CathyWest

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by CathyWest 8y ago
That would have been a reasonable argument if they were found to have been using something like DES-based crypt(3) to hash their passwords. But they didn't, they were just plain text.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> I wish there was a guide for "proper" SO questions; my impression is, the only ones are super-detailed questions about some super-particular APIs. And those questions can in most cases be answered by the docs anyway. The time
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by CathyWest 8y ago
What a wasted opportunity to not arrange the festival in the actual town of Hammerfest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerfest
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by CathyWest 8y ago
What kind of capitalisation convention is that? It's not German, or all the nouns would have been capitalised. Prepositions and conjunctions, with verbs and pronouns some of the time?
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size it is with no real harm to the rest of the economy. With technology it should have shrunk by a couple of orders of magnitude. You don't need a room full of old men in gr
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> so I tend to write CTE-based JSON generating views for apps. (Yes, these are not high traffic apps...) I enjoy using this pattern too. What kind of problems should I expect if it were to become a high traffic app?
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by CathyWest 8y ago
It would be the other way around. You wouldn't be able to electronically break in using the zero day after the update. Then you do the same thing as you would in an unconnected car, break a window.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> Refactoring your code to be as simple as possible > Following style conventions for names, whitespace, etc. > Replacing private information with environment variables > Commenting your code to contextualize snippets within you
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by CathyWest 8y ago
That was the first place I looked, and by its descriptive nature it is indeed useful for ascertaining that people do in fact say "coke brothers". But the question asked was what the actual Koch brothers say.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
It's of German origin, I would have assume it would be pronounced either as such[1], or anglicised with a k as in "stomach", which seems like the most common way for English speakers to deal with the troublesome voiceless vel
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by CathyWest 8y ago
I keep hearing Americans refer to these boys as the "coke brothers". Is that a jab at their petroleum cracking activities producing massive amounts of coke, or do they actually call themselves the "coke brothers"?
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> that cost its inventor millions I figured he had been sued for patent infringement or something. This must be written by someone who buys things at a discount and then believe the difference is an income she has earned and not buying i
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by CathyWest 8y ago
Does a GPL-compatible ZFS really detract from their FUD churning Solaris business, though? Those customers can't redistribute Solaris any more than they can redistribute Linux with a CDDL-licensed ZFS. If they really wanted to switch t
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by CathyWest 8y ago
I get it during the Sun years, but why the hell does Oracle continue developing Btrfs when they can just release ZFS under a GPL-compatible license and be done with it? It reallys seems like they are working against their own interests here
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by CathyWest 8y ago
They must have reasoned that entering them in octal or binary means more digits which means more space.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
One of the comments mention deionized water. That's something I've been wanting to experiment with, to see if you can realistically keep water dielectric over time as an immersion cooling medium. Given that commercial applications
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by CathyWest 8y ago
Great, then we'll have to listen to inverter whine all summer when the next generation hits their midlife crisis.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> Then they were against the dumping of nuclear waste at sea. I don't get that either, seems like the ideal way to get rid of it. Cheap, secure and with negligible impact on people or the environment.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
What kind of furnace needs this high level of air purity to operate? I would have thought a grating that prevents rats and squirrels from wandering in would suffice. I would assume small particulates would just burn with the rest of the fue
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by CathyWest 8y ago
Schneier is right. Warrant canaries are just another side of the same coin as the sovereign citizen movement. Word games and magical thinking is not going to fool any judges. While I do think secret warrants are unjust most of the time (and
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by CathyWest 8y ago
I just don't understand what Greenpeace has against nuclear power. The Chernobyl disaster has very well demonstrated that even the worst case scenario, while it sucks for people, is not at all bad for the environment.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
I would have thought Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 would be well known enough to make manufacturers think twice about sneaking in features and not telling pilots about them and CAAs about certifying them.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
http://archive.is/NIF8y
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> Are you 100% American? US government bonds, the kryptonite of any foreign spy!
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> 50% refers to the mix of male and female people who get distracted by this; in my experience as a technical writer who would always use “he” when I was less experienced, perhaps 70% of women and 30% of men? But who were these people? I
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by CathyWest 8y ago
I think the point is that it's better to work on some 7 year old system hacked together without any craftsmanship with the belief that craftsmanship is nonsense and spaghetti code is a legitimate design pattern, than to work on it know
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by CathyWest 8y ago
I can't tell whether one version looks more aggressive than the other. As for the extra frames, maybe it's been mangled a few times by things like screen recorders.
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by CathyWest 8y ago
You know that and I know that, but often it's easier said than done to convince them of it. I've had users get indignant because I dared criticise their favourite enterprise bloatware like I insulted their mothers. Even as they th
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> you’re already distracting roughly 50% of your potential readership If by 50% you mean 100% of the women having trouble making it through an article with multiple instances of "he" not immediately followed by "or she&quo
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by CathyWest 8y ago
> Writing good software can be hard, but it is worth the time and effort. Is it? I want this to be true because I want to write good software. But I've worked with some very senior developers who would disregard all software enginee

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