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by shawnz 5y ago
If there was never an "old way" of doing things that didn't involve the new TrustedInstaller system, then would we even be thinking twice about these new restrictions? Or would we just see the restrictions as part of the desi
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by shawnz 5y ago
This seems like the same kind of argument as saying that because JSON doesn't support the number formats I like, it would be better to use a notation that doesn't support types at all. Well, I think the reality has shown that in f
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by shawnz 5y ago
Certainly there is a lot of legacy with the registry, but how would any of these issues be improved by moving to a file based config? All these issues could still exist under that model, and there would be new issues too. Like for example,
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by shawnz 5y ago
This comment has gone grey but I think it is an important point. Our basic expectancies for what makes a comfortable life are higher than ever. Is that an ethical problem or just a result of more/better technology? I'm not really
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't think the other poster was imagining a language that retained compatibility with C, but rather a new language altogether. Of course it would be impossible to change this aspect of the language if retaining compatibility with C
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by shawnz 5y ago
In fact you can apply the single ampersand & operator to booleans in Java, and just like in the example here it has the same behaviour as && but with no short-circuiting.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Other than this particular edge case it's not obvious to me why bitwise operators shouldn't be applicable to boolean values. Aren't they just single-bit vectors? Of course it makes sense that logical operators wouldn't b
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by shawnz 5y ago
Visual Basic also has this distinction (but the keywords are "And" and "AndAlso")
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by shawnz 5y ago
Doesn't the P40 use the same chip as in the 1080 Ti? While the card may not strictly be a gaming GPU, it seems to be roughly equivalent in power to gaming GPUs from several generations ago.
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by shawnz 5y ago
It reduces appearance of wrinkles by controlled paralysis of facial muscles.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Single "big bang" atomic commits that update both the client and server with new features usually aren't practical, I can agree with that. I think the real intention of the "atomic commits" idea is a total ordering
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by shawnz 5y ago
See here for some notes from the WSL team why certain filesystem operations that would be fast on Linux are slow on Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-391... https://
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by shawnz 5y ago
Just like there is value in civil disobedience. I think it is a faulty assumption that the value of following the law is not understood by those purposefully breaking it.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Let's say there was no auto-update, how would that solve the problem of encouraging manual updates?
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by shawnz 5y ago
What's the difference between "knowing things" and finding a more compressed form of the solution space?
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by shawnz 5y ago
If you have zip codes, don't store those in a numeric type (doesn't matter if it's Excel, R, or any other system) Zip codes aren't numbers, they are strings that happen to contain only numeric characters
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by shawnz 5y ago
DHCP is a mechanism to automatically configure clients with useful defaults, like a DNS server. It's not a system for enforcing network policies. There was never supposed to be any requirement to observe what DHCP tells you.
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by shawnz 5y ago
The most obvious reason is that they're private and not normally reachable from your test code. But even conceptually there are problems with testing private methods. For example they likely expect to be called only while the class is
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by shawnz 5y ago
You don't unit test private methods, the "unit" is the exposed surface of the class.
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by shawnz 5y ago
They actually are recommending for everyone to add fake ESNI/ECH data even if you don't intend to use ESNI/ECH. See: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni#se...
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by shawnz 5y ago
That problem isn't solved by DoH, you still need to hardcode the DoH server IP there too if you intend to bypass the network level settings. So a proprietary system would be no different. All the major appliance vendors (Google, Amazon
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by shawnz 5y ago
If the possibility of having the DNS packets rewritten was a concern for them, any junior developer could have easily implemented a proprietary REST web service to get the IPs over HTTPS just like DoH. Standardization of DoH in browsers isn
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by shawnz 5y ago
Chromecast was already bypassing local DNS for years before DoH was even conceived. Blocking people from using DoH isn't going to solve the problem you are describing, it will just weaken users' privacy. Big vendors like Google wi
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by shawnz 5y ago
> Ah, so users can choose to override the local network administration? ... Presumably enabling DoH makes malware, advertising, etc., impossible to block? It was always trivially possible to bypass DNS-based access control. Even before t
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by shawnz 5y ago
It will automatically fall back to the internal DNS for names that don't resolve externally, so you might not need to do anything
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by shawnz 5y ago
Firefox has indeed been making efforts to enable ESNI/ECH alongside their efforts to enable DoH. As you mention, they are mostly only useful together.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Possibly relevant context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVjvKQ5CXY
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by shawnz 5y ago
I have been quite happy with my grandfathered 6gb for $30 plan from Freedom Mobile. Their currently available plans aren't so bad either. In the past they have had poor signal compared to Rogers but these days it's fine for me in
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by shawnz 5y ago
Staking requires all those things too. Or you could pay a service to do it for you, but that applies to PoW mining as well.
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by shawnz 5y ago
That aspect is the same as PoW. PoW rewards also depend on what the value of the coin does. You are right that you wouldn't normally consider alternate investments like that. But with PoS, where the only cost is the time value of the m

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