giomasce

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by giomasce 5y ago
My problem with that question is that it seems to imply that of something has a very small probability to happen, then it cannot really happen. This is false. The probability of me generating my precise GPG or writing this exact comment wer
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by giomasce 5y ago
Reference for this?
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by giomasce 5y ago
* Autoconf builds can (in theory always, in practice usually) be done out of tree, like cmake; when it works, I would suggest it that way: mkdir build; cd build; ../configure; make. * When autoconf files are ancient and do not work, ru
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by giomasce 5y ago
I suppose vfork might help with that (though I don't understand why they don't directly add fork_and_execve, it would seem much easier). Also, the problem with Linux is not having overcommit, but notv being able to choose when to
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by giomasce 5y ago
And what about the beamer replicating the screen content focused on the hacker's face?
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by giomasce 5y ago
Ctrl+Shift+C, click it and Del. (my wife was very happy when I taught her this trick, though at first she was scared she might permanently damage the website; I mean, that it would remove the block also for the other visitors)
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by giomasce 5y ago
Agree. One of the features of my current choice (Fira Code, but I've been with Inconsolata for a lot of time) is that it has ligatures for common groups like "!=" or "<<=", and CSS doesn't have them.
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by giomasce 5y ago
See also the Natural Number Game.
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by giomasce 5y ago
Math trivia: there are cases on which it is sensible, in sufficiently advanced mathematics, to define pi as 3 (or whatever other number). I don't use tabs, but if I'd say that the biggest advantage of using tabs is that everybody
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by giomasce 5y ago
Me too. I don't know a thing about COBOL, but my aunt does and I'm sure she will teach me. I'm willing to learn for that salary.
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by giomasce 5y ago
Precisely what I wanted to say. Have a child and you won't complain about not knowing what to do with your time any more. But it's true that the rest is pretty cool too.
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by giomasce 5y ago
Satispay is nice, though I don't understand why it has that funny mechanism with a weekly limit. Sometimes it is quite inconvenient.
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by giomasce 5y ago
This. No tradition or culture can claim to be purely from one place. Everything has mixed in the world by now. All of us are immigrants.
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by giomasce 5y ago
My somehow similar space predominance fiction would about one smaller country, unable to directly make use of space, but unwilling to leave it to other nations, intentionally causing the Kessler cascade by sending and detonating a few bombs
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by giomasce 5y ago
Basically affiliate cracking! That's an idea!
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by giomasce 5y ago
It doesn't say anything about doubles, which is a rather important element in Italian pronunciation. What I've been told is that for non-Italians the best trick is to try to shorten the vowel before the double. This will naturally
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by giomasce 5y ago
I never tried that: is it comfortable to use mouse and keyboard while walking? To me it feels quite weird.
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by giomasce 5y ago
Nice!
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by giomasce 5y ago
Are you sure? Isn't it UB to modify a const object? It will probably end up in a non-writable memory page. EDIT: gcc seems to agree with me: you can see the optimized version here[1] and the unoptimzed version if you remove "const
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by giomasce 5y ago
My comment seems to have sparked a lot of reaction about safety, but that wasn't the main point. The main point (and the one OP talks about) was about conciseness, and I can't really see how C can be considered a concise language.
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by giomasce 5y ago
The problem is not even just safety. You can write safe C, if you are careful (and you need to be careful also for C++, smart pointers do not just magically make everything right). The point is that OP makes the point that C requires to wri
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by giomasce 5y ago
"From the new Start button and taskbar to each sound, font and icon, everything was done intentionally to put you in control and bring a sense of calm and ease". It is important to carefully polish icons to put users in control.
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by giomasce 5y ago
The thing I really like of Git is the simplicity and transparency of its structure: a Git repository is a DAG of commits, each of which is a tree of blobs and directories, all of them linked by their hashes. On top of that there are tags an
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by giomasce 5y ago
Please, do not assume there is just one nation in the world, and write "United States" instead of "nation".
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by giomasce 5y ago
I don't really understand why RAII is related to many small memory allocations. Is memory leaking less of a problem if it is in just a few big allocations? The proposed solution of using handles instead of pointers is a tradeoff that c
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by giomasce 5y ago
Yes, if a key is or might be compromised it is a good idea to rotate it. Though, since you mention you're novice, you might not be aware that in the case of OpenPGP that doesn't necessarily mean to revoke the primary key, if you s
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by giomasce 5y ago
Same with Google and AGPL. Also, court cases are not just decided by the amount of money you pour in them. You need money to prepare correctly the case and work a good strategy, but in the end facts are considered, and if someone violates c
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by giomasce 5y ago
Your family members might be wiser than you in believing that data owned by large monopolistic operators are not safe at all, and that Google is far from being above suspects of shadiness. Little operators cannot do more then some harm: the
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by giomasce 5y ago
Still, he does not provide any evidence.
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by giomasce 5y ago
The "isolation" part is a bit sloppy: that's what happens if you are using the "serializable" isolation level in SQL speak. But that's often not the default, because guaranteeing a serializability is hard for t

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