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Nuclear weapons agency breached amid cyber onslaught(politico.com)
43 points by superjan 6y ago|4 comments
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Lego won't make modern war machines, but others are picking up the pieces(edition.cnn.com)
8 points by superjan 6y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 6y ago
Good advice. But really why do you need 500k extra javascript to play a video?
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by superjan 6y ago
But what if people don’t “Like” the truth?
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by superjan 6y ago
What I like about this article is that discusses the issue of layout changes during load. I can not stand websites moving text around while I’m reading. Part of the blame is on browsers: why bother to render a page before all cached resours
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by superjan 6y ago
If the popup is trying to be compliant with gdpr, “more options” followed by “save” should do. They are not allowed to enable tracking by default.
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by superjan 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I have long suspected that TLS does this. It is great: for many applications preventing bitflips in transit is arguably more important than privacy. Is there an authorative source where this is documented?
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by superjan 6y ago
I wonder, has anyone written about to what extent XCode has been optimized for the M1? With the wide decoder loop unrolling gets a lot more attractive....
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by superjan 6y ago
Yes. I think that this paper’s contribution is not that it pretends to be the final answer, but that this technique is even feasible at all.
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Metro Train Driver Saved by a Whale’s Tail After Crashing Through Safety Barrier(goodnewsnetwork.org)
2 points by superjan 6y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 6y ago
But twitter supports this feature. Why is it their responsibility to enforce this?
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by superjan 6y ago
This article suggests it refutes the linked article. That was more about the developer experience than about safety. That rust is better for safety is not news.
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by superjan 6y ago
No those are actual forces pulling you apart.
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by superjan 6y ago
No, if you only write the last name in isolation then you should capitalize the ‘D’. So it’s Mr De Zwart, but Hans de Zwart.
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by superjan 6y ago
He did not suggest casing a house is OK.
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by superjan 6y ago
Many people use datetime data types for dates, some unknowingly, some don’t care and some because they don’t see an alternative. Its quite strange there is rarely language/library support for true, not timezone dependent dates.
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by superjan 6y ago
What I pieced together from the referenced “dark forest” article, ethereum cryptocurrency allows you to upload programs (smart contracts) that specify under what conditions cryptocurrency changes hands. If there are bugs in these programs,
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Mexico’s Giant Crystal Cave Comes to Light (2007)(nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by superjan 6y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 6y ago
Copy-pasting random javascript from the internet is not good security hygene.
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by superjan 6y ago
I agree with the author in that you should think twice about adding a dependency. I’d be willing to invest way more than an afternoon, depending on the circumstances. Adding a dependency is also work. How much depends on your work environme
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by superjan 6y ago
In the Netherlands we also require ID. But everybody already has an Id card because you need it to travel abroad. In the US, a lot of people dont have a passport, especcially the less wealthy ones.
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by superjan 6y ago
Tangent: I once tried to help a friend (non-coder) with his slow excel sheet. He was using string search in excel to match virus DNA fragments. As you’d expect, it was way more complicated than neccesary, and likely buggy. I searched around
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by superjan 6y ago
A few years ago it was in the news that several militairy shipwrecks vanished in indonesia waters[0], presumably plundered for the steel. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37997640
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by superjan 6y ago
52 bit precision? typo?
565.
by superjan 6y ago
If you write code that does basic arithmatic, a and b will do just fine in my experience. If I’m implementing an existing algorithm, I like to stick as close to the algoritm’s symbol use as close as possible. I miss that I can’t use greek s
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by superjan 6y ago
It is no news that average income is higher in the US, compared to Europe. The point of social safety nets is not to improve your gross national product, but to reduce poverty.
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by superjan 6y ago
To windows 10 users with bad wifi experience: windows power management has become more agressive, it caused dropped VPN connections continuously until I put power management to High performance for all power profiles. It took me aLmost a ye
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by superjan 6y ago
It reminds me of this quote “a supercompter is a device that turns a compute bound problem into an IO bound problem” (Ken Batcher).
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by superjan 6y ago
In my team we have been using svn/totortoisesvn to store our word documents. It integrates nicely with word’s doc compare.
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by superjan 7y ago
Not all airlines are as strict with maintenance as you’d like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261#Ext...

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