeg-9 And if it comes to having a library or two wit
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by ploxiln 11y ago
The instability of libraries is enabled by the bundling culture of the ecosystem. System libraries are extremely API and ABI stable, including libc, libz, libpng, xlib, gtk+2, glib2, etc. npm enables bundled libraries to have their own bund
906.
by ploxiln 11y ago
getrandom() has a mode where it acts fully like /dev/random - and it's for some (misguided but very important to some big businesses) security certifications
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by ploxiln 11y ago
The problem/difference is that mobile apps are like websites. You might want to "visit" any one of them, even if you're not sure you trust it. You want to see what it has to offer. You expect the app to represent some co
908.
by ploxiln 11y ago
"harm or cause damage" has been redefined such that what this now means is "free speech as long as it's positive". These days, making someone feel bad is considered harm. Obvious hyperbole such as you would use with
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Purism claims to have gotten access to intel CPUs specially fused to run unsigned Management Engine firmware, and it claims to have made progress on a minimal replacement for the ME firmware. The plan for the microcode is to just not ship a
910.
by ploxiln 11y ago
I also disagree with a closed internet. Users, like TV viewers skipping channels, recording to VHS, or leaving the TV on but mute for a house party, should be able to do what they want. A website should not be forcing an agenda for how cons
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by ploxiln 11y ago
My favorite Drepper bug thread: strfry() gives skewed distributions https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4403
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I would compare the apple hardware agreement they violated to software agreements which forbid analysis, reverse engineering, or even benchmarking (there's some notable enterprisey software which forbids conducting benchmarks and shari
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by ploxiln 11y ago
It would be hypocrisy if they re-created a copycat apple tv and sold it or distributed it with ads. They didn't do anything like that. Also, they likely violate EULAs (the A is for agreement) for non-pre-release hardware all the time.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Unless that is exactly what has overwhelmed their ability to make sense of what's available: they ignore new drugs as a protection mechanism against marketing-driven information which is less correlated with efficacy and more correlate
915.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Major browsers have given up on user indicators anyway. They've decided that all they can do is pass/fail, and if fail, make it very hard for the user to access the site at all. (I hate the trend but that's how it is.)
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NSQ release 0.3.6(github.com)
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by ploxiln 11y ago
The latter. I don't really understand the ocean metaphor, since humans have seen below the surface, quite a distance with remote-controlled submersibles.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Well, the only one of the many-worlds that actually matters is this particular one, right here. What can we say/predict about this exact one. The others don't matter to me in the slightest... EDIT: well that's not a great exp
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by ploxiln 11y ago
The blog post links to previous analysis of vulnerabilities in Sophos and ESET products. "Many of the vulnerabilities described in this paper could have been severely limited by correct security design, employing modern
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by ploxiln 11y ago
see also https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...
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by ploxiln 11y ago
"lisp machines were made by (pretty much) a single company (symbolics)" Actually, there was a rivalry with another company that's really worth mentioning, LMI (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machi
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by ploxiln 11y ago
It seems like the common safe crypto expert suggestion of deferring to authority is a bit of a philosophical problem. Deferring to authority is how everyone got into this SSL/TLS/openssl mess! I guess it's what you have to do
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by ploxiln 11y ago
And yet, command-line commands are much more explicit than a click or drag in a GUI, which depends on all the implicit state in the rest of the application. Really, in both cases, some things are implicit and other things are explicit, thes
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by ploxiln 11y ago
If the best ad blocking options for iOS continue to be non-free, and grow in popularity, well that would be pretty eloquent, wouldn't it: People will pay (a relatively small amount I guess) to see no ads on most sites. (disclaimer: I
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by ploxiln 11y ago
"C++ instead of bare bones unsafe C" is C++ really much safer than C? "an OOP ABI (COM)" you really think this sort of thing is super great and there's nothing like it on "UNIX clones"? I have heard intere
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Different state and so different courts / justices, but seems very relevant to the previously big story here about buying out structured settlements for lump sums: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10120489
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by ploxiln 11y ago
By that logic, they shouldn't teach math or english either. (EDIT: maybe just math is the really good example here)
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I think Fukushima, and various investigations and revelations it inspired, showed how the problems are more social than technical. Nuclear power plants produce a lot of power very cheaply for many years. But companies can't help but pu
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Unfortunately the popular sites like youtube have not-exactly-DMCA arrangements with large copyright holders, because otherwise they would (still) be indefinitely in court and spending millions upon millions (regardless of the merit of the
930.
by ploxiln 11y ago
python also has a pretty big standard library. I don't have much specific experience before python 2.5, but I do know that code written for python 2.5 (released in 2006) is just about 100% compatible with python 2.7 which still has sup

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