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by yyyk 3y ago
It has a few minor advantages on Windows like ADS support or or recovery volumes or easier GUI.
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by yyyk 3y ago
A server supporting SSLv2 allows using the DROWN attack to decrypt TLS connections on same server: https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2021/cmsc614/papers/drown...
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by yyyk 3y ago
I dislike GRUB - it is way overcomplex - but it is ubiquitous and very much in use.
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by yyyk 3y ago
I flagged this. If the headline mentioned Vota it would be fine ("Show HN: Vota, an innovative blockchain voting solution"). But it's a pretend question which is actually intended to advertise a particular solution. --- The a
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by yyyk 3y ago
A system where everyone have the incentive to cheat in the same direction isn't going to work in practice.
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by yyyk 3y ago
The clever monkeys were hardly invincible. Their strength was in aggression and tool use, and tool use wasn't that a big deal at the time. If the Mammoths could have learnt to hunt humans, the result would have been different.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Invincibility is overrated. It means we have difficulty harming them, but it doesn't mean they can hurt us. We should instead worry about super-smart mice, so smart they make humans obsolete. They could ceaselessly try to take over the
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by yyyk 3y ago
MAGMA, GAMMA and MAGAM sound better.
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by yyyk 3y ago
The Java implementation required modifying the IO routines, and this is greatly helped by Java interop being far from easy. .NET was always more friendly to interop, lots of projects would be affected. Fixing this would either be a serious
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by yyyk 3y ago
>some terrifying stuff out there like hendra and nipah viruses with >50% mortality rates. These viruses are fortunately self-limiting. We should be terrified when a less deadly variant comes up.
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by yyyk 3y ago
You (the average person) can't choose your way out or really be safe - but you can at least avoid doing the equivalent of putting your head in the lion’s mouth. At least most of the time. It's not that difficult to use non-plastic
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by yyyk 3y ago
>> Actual uses that are not gambling, speculation on crypto itself, or scams. > You forgot buying drugs and money laundering Let's not neglect ransomware and spam.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>A stablecoin that moves in line with inflation. Who measures inflation? Why, the same central bankers crypto people inveigh against. This coin will give them a lovely arbitrage opportunity against all the holders.
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by yyyk 3y ago
It's more how bad the state of things is regarding Linux binary compatibility...
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>HashiCorp have done an exemplary job at community-led until the licensing change Have they? Obviously, part of this should be taking care of yourself, and HashiCorp wasn't exactly profitable. It could be argued they didn't mon
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Blockchain allows it to be decentralized. >>A mechanism could surely be developed where the company or group in charge could periodically release new cards (perhaps after the mechanics had been voted on by participants ), and i
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by yyyk 3y ago
It's perfectly possible without EUV, if you're willing to accept high defect rates. That's one reason why the chip bans can never have military effects (the other is that current military hardware doesn't need the smalle
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by yyyk 3y ago
It depends on what age you are and whether you work with documents. If you started working in the industry past 2010 and didn't have to work with generating/reading (X)HTML/OOXML/ODF than it's rather likely you&#x27
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by yyyk 3y ago
The problem is that document, serialization and configuration formats are different usecases and need different languages. We learnt that XML was a bit too verbose for serialization and moved to JSON. Now we need a good configuration format
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by yyyk 3y ago
Tofu has an ancient reputation as a vegetarian replacement for meat. Its taste depends on the preparation (raw Tofu is very flexible). Some people associate it positively ('ethical', 'wholesome', 'tasty'), othe
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by yyyk 3y ago
The new branding is recognizable, cute and short. However, Tofu has a somewhat mixed reputation. I guess OpenTofu can stand on its own though.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Most customers may not care, but reports and automated processes likely will when a customer is 'in debt' thanks to small differences, and the tax authority in certain countries also care when the sum of the differences is large e
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by yyyk 3y ago
FM radio has frequency capture, interference there is not additive as in AM. You're very likely to capture the strongest station unless there's a lot of interference. As for QC, we don't seem to be running into any limits y
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by yyyk 3y ago
The .NET GC philosophy, so to speak, is to provide such guarantees by allowing programs to avoid GC entirely with value types. Eventually, Project Valhalla will provide this on JVM-land, but it doesn't seem like the day will soon come.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Heh. But usually it's the other way around unless they remembered to specify it the right way. Forgiving $0.01*N customers is cheaper than dealing with an irate customer.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Decimal float has a larger range and a more natural representation when debugging than fixed point. Either way works well though.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Every financial system I've seen uses either decimal floating point or integers. Using normal float is just asking for trouble.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Old Opera was something else entirely - the fastest browser available, with features which still don't entirely exist in modern browsers even with extensions, like mouse gestures. Then it switched engines and got sold to some Chinese c
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by yyyk 3y ago
On the other end, some businesses get to do a bit tax avoidance with cash...
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by yyyk 3y ago
IMHO, if the requirement is just for Linux CLI tools, WSL1 - it still exists - may have been a better experience. It gives access to a complete distro without having to deal with WSL2 hibernation issues.

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