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8 年前discuss

You're very much not alone, this comes up frequently here at hn, because other sites also frustratingly block this behaviour often by popping up "tweet this" links after highlighting.

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8 年前discuss

> a nation where 99% of people shit in simple holes in the ground

Now that is propaganda.

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8 年前discuss

The index is clearly not credible:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/visual-basic-dotnet/

There is no way that in reality visual basic is surging up the charts and more popular than most other languages, instead I would guess they are attributing some .Net results to VB instead of C#.

for comparison, this is the google trends chart of visual basic: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=visual%2...

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8 年前discuss

It's interesting how you still observe the doppler effect even though the road isn't moving.

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8 年前discuss

Did it actually raise 660m or was that the size of the "market cap" when it collapsed?

if I sell 100 tokens for a dollar then convince someone to buy 1 token for 10 dollars, if I run off with the money I've not run off with $1000 even if it feels like it for the people left with tokens.

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8 年前discuss

Right, and what if those connections are burned into an immutable data source through the connection event in your event sourcing?

That is what this article is about, and methods to deal with that.

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8 年前discuss

The UK has had data protection laws for years, people aren't scared of GDPR because it finally provides laws, they're scared because they actually look enforceable.

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8 年前discuss

1. A fingerprint is something you cannot change, cannot revoke if leaked and cannot be unique across different sites.

2. A fingerprint hash isn't a cryptographic hash because you need to be able to match to nearby matches. A small variation in input needs to have a small variation in the hash so a distance function can be applied.

Those are terrible properties for a password.

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8 年前discuss

Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (2013): http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...

edit: The original headline before being changed, "Web standard brings password-free sign-ins to virtually any site", and contained a paragraph espousing fingerprints in place of passwords.

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8 年前discuss

I'm not familiar with firebase, but am I reading correctly that rules cascade but without specificity rules?

How does cascading make sense at all if lower-down rules don't supersede higher rules?

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8 年前discuss

I was trying out the javascript example, but managed to get a case where there is a negative conclusion but this goes against the introduction where it says negative conclusions are always definite.

My multiset was:

   a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, j, abc, def, asd, asds, 3g46stb6vy6vsyosyvosfsdfsdsah, oooooooooooooooo

Then trying oooooooooooooooo a second time, the bloom filter correctly says it might be in the set. The cuckoo filter says it is not.

I assume this is just a javascript bug in implementation, because previously the filter said it might be in the set, actually adding it to the set then gave a false negative when trying it again.

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8 年前discuss

There's a "Same-Site" cookie flag that helps prevent CSRF by preventing cookies being sent in that scenario. Can the browser be made to treat all cookies as "same-site" for a quick 'fix' to this issue?

Obviously this would need a white-list (and a pair<from,to> whitelist, not just "this domain is OK list) to allow SSO scenarios.

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8 年前discuss

That makes it sound like people are upset about an isolated incident, trying to play this off as an isolated incident is going to blow up very badly as people "discover" just how much of their data is everywhere, whether they gave permission or not this isn't about a single breach.

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8 年前discuss

You should be using Aurora not Nightly for those features.

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8 年前discuss

Note that bcrypt has a maximum length well below some of the lengths mentioned in this thread:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/39849/does-bcry...

Given this, it seems reasonable to restrict input below a length where the password will become (effectively) truncated by blowfish.

That length is also well above 10 characters however.

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8 年前discuss

Not just GPU but display bandwidth too, 5500x3000x120Hz requires a monstrous 59.40 Gbps according to this calculator: https://k.kramerav.com/support/bwcalculator.asp

For that you'd need multiple displayport cables.

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8 年前discuss

The Steam integration is nice if you have a couple of other people who also play these games because you get to compare your best with their best.

Personally I managed to keep up with the global optimums early on in the shenzhen campaign but as it went on my solutions were progressively worse than the population. (Or least the portion of it left still completing those puzzles.)

The personal satisfaction is still the main driver of course, I think having the base binary "solved or not" solution is a good way to gate progression as you can choose to optimize as you go through or do a success pass and then revisit for optimisations which suits different play styles. (Personally I like to optimize as I go).

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8 年前discuss

I doubt it, EVE typically has ~10-20k concurrents players, that's actually relatively small to other xmpp-based services.

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8 年前discuss

Back in the day we used to call that "Shared hosting" and it was looked down on by the in-crowd.

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8 年前discuss

I'm happy to see it covers Legend, a game of which I have many fond memories, it was the first RPG I played and sadly highlighted the difference between my (parents') 386 with PC speaker beeping out the music in off-colour cga and my friend's 486 full music and good looking VGA.

The game itself is was fun, more than tricky (almost impossible for the 9 or 10 we were at the time) and there aren't many games which combine all it's best elements. As the book says, the custom spell rune system was a treat. Creating a spell which shot a missle which exploded and also fired other missles around it was really fun.

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