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driax

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    Comment #20993548

    That's the answer, almost all of QUIC is encrypted for privacy and protection against meddling middleboxes and protocol evolution. ACKs can be done in many ways which should enough…

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    Comment #19956166

    U+241E is "SYMBOL FOR RECORD SEPARATOR". It seems a bit weird to use that as a separator instead of simply U+1E which is the ASCII character "record separator".

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    Comment #17732798

    I just skimmed the paper [1], and their conclusion starts: > We identified one colormap in particular to be optimal for viewing by those with or without CVD, which we name cividis …

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    Comment #12627997

    The decoder is under the Apache license. But yes otherwise GPLv3+

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    Comment #12133102

    They aren't confidential, at least not more than your full name. It's a common myth, probably stemming from the fact that there's plenty of laws about how to treat information that…

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    Comment #9744396

    I believe the "/or" was added after it was submitted the OSI and FSF, because they felt that it could be misinterpreted without. However it appears that OpenBSD didn't change their…

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    Comment #9744371

    Though, just a language simplification of the MIT License. (not that that is bad). However it is not as permissive as the 1-clause BSD spelled out in the article, since it still re…

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    Comment #9132773

    And more important: I he hadn't he wouldn't have had the money to found NeXT, which was quite probably required for Apple to survive.

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    Comment #9125681

    I have tried to read into why PostgresSQL doesn't yet (they are working it) have upserts. Several times I have come across people discussing that Merge which is much more powerful …

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    Comment #9100391

    I'm just guessing here. Current technology uses all sorts of tricks to focus/manipulate/use 193nm light so that you can build something smaller than the size of wavelength. However…

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    Comment #8802866

    In addition, I pretty sure many European keywords can type µ by alt-gr+m, at least in Windows on my Danish keyword. Only know that because once I had a keyword were they actually h…

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    Comment #8630412

    When you say safe alternatives, you mean ASCII right. You should think about looking into something which also understand the characters a bit better. For example å,æ,ø can mostly …

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    Comment #7771629

    Notice that this question is 2 years old. I would imagine that several lots of things have happened for Roslyn. (They even talk about some of what they were working on). Neverthele…

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    Comment #7525038

    It is my impression that LLVM has matured quit a bit since unladen swallow. Not least in the JIT domain. A lot of unladen swallows development was spent on improving LLVM and not o…

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    Comment #6702064

    On the other hand, inline test does make it easier to write tests while writing the function. Besides many well-written programs already contains inline documentation (not comments…

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    Comment #6572210

    Python is fairly simple in implementation while being as flexible as possible. Look up the concept of descriptors for something fairly difficult to optimize when you consider __get…

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    Comment #6403036

    A self-driving car would be able to provide a lot more information about how the accident happened. This would probably except a lot of accident since they could prove that what th…

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    Comment #6402985

    Imagine a violent crime: A person takes some medical drug which this time causes a psychotic break wherein he kills a store clerk. How long should he be locked up? Clearly he's pre…

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    Comment #6350274

    FLAC would probably be a bad example, since it is lossless. It makes fewer assumptions about the content of the audio file, since it anyway has to encode all of the noise and minor…

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    Comment #6299159

    SPDY requires that you run it inside TLS. Within the already existing TLS handshake the client and server can advertise that they support SPDY instead of HTTP. The way you describe…

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    Comment #5902952

    I don't get it when people keep repeating something like this. Google pushed a lot for adding TSL/SSL encryption between Google's servers and the client, to the point of inventing …

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    Comment #5770774

    The point the grand parent was making seems to me to be rather simple. He says that the designers of Perl (not the author of the article) didn't consider parseability of Perl an ob…

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    Comment #5638253

    Technically only the Mozilla Foundation is non-profit. The Mozilla Corporation which is the organization that has the deal with Google about the search feature, and is the one whic…

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    Comment #5562319

    Crashing would be a side-effect. However your idea is correct. Consider instead: [True, SpinForever()] You can consider any "variable" in Haskell to have a value of the type of tha…