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mrswag

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    Comment #13336587

    FM works, and doesn't need any addition when you increase the number of listeners. I don't get it. Why throw away millions of perfectly fine radios?

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    Comment #13318920

    I'm genuinely wondering: is pair programming better, compared to doing the design in pair, going to work on your own, then reviewing each other's code? As an introvert I don't thin…

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    Comment #13300892

    Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!

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    Comment #13300371

    `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` for the local server (or if you prefer the python3 variant, `python3 -m http.server`), aspell for the spell check, and OptiPNG for PNG compression. I d…

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    Comment #13300354

    Bad wording on my side, sorry. My grief is mostly against some prominent themes that weight 5 MB a page, and feature jQuery to animate the menu.

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    Comment #13300212

    I generate static webpages from markdown in a It has a local webserver, spell check, optional image compression, and minimal dependencies. I don't get the need of Jekyll or Hugo. T…

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    Comment #13284104

    The graphics are misleading, the Y axis is stretched to make the change look big.

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    Comment #13258184

    It has a nice GUI frontend with useful presets, understandable for the layman. Very good tool for the people not too versed in CLI and/or video formats.

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    Comment #13253737

    Does a coverage-guided QuickCheck exists, à la AFL? AFL is really good at finding deeper code path that the randomness only approach might not find.

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    Comment #13249247

    The bottom line is the power consumption. A big fat i7 (desktop) can draw 91W, while a fanless, battery operated smartphone can pull from 5 to 10W. Power optimization come at a per…

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    Comment #12717938

    It's cheaper than that. A HackRF and some sort of better clock and you're done. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/cheating-at-pokemon-go-with-a-hackrf-...

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    Comment #12714052

    This censorship show that you don't even begin to understand the problem. This list could prevent people from getting their card skimmed, and you take it down . I'm moving away fro…

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    Comment #12496175

    I use a simple bash script[1] to paste together html headers and markdown files processed by python-markdown. The resulting .html is pushed with the source to the github repo. This…

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    Comment #12494868

    It's theoretically possible, provided you have a small trusted circuit. It's an active research area. The basic idea is to use multiple separate, untrusted chips and have them do m…

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    Comment #12452242

    It's in their threat model under 'Module injection': > The mitigation is to maintain secure access permissions on all directories and package files in search path to ensure unprivi…

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    Comment #12451834

    Some points are valid, but come on, if an attacker has write access to your code, you can't recover from that, ever.

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    Comment #12428493

    Assuming you pay for your hosting in whatevercoins and only connect to it over TOR, you aren't at risk, right?

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    Comment #12390404

    All go binaries are statically linked. It's supposed to be one of the selling points of the language.

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    Comment #12385094

    Once you factor in the environmental cost associated with production, I'm not sure it's as clear cut. Batteries are nasty.

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    Comment #12365217

    Yes, but it happens only the first time, if you update the stored hash with newHash(plaintext_password)

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    Comment #12365186

    I know I should, but I can't bring myself to it. I'm constantly switching between three OS, two browsers, different, sometimes auto-resetting computers, and it seems to be too much…

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    Comment #12319765

    What was the thought process to add those aliases? "Yes let's implement broken aliases that supersedes actual working windows version of those utilities" ?