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erkl

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    Comment #17672122

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...

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    Comment #17573412

    QUIC operates on top of UDP, which would make it layer 5.

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    Comment #17218825

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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    Comment #10069659

    I agree, but in this case we're not talking about reasonable false positives (e.g. toast burning or candles being blown out). I wouldn't put up with a £10 smoke detector waking me …

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    Comment #9594672

    First off, thanks for the reply. I have to say it feels a bit weird to deduct points (so to speak) from a highly regarded cryptographic hash function because it doesn't outright pr…

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    Comment #9594340

    Unless you know something about SHA-512 that I don't, calling it less secure than SHA-512/256 seems like a mistake.

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    Comment #9549390

    Now, I'm not sure this is useful at all, but I think it would make sense for the value of an if-expression to be Option .

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    Comment #9202654

    > An unknown address family will return a '0'. In this particular case, returning 0 doesn't necessarily indicate failure. Binding a socket to port 0 means you're asking the operati…

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    Comment #8874062

    This throws an error: typeof x; // throws an error let x = 1; This doesn't: typeof x; // returns "undefined" var x = 1; While using variables before declaring them is bad practice,…

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    Comment #7405407

    If a publicly distributed first-hand account by the person in question isn't "solid proof," what exactly are you looking for? What reason do you have to think she's being anything …

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    Comment #6112636

    Packages in the Go standard library are no different from user packages – they're just included in the Go distribution. If you find the need to modify anything in net/http (to fix …

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    Comment #5251418

    I would definitely be interested in this.