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capitol_

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    Comment #49165269

    At least here in Norway it has, it seems like it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) Most gas stations have them and ther…

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    Comment #48657185

    The cooldown setting in dependabot solves this attack vector. By setting it you give security vendors time to scan new packages.

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    Comment #48584078

    Shouldn't a perfect shuffle just reorder the cards without adding entropy? You would need sloppy ones to introduce randomness.

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    Comment #48519159

    Just make a PR here: https://github.com/areweguiyet/areweguiyet (I'm not affiliated, but have made PRs there in the past)

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    Comment #48374629

    Why not use ripgrep?

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    Comment #48189381

    Isn't that just an insult people throw around? Or maybe some psychopath that tries to justify their worldview. I have never had an conversation with someone who seems like an NPC.

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    Comment #48167587

    I also find it useful for review, and sometimes I use multiple passes to review for different categories. Like security, performance and so on.

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    Comment #47908907

    As far as I understood it: GnuPG started to implement stuff from the standard before it was finished, the standard continued to improve and GnuPG refused to change code already wri…

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    Comment #47876070

    Your first example sound very sensible to me? Using new technology in something small and unimportant like a setup script is a perfect way to experiment and learn. It would be irre…

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    Comment #47769120

    Finally encrypted client hello support \o/

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    Comment #47737320

    There is sadly a lot that is missed by cargo audit, far from everyone report their vulnerabilities to rustsec.

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    Comment #47507590

    Those stablecoins are useful when you want to do crime.

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    Comment #47309044

    Typically markets are good at optimizing everything that is priced into the market. Long term price stability is currently not something that is optimized for. One way to solve it …

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    Comment #47245104

    Split dns is such an ugly hack, it causes no end of hard to debug problems.

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    Comment #47204230

    There is nothing in the open source licensees that prevents charging money, in fact, non-commercial clauses are seen as incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. And t…

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    Comment #47121613

    That Trump makes us very motivated to stop relying on American tech.

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    Comment #47036119

    one.. fully autonomous, self improving, replicating, general intelligence.

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    Comment #46795410

    It means selling to all bidders, since it's information and not a tangible asset.

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    Comment #46588921

    A prediction is not a claim. Predictions operate on events that will happen in the future. Proofs typically operate on things that already exist.

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    Comment #46584927

    What on earth do the Direct Rendering Manager api have to do with commercialization?

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    Comment #46565878

    I have worked in the industry for a little over 20 years, i wouldn't be surprised if I have written between one to two million loc. I would be surprised if it's significantly above…

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    Comment #46480864

    And yet, without the software for Linux gaming, there is no Linux gaming. Very hard to falsify such a statement.

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    Comment #45954015

    I agree, if people just had refrained from building things in c/c++ that operated on data from across a security boundary we wouldn't be in this mess.

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    Comment #45940404

    I'm pretty sure that you won't be able to claim your 1 million dollars from the Clay Mathematics Institute by just answering yes or no.

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    Comment #45940105

    > That is a fairly simple question. The answer to it should be simple too. "Is P equal to NP" is also a simple question.