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721.
by yarg 4y ago
> Does the number of bugs grow linearly with code size? Sub-linearly? Super-linearly? My gut feeling still says “sub-linear”. Depends on whay you're doing; are you implementing features, refactoring, or fixing bugs? Generally, I&#x2
722.
by yarg 4y ago
No, size is the best easily understood predictor of code quality. You could get a far more accurate analysis with partial compilation and graph processing algorithms.
723.
by yarg 4y ago
Most modern 'regex' implementations don't actually implement regular grammars. I think they're generally closer in power to PDA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown_automaton
724.
by yarg 4y ago
The link should be to TheVerge article, not the SlashDot summary. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/9/23449382/microsoft-direct...
725.
by yarg 4y ago
How fast can it go backwards?
726.
by yarg 4y ago
That may actually depend on how much institutional damage Trump managed to inflict on the FBI - Trump having a vested interest in such things.
727.
by yarg 4y ago
There's probably not much choice here; SpaceX is national security critical (to the point where they limited in who the can legally hire - as is true of all rocket companies). The man played some silly political games with the Ukraine
728.
by yarg 4y ago
That looks a bit too much like 'security via obscurity' to suit my tastes.
729.
by yarg 4y ago
Yeah, but HN isn't exactly the least autistic forum on the internet.
730.
by yarg 4y ago
It has been for a long time. PageRank was never designed for adversarial scenarios. It reminds me of KPIs like lines of code - it's only useful if it cannot be manipulated. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good
731.
by yarg 4y ago
Also, you're breaching the hacker news guidelines: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. https://news.ycombin
732.
by yarg 4y ago
Sure, but you're acting like acknowledging a problem is less helpful than pretending that there isn't one. That isn't the case, has never been the case and will never be the case.
733.
by yarg 4y ago
I'm not lying. Since they've deleted the comment, I cannot actually post it here. I probably also said that if you're running with zi/zir or whatever the hell it is, I'm really just not going to fucking bother. The
734.
by yarg 4y ago
It's crypto, the biggest bubble/ponzi that has ever existed. He never had $16,000,000,000. It's not $16,000,000,000 if you cannot exchange it without the market crashing.
735.
by yarg 4y ago
According to what definition of hate speech? (For context, I just got perma-banned from reddit for hate speech; I left a comment saying I wouldn't bother with your (non-default) pronouns unless I know you, or they're obvious.)
736.
by yarg 4y ago
Perhaps - but one engineer with a niggle is a problem, and a room full of them is absolutely a justificantion for re-evaluation.
737.
by yarg 4y ago
Clearly not (and you're replying to a sarcastic comment).
738.
by yarg 4y ago
Boycott Luxottica. Anyway, reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpKWHSsBpnE ; glasses with user adjustable lenses. Removes the need to customise the product to the individual, and the need to see an optometris
739.
by yarg 4y ago
And have you thought about whether or not it could be loaded with javascript? That could eliminate the need for platform specific extensions.
740.
by yarg 4y ago
> There wasn't hard data that characterized the risk. I commented on this the other day; there's a useful NPR article on the subject. > The night before the launch, Ebeling and four other engineers at NASA contractor Morton
741.
by yarg 4y ago
> It is easy to be right. It's easier to be wrong. In the article, the management team had already failed to do their jobs. They had already failed to notice (or ignored) obvious problems, and the company clearly had a culture that
742.
by yarg 4y ago
And in this case the room's interest was in denying reality. You cannot solve a problem that you haven't acknowledged.
743.
by yarg 4y ago
Any plans for Firefox (and does this need to be an extension at all - there are some rather powerful website extensions that load via JS scripts)?
744.
by yarg 4y ago
Totally tangential, but HN should be able to handle duped comments.
745.
by yarg 4y ago
> It has of course never been our ambition to stop their webpage. On the contrary, we very much appreciate the interest in our products and the fact that there are people around the world that love our products as much as we do. Literall
746.
by yarg 4y ago
You can use client side symmetrical crypto to allow for the private key to be stored on the server. It means that weak keys are a problem, but that's been the case since the dawn of time.
747.
by yarg 4y ago
No, I'm not (I'm not a total fucking idiot). What I'm suggesting is that the same certificate infrastructure that is used to secure the connection between a server and a client could also be used to secure the connections bet
748.
by yarg 4y ago
Just because some non-technical pricks refused to listen to the man who actually knew what the fuck he was on about.
749.
by yarg 4y ago
> LE has nothing to do with this? You probably want a CA signing the public keys that you store on the site. > They can potentially inject a "listening key" You mean a MITM attack? Isn't that the reason for certificate
750.
by yarg 4y ago
There was no reason that the Challenger disaster could not have been prevented. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464744781... https://www.npr.org/sections/thet

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