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by ufo 5y ago
In another blog post, linked from this one, Bruce says that the XKCD scheme of stringing together a series of words is no longer safe: > Modern password crackers combine different words from their dictionaries. This is why the oft-cited
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by ufo 5y ago
By the way, the audio version of the episode also has a bonus story about at the end about the Lenna image.
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by ufo 5y ago
This is what I do for the desktop apps for my home desktop: If a package is in the Fedora repository, I favor getting it from there. If it is not, my first choice is a flatpak from Flathub. I find it much less painful than downloading RPM p
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by ufo 5y ago
The shell ought to be able to help with that. There's no need to remember if it's --conf or --config if you can press --conf<tab>. One of the things I like about Fish is that by default it can tab-complete program options an
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by ufo 5y ago
Saying in the open that cryptocurrencies are good because they allow gambling is an interesting development in the ever-evolving field of excuses for why cryptocurrecy is useful. What is next, saying that ramsomware is actually a good thing
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by ufo 5y ago
A blockchain wouldn't solve the chain of trust problem, of how do you know that a given public key actually belongs to Joe Biden. The problem that blockchains solve, of distributed consensus, is a different problem.
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by ufo 5y ago
There's enormous amounts of evidence that ivermectin doesn't work. If did work, we wouldn't have over 600,000 dead here in Brazil. A sizeable portion of the population, encouraged by our goverment, made use of ivermectin as a
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by ufo 5y ago
Given my propensity for turning temporary names into permanent names, if this happened to me I'm fairly certain the baby would end up being named Toby.
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by ufo 5y ago
Another way to save space is to use a directed acyclic graph. Specially if there are common suffixes that show up all the time.
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by ufo 5y ago
Vaccines are dirt cheap. Just the cost of the covid test to diagnose covid (which is required before the appropriate anti-viral may be prescribed) is probably going to be more than the cost of a vaccine. > Would the current pandemic situ
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by ufo 5y ago
Here in Brazil we've had over 3500 deaths from people under 18, including over 320 babies under 1 year old. There have been cities where sick children were not able to get medical treatment because the pediatric ICU was over capacity.
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by ufo 5y ago
IIRC, the evidence points towards the vaccine immunity being superior to immunity from infection.
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by ufo 5y ago
While the risk of severe covid infection is lower in childred, it still exists and we would like to make it even smaller.
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by ufo 5y ago
Fedora Magazine has more info on what are the new features in this release: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-35-workstation/ And also about the differend spins that are available for download. https:/&
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by ufo 5y ago
Is there an easy way to stop twitter from showing "recommended" tweets from people you don't follow? I find that those are invariably sarcastic or rage-inducing.
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by ufo 5y ago
Number 13 might count, depending on the definition of pumpkin.
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by ufo 5y ago
By this logic, a buffer overrun exploit would not actually be an exploit, because it's just a pointer that goes up or down according to certain rules.
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by ufo 5y ago
The most impressive example I've ever seen of this kind of compiler cleverness is the following function from the "convoluted isEven" competition: bool isEven(int n) { return n == 0 || !isEven(n + 1); } C
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by ufo 5y ago
Looks like manually editing the URL works: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
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by ufo 5y ago
For those that understand Portuguese, the author of that paper appeared in the Fronteiras da Ciência podcast to talk about the work. Season 11, Episode 12, (2020-05-25) http://www.ufrgs.br/frontdaciencia/ Fronteiras da
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by ufo 5y ago
More than just the JIT itself, I'm very interested in seeing if this will push Ruby towards making other performance-related inprovements to it's data structures and bytecode format: https://pointersgonewild.com/20
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by ufo 5y ago
Interestingly, this particular change would work in cyrillic :)
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by ufo 5y ago
Additionally, that 100.2% figure comes from Tether's own creative accounting. In all likelyhood the numbers are even worse than that.
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by ufo 5y ago
> We need something better than comments, or at the very least we need way better comment tech! One trick that I find very useful is the "Note" commenting convention from the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Basically, they add an ea
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by ufo 5y ago
Is that for immutable/persistent hashmaps, or also for mutable hashmaps?
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by ufo 5y ago
And for those that are actually into the sort of thing, I recommend Doobie Brothers + Linkin Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cXjcKTRWcg
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by ufo 5y ago
I wish this article was more opinionated. One of my pet peeves about hash tables is that most of the resources about it describe how there are dozens of different ways to do it (different hash functions, different collision management, etc)
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by ufo 5y ago
> The % operation is quite efficient (although it’s usually two times more expensive than multiplication); I though it was much more than two times slower? Division and modulus are the slowest integer operation.
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by ufo 5y ago
I usually like Derek's blog posts but thus one left me somewhat unsatisfied. I already know what chirality is, so I wish he had talked less about that and more about the specific research that got the prize.
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by ufo 5y ago
Presumably the attacker would modify the most recent commit which edits the file that they are targeting. It is true that the attack becomes more difficult if you try to target an older commit. Auditing helps if they try to force push the

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