thirsteh

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by thirsteh 12y ago
It's not the only functional language by any means, but it is the strictest (he he.) It's silly arguing which is worth more, but it's also silly saying "Clojure is just as good as Haskell at separating effects."
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Citation required.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Poor people don't suffer in public hospitals in Europe. Also, in most countries, the government pays for specialty private care when necessary (it often isn't, since doctors make a very good living in the public system.)
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by thirsteh 12y ago
> Without question, a subset of the US population receives better care for non-emergency medical issues. But also without question, this improved service comes with a substantial increase in cost. I'm not convinced that even this is
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Every country in Europe has a private healthcare industry in addition to the public one. Not only is there no "waiting list crisis", but people still have the ability to choose whatever private healthcare provider they want, pro
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by thirsteh 12y ago
I didn't say put people with mental problems in prison. Here's a thought experiment: Would you treat a man who took revenge on his wife's murderer by killing them the same as the murderer, a psychopath who decided to kill the
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by thirsteh 12y ago
First, he probably will be locked up forever, unless someone declares him sane (which, in my opinion, will never happen.) Second, I would agree if you said "certain criminals are beyond rehabilitation." There are people who have i
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by thirsteh 12y ago
The problem with psychopaths is that they don't fear anything, although they may rationalize (in their mind) that some consequence will prevent them from doing X, Y, Z thing they want to do, and thus avoid it. Anyway, violent psychopat
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by thirsteh 12y ago
It's understandable, but also a large reason why the U.S. prison system doesn't work well. People naturally want people to pay for their crimes, but what society actually needs is for those criminals to be rehabilitated. A very la
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Ah, that makes a little more sense then. I was thinking they were just going for the "better" legal system.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Zenimax is based in Maryland, and Oculus in California. How strange that they filed the case in a north Texas court!
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Or what a bunch of projects have been doing for years -- Erlang on Xen, HalVM, etc. etc.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Too bad GIMP is such a crappy alternative.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
You may actually be underselling djb: He both knows how to write quality software, and is arguably the most productive cryptographer around.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
You said it yourself: appearances. The number of people who think Beats cans are for audiophiles is astounding.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Deliberately misleading image? That isn't even a Chromebook!
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by thirsteh 12y ago
That's just a matter of knowing the algorithm: If I know how you constructed the password, I know how to make candidate guesses. I don't even need to be able to work backwards; I just need to be able to reproduce one of your passw
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Yes, you can. To understand why, compare: This: 'facebook' + 'mypassword' 'twitter' + 'mypassword' 'foursquare' + 'mypassword' Password manager with unique passwords:
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Well, the difference is that if I compromise any of the sites you use, I now know all your passwords. If I compromise any of the sites you use when you use a password manager properly, I'll only know one password that'll be fairly
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by thirsteh 12y ago
The idea is admirable, but it's a really bad alternative to having unique, random passwords for each site. With this, it's trivial to recover all other passwords if you know just one of them.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
I'd say it's exactly the other way around: Eventually you end up being constrained by whatever ORM you're using, and you'll wish you had just used SQL from the beginning. I will say, though, that SQLAlchemy is very nice
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by thirsteh 12y ago
That's the thing I don't understand about this whole discussion: The SafeBrowsing blacklist bloom filter that Google itself made and uses is significantly smaller, is updated in real time, and doesn't have a big runtime overh
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by thirsteh 12y ago
In case it wasn't clear, the DSL itself is also written in Haskell.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Yep. Absolutely.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
It is annoying, but it is necessary to avoid users choosing longer passwords where the necessary randomness is beyond the 72nd byte. Allowing a password of unlimited length when you support only e.g. 20 or 50 bytes is just as bad as putting
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by thirsteh 12y ago
With bcrypt you should set a limit of 72 bytes to avoid fooling users into thinking the stuff beyond the 72nd byte matters (bcrypt truncates it.)
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by thirsteh 13y ago
The problem with OpenSSL is that it's really problematic to simply fix and refactor stuff given their FIPS certification.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
While I personally think Eich shouldn't have been CEO, you sum up Internet protests nicely: People will scream and moan, but only a fraction of those people would continue to do so if it required they actually do anything--even somethi
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> There's still a privacy issue of your browser basically bookmarking every HSTS site that you visit, and probably not providing an easy way to know that happening or clear that out. For example, if I clear my browsing history, shou
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by thirsteh 13y ago
That does seem like a strange argument given that the safebrowsing database is essentially just a giant bloom filter containing many more entries (probably) than there are revoked SSL certificates. The false positive verification could be d

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