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by seppel 6y ago
There are a lot of question where I would have problems to asses whether an answer is a correct/valid one. I'd even argue that different people would accept different answers as answers. Which in turn make them bad questions to be
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by seppel 6y ago
> Because so few people are interested in offsets right now, there's a huge amount of "low-hanging fruit" options for cheap things humanity can do to offset carbon emissions. Yeah, that the trick. To put it boldly: What th
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by seppel 6y ago
What are people using to store API tokens (eg. hmac based secrets)? My understanding is that it is symmetric so you need to store it in a recoverable way -- which always means you can leak it. What are better ways?
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by seppel 6y ago
Well, I already moved to Paypal whereever I'm forced to do this dance. It is also completely unusable for me when travelling, because I like to keep the stuff to authorize unlimited transactions from my bank account at home. Use using
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by seppel 6y ago
They sometimes trying it in German but I bail out when I'm asked to jump through this extra hoops.
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by seppel 6y ago
My card has a PIN but the PIN is actually quite dangerous. If someone gets my PIN, then it fraudulent transactions become my problem. Whereas a stolen credit card number is a problem for the bank or the merchant.
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by seppel 6y ago
And its super annoying. I bail out when I'm asked to do that.
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by seppel 6y ago
> It provides some revenue stream into Mozilla and it's a genuinely useful service. FF itself provides a massive revenue stream.
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by seppel 6y ago
Firefox is my standard browser but it is completely unusable for printing anything; I always have to switch to Chrome to print.
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by seppel 6y ago
Replacing the glibc memory allocation with tcmalloc or jemalloc did wonders in many projects I worked with.
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by seppel 6y ago
> I've found "efficiency as the opposite of stability" a very powerful concept to think about I think this concept misses capacity. I my opinion, it is crucial that you always leave some over-capacity to have stability (le
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by seppel 6y ago
> Since not enough people are donating, they have to figure out how to make money otherwise. I'd love to donate but only for the browser, not for that other stuff. And that seems to be the main problem here: They make tons of money,
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by seppel 6y ago
Yes, which is incredibly sad. Both, that they no longer have the best product and that they no longer try.
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by seppel 6y ago
> They can make Firefox better, and have been doing that a lot. The problem is - it doesn't make the users to come. Google, Apple, Microsoft - all own platforms that people use, and they heavily push the users towards their own brow
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by seppel 6y ago
> You simply can not fight such a war and win, you can only lose gracefully. Of course you can, as it was shown by FF winning against the preinstalled IE a decade ago. Users were happiliy switching away, because FF was just the better br
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by seppel 6y ago
"just"
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by seppel 6y ago
Cruise control maintains the speed as long as it is physically possible. You don't need to supervise that it maintains the speed, it is able to do it on its own. It is (usually) even better than a human in maintaining the speed. Of cou
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by seppel 6y ago
> Doesn't the state provide roads for Amazon Amazon is already paying for using the roads, since they are by large toll-roads.
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by seppel 6y ago
Lucid dream?
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by seppel 6y ago
> No, just the common understanding of autopilot for aircraft. The autopilot for a aircraft does whatever it is supposed to do without human supervision. If you turn on keep heading, it will keep the heading (within physical limitations)
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by seppel 6y ago
The thing is: Cruise control maintains the speed without human supervision. Lane keep assist does not keep in a lane without human supervision (hence it is only assist).
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by seppel 6y ago
> as well as a majority of restaurants and bars until prb early 2021. The majority of bars and restaurants are back open in Germany.
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by seppel 6y ago
> It disproportionately effects men because it's much more acceptable for a lower status women who is at least somewhat physically attractive to set up shop in a higher status man's life than vice versa. But it doesnt add up. G
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by seppel 6y ago
If men have more sex in stable relationships, and for women it does not matter, then with whom do the women sleep with?
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by seppel 6y ago
> People don't need to be having sex. As long as people are happy. Sure. But given that women and gay men does not seem to be affected, I'd suspect that this is involuntary abstinence for a lot of these men.
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by seppel 6y ago
This article awkwardly dances around reasons why young men have less sex. First it is "social media and electronic gaming", then the reasons "may also include stress of juggling work and intimate relationships, as well as the
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by seppel 6y ago
The x87 had (and still has) a stack. Itanium tried something as well. The problem is that it does not really fit to complied code. The compiler usually has no clue how deep the stack is when a function is called (esp. with function pointer,
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by seppel 6y ago
Java's checked exceptions pretty much died when they introduced lambdas. They don't work well together, at least not in the java type system. Further, I'd say that IndexOutOfBoundsException can happen pretty much everywhere,
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by seppel 6y ago
A database is also exceptionally good at doing transactional stuff like atomically incrementing something. I'd even say: This is something that belongs in the database and not in some brittle application logic.
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by seppel 6y ago
So, what does trigger grep to regard a file as binary/non-text? For me, it seems these are not only NUL characters. And I also think that this would not be a discussion if it was just about NUL. There is something else that grep does n

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