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You. You are the single point of failure; if you are compromised, then all your accounts can be accessed by the compromisor. If you're looking for a point outside yourself, then me…

It's assumed that, if you're signed up for a service with an email address, you control that email address. This is generally a reasonable thing to assume, and can be verified for …

Nope, because java is statically typed.

This is not that great of an article, IMO. A prominent developer of one of the roguelikes mentioned says: > you can immediately see that this article was stitched together by throw…

Notcurses is ok, not great. Tickit[1] is much nicer, and comes with what is possibly the only good way of reading modifier characters from a terminal (seriously). Alternately, if y…

You need to use nested functions if you want to have nontrivial behaviour in a cleanup, and nested functions are awful in c.

Raku has something similar.

I wrote on reddit[1] about why I prefer this over c++: > It's not a technical problem, but a social problem. Yes, I would definitely prefer the c++ RAII (and refcounts would be nic…

Author of the library here; AMA.

My version isn't as dependent on nonstandard extensions.

Hyperrogue[1] takes place in hyperbolic space. Definitely a good way to gain an intuition for it. It offers several different projections, so you can try them out. It's also open s…

Did you have a strong (10+ character, alphanumeric) password on the device they were able to get into?

> not once have I seen an explanation of what makes it fast and why those techniques aren't looted for open-source languages The language design is such that the programs you write…

BSD was already open-source and superior to linux as the time it came out; it was only hampered by licensing concerns.

The last two paragraphs of the article imply that they will continue using their own fabs for CPUs.

What is TFA? > the use of "nested arrays" (not the same as multidimensional arrays) induces pointer structures that are difficult to do anything with J doesn't allow nested arrays …

Arthur wrote an OS in k with some c. Not public, but geocar can probably talk more about it if he shows up.

> swipe typing is inaccurate compared to android A couple of years ago, microsoft made a keyboard for ios called wordflow. It had better accuracy than any other keyboard I've tried…

> All copyright licenses (except CC0) require attribution for the work in all copies (verbatim and derivative) Boost licence Unlicense WTFPL

Problem is not server specs, but bandwidth.

The cost is bandwidth, not ram/storage.

> world socialist website Doesn't exactly seem to be impartial either.

I tried magit briefly, but found it unusably slow. Is this different?

The game is distributed as an archive accompanied by an executable unpacker. The unpacker is signed by GOG, and it can verify the hash of the archive, meaning no malware concern.