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Google Advanced Protection Program(landing.google.com)
3 points by todd8 6y ago|1 comments
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Google's Titan Security Key(store.google.com)
1 points by todd8 6y ago|0 comments
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Best Security Keys in 2020(zdnet.com)
3 points by todd8 6y ago|0 comments
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Caddy 2, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go(caddyserver.com)
3 points by todd8 6y ago|1 comments
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by todd8 6y ago
It's not clear from the article, but PGO isn't a new technique. In 1989, my Decstation 3100 running a Berkley kernel based Unix on a MIPS processor had a compiler option that used a profile to guide its C compiler optimizer. I do
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by todd8 6y ago
I started programming in the days of punchcards. Since that time I have tried more editors and IDE's than most people: ed, teco on teletypes, XEDIT on IBM 3270 terminals running on IBM Mainframes, CDC 6600 editors running on the Kronos
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by todd8 6y ago
USA expatriation taxes are quite steep. I'm not a lawyer, but I believe that all unrealized gains of all assets are taxed upon exit as if the assets were being sold. Further, I think that income generated by through US companies (like
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by todd8 6y ago
Advanced garbage collectors have short pause times. In [1], the author cites Twitter statistics showing approximately two 0.5ms "pause" times per GC cycle for the go language garbage collector, and during the GC cycle only 25% of
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by todd8 6y ago
Yes, that's how "Jensen's Device" is used to implement call-by-name. However, note that the expression passed to an Algol 60 function by name causes the expression to be evaluated in the context of the function being cal
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by todd8 6y ago
I read Dijkstra's goto considered harmful in college, circa 1970. I was a young programmer at the time, and it made me think and reconsider how and why big programs were often hard to understand. Years later, in grad school, my resea
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by todd8 6y ago
Early LISP implementations used dynamic scope. This means that non-local references in a function search for the variable's binding in the call chain: if A calls B then when B uses nonlocal variable x it refers to the x in A, not neces
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by todd8 6y ago
Fun. I couldn’t quite parse the title, it made me click though to the article.
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by todd8 6y ago
For me, lisp macros can be a bit vexing, I prefer to not have too many unique, one of a kind, meta-abstractions cooked up by teammates on a big project. A good, widely adopted lisp macro can be handy, for example John Wiegley‘s use-package
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by todd8 6y ago
I remember looking over Niklaus Wirth’s source code for a compiler for his new language Pascal. This would have been around 1975. I was stuck by the fact that it was one big single source file. Later I came across a quote where he said som
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by todd8 6y ago
An ex girlfriend of mine was a professional oboe player and conspicuously used an electronic tuner when tuning an orchestra (it was a bit smaller than a deck of playing cards). She did this to prevent complaints from other musicians. She cl
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by todd8 6y ago
I used to write programs using TECO, a character oriented editor, while at grad school around 1975. I used "dumb" CRT based terminals and occasionally fan-fold paper terminals with TECO. TECO was quite powerful and had a macro sys
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by todd8 6y ago
That's approximately the entire mid-western United States. Of the the world's 62 strongest officially rated tornados occurring between 1950 and 2013, 59 occurred in the US. Here are the numbers, but note, some tornados crossed s
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by todd8 6y ago
I don’t have first hand experience in the world of game programming, but I’ve heard that smart pointers aren’t used and old fashioned new and delete are standard practice. (Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m curious if what I’ve heard abou
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by todd8 6y ago
Another notable feature about those CDC 6600 vector graphics displays was the way that the system would shrink the vector fonts to fit long command lines. Most of the time the fonts were quite big and could be read from a distance without s
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by todd8 6y ago
The five monkey experiment is only a fable. See [1]. [1] http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-...
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by todd8 6y ago
The Amazon drivers seem to be far less careful in their deliveries as well. In the past, deliveries were delivered to my porch. Then the started showing up on my drive. Yesterday my wife found a book delivery under a shrub next to the curb.
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by todd8 6y ago
It seems that the principle in question, if applied, would result in the redistribution of all wealth until everyone was equal. Wouldn't it? However, this can't be all because Joe (not a real person) might go and gamble away all o
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by todd8 6y ago
In junior high school, I started reading Doc Savage novels. Originally written in the 1930's, the author, Lester Dent, was originally paid $500 for writing these pulp fiction stores . Bantam Books republished these in the mid-60's
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by todd8 6y ago
If they are taxing unrealized gains in one year, are they returning funds at the same rate on unrealized losses in the next year? (This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious.) I don't understand how this is going
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by todd8 6y ago
Four of the twelve the homes on my little street here in Texas are owned by people that used to have substantial businesses in California. They relocated to Texas to escape California bringing hundreds of jobs with them.
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Doesn't this reasoning lead to all sorts of problems? There are countless people around the world that would be helped by a few extra dollars each week. As long as you personally are living above a subsistence level by this reasoning y
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I'm a bit uncomfortable giving advice. I'm skeptical of the survivor bias that provides people on the cover of Fortune magazine the platform to opine about how to be a success. Nevertheless, I'd like to encourage others no ma
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by todd8 6y ago
There is a widespread belief that hurricanes and tropical cyclonic storms in general have increased in frequency and strength. This is a justified concern due to the existence of global warming and the potential loss of life and property da
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A simple way to detect power failure induced thawing in a freezer is to store a paper cup about half full of frozen water in the freezer. By keeping a coin on top of the ice it’s easy to see with a quick glance if the temperature has risen
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I've often used floating point for currency. What can go wrong? Actually, a number of things can go wrong when using floating point as the article pointed out. The main concern nowadays is that floating point doesn't represent val

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