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by vog 9y ago
I applaud the work that went into this! But at the same time I feel sad for the state of science where working code is still not considered part of the paper, so the code is almost never published, let alone published as Free Software for o
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by vog 9y ago
Would you mind to elaborate? How does "having referential transparency in mind" protect against typical refactoring errors, such as an unexpected "undefined" value due to a typo in a field name? (Of course you could argu
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by vog 9y ago
Compared to Chrome, Firefox has the huge advantage that it is Free Software, while Chrome (the whole package) isn't. Compared to Chromium (the Free Software part of Chrome), Firefox has the advantage that it has no anti-features in the
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by vog 9y ago
> I think Haskell is a transition language that will be replaced soon enough What do you have in mind when you say that? One of the existing contenders? (SML, OCaml, Rust, Elm) Or something completely different?
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by vog 9y ago
> js_of_ocaml, which has fairly good support for source maps Wow. That must have changed in the meantime. Bucklescript seems to be the way forward, and much better than js_of_ocaml. But that's hearsay. Anyone with actual experienc
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by vog 9y ago
"Dynamically-typed" often leads to "hard to refactor", which in turn slows down your iterations at a certain (surprisingly low) amount of code. This may still be less annoying than Java (especially before 1.8), but: Have
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by vog 9y ago
This is an interesting case for languages with strict type systems. Maybe you can get away without source maps and still not loosing much? Some time ago I took a look at various transpilers for ML-like languages: OCaml->JS, Elm->JS, H
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by vog 9y ago
And finally, don't forget Fukushima. The current politics here in Germany are a direct reaction to Fukushima. Chernobyl, Asse, Aachen, Gorleben all didn't change anything in our politics. But Fukushima did. Immediately.
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by vog 9y ago
> The fear of nuclear power in Germany comes from the Tschernobyl disaster 1986. Tschernobyl was almost forgotten, at least by the politicians in power, but then Fukushima happend.
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by vog 9y ago
> since the URL to each database incorporates a sha256 hash of the database contents Small nitpick: It incorporates a SHA-256 prefix, i.e. a greatly reduced SHA-256 hash, so the cryptographic integrity guarantees no longer hold. >
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by vog 9y ago
The same approach works for unimportant tasks/ideas as well. Put them on a list, and if after a few days you don't care about them anymore, just delete them and be happy that you didn't waste your time on that.
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by vog 9y ago
Good hint! However, JavaScript labels via break/continue have subtle differences to classic GOTO statements. From the MDN site examples: var itemsPassed = 0; var i, j; top: for (i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
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by vog 9y ago
Isn't exactly that the job of a search engine? I.e., that don't have to specify the exact site? Moreover, many searches are done be beginners who don't (yet) the best resource for what they search for. But let's assume y
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by vog 9y ago
That was my workaround, too. But now I have a better workaround which doesn't only work for mdn, but any other high-quality resource: I edited my browser settings to use a different search engine by default. (currently DDG)
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by vog 9y ago
Even if that features worked, it would still be user hostile to force them solve a global problem locally. If Google really cared about user experience, they would already have downscored all those low-quality sites years ago. But they don&
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by vog 9y ago
> I've switched to DDG half a year ago or so and haven't looked back much Same for me. I specially like their approach to technical documentation. Search for some web development stuff and DuckDuckGo shows you the MDN site wh
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by vog 9y ago
I wonder how long it will take until an attack over the network is found.
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by vog 9y ago
It's by far not the first time that a highly-priviledged "security" component turns out to actually reduce security, because it is a large and gainful attack surface. I can't help but to think of all those exploits that
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by vog 9y ago
It's indeed nice to imagine that the people behind Intel are relieved that somebody finally found the kill-switch they left behind in the monster they had to create. And the AMD people now thinking hard how they can leak hints to their
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by vog 9y ago
Related, by the same author: "Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops" https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustwor... Also related: "HN: Intel ME is finally cracked" https:&#x
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State considered harmful – A proposal for a stateless laptop (2015) [pdf](blog.invisiblethings.org)
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by vog 9y ago
For a very good explaination on that topic, see the following 32C3 presentation: "Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops" https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustwor... Also, the paper
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by vog 9y ago
It's such a pity that there is no real competition in that area. (Unless you go the totally different architectures such as ARM or RISC-V.) AMD had the chance to differentiate from Intel here, instead they blindly immitate the same cus
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by vog 9y ago
I still don't get it. This is clarified in the very first sentence of TFA. Why do you think it needs to be stuffed into the title?
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by vog 9y ago
> I have certbot running in one Docker container, the .well-known route directing to the one dedicated Docker host running certbot, and whenever certbot renews the certificate, it writes the cert to the NAS share that is only mounted on
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by vog 9y ago
What's the point of this nitpicking? The title is perfectly fine for its purpose. First, thanks to the terminology used by almost all commercial CAs, "SSL Certificates" is still the most commonly known term for that. Like it
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by vog 9y ago
What's the point of such an email? If you consider police officers and judges to be that stupid, you don't even need that. You can simply say: "No, my hard drive isn't encrypted, I'm just collecting white noise.&quo
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by vog 9y ago
I don't see any difference between GPL or Apache in this case. Since they apparently have the full copyright on the code (otherwise they wouldn't be able to make the license change in the first place), they can do whatever they wa
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by vog 9y ago
Do you care to elaborate? That statement (or joke?) does not make any sense to me.
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by vog 9y ago
> For people who don't go to many social events/don't talk to many others there/don't deepen those ties as much Indeed! But my point is that making friendships in those cities is not prevented by the people or

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