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alcari

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    Comment #18119430

    The parser as described _only_ cares about identifiers; it has no concept of operator precedence, which is not required for its purpose.

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    Comment #15709635

    Here's the easy 50% of it: https://github.com/alcarithemad/typetrace

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    Comment #14230363

    This is a cool idea. Please don't take the below as gratuitous negativity, just a reminder that these are hard problems for which there are no general solutions. The README says it…

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    Comment #13874167

    Here's the requisite cynical comment lamenting the death of "standards". They could easily have implemented RFC 3091 [0], but instead they chose to create yet another proprietary A…

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    Comment #13803913

    Regardless of the title editing discussion in the sibling comments, the title at the source was changed to "Omnibox hostname heuristics misunderstand internal redirects.", which ac…

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    Comment #13645140

    As an alternative, predating Portmap by around 700 RFCs: tcpmux[0]. Everything connects to port 1 and asks for services by name. [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1078

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    Comment #13624543

    OpenJDK was created by Sun.

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    Comment #13334227

    Are you aware of Spring[0]? It's another open source RTS that's effectively data file compatible with TA. [0]: https://springrts.com/

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    Comment #13268637

    The client connects to the backend with a binary protocol that, among other things, gives it a token which it hands off to a web API that returns a valid cookie for the Steam store…

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    Comment #13173872

    The rationale was that if, password hashes got compromised, the attacker would only have until the next forced rotation to crack the passwords and take over accounts. edit: or, in …

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    Comment #13040133

    It's not much of a secret: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle#Cultivation

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    Comment #12988955

    The front page demo does it with the while loop.

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    Comment #12912755

    The CPUs in question support up to 16 GB of LPDDR3 or 32 GB of DDR4, but do not support LPDDR4. Apple needs the LPDDR* variant to meet their power budget.

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    Comment #12886353

    They're in the article, and the original post is linked at the end.

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    Comment #12797295

    Those are symmetric(!); the real killer is the contract duration, the installation/activation fees (up to $1000 total), and the installation time frame (up to 8 weeks).

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    Comment #12669930

    > >Modern anonymity breaks generally work by getting code to run on your local system > Would you have any reference to specifics on this? FBI using a Firefox js bug to unmask tor …

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    Comment #12669035

    From a quick look through, most of it. Modern x86 micro-architectures still use integrated memory controllers and ~3 level CPU caches. All the timings are a little faster, the cach…

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    Comment #12662092

    This was released about 26 hours ago. Steam says I've played 15 hours. Send hel--more microelectronics. It's TIS-100, but with a native multiply! and unsynchronized broadcast! and …

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    Comment #12659600

    The GP means that the cost[0] is several orders of magnitude below the heat dissipation from resistance, and thus negligible. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_princi…

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    Comment #12450668

    Not likely. That's the comment start marker in many dialects of SQL. For commands, shell metacharacters like `, |, &, and $() are much more important.

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    Comment #12413815

    Be aware that there are known issues with the certificate manager, and some changes may not work as you expect: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585352

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    Comment #12374272

    That's what I included "for the obvious issue": even in the backdated certificates they still have "reasonable" notAfter dates, and we (will) have a list of every certificate they'…

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    Comment #12374165

    We can do it without breaking websites: a TLS implementer could reject all certificates issued by a particular CA after a certain date. (For the obvious issue) WoSign's recent cert…

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    Comment #12374139

    I wish we lived in a world where X.509 name constraints[0] were actually useful, but unfortunately we don't, and I think getting browsers (never mind other TLS clients) to enforce …