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by problems 9y ago
Critical thinking is all well and good, but I'll hazard a guess that it won't help - many people know it but only apply it selectively. On the other hand, I can't help but think comment threads like this amount to nothing mor
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by problems 9y ago
Indeed, most of the things created on the Ethereum platform are just shittier versions of things that exist - while decentralization can be a huge boon to some things it needs to combat its inherent complexity increase for users. Ethereum d
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by problems 9y ago
yes will give repeated data though, not just zeros, seems like it's more useful here - as others have pointed out, also uses less syscalls than /dev/zero.
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by problems 9y ago
Building on commodity hardware is cheap, easy, quick to develop and often more stable and secure. Going fully custom results in more custom components which are often less tested and less audited than their commodity counterparts. Yes, it s
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by problems 9y ago
Not really, if you block the domains of the trackers or prevent their scripts or remote content from running altogether there's no fingerprint for them to get. That does only apply to 3rd parties though, but they are often the main con
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by problems 9y ago
Considering that Sourcegraph doesn't support C or C++ and those are pretty much the only languages I write that have less than perfect IDE crossrefence support I don't really see a point in Sourcegraph at the moment.
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by problems 9y ago
I'm not saying a long random number cannot be secured or that using one is security by obscurity in the bad way, just that it's far too easy to leak a primary key by accident.
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by problems 9y ago
What if those customers want to run legacy 16 bit apps in NTVDM? I have a few games I like that I occasionally fire up a 32 bit VM for just for this reason. If you're using 16-bit Point of Sale software for example you might just decid
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by problems 9y ago
> As far as I know, all Bay Trail devices are running a 32-bit copy of Windows because of this. Can you not just boot it in BIOS mode? Should be possible for the OS to escalate from there.
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by problems 9y ago
> Botnets will just keep guessing until they find one. Why does your security rely on primary key obscurity? This seems like you're doing something horribly wrong, put some authentication on that or something. And no, no they won&#x
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by problems 9y ago
> you'll match the last few and first few letters just as fast in your head Definitely true, in fact I tend to prefer hex for this purpose. But one minor note - assuming the whole thing is cryptographic-strength random, there's
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by problems 9y ago
Looks like someone has opengrok run on openbsd here: http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/lib/libutil/bcrypt_pbkdf.c#98 Results seem pretty good.
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by problems 9y ago
There's a tool called OpenGrok that pretty much does this except it's free and open source and it works on C code. Someone has it run on the openbsd code here: http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/ and it should produce a m
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by problems 9y ago
For voice I can highly recommend Mumble, it's trivially self-hosted too and feels well integrated on all platforms. For video though your options are definitely more limited, keep an eye on Riot, I'm not sure that it's ready
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by problems 9y ago
> There's lots of uses for random but predictable numbers, e.g. adding random fuzz to a test suite run that you'd like to be able to repeat. One thing to note though, different platforms don't necessarily implement the ran
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by problems 9y ago
OpenBSD decided to violate the standard and return non-deterministic results: http://man.openbsd.org/rand.3
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by problems 9y ago
It's a common adage, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by problems 9y ago
I think people might be downvoting because you're sort of all over the place and expressing 2 different opinions which seem contradictory.
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by problems 9y ago
It's not just that the product itself is easy to copy, it's that the facts themselves are not copywritable, only the writing is. Meaning a source without that restriction provides the value without the cost. With the exception of
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by problems 9y ago
The problem with your assumption there is that both of those things cost money. The benefit ratio for a cheap, but crappy camera to an expensive one might be $250 to $1000, about a 4x ratio, that's a fairly low, finite and often measur
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by problems 9y ago
> HN isn't separate from real life, it's part of it. I wasn't suggesting it's separate - I was simply suggesting that I think its sexism level is comparable to many "real world" average places. I think that&
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by problems 9y ago
I'm sure they do, but their subscribers are still a minority of the news consuming market so that has absolutely no relevance to what I'm saying. Maybe the market is big enough to accommodate that business model, maybe they'r
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by problems 9y ago
Ultimately I don't think a market exists for it anymore. Information like that is just assumed to be free on the internet, I don't particularly care whether it's AP, WSJ, BBC or CNN as long as it's reasonably informative
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by problems 9y ago
Then go to that source, not to Google. If you go to Google, expect to find content that provides Google users value.
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by problems 9y ago
> Sexism on HN is prevalent Sexism on HN is prevalent amongst the most downvoted comments on the page perhaps... I wouldn't say this community has a sexism problem any more than "real life has a sexism problem", the same -
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, in fact I think in more adult or government teams someone non-binary might be better off. You'll have easy union and HR support if needed and most people in such positions just want to get the job done and stay out of eachother&#
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by problems 9y ago
Surface Pro will slaughter this thing too as it runs a full desktop OS and an Intel chip.
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by problems 9y ago
Seriously, some of the altcoins I've seen are launched on such terrible ideas... The Brave browser devs launched one that promises to pay people out for viewing ads. On their open source web browser that anyone can bot . It sold for
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, it's interesting because some alternatives like ZCash effectively solve this problem too, and provide full anonymity but they're fairly closely related and probably will get treated the same way by regulators in many places.
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by problems 9y ago
Interesting, similar functions in the Java world are always big endian: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/math/BigIntege... Seems like a rather poor decision on Microsoft's par

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