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by scrapheap 1y ago
I couldn't get through this - I suspect it's because I decided a long time ago to make the effort to stop thinking of programming paradigm's as any one language, and instead to think of them in more abstract terms. That&#x27
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by scrapheap 1y ago
The lack of support for graphics sounds limiting until you realise that most graphics attached to emails that you need to read, are just in people's signatures and a complete waste of your screen space and bandwidth... :D
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by scrapheap 1y ago
They are slowly reducing the period that certificates are valid for, not to the degree of milliseconds, but certainly to the point that renewing them will need to be automated.
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by scrapheap 1y ago
This makes sense to me. You should never rely on your CA to let you know that a certificate is due to expire soon, you should have your own monitoring in place that actively checks this for you.
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Revoking certificates and expiring certificates tackle two different security issues. You revoke a certificate when you believe that it might have been compromised. Expiring certificates helps protect you when you've unknowingly been
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by scrapheap 1y ago
When it comes to books I mostly ignore the reviews on sites like Goodreads. I'm much more likely to pick books based on recommendations from friends, or because they've been nominated for one or more awards. At a pinch I'm
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by scrapheap 1y ago
The way I've tackled this type of issue in the past is to use Kerberos. You get you client machines set up to get their Ticket Granting Ticket on user login and then that can be used to connect to most relational databases. You then s
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Alternative view - Open Source projects have the freedom to do what they want to do. Which in turn gives me the freedom to choose how I set up my desktop environment. How many changes have been pushed on Windows users over the last 15 year
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Given the massive list of restrictions on how the hypothetical $35,000 could be used, leads me to believe that it's come from illegal activities. In which case you'd want to launder it and then use it to pay your lawyer, as that
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by scrapheap 1y ago
I'm sure that I'm not the only person here being reminded by this that over 30 years ago they were being amazed by viewing JPEGs on their Amiga using HAM mode...
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by scrapheap 1y ago
I'm in my early 50s and each year I still feel I'm better at my craft than I was the year before, which was better than the year before that. I think that in some ways I've been lucky as I started back when you could hold the
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by scrapheap 1y ago
For me information tends to fall into one of the following categories: Information that I need right now, but won't need once the task I'm working on is complete (e.g. A standard algorithm that I'm adapting to a specific use
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Well I know the CPU in my laptop is already over 10 years old and still works good enough for everything I do.
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by scrapheap 1y ago
I'm actively not using AI coding assistance as I think it would weaken my ability in the long run.
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Yes, the problem with 3DES isn't the key length, it's the 64bit block size which opens it up to birthday attacks if it's used in a stream for a long enough with the same key. Defending against this sort of attack is one of th
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by scrapheap 2y ago
It's worth noticing that the performance difference between sequential and non-sequential reads will differ significantly between types of devices. It's much more noticeable on a spinning hard disk drive than it is on a solid-sta
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Out of interest, why wouldn't you expect the created timestamp for a file that you've created by copying another file to be the point in time which the copy was made? After all, before that moment the file didn't exist, and
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by scrapheap 2y ago
So you also would expect some of the file system attributes to be copied, but not all of them. :D
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by scrapheap 2y ago
But what you're referring to here are the attributes that the file system stores about the file, not the file itself. By default I wouldn't expect a copy of a file to have identical file system attributes, just an identical conten
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by scrapheap 2y ago
What do you mean by perfect copies here? Do you mean the file content itself or are you also including the filesystem attributes related to the file in your definition?
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I can understand when a company has a policy of never giving feedback, but it's a shame when they can't at least be polite about it. How hard is it to have an standard response saying something along the lines of "Sorry, it
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I didn't know there was lithium-ion's in AA and AAA sizes. Any good recommendations?
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Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far (2024)(theatlantic.com)
3 points by scrapheap 2y ago|3 comments
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I'm a big fan of both Mermaid and Graphviz - Thanks to GitLab supporting Mermaid we can put relevant project diagrams inline in Markdown docs that live in the same git repo as the rest of the project code. And if I need to generate a g
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Favorite is hard, but if you use vim and don't know that `.` repeats the last change then you're missing out. It's really useful for those times where you need to make the same change in lots of places in a file, but not eve
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by scrapheap 2y ago
> When you move, do you expect to be able to keep using your previous postal addresses? (Perhaps there could be some benefits...) In some countries you can tell the postal service that you're moving and, for set period of time, the
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I don't know about your network, but for me that NAT device is sat on my network and so very much my problem :D
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by scrapheap 2y ago
The Freescape 3D Engine was in use in the 80's (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescape ).
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Yes and no. If that memory isn't being used and other things need the memory then the OS will very quickly dump it into swap, and as it's never being touched the OS will never need to bring it back in to physical memory. So while
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by scrapheap 2y ago
A damaged one you're trying to recover :)

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