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Morpholemew

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    Comment #41283009

    https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memsecret Basically, 8 characters or more, but prevent the user from picking a password that appears on any of the leaked password li…

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    Comment #34207018

    The theory that stacks are better than registers for an interpreter was pretty conclusively disproven by the Lua 5.0 interpreter. See https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf (summary: a…

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    Comment #32356236

    > What is your list of name clashes that you experienced? How many real headaches did they give you? Here are a dozen examples from Xlib, where Windows happened to choose the same …

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    Comment #22562602

    "Battery powered coffee grinder" but worse: "battery powered drill, but with Li instead of NiMH" Milwaukee Tool v. Snap On (lots of commentary, here's one example: https://www.yout…

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    Comment #12239171

    Sounds like it could have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots (I played the Commodore 64 version).

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    Comment #11785859

    I'm not able to find the methodology for the w3techs report, but I suspect they only count the ultimate root, not any intermediates. Let's Encrypt's root is not trusted by any brow…

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    Comment #10500838

    Original has moved to a new host: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...

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    Comment #9137451

    Not just informally; X.org has actually implemented this idea: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/

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    Comment #8867487

    indent(1) is not idempotent, at least not in the configuration I tested, which makes it practically useless as an editor save hook or an SCM pre-commit hook. Of all the C pretty-pr…