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by vog 10y ago
This bites especially often if you are steadily switching between JavaScript and a server-side language where that code actually does what you expect (e.g. Python).
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by vog 10y ago
I don't understand why this comment was downvoted. Australia is by far not the only choice here. From what I've heard so far, the situation about health insurance in the US is so bad that it is not hard to find countries were the
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by vog 10y ago
I like the idea of providing such a list for testing purposes. I also like the idea of storing these as Base64, so you don't trigger issues by accident. However, I also imagine how such a list could be misused to actually decrease the
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by vog 10y ago
But the base of all is still Gröbner.
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by vog 10y ago
> One is idemopotency - The fact that it is not easy to run the above script on a bunch of host just to 'fix up' a config that was somehow broken or to add or amend a directive in httpd.conf type of thing In my case, I simply
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by vog 10y ago
> While I use here documents a bunch too this is the first time I've seen this idiom I came up with this trick to avoid nested here documents, which would make syntax highlighting unusable. > When you write `install`, is thi
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by vog 10y ago
Fixed. Thanks for the hint.
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by vog 10y ago
I see. This is really astonishing. I always preferred using plain SSH and Shell for automatically configuring servers. That's why I had a look at Ansible, but despite this simple concept, it seemed too bloated to me: too many layers ar
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by vog 10y ago
Not sure what you are trying to say. Are you trying say that the CVS publication happened too early? If so, the timeline tells a different story: 2016-12-08 First contact with Ansible security team 2016-12-09 First contact with Re
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by vog 10y ago
Nowadays almost all popular PDF readers can fill in PDF forms: Evince, Okular, and so on. Heck, you can even create PDF forms entirely with Free Software, using LibreOffice / OpenOffice. And don't forget PDF.JS of Firefox, which
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by vog 10y ago
> The surprise is that you can shift the negative half of the circle by 1 and everything still works But this, again, has has nothing to do with binary but all with modulo arithmetics. If you think in modulo arithmetics, this is still
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by vog 10y ago
> CPUs use modular arithmetic for both signed (two's complement) and unsigned values, so that cannot be the defining feature of twos complement I disgree, because this still fits nicely into modulo arithmetics. Signed versus unsig
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by vog 10y ago
This all is suddenly less surprising for people who learned some modulo arithmetics in school (or university). That is, calculating with the remainders of division. For example: - Calculating "modulo 60" means calculating time w
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by vog 10y ago
I would love to see that integrated into Archive.org!
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by vog 10y ago
Without comments it is 17 LOC, as GP wrote. Maybe you meant "without closing brackets"?
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by vog 10y ago
I was wondering about this, too. To put even more paranoia at the table: Readable ASCII means that every byte is in a certain range. For example, bit 7 is 0 for every byte. Maybe this allone enables a backdoor. That is, the mere fact that t
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by vog 10y ago
How does ChaCha20 compare to the established AES standard? Is it stronger? weaker? faster? slower? easier to implement correctly? harder to implement correctly? better for some other reason? worse for some other reason?
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by vog 10y ago
> You don't make it clear why you're posting this. It seems the submitter is also the author of that project, so I guess this is just a forgotten "Show HN:" prefix in the title.
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by vog 10y ago
The author seems to favor XChaCha20 over ChaCha20, even though XChaCha20 is not part of any formal standard or any widely know paper. [1] It would be interesting to know what DJB (the author of ChaCha20) thinks about XChaCha20 and related v
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by vog 10y ago
No, Proxy fits better. To be a Facade, it would have to be implemented inside React to hide React internals. Although many patterns boil down to wrappers around objects (Delegator, Proxy, Adapter, Facade, etc.), but that doesn't make t
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by vog 10y ago
That popup is not needed. Firefox does this simply through auto-complete. The user starts typing their email address, and voila, the browser completes it. This is a nice example of a feature that is trivially accessible and yet unobtrusive.
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by vog 10y ago
> could have accepted that the maintainer wanted to take libreboot out of the GNU project without prolonging the whole thing If I read the FSF statements correctly, there were very good reasons for taking some time, which I found quite
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by vog 10y ago
Indeed, I'm really glad there is at least one popular browser not affected by this. This is one of the many examples where a privacy-first approach pays off not just in terms of privacy but also in terms of security. In Germany we use
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by vog 10y ago
To make this even more confusing, the FSF disputes that there was harrasment [1] and one Libreboot contributor states that the Libreboot maintainer did not speak on behalf of the whole project [2]. [1] https://www.fsf.org/ne
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by vog 10y ago
Thinking even more about it, many changes are "cosmetic", such as renaming fields or restructuring essentially flat structures. These may make the system more consistent and easier to understand for newcomers, but break old code f
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by vog 10y ago
> Big banks suck right now. But the really sad thing is: Startups in the financial sector suck even more. Mt. Gox is just one of the many screw-ups there.
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by vog 10y ago
> We don't know what things we can break or deprecate, so we have to be extra careful. I'd argue that almost nobody really knows that. [1] It's just that many developers / companies somehow get away with not being
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by vog 10y ago
Small nitpick: The country area is inverted if you move it near the poles. (Maybe because the orientation clockwise/counterclockwise changes implicitly.)
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by vog 10y ago
How does this compare with the already popular distributed file systems IPFS?
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by vog 10y ago
Although there is some truth in this, this is not the full picture. I believe that Usenet has been replaced mainly by mailing lists, not by blogs. Having long-text conversations through blogs is possible, but mailing lists and (what's

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