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by thadt 3y ago
Had a conversation with a friend yesterday about a case [1] where students at Oxford spent 500 years swearing irreconciliation with a guy from the 1200s as a part of their graduation vows. When it was reviewed in the 1600s, someone suggeste
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Traditions – Oxford grads spend 500 years swearing animosity to Henry Symeonis(blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)
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As a Fastmail customer (and software developer who is unfamiliar with how unions would/will work in this space), why would I not already be concerned? My first impression is "man, they must not be treating their employees that wel
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Why do we feel using variable length integers in protobuf's wire format vs strings is an instant deal breaker? Isn't understanding a protocol is going to require a more documentation than just a string field name? The kind of docu
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tptacek wrote up a rather nice comparative survey of the field, including Biscuits and Macaroons https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey
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> Personal accountability is critical even if sometimes it’s hard to swallow. Full agreement. My point was more that not only is personal accountability important, but in a healty organization we should also be accountable for each other
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So 'Hugh' gets to feel smug because he knows the difference between an RJ45 port and an RJ11 port, while leaving his less informed co-worker at a disadvantage, working over the weekend on a deal that helps pay their salaries, wh
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In a former life I often bemoaned the amount of boilerplate shovel code I was having to write to move data between my underlying data models and the user interface's displaying them. So much repetitive and simple 'pick up this num
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Knowing your supply chain is still going to be an important aspect of fixing this. The author is absolutely right that our build systems can be compromised, but securing them is another part of securing the supply chain. Managing updates
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It is interesting to point out that that while the Nazis did come to power democratically, they didn’t actually have a majority of ‘the masses’. Turns out that a strong enough minority that is willing to change the laws and leverage fear ca
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The article poses it as a question, but the answer is evident - it's a culture problem. Not 'South Korean' culture, but specifically the culture of relationships they've allowed to develop between parents and teachers. A
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Sounds like it’s time for another lively thread about whether FireFly is the best sci-fi show ever. Things get awkward when Wil Wheaton joins the conversation and proceeds to know more about FireFly than anyone else.
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Brute force? I don't think so. Orders of magnitude in brute force are sometimes easier to look at as raw numbers. If we take the sibling comments estimate of the global BitCoin network's total computation of 2^90, multiply it arbi
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This feels like a good thing - tying keys up in X.509 certificates feels like it makes them more complicated to deal with than they should be. On the other hand, now we're back to needing to have some kind of context around the key to
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Verifying Code Authenticity on the Web(engineering.fb.com)
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It's an interesting thought, but then you would need those cryptographers to not only stay quiet about it, but also spend a good chunk of the next part of their lives selling the lie. Secrets are hard to keep at scale. Trying to do it
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The unfortunate reality of this is that while he may be right , it is difficult to classify the responses (or non-response) from the NIST people as deceptive vs just not wanting to engage with someone coming from such an adversarial positi
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Indeed. About 15 years ago I picked up Lua for exactly that purpose on an embedded device that needed a somewhat sophisticated configuration. Readable. Comments included. If/else for a few things when needed. Was the best configuration
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On one hand, there are a ton of downsides from the government sticking their noses into this - development will become slower, more costly, and in many cases no more secure or higher quality. On the other hand, as a rando off the street con
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My cousin and I burned hours in Quake2 with a mod that did these. Jumping around in low G while grappling around all over the map while trying to hit each other was fantastic - thank you for some of the best early FPS gaming I can remembe
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Oh, I just meant that it was conceptually easy - things should look 'right' - whereas with scientific data figuring out how to map that data to a 2D screen often involves a lot of carefully thought-out discretion about what to s
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Game engines spend a whole lot of work to not draw things. Even if you have an 8K monitor, that's still only around 33 million pixels. If the data set you want to visualize is 5 billion elements, and if you decided that you were goin
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Spent the last week looking at Python resources for my high school ‘Introduction to Programming’ class. Ordered Python Crash Course last night. Then I wake up this morning to see this – excellent work (and timing). Initial feedback: The wri
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Agreed. I had working Swig bindings for Lua to a C data engine. While it worked, it was opaque, required a lot of diving into the Swig code generators, added its own special footguns, and felt like the most dangerous edge in the project. Th
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Coming from outside, the take on macros resonates. Working with modern 'Rust' The Language is rather nice. But when one of my first main projects was to add support for a serialization format with Serde, running into macros feels
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Someone on the design team saw a lensor from The Chronicles of Riddick and said "THIS - this is the future. Make sure it has the leash coming off the back too."
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> Crucially, there is basically no documentation for the standard library except for the source code itself. From the viewpoint of someone learning about a new language, I find the accessibility of the standard libraries goes a long way
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My wife is a middle school history teacher that really liked "They Call Us Enemy" and has used it in class assignments. It's well done.
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Nicer from which side? Not OP, but I do like modern languages and great type systems - I’ll be the first to say that TypeScript is fantastic and maybe one of my favorite typed languages. However, embedding Lua and writing bindings for it is
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Hey, that's a pretty slick package (and price point). I looked through bettergeiger.com and read the discussion about the difference between GM tubes vs scintillators, but never saw an indication of what material you're using. Wou

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