devman0

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by devman0 4mo ago
If you use the typing system (which I do religiously) Python becomes a lot easier to reason about in larger projects it also makes linters and refactoring tools easier to use.
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by devman0 6mo ago
Idk how Florida handles it but several states citations issued by red light cameras and those issued by officers are handled entirely differently for the exact reason you mention. Camera citations are entirely civil, you don't get poin
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by devman0 6mo ago
Even if a zip code contains multiple cities, each ZIP has one "preferred" locality name and you can default to that. Any of the locality names within a zip code is deliverable for all addresses in that zip code.
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by devman0 7mo ago
Businesses can use deposit management services to spread cash among many banks. Bonus points they also are less impacted by the poor business practices of one bank. Individuals can do this too with investment brokers or wealth management pr
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by devman0 7mo ago
It is supposed to be if the amounts are above $250,000. I have no problem with the first $250k being risk free, that is a policy that is well published and that we all "agree" on. Making arbitrary policy decisions that in some cas
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by devman0 7mo ago
The privacy issue has two facets, when I show ID to get in to a club or buy alcohol, the entire interaction is transient, the merchant isn't keeping that information and the issuer of the credential doesn't know that happened (i.e
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by devman0 8mo ago
Right, I mean the Roman Republic declined and gave way to Roman Empire for a long time before Rome finally waned. That doesn't feel like it would be a good time for the rest of the world if the United States gave way to the United Empi
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by devman0 8mo ago
Even if 'possibly preface' is interpreted to mean CNAME RRSets should appear first there is still a broken reliance by some resolvers on the order of CNAME RRsets if there is more than one CNAME in the chain. This expectation of o
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by devman0 9mo ago
> It's called a firewall. You want a firewall. IPv6 also has a firewall. NAT is not a firewall. NAT is usually configured as part of your firewall, but is not a firewall. Expanding on this. NAT as deployed in most soho/resident
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by devman0 9mo ago
Wouldn't that just be because the construction is common in the training materials, which means it's a common construction in human writing?
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by devman0 1y ago
Just because an imprinter was used doesn't mean the transaction was necessarily "offline". Depending on merchant's policy, the cashier would call their processor, give them some transaction details and receive an auth c
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by devman0 1y ago
I would argue, the issue is that they had exclusive control over the customers bank accounts. I have no problem with fintech that integrates with existing accounts over the top. The issue is with fintechs that are not really banks, so they
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by devman0 1y ago
The principle issue with hardware keys as implemented today via FIDO2 or U2F is that you can't enroll them without having them in your physical possession, which means if you have a backup key stored offsite, you have to fetch it anyti
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by devman0 1y ago
Blame the Normans for that one...well English was already kind of a mess, but the the conquest of England by the Normans really sealed the deal.
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by devman0 1y ago
git does have word diffing if you need something more granular than line diffing, the default delimiter being whitespace.
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by devman0 1y ago
This is, in theory, the difference between checked and unchecked exceptions in languages that support such distinctions. Checked exceptions are basically part of the control flow and the API contract used for things that can happen but are
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by devman0 1y ago
I think JetBrains model is best with thier IDE. You purchase, and get one year of updates, if you don't renew you get a perpetual license at whatever update level your update license ended at, and you can restart at anytime. This avoid
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by devman0 1y ago
Header passthrough is nice to have, but there isn't really a standard for it for TLS, and it isn't well supported by most applications that are interested in doing mTLS. Additionally there is a trust component required between pro
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by devman0 1y ago
Client certs are strongly bound to the TLS handshake, and thus a connection, which makes them pretty unfriendly to a lot of proxy driven architectures, where as JWTs and Cookies can pass through proxies trivially, and are bound to requests
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by devman0 1y ago
The treasuries are effectively zero-risk assets to the trust fund and they also pay interest. Just having the fund sit the on cash would not be efficient. The money goes to the trust fund, the trust fund buys treasuries and meets it's
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by devman0 1y ago
Pulling $10k out of the global banking system by physical coercion in a way that isn't reversible and won't get you caught is hard problem, you might as well attempt to rob the bank instead. That's why most of the "succe
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by devman0 1y ago
if a passkey is exportable how is it materially different from a password? Isn't the point of a passkey to be hardware bound so it can't be swiped?
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by devman0 1y ago
Additionally, while not specific to this SEC enforcement action, corporations also have to think long term, just because this administration is not enforcing laws, doesn't mean the next one can't reach back and do so, the laws ar
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by devman0 2y ago
P&C insurance is a pretty competitive industry, and there are plenty of mutual insurance companies in the P&C business that don't have a price gouging incentive. Most of the regulations that are about reducing counterparty risk
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by devman0 2y ago
XML also decouples the data model and serialization with the XML Infoset specification.
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by devman0 2y ago
How else would you do client side crypto for a website if not with JavaScript, isn't that kind of the point of how Proton does E2EE?
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by devman0 2y ago
Analogies are rarely perfect, that's why they are analogies. The OSI model isn't intended to be perfect and yeah there are a lot of details that leak between layers, but is also expected, any non-trivial abstraction is always goin
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by devman0 2y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe: the OSI model is useless
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by devman0 2y ago
ed25519 is in FIPS 186-5 which meets criteria (a) for Approved Security Functions in FIPS 140-2.
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by devman0 2y ago
Dividends get taxed immediately, so there is more pressure to reinvest profits in the company to find organic growth which is captured as capital gains instead. That reinvestment can take a lot of different forms like R&D, training, hir

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