webreac

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by webreac 9mo ago
My wish list: - A secure email (with optional encryption/signature, with whitelists) - IM (with point to point encryption). - identity management (I would love delegating the login/password ceremonial to Mozilla instead of reinven
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by webreac 2y ago
What do you mean by "The attack surface of Vim is admittedly small" ? Recently I had to access a file owned by root. The IT gave me the permission to do sudo /bin/less /etc/the_file. That was enough to launch a
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by webreac 3y ago
rm is a good start, but you also need to ensure the disks are not sold to anyone.
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by webreac 3y ago
maybe the car industry was just a strategy to hire talented people. Now, they use them on useful tasks. Just a theory.
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by webreac 3y ago
US do the same by fining banks
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by webreac 3y ago
The war in Ukraine is about selling American shale gas. There are probably other reasons, like dividing Europe and Russia. The second Gulf War was motivated by Saddam Hussein's desire to sell his oil in euros to fight American imperial
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by webreac 3y ago
Another way of presenting the same facts is that Airbus has done business with a country where corruption and bribes are the norm. The U.S. intercepted communications and used them to blackmail buyers so that they chose Boeing instead of th
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by webreac 4y ago
Microsoft software (and borland) were easy to copy, but it was not the case before. There were many tricks to protect software like "weak bits", "laser holes", fancy sector layout. We had special software to copy protect
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by webreac 4y ago
50. The best answer is the simplest one. IMHO, 2n^2 is very simple.
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by webreac 4y ago
In 1993, it was said that the game of Go would be the drosophila fly of artificial intelligence. Alphago (then AlphaGo Zero) has succeeded in 2016, 2017. The glass ceiling has been broken. We are witnessing the birth of a new world where a
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by webreac 4y ago
As a developer, this silly cryptography check would be very useful during development phases to avoid signing after each compilation. IMHO, they "just" failed to replace the development code by the production code during delivery.
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by webreac 4y ago
Imho, the insight is that placebo work well for many people.
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by webreac 4y ago
scratch has the origin at the center. If your audience is young, they may already be used to it.
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by webreac 4y ago
IMHO (almost layman), takoff catapult is the way to go for energy efficiency of aircraft. If you imagine a takeoff around 200KIAS, the conversion of cynetic energy in potential energy gives you a big part of the climb. The spared energy wou
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by webreac 5y ago
As a go player and reader of the "computer go" magazine, I disagree.
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by webreac 5y ago
cut diwn and use it for furniture and buildings. We could replace concrete with wood.
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by webreac 5y ago
I work as contractor for EUROCONTROL. 90% of the time, the usual order (Lat/long) is used in software. When this is not the case, it is a good indicator that I need to be careful about the conventions used to represent all data. I have
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by webreac 5y ago
IMHO the most important period for microsoft is the 90s. There is nothing about it in this article. 1990 is windows 3.0. In 2000, it was the start of Ballmer's era with the erratic management.
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by webreac 5y ago
France. For example https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Une_femme_d%27honneur
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by webreac 5y ago
France recycle spent fuel for whole Europe. In order to reuse a part of plutonium, most of the plant consume a mix of uranium and plutonium: mox. AFAIK, France has huge piles of useless plutonium.
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by webreac 5y ago
This discussion shows that there are several types of developers who have radically opposite ways of functioning. There are those who think that a car driver can ignore all aspects of the car other than the interior. There are those who say
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by webreac 5y ago
If I understand well, when you will publish it, the first merge requests you will receive will be improvements of your build system. People will compete to provide the best fix for this obvious deffect. As a result, the main brake for publi
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by webreac 5y ago
Inflation is good only for long term debt.
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by webreac 5y ago
you can also type "man gittutorial" in your browser. I often do it to be able to see the manual while typing the command in the terminal.
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by webreac 5y ago
Nuclear is not dead: French President Emmanuel Macron announced a shift to small modular nuclear reactors https://www.france24.com/en/france/20211013-france-unveils-n...
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by webreac 5y ago
4 horsemen: sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague
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by webreac 5y ago
The last sentence was from me. The four items are from the SICP (not TAOCP, my mistake). They all are mandated by IEEE scheme standard. I have encountered many functionnal languages when I was student (caml-light (the ancestor of ocaml), le
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by webreac 5y ago
In my lessons about scheme (given by the french translator of TAOCP), I have the following essential characteristics: - static binding - closures (true) - tail recursion - garbage collector s-expression or typing is a matter of choice, but,
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by webreac 5y ago
The long and bloody history of American imperialism in Latin America. ( https://time.com/5512005/venezuela-us-intervention-history-l... )
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by webreac 5y ago
Privacy never existed. When everybody knew each other in a village, kids were under many eyes.

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