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mrmagooey

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    Comment #17309588

    I made something similar as a fun little project https://github.com/mrmagooey/taboo , does the same print function but also does some basic querying, deletes and updates, left and …

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    Comment #15488130

    The paper reports: > Colorado’s legalization of recreational cannabis sales and use resulted in a 0.7 deaths per month (b = −0.68; 95% confidence interval = −1.34, −0.03) reduction…

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    Comment #15042787

    > If there's a serious vulnerability that actually needs your attention, you will read about it in the news The ol' security through tech press approach. Seriously though, you can'…

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    Comment #14550694

    Isn't JWT a modern alternative to CSRF tokens?

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    Comment #13018882

    You don't I guess, I'm just using 4 as an example (it's also the number of words used in xkcd's password strength comic).

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    Comment #13018775

    Aren't passphrases kind of a bad choice for passwords? If all you are ever really guessing is the symbols that make up someones password, and you know that for example they have 4 …

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    Comment #12704970

    I'm surprised no one has posted this fairly thorough criticism of PHP from a few years ago https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

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    Comment #12683696

    This is a common error message for a number of CMS's (in this case probably WordPress) when overloaded, and shouldn't reflect upon the validity of the source.

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    Comment #12340322

    Is there a concern that the mechanism allows for DoS? How do they mitigate the situation that the author describes?

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    Comment #12208191

    There's several hundred Y Combinator companies, but I don't think I've seen a commensurate number of posts to HN. You'd know if it was open slather on Y Combinator companies postin…

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    Comment #11647837

    I wouldn't have thought the GC would be expensive enough to warrant turning it off, interesting thought though.

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    Comment #10652631

    Can't really read the whole thing at work as I feel self-conscious reading a page tiled in labradors on work time.

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    Comment #10573699

    There have been a few projects to generate VHDL/Verilog using an LLVM backend, a quick google brings up some interesting presentations. I imagine constraints similar to those that …

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    Comment #9690168

    You exploit peoples interest or addiction to various chemical substances and they devote entire government departments to chase you down, but you exploit peoples interest or addict…

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    Comment #9483891

    Agreed, also need to keep in mind that "power utility" can describe 3 discrete agents in electricity markets: the generator, distributor and retailer. The distributors may find the…

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    Comment #8994945

    Assuming trunk and 2.5.0 are roughly the same thing it seems like a decent performance increase http://speed.pypy.org/

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    Comment #8760041

    Is there a way to filter out the jquery scripts?

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    Comment #8091266

    You can't up the ante and claim it's analogous. Burning a tyre releases a tremendous amount of thick black smoke, burning a joint releases several orders of magnitude less smoke, a…

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    Comment #8029728

    Given that it's a USB plug powering the device, I doubt it, although maybe the lower power usage by the Pi might provide some extra overhead.

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    Comment #7781263

    A lot of programs have more complexity than what is immediately obvious: * The Microsoft office suite has a VB interpreter for every application, * 3D (Blendr, Rhino) and graphics …