varelaz

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by varelaz 8y ago
There are a lot of cases when you don't need strict consistency and current state is enough for processing. For example you want to save requests stats from web servers. Would you stop all operations until you counting and writing to D
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by varelaz 8y ago
In python 2 items() returned list, and access to dictionary was blocked by GIL, so while array is prepared, dict couldn't be modified. So it is thread safe in Python 2. In python 3 you need to lock, but it's not always obvious unt
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by varelaz 8y ago
Yeah, I hate this. Now dict.items() become not thread safe just because of iterators. It could crash anytime just because you modified dict in another thread while iteration is in progress
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by varelaz 8y ago
I don't like the idea, because a + b should produce new list c without modification of both. Which is not memory optimal and cost of it is not obvious. Also dict is used a lot for sub classes and that could break a lot of existing func
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by varelaz 8y ago
Off course traps is not the only technique. What's also checked: do you use datacenter IP or not, which country/location, does your browser footprint looks like what you send by headers and user agent, some may even validate if yo
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by varelaz 8y ago
Once your IP is detected as fraud it's trivial. There are various ways to do this. For example invisible links that you cannot click unless you're bot.
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by varelaz 8y ago
As more web pages you visit, as more tracking markers you've get. Yes, your tracking history will be skewed because of random clicking, it's kind of GIGO effect, but such kind of junk data is very easy to filter out. When you clic
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by varelaz 8y ago
I switched to Safari, after Chrome started automatically login you to Chrome account if you login to gmail. They become too aggressive on tracking.
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by varelaz 8y ago
Most of the ad networks already fight with ad fraud and validate clicks and redirects. Their technologies are very sophisticated. So I don't think that it does more harm to ad companies than to plugin users, who marked suspicious and f
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by varelaz 8y ago
Constant firewall cost is too high. It's much easier just to abrupt external network several times to show that foreign services are not reliable. As for me, rather government that does this is not reliable, but that's unlikely th
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by varelaz 8y ago
I think the main purpose of this is to force local users to migrate to local services. Right now a lot of services that used by citizens are hosted outside of Russia and cannot be influenced or managed by government. They afraid disconnecti
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by varelaz 8y ago
He just summarized general anxiety of new smart technologies that replace human. It's not about AI that smarter than human, AI is just part of it.