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by twiss 4y ago
Not only is SHA-3 good enough, for most applications SHA-2 is still good enough as well. So personally I would be surprised to see a new competition for a general-purpose hashing algorithm anytime soon.
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by twiss 4y ago
AirBnB bookings are actually half-open, because you book a number of nights - so if you book December 1 - 3, you book the nights of December 1 and 2 - excluding 3. This seems expected to me. However, as an AirBnB host , this bit me once be
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by twiss 4y ago
It does do that for me, and it also regularly recommends videos with <1K views if it's from a channel I often watch. It even sometimes recommends videos with <100 views from channels I don't know if it's on a topic I
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by twiss 4y ago
I'll forgive it for being designed a long time ago, but as a tourist I found the MetroCard machines very frustrating because they insist on a 5-digit postal code when paying by card, but I have a 4-digit one. I tried left- and right-pa
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by twiss 4y ago
Yes, in the context of an example where the scientific method does / did work, and provides a simple explanation, namely evolution. Her argument is that in the case of the origin of the universe, the scientific method doesn't work
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by twiss 4y ago
Sure, but that's an example of measuring something that's happening now. It's not quite in the same category as measuring something that happened 13.7 billion years ago.
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by twiss 4y ago
She explicitly says that the scientific method is insufficient to give an answer to this question. So reading anything written by scientists won't give a conclusive answer. I think it's implicitly hinted that you might as well rea
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by twiss 4y ago
It's a bit ironic to frame this as calling for "death to cows", given the purpose that cows are often being kept for. But in any case, people have been calling for sustainable food sources and transportation methods for a lon
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by twiss 4y ago
Re. your analogy, aren't they more like the C of cooking pans? Hard to use right, easy to make mistakes, etc. The initial even matches :)
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by twiss 4y ago
Well, anything is possible, but the original WHATWG fetch issue mentions: > We discussed this at the HTTP workshop: > 1. It's okay to expose trailer headers sans semantics in the API and browsers are okay with that. So it was dis
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by twiss 4y ago
> Anyone who wants to pay can implement whatever they want in the codebase. That’s in a way as democratic as it gets: equality of opportunity [to invest money and time]. Leaving aside whether that's how it should work, I'm not
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by twiss 4y ago
Sure, that's fair enough. But I'm not sure if characterizing this feature as a pet feature of the gRPC team is accurate either - after all, it's simply exposing an HTTP 1.1 & H2 feature, and it was already in the WHATWG f
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by twiss 4y ago
> Whether it’s because I was wrong, or failed to make the argument [for HTTP trailers support], I strongly suspect organizational boundaries had a substantial effect. The Area Tech Leads of Cloud also failed to convince their peers in Ch
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by twiss 4y ago
The second link refers to the "black economy", which includes, for example, a housekeeper getting paid in cash without reporting it to tax authorities. The first link also includes "using cryptocurrency to hide financial acti
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by twiss 4y ago
Why do you think that that's not a goal and possible outcome of GDPR? The article says that > Google has indicated that it plans to fix the privacy concerns by August 2023 to me that seems rather slow, as they've known about GD
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by twiss 4y ago
Regarding the last point, there is some indication that that is happening, given that Google's response (from the article) is: > Google has indicated that it plans to fix the privacy concerns by August 2023 which means that they ack
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by twiss 4y ago
Yeah, probably that was too much work to take on for one person. I hope there will be a better alternative to Google Docs soon :)
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by twiss 4y ago
I'm not disputing how things are, I'm giving my opinion on how things ought to be :)
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by twiss 4y ago
Maybe, but it should be disclosed, at least, and students reminded to only use these accounts for school-related stuff, then. And even then, I'm not sure that there should be no privacy in school accounts - what if you want to complain
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by twiss 4y ago
Yeah, that's also terrible. But this was an email account that we could access from our personal computers (they didn't give us a laptop) so at the time I didn't realize that they would be able to read it. IMO, it would have
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by twiss 4y ago
Just because you happen not to have heard of them doesn't mean that they're likely to sell your data. It may be hard to imagine, but people living in Europe may trust these services more than Google and Microsoft, and may not appr
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by twiss 4y ago
I went to a Dutch high school that used Google Accounts for email, and they once caught some students "cheating" on a group project (i.e. collaborating in larger groups than they were meant to collaborate in, I guess) via email. T
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by twiss 4y ago
The sanction applies only to municipalities, but the law is a general one. Thus, others (e.g. businesses) could be sanctioned as well for using these and other Google products, on the same grounds. Thus, the headline is not really wrong (ex
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by twiss 4y ago
Lobbying Danish politicians won't change the GDPR. The end goal here is either to get US companies to respect EU citizens' privacy, or for EU companies to step in and provide an alternative.
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by twiss 5y ago
Also, HTML has its own, well-defined parsing algorithm [1], which is incompatible with XML, e.g. see [2]. Anything that claims to be able to parse both HTML and XML, without knowing which one it is, is lying. 1: https://html.spec
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by twiss 5y ago
I think the difference is that, if x later becomes > 5, y doesn't suddenly get increased by 3. By contrast, in CSS, if the condition later becomes true, the declarations in it do start to apply. So I also think "when" (i
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by twiss 5y ago
There were before, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225133800/https://novayagaz...
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by twiss 5y ago
> Swahili lacks the numbers of speakers, the wealth, and the political power associated with global languages such as Mandarin, English or Spanish. But Swahili appears to be the only language boasting more than 200 million speakers that
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by twiss 5y ago
The judgment is here: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:... (English version)
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by twiss 6y ago
For what it's worth, there's some limited ability to share memory ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... ), though you can only share binary data, not other types, and

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