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by ric2b 2y ago
Is it to stop downloaders? I doubt it since they work just fine, it's probably just a way to reduce resource usage on more constrained platforms like low end mobile phones or smart tvs. There is probably a lot of code sharing among all
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by ric2b 2y ago
Gnome is very well designed and consistent. And yes, they employ UX designers.
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by ric2b 2y ago
Microsoft doesn't have astronomically low price points.
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by ric2b 2y ago
One merely needs to look at US history to see that this is incorrect, before the Federal Reserve existed there were several competing bank "currencies" backed by gold that were commonly used instead of gold because they were easie
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by ric2b 2y ago
If you can exchange cash you can just exchange crypto at the same time as well. Instead of dollar bills for peso bills you exchange a crypto transaction for peso bills.
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by ric2b 2y ago
The article talks about one such example, Argentina, and how it was harder to own USD than Bitcoin there.
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by ric2b 2y ago
It is celebrated, not made fun of.
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by ric2b 2y ago
That quote, or anything similar, is not present in the article.
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by ric2b 2y ago
By that logic stocks of companies that don't issue dividends are the same.
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by ric2b 2y ago
DRY should honestly just be restated as "Avoid multiple source of truth", two pieces of code that look similar but have two separate goals are not something that falls under DRY unless you can pull out some common logic that actua
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by ric2b 2y ago
Adversaries can see IP addresses, not hostnames, although they can be highly correlated (especially for large websites with dedicated infrastructure instead of shared hosting).
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by ric2b 2y ago
Unless you're talking about DNS snooping, no, you can't see which hostname an HTTPS request is for. If the IP address is only used to serve one website, sure, you can still see that, but that is very commonly not the case, especia
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by ric2b 2y ago
HTTP MITM doesn't need to be targeted, it could just as well be a crypto-miner script injected into every HTML response that passes through some box. People need to stop pretending that HTTP injection is complicated enough to only happ
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by ric2b 2y ago
ISP's have been known to inject ads into HTTP pages, and ads are the least malicious thing that could be done by an ISP or wifi hotspot. HTTP MITM is way too cheap and accessible to pretend you're not vulnerable to it constantly o
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by ric2b 2y ago
When you can be CEO of multiple companies at the same time _and_ be on the board of several other companies, being CEO clearly isn't a full time job, at least for the people that aren't just focused on being CEO of a single compan
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by ric2b 2y ago
The stuff that isn't covered is the stuff that will naturally wear out with use and can be easily replaced, so I don't see the problem.
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by ric2b 2y ago
It is remarkably consistent, tourists go to McD's very often when short on time because they know almost exactly what they’re getting, even though they might be a 10h flight from their home.
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by ric2b 2y ago
In Portugal you get into university strictly based on your test scores and school grades, the university doesn't get to "pick" who it accepts. Which countries are you referring to?
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by ric2b 2y ago
They mean that this OS only runs iPad apps, it doesn't let you run the kind of software you expect to take full advantage of the CPU.
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by ric2b 2y ago
This page has the arguments in favor or fuel consumed per distance travelled: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a12367/4324986/
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by ric2b 2y ago
From: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a12367/4324986/ "Quick, which is better: Replacing an 18-mpg car with a 28-mpg one, or going from a 34-mpg car to one that returns 50 mpg? Researchers at Duke
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by ric2b 3y ago
I regularly ask the waiter how large is the plate or if they do half-plate (quite common) if I'm not feeling very hungry. If they don't do half-plate and the plates are large I might ask around the table if someone wants to split
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by ric2b 3y ago
So you make an HTTP request to some server and it takes 60 seconds to respond. Externally you set that flag 1 second into the HTTP request. Your program has to wait for 59 seconds before it finally has a chance at cancelling, even though yo
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by ric2b 3y ago
And what did those Amendments do in Guantanamo Bay and CIA blacksites?
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by ric2b 3y ago
Now all your numbers are strings
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by ric2b 3y ago
If it's basic programming ability why bother making the distinction?
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by ric2b 3y ago
> Passkey support is disabled by default Thank, I hadn't noticed that, I thought I had to wait for the extension to be updated after the announcement from KeepassXC. > After that, the UI seems reasonable enough. I tried it on web
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by ric2b 3y ago
Why do they need more than the serial number, though?
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by ric2b 3y ago
If by "smallest pieces of the system" you mean something like individual classes then you are definitely testing implementation details. Whenever you change a method's parameters in one of those internal classes you'll h
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by ric2b 3y ago
If the test fails consistently (as it should) it is usually just a question of using a debugger and stepping through some suspect sections of the code to find the issue. Compared to the amount of time saved by not rewriting unit tests every

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