someguy1234

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   by someguy1234 10y ago

   Yeah, they have to because of how they work. As much as possible they do via SAML, and for that no plaintext is needed. But a lot of their customers want to log in to sites that don't support SAML (it's hard). For those they do fo
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   by someguy1234 10y ago

   It's the same. TextSecure called it "Axolotl", but the "Signal protocol" appears to just be a branding change.
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   by someguy1234 11y ago

   Sometimes you do it because the compiler insists a case (that really can never happen) needs to be handled. It happens a lot to me in Rust and Go.
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   by someguy1234 11y ago

   ThreadPool would lock the GIL, wouldn't it? I think multiprocessing.Pool uses processes and that's where you can avoid the GIL (each process gets its own) at the cost of making data sharing harder. Even with the GIL, ThreadPools a