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Beating macOS at gaming sounds like a punchline, that's just not impressive, macOS has only ever been an afterthought for gaming.

In which jurisdictions is this deliberate circumvention of access controls legal?

> Is there a name for this type of fatigue

Stress. (One of the smyptoms of)

Stop trying to re-invent statistics. Use a box and whisker plot of latency. You quickly get to see the mean, the quartiles, and all the outliers and you get it in a format which is familiar and easy to understand. You can even plot box and whisker plots next to each other for quick meaningful comparisons between different things.

There's also microsoft's R-Open (https://mran.microsoft.com/download) which I've found is faster than the out of the box R since it supports better multi-threading of commands.

That reminds me of this work (2009) by artist Ellie Harrison who made a vending machine which dispensed snacks any time the word recession popped up on the BBC news feed: https://www.ellieharrison.com/vendingmachine/

These may well work on some (cheap?) phones, I've had phones not display properly through polarized sunglasses before.

Specifying something as password hashing as (sha256? salted sha256?) without telling it to seems like magic to me.

So to clarify, it's this password: declaration which tells the framework to hash the input?

    users
        dynamic :  . 'Users'
        password : . 'Password'

    interfaces

    root {

    }

    numerical-types

Is this defined anywhere within the project or is this framework magic? (Or "glue" if you don't like the term magic). password is not mentioned again anywhere in the documentation, I'd like to understand how the framework knows to hash the input.

Where is the definition of the password being hashed? The tutorial defines it as text:

/* 'Users': collection { 'Password': text }*/

How does the platform know to hash that? Is it looking for magic property names?

How do you take this from here to the next step?

Let's say I want to develop a multi user todo and I've followed the examples and now have some Users who log in entering a password.

Someone points out that I shouldn't be storing passwords in plain text so I want to store them hashed.

Despite there being hints in the documentation that this is possible (migrations shows the password hashed), it's not clear how to carry out this kind of change.

A walkthrough of making a change would help convey the use case much better than just templates of "this incantation produces this output".

Modern tests are delivered by computer and typically are adaptive. This means that as you answer questions correctly you get asked increasingly difficult questions until you get some wrong.

This means that you aren't limited to asking the same questions to everyone so you can have appropriate discrimination through the range.

The difference between 99th and 99.99th percentile is 1.4 standard deviations, a common IQ test ought to be able to be accurate to that. Otherwise it couldn't measure the difference between 100 and 120 IQ (0 to 1.4z) which it clearly can.

Meta doesn't imply cycling, just that the best strategy may be a mixed strategy which involves randomly picking between different pure strategies.

Instead of cycling, the meta ought to converge to a Nash equilibrium.

With the right mixed strategy, an opponent choosing a pure strategy would be at a disadvantage.

Randomising over a huge choice of pure strategies may be infeasible of course and in the real world players have to train for particular strategies which is why we see meta shifts. (Plus of course in the real world the conditions (assumptions) change due to gameplay patches.

It's a stretch to say it results in cheaters, people have been writing cheats since quakeworld.

There's a better solution: Stop collecting and keeping personal data.

I can't even read this article without using firefox reader mode to skip the cookie warning / prompt (this works for a lot of sites!).

That's a choice that techdirt make. By framing it as an unavoidable consequence of the cookie legislation or GDPR moves the focus to the wrong place.

Someone on here recently recommended uMatrix for this purpose and I find that a nice trade-off between usability and request blocking.

It's an extension but given it's less opaque than a generic ad-blocker I feel more in control and that it's less likely to go 'rogue' like adblockers do.

Despite not working in infosec I tune into risky busisness (risky.biz) every week, it's a good round-up of the week without the overreaction you sometimes get from twitter and here in the immediate aftermath of a big leak or vuln.

You say that as if github never has outages when the reality is, like any large service, it has frequent service outages.

Just check the github status pages, there are orange level issues almost weekly and you don't need to go back too far for full outages.

Are they wrong?

They all feed into the National ANPR Data Centre:

www.npcc.police.uk/FreedomofInformation/ANPR.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...

Every petrol (gas) station has ANPR; which makes sense, you can't get too far before you have to fill up.

VR isn't decent yet and won't be until it's comfortable enough to slap a VR headset on and watch a movie.

That's comfortable both in terms of literal headset weight but also latency, resolution, sound, etc.

When I sit down in front of a 48" TV I'm absorbed into a different world and forget where I am. When VR is good enough you can spend hours inside the virtual world, that's when it can be called good enough.

It's not there yet, but sure we might be there in a generation or two.

When I first found notebooks I was amazed at their utility. The ability to quickly display algorithms and processes to a wider (potentially layman) audience is amazing.

To be able to have a scratchpad and play around with techniques while keeping a sort-of record is also amazing.

I see it like I see excel, it's a fantastic tool for data exploration and some visualisation. It's not something that should be used in any final workflow or production system.

Like excel, it can be badly mis-used but they unlock ways of working that simply weren't possible before it.

The criticisms about hidden state are fair, I think it would be better if previous step data was more explicitly wrapped in the following cells so you could choose to use the "wrapped package" of the previous data or choose to use a re-evaluating version.

I think it works best when most cells have few side-effects, even if that means repeating previous calculations.

XML without schema are a mess.

XML with schema and validtion can be a joy to use compared to the untyped JSON world, but it's the lack of having to specify type which helps JSON remain popular.

Given a choice between strong or weak typing and weakly typed or un-typed systems will prevail in popularity.

Looking at javascript itself and the type coercion rules it is easy to dismiss it as unworkable mess which leads to expensive bugs in production, but in the real world the ability to mostly ignore types lets people get things done in a more hackish / amatuer way which eases the learning curve and helps popularity.

According to [1] windowing functions make SQL turing complete.

Does this make SQLite turing complete or has it been turing complete before?

[1] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...

That doesn't bother me because actual opcodes are the least transferrable skill of the parts of programming they teach.

Yeah, I'm not going to be able to go from the games straight into x86 programming but when I come across the idea of op-codes and registers again I'll be in more familiar territory.

What they do teach very well is the Test / Execute / Debug loop and problem solving.

No problem, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

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Hygeine OCD is only one small subset of OCD.

1. What you've described as 'not "tracking" ' is tracking. It's not third-party tracking but you're still deliberately adding a cookie for the purpose of tracking users across your site.

2. Your privacy policy contains:

> !!!add opt-out frame on the website at this position!!!