I am so grateful for the progressive policies in Europe that help the entire globe.
Missing a /s ?
No.
I wish the US had stronger antitrust enforcement .
Companies must stop using Google Analytics
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#662I am so grateful for the progressive policies in Europe that help the entire globe.
Yes. Every time I see a cookie consent dialog, I do a quick "thumbs up" to our pals in Europe.
I see those as a dark pattern protest against reasonable data protections. I get why some might hate them, but it's just a mark of being against users.
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If it's shared, it's not a salt. The term of art in that case is 'pepper'.
Isn't it the other way around? Most salted hash implementations share the salt by embedding it in the hash. It's pepper that isn't shared. After rereading, I suspect by 'shared' you meant 'non unique' rather than 'public'?
Why would ‘shared’ mean ‘public’? And in most password hashing contexts the salt and hash are not ‘public’ either.
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Apparently we understand words differently. A salt is a unique random value added to each value when hashing. Obviously, such a salt needs to be stored alongside each value because it’s random and unique. If you don’t store it how could you possibly ever figure out what it is? A pepper is a shared value added to lots of different things before they are hashed. It isn’t unique to each value, so it doesn’t need to be s…
I think you may be alone in understanding the words "pepper" and "salt" this way.
Try reading the rest of the Wikipedia article beyond the first paragraph. Particularly the section on ‘shared-secret pepper’ and ‘unique pepper per user’.
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No matter what strategy you use to hash IPs, if you can correlate to an IP you can find the original IP by just trying all options. It doesn’t matter what you do because 4B unique possibilities is just too low to prevent brute forcing while maintaining utility. If you use a random salt, then you need to store it or else the stored value has no utility. However you implement retrieval of that salt it can just be brute…
The salt could be stored as a cookie and you can follow the session but never be able to reverse the hash yourself. Any match you get in the brute-force attempt might as well be a collision. The entropy can be in the salt, you're all making it sound way too easy. The requirement is "non-reversible". Given infinite time everything can be brute-forced, but this is the mossad/not-mossad problem. It's good enough for sto…
That’s just unique identifiers with extra steps.
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Being proactive in changing the situation isn't toxic positivity, and being empathetic with folks in different jobs isn't toxic positivity either. Assuming people are assholes, and blaming them for situations is just run of the mill toxic. Working through side-channels rather than addressing a problem is also run of the mill toxic.
Nah your stuff came across as blind tolerance which is just pointless unconstructive and solely to placate people's feelings (in such instances unjustifiable/irrational). Just because Joe or Judy "feels" a certain way doesn't mean it should actually have bearing on anything. Really... Enough placating those with the least logic and self control.
This attitude is the kind of engineer stereotype we can live without.
People's feeling matter in the long term, because it's the difference between them wanting to work with you, and them being forced to work with you. If I had to pick between a genius coder with awful people skills, and an average coder with exceptional skills, I'd essentially always pick the average one.
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Nah your stuff came across as blind tolerance which is just pointless unconstructive and solely to placate people's feelings (in such instances unjustifiable/irrational). Just because Joe or Judy "feels" a certain way doesn't mean it should actually have bearing on anything. Really... Enough placating those with the least logic and self control.
This attitude is the kind of engineer stereotype we can live without. People's feeling matter in the long term, because it's the difference between them wanting to work with you, and them being forced to work with you. If I had to pick between a genius coder with awful people skills, and an average coder with exceptional skills, I'd essentially always pick the average one.
Someone's feeling do matter in the long term, which is where it should be dealt with, not in the immediate.
Do you not see the difference?
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Well, that's a very American way of doing things that most places simply don't do. The norm is for tools to be compatible with all brands and at best it is an added option to unlock or a pay per use. You can do 99% of the diagnostics with a Wish Bluetooth dongle and a free android app if you wish, since by law it is an open standard. Most specialty equipment costs less than a mechanic can earn in a day. You even orde…
Diagnostics yes, but try to reset the warning light on a German car after fixing the fault. This can apply even when replacing seemingly purely mechanical parts (I think some suspension parts on bmw/Mercedes). You will need vag-com for any vw/Audi and something else proprietary for Mercedes or bmw
I have only done so on a Seat, with no trouble. Seems to me that if this is true it is against EU law.
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#669Earlier quoted context omitted.
This attitude is the kind of engineer stereotype we can live without. People's feeling matter in the long term, because it's the difference between them wanting to work with you, and them being forced to work with you. If I had to pick between a genius coder with awful people skills, and an average coder with exceptional skills, I'd essentially always pick the average one.
Someone's feeling do matter in the long term, which is where it should be dealt with, not in the immediate. Do you not see the difference?
People's feelings about you are based on a series of accumulated interactions. You can't just "deal with it" later, because that's now how people work. This isn't like tech debt where you can accumulate some and then spend some timing working it down later. If you're consistently an asshole to people, it doesn't matter if you take a little time now and then to try to repair that. Good relationships require taking people's feelings into account and acting consistently.
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#670Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone's feeling do matter in the long term, which is where it should be dealt with, not in the immediate. Do you not see the difference?
People's feelings about you are based on a series of accumulated interactions. You can't just "deal with it" later, because that's now how people work. This isn't like tech debt where you can accumulate some and then spend some timing working it down later. If you're consistently an asshole to people, it doesn't matter if you take a little time now and then to try to repair that. Good relationships require taking peo…
The context of the discussion was accommodating feeling during meetings, right?
Well that's absolutely not the place for it.
If your little fee fees get hurt you keep it to yourself and focus on the task at hand. Then after the task is complete you either pull the offender aside to address the problem or you bring it to a superior to be addressed. It in no way should have any bearing on the work at hand.
This is basics of work place decorum, right?