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by ucho 11y ago
I it is not that we don't need it but it is finally obvious that there is no reliable way to detect harmful software. All we are left with is putting each and every application in sandbox, unable to interact with any other software or
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by ucho 11y ago
> the tag for the character set (as you rightly think necessary) takes up space too Java recently (JEP 254) moved to internal flag for Strings (ISO-8859-1 or UTF16) as most memory was used by strings without any special characters. It wa
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by ucho 11y ago
Doesn't sound realistic. Have you seen text of any patent? It is completely unreadable to normal people. I always thought that ToS or legislations look bad, but usually they put all definitions in one place. In patents all of that is i
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by ucho 11y ago
It is more likely to kill almost all deposits. The bank wouldn't really profit from stored money so they will want fee for keeping money. Interesting experiment but I definitely wouldn't want it to happen in my country.
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by ucho 11y ago
> the burden on Canada's public health system There is none, at least with the tobacco - smokers simply don't live long enough to generate significant costs.
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by ucho 11y ago
No, it is a property of all hash functions - if you reduce input of arbitrary length to few bytes there will always be short circles. It is why you should always think twice before feeding output from one hash function call to another as th
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by ucho 11y ago
Maybe[1]. Scientists don't like to waste time on alien life origin theory as it doesn't really solve anything, we still would want to know how tardigrades' home planet created life. [1] with chance damn close to zero
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by ucho 11y ago
They won't. they will place something like "mod_security" to filter queries and remove the warning as they had it "fixed".
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by ucho 11y ago
How are you connected to Internet? It was quite common issue with some ASDLs. Whole upload bandwitch is used for, well, file upload and there is nothing left to send ACKs to maintain download speed.
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by ucho 11y ago
> Where did the null come from? A bit offtopic but SAP JVM puts that info in NPE error message[1], I don't know why others implementations don't, maybe it is incurring too large overhead? [1] it is something like "Attempt
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by ucho 11y ago
Isn't delaying index updates until more operations accumulate a standard for all DB for 20 or more years? Without it write operation would be painfully slow.
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by ucho 11y ago
Why the hell it is on front page of all IT news sites?
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by ucho 11y ago
OkCupid had many analyzes about demographics and activity of their users. This one was quite famous: http://static.izs.me/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dat...
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by ucho 11y ago
It is great until you power cycle machine that was behaving strange only to find out that it was due to HDD that was starting to fail and it does not boot anymore.
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by ucho 11y ago
There is/was KSplice for kernel and everything else can be upgraded without reboot.
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by ucho 11y ago
> But there are no laws against those things Yet. If we are ever able to reduce DUI to almost non existent the focus will move on other incident causes. I am sure there are already some people who would love to place camera inside every
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by ucho 11y ago
In middle of title I thought it would be about finally killing tabs.
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by ucho 11y ago
Exactly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040471 - American company hosted by another American can't be NSA resistant.
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by ucho 11y ago
> keep your code and your docs closely knit It is hard. Most people I know try to replace comments with very descriptive variable and method names - that are easy to change in any IDE. On the other hand comments (and other docs) sooner o
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by ucho 11y ago
Really? For me it looks overly complicated and going in circles. After all it boils down to: "You have two boxes that generate exact same sequence of random bits, no mater how far away they are. How can you use it for communication? Th
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by ucho 11y ago
Autotools don't only check for features, it also checks for bugs. For example I know that Firefox SVG support is buggy and I need to use Canvas version of OpenLayers for that browser - how am I supposed to do it without UA sniffing?
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by ucho 11y ago
> All the new 'trends' Like the huge ass photo at start of every article, forcing me to scroll down before reading anything.
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by ucho 11y ago
I might be stating the obvious - it contains language interpreter. It is hard stuff to do and from the beginning the focus was on speed not the security. Now it is a high value target and it was probably checked for bugs more than any softw
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by ucho 11y ago
> certain nation states could produce [...] "digital xenophobia" Like banning people from "evil" countries from accessing websites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7142381 ?
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by ucho 11y ago
So... does anybody know what truck manufacturers are doing? As far I can tell it will take at least 20 years before AV can drop steering wheel and deal with scenarios like police officer routing traffic around accident site. On the other ha
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by ucho 11y ago
All of this sounds like "The decline of Wikipedia". Number of edits and active users keeps falling. Many people tried to find the reason, but maybe it is just natural? It is no longer peak popularity for either page. Also there is
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by ucho 11y ago
> Just consider that with 64-bit floats 0.3 + 0.6 = 8.9999999999999991. > It really took no effort at all to get a precision problem! That sure looks like serious precision problem :)
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by ucho 11y ago
Japan is now in a trap - they want to go from deflation to moderate inflation to boost economic growth but won't be able to handle the dept if cost of borrowing money raises. Also their demographics situation is one of the worst in the
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by ucho 11y ago
Right, that worked great for Steam build in mod-shop, people sold only their own creations. Oh wait, they didn't, they submitted everything they could find on Nexus. Re-posters are already an issue, even when all they can gain is some
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by ucho 11y ago
There was a sorting algorithm that randomly selected a sort function from Stackoverflow posts until one of them was able to sort data

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