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by wnoise 7y ago
It was, of course, never intended to be used as an authenticator, nor a secret in any way.
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by wnoise 7y ago
In practice there's usually nothing wrong with it, but when something goes wrong it usually ends up being a big deal.
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by wnoise 7y ago
If a service is relying on "must have an e-mail address elsewhere" as a gate for users signing up, then there are so many trivial workarounds that this is a minor drop in the bucket. I don't think there's any obligation
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by wnoise 7y ago
Of course not. It implements much (not all!) of the available semantics of CSP, but does so embedded in the C language with function calls and macros. Though macros can do truly disturbing things in C, these are not enough to truly implem
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by wnoise 7y ago
There is not. Both quantum physics and special and general relativity treat time as continuous.
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by wnoise 7y ago
It's not literally saying QM is false in the sense of "gives wrong predictions", but it is saying it is not "what is really going on", because it is incomplete. > it would render everything pointless as our paths
487.
by wnoise 7y ago
The point is to compare the blocking vs non-blocking though.
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by wnoise 7y ago
https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1237915985476227078 Note that this technically covers "having been in Europe in the last 14 days", not merely "coming directly from Europe". Enforcement of t
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by wnoise 7y ago
How much of this is fixable with generating the right CSR and choosing the right CAs? Does "will need to at least choose their own random serial number, fill out their own Issuer name and key" absolutely wreck it?
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by wnoise 7y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if you could have certs signed by multiple CAs, so detrusting bad CAs would be easier without wrecking as much stuff?
491.
by wnoise 7y ago
If supply is greater than demand, why doesn't that mean trusting the normal price signals and reallocating the supply ? Artificially propping up the demand just masks the price signal builds up more crap, and keeps this adjustment fr
492.
by wnoise 7y ago
An interesting trick is to develop a fix as a feature branch based as far back as practicable, and then merge it into the trunk and any release branches.
493.
by wnoise 7y ago
Xlib, the original C binding to the protocol is not great in that situation, because it makes many asynchronous requests look synchronous. Most toolkits are pretty terrible in that situation. libxcb instead of Xlib can be a great improvem
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by wnoise 7y ago
Most shells don't have great support for making even non-linear graphs of (anonymous) pipe connections (though note that wilder, even dynamic graphs are possible with the "coproc" builtin of e.g. ksh, zsh, or modern bash). Ho
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by wnoise 7y ago
It is coming from a place of anger, because despite your protests, (3) is an accurate description. Anger is an appropriate response to this state of affairs. This boy was killed at the U.S. border. Anytime nobody makes an effort to addres
496.
by wnoise 7y ago
Since when is Mexico not a Western country?
497.
by wnoise 7y ago
Ah! That's why vi's letter-named registers are written to with the q command.
498.
by wnoise 7y ago
Notice that he said the discovery was unacceptable, not that having the debris was unacceptable.
499.
by wnoise 7y ago
https://petapixel.com/2016/11/22/1-billion-getty-images-laws...
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by wnoise 7y ago
> They are classified as a single species with the rest of humans because they can interbreed with other humans This is not the standard for, e.g. birds, however. Consider the mallard. It's happy to breed (with fertile offspring)
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by wnoise 7y ago
The strongest version of "Out of Africa" or "Recent African origin of modern humans" is "Modern man developed in Africa, and then spread throughout the world, essentially unchanged, completely eliminating other arch
502.
by wnoise 7y ago
Right, what's really needed is a "clear road detector".
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by wnoise 7y ago
> Mathematical texts are already using 1-based indexing For matrices and vectors, usually. For series and sequences 0-based comes up quite often too.
504.
by wnoise 7y ago
In English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samplesort
505.
by wnoise 7y ago
I think that unlike Yann, you're making a good point.
506.
by wnoise 7y ago
Sure, I was focusing on the blackmail subset of extortion, because (a) this posting was discussing their releasing of information and (b) they can't actually use any force or threats of force. Helping their users decline to provide
507.
by wnoise 7y ago
Extortion would be threatening to reveal bad acts, in order to gain something from those threatened. If they always reveal bad acts, and don't even try to gain anything from the bad actors -- well, that's just plainly not extorti
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by wnoise 7y ago
I hate the comparison to how airfoils work. It's a single question that can be answered at a variety of levels, but the basics of how they work is simple and cannot be gainsaid: that they deflect air down. All the complications come i
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by wnoise 7y ago
Without the amount of changes systemd makes to the operation of a system, at this point it should be thought of as a new operating system that shares a kernel with Linux.
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by wnoise 7y ago
"This is useful for legitimate reasons" is an entirely different argument than "industry standard practice", which is just marketing speak for "everyone does it". The first is valid, the second is not.

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