sugarfactory

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by sugarfactory 9y ago
It seems that you (like a great number of other people) assume that an ordinary person without special skills cannot comprehend what some code does once it is compiled. But that assumption is fortunately wrong. It is easier than you think t
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
Even though my intuition tells me that I should support neurodiversity my reasoning keeps failing to justify it without introducing "diversity is unconditionally good" as an axiom. I find it difficult to add it to the list of axio
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
Once I tried to figure out how to parse complex C declarations just by reading the specification ( http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf ), that is, without consulting guides for l
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
It might be the right thing to do to torture, to add more pain to, someone who already feels so much pain that she attempts suicide, by some standard that I cannot comprehend. We might have to accept such a standard as the cost of diversity
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
It's just funny that it is still called "natural selection" even when the environment that selects individuals is created by nothing but ourselves. I think it'd be much more accurate to call it "social selection&quo
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
I meant HTTP but I have to admit it was not clear. What I had in my mind when I wrote that was there needs to be something that forces people to provide semantics of web pages. By which I mean HTTP is too liberal, allowing any kind of docum
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
Extracting machine-understandable meaning from web pages is much analogous to extracting text from images. Fortunately, we usually don't need to process web pages using fancy yet hardly accurate algorithms in order to extract machine-r
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
You can read Wikipedia articles without letting them know which article you're reading by downloading the database dump of Wikipedia, which can be obtained at dumps.wikimedia.org.
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by sugarfactory 10y ago
Google developed SPDY, an efficient binary representation of HTTP messages. Maybe they will do the same thing but for HTML. It would be much more efficient if one could design a binary representation of HTML that can only express well-forme
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
It'd be great if it were implemented as a peer-to-peer protocol as it'd make taking the service down much more difficult. EDIT: Although making the service completely peer-to-peer might be impossible, it is possible to distribute
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
I suppose not. I presume the way would be vulnerabilities in code handling untrusted data streams such as USB, Wi-Fi, or BlueTooth. Although the amount of time it takes might be getting longer, every major iOS update eventually has had jail
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
I quite agree. However I have seen a great many registration forms that only accept a short password. If passwords are handled properly there's no reason to limit password length because a password will get converted to a fixed-length
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
I think Apple and all other tech companies that support it move as the FBI (or whoever controls the FBI) expected or wanted. What was revealed a few years ago was the fact that big tech companies betrayed people's trust. So quite natur
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
I think Daylight Saving Time is a bad idea in the same sense that (abusing) global variables is a bad idea in programming. In programming, changing a global state in order to achieve something is almost always a bad practice because it affe
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
> A sufficiently paranoid individual can only run code they wrote themselves. I'd say that is not sufficient because even in this case you trust someone: the manufacturer of the CPU on which the code would run. It might surprise som
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
I had been doing this until some time ago to block ads and to prevent Google from collecting my web browsing history via Google Analytics. During the time I witnessed a strange phenomenon. Every time I added "127.0.0.1 www.google-anal
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
What I don't understand about authentication over HTTPS is, though, why not making login a part of the protocol? Wouldn't it be much better to authenticate a user with a public key of the user like in SSH, instead of password auth
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
The author of Tree Style Tab has commented (in Japanese) on the change to deprecate add-ons making use of XUL. [1] Roughly what he said might be summarized as follows (sorry if I misunderstood his intention): Tree Style Tab is useful becaus
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
How naive it is to believe that Microsoft will obey these settings? It is very time-consuming to make sure if they fulfill the promise because that requires reading disassembly as Windows is closed-source. And, even if they were caught not
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
This might also be useful for combating attempts to reveal authors' identities using forensic linguistics.
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
Why is it hard to track users when DuckDuckGo has access logs (tuples of date/times, ip addresses and queries) and ISPs have a pair of a date/time and an ip address -> a real identity mappings?
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
That's why we need a truly decentralized search engine so that there's no one to trust and to have power therefore no way to pressure someone.
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by sugarfactory 11y ago
I'm paranoid and it makes me sick the fact that there's no push platform that supports encryption. I don't want service providers to know what I push.
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by sugarfactory 12y ago
"Centralized" was not the word you were looking for. Decentralized systems can serve the searching functionality as proved by many (pure) P2P file-sharing protocols.
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by sugarfactory 12y ago
> Every URL saved in more than one place increases the likelihood that their content will survive as domains change owners. Surely it's obvious that the more copies the better for the backup purpose. Then, why is he advocating cloud
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by sugarfactory 12y ago
I use this bookmarklet (taken from Stack Exchange [0]) on webpages that disable pinch-to-zoom to re-enable it on iOS devices. Some pages crash Safari after using it and zooming for unknown reasons. javascript:document.querySelector(&#
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by sugarfactory 12y ago
A few seconds of googling gave me this WordPress plugin that requres a proof-of-work when posting a comment: http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/
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by sugarfactory 12y ago
You shouldn't use any of the alternatives listed here either. Because none of those supports encryption. All the cloud storage services which do not provide encryption are unexceptionally evil. Because given the easiness of implementin