dependenttypes

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by dependenttypes 6y ago
> They're a charity and a private institution, not a legal arm of the UK Just like the Internet Watch Foundation. Being a private charity does not mean much for the UK.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
It would be probably be more respectful if you would not mess with my posts, now even I do not know who made said comment. Guess I should start signing my posts and keep backups of them. People sometimes have important personal reasons for
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
> why are people trusting random IRC server admins e2ee means that you do not have to trust anyone > if it's public: who cares IRC also lacks end to end authentication, the server owner can pretend to be you.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
What kind of attitude do you think would make Linux on desktop mainstream?
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
Is the passport number supposed to be secret? You show them when you buy alcohol in some countries as well to the police if they ask for it - all of these people can copy the number if they so wish.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
There are private IRC channels (password protected or invite-only) as well as private messages.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
If she could not do the job then she should have resigned. Edit: there was another post by [redacted] but it disappeared, it does not even show as deleted, weird. It said: "This isn't some ride along in a consumer grade EV. They w
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
IRC has the issue that it lacks end to end encryption (and sadly OTR is outdated garbage) If you use netcat you also do not use tls, try openssl s_client -connect server:port instead.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
It certainly is free. The standards are generally backwards compatible and the changes are simple. You do not even need to be aware about the differences between C89 and C11 to contribute to a C11 project. > or because the toolchain they
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
It seems somewhat common in cryptography.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
I fail to see how focusing on the americas "it hurt democratic movements in third world countries". Are you saying that it would have been better if they never published anything? I would certainly like it if the published absolut
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
I do not understand. Why would him being pro-trump affect your sympathy regarding his prosecution due to revealing the Iraq war crimes? Surely it is possible to stand against unfair prosecution of people while also disagreeing with their pe
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
It certainly could. Countries do not have to abide by any laws, only the weak do. Sweden specifically is known to illegally extradite people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an... https:&#x2F
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
You are the only person in this discussion who mentioned the word conspiracy though.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
How true is this? I was under the impression that all of the coronaviruses were published in a public repository even before the outbreak started.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938318 some of the parties involved mentioned that they disassociated from the paper in fear of being ostracized. Scientists are people too. You often see people hiding their real b
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
There is a wikipedia article about the 1st author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_Yan
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
> there are more women in high status (first or last) author positions in the open science community Is this true even when excluding fields and papers where names go in alphabetic order?
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
Remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
> and the control of the project is not given to the community. They also have private mailing lists, but I agree, it is certainly FOSS.
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LineageOS for MicroG(lineage.microg.org)
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
If only it actually worked...
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
Yes, we know that.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
Is it? I am pretty sure that v[x] where x >= n is UB.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
I never understood why mozilla decided to implement their own inferior and laggier version of developer tools when firebug existed.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
I am waiting for them to release the google earth source.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
Smalltalk and Erlang for everything except the "webapps" part. For that there was flash.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
> But to what extent was it available in a polished package? To a large extent. Both Smalltalk and Erlang were mature at that point in time. > everything in rust was available in other languages I am not doubting you but are you aware
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
void f(size_t n, int v[n]) is valid C.
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by dependenttypes 6y ago
Here is a post from 2014 from someone who is in the C standard committee. https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/dont-use-fake-matri...

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