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stepik777on Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam

That's probably because of coroutines.

stepik777on A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain

Not if there is a central repository which doesn't allow removal of packages.

stepik777on Announcing the first SHA-1 collision

> break SHA1 SSL certs.

It's not possible to break existing SHA1 certificates because this attack is to generate collisions, not finding preimages.

stepik777on JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

Yet another people who cannot correctly decode video. Videos are not in sRGB color space and must be converted to it for displaying in browser. Also videos do not use full range 0-255, instead they use narrow range 15-235 where color (15, 15, 15) means black and (235, 235, 235) means white; this should be converted to the full range which is used in web-canvas.

stepik777on Announcing Tokio 0.1

Can rocket use `#[derive(get("/hello/<name>/<age>"))]` instead of `#[get("/hello/<name>/<age>")]`?

stepik777on GitHub censored my research data

I tried to pay in several of these shops. Most didn't even had the functionality to pay with card. The only one in my sample where I was able to get to the payment form had redirected me to the proper payment gateway.

stepik777on China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane

Or Google Translate

stepik777on Spaceplan

Why do we accumulate watts? That's stupid.

stepik777on The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10

> always-on telemetry in Win10

When you install Windows 10 there are several pages of checkboxes where you can disable this telemetry. Of course we can never be sure that it is actually disabled.

stepik777on We don't want your coffescript

You don't understand what asm.js is for, right? It is not meant for writing code in it, it is for compiling code from other languages to it. Well, sometimes you may need to write code in it for optimization. But the code you point to looks complicated not because it is written in asm.js, but because algorithm itself is compilcated. If you will rewrite it in any other language it will still contain all of these magic numbers and strange operations. In fact, almost any hashing algorithm looks like this. Just open wikipedia page for sha-1 or md5 and look at pseudocode.