Readit NewsThis looks potentially delicious. There's some other options out there, but they either felt a little aging (RakNet) or did too much (libuv) the last time I used\evaluated them. Interested to see what this one is like.
Probably the most equivalent existing open source thing out there is ENet, which doesn't do encryption or detailed stats. If you've signed the steam NDA (which is free of charge iirc) you can check out the existing docs for the closed source version, which has extra features on top of this.
alloyed commented on Netflix and Spotify Ask: Can Data Mining Make for Cute Ads? nytimes.com/2017/12/17/bu... · Posted by u/nkcmr
Sure, but what is harmful about the statement.
Dear person, who watched $show $number of times in one $time, $snarky_comment?
Netflix themselves might know who this person is, but there's no way anyone reading the tweet is going to be able to link it back to a specific person. Are you concerned that Netflix can query their own data?
What if you were the person who watched that show N times, and then saw that ad? It'd be a weird feeling, right?
alloyed commented on I can no longer recommend MailChimp grahamcluley.com/can-no-l... · Posted by u/svacko
Yeah, don't understand some of the responses which seem to assume this change will make MailChimp any more spammer-friendly. If you want to spam with MailChimp (or for that matter most other list providers) you import the long list of people you want to spam in csv form and disregard warnings about only importing emails from people if they've previously expressed interest in receiving notifications from you. Double opt in for new signups makes no difference.
MailChimp's ability to be regarded as a non-spammy mailing list provider depends mainly on them weeding out customers who import lists of people who haven't expressed any interest to indiscriminately blast mailshots, not on requiring an additional step after an individual actually visits a website, types in an email and clicks a button sending a post request to the mailing list.
The concern here is revenge-spam: someone takes your email and submits it to every mailchimp default form they can find automatically, and then your inbox is flooded with ostensibly legitimate email that you have to manually unsubscribe from, for each individual list.
alloyed commented on The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service open.nytimes.com/https-op... · Posted by u/alecmuffett
Got literally any sources?
This is pretty defineably public record:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93Russia_do...
notably: it's not the GOP the organization that initial funded the oppo, but a private news org with conservative leanings. and the FBI did not fund the dossier, but were provided it during its creation. (side note: who cares)
When it comes to corroboration: I would think the special investigation is good enough evidence that the claims of Russian cooperation are being taken seriously, no? Significant is a weasel word but there is actual smoke here.
alloyed commented on Diminishing returns of static typing blog.merovius.de/2017/09/... · Posted by u/robgering
I mean... I don't really think that's a strong case for calling C's type system weak.
I would say it's mostly a matter of use: In C you deal with void* or typecasts all the time, whereas in higher level languages it's much less common, either because the type system is smarter, or the constraints that it does have are more strictly enforced. For example: you can happily compare a char* and an int in C, but other languages like python might error at the thought.
alloyed commented on Google Will Survive SESTA – Startups Might Not eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09... · Posted by u/smokielad
While I agree that SESTA is a bad idea, does anyone have the full context for this quote from Blumenthal?
> Goldman: There's no doubt that the legitimate players will do everything they can to not only work with the law enforcement and other advocates to address sex trafficking and will do more than they even do today. At the same time, the industry is not just the big players. There is a large number of smaller players who don't have the same kind of infrastructure. And for them they have to make the choice: can I afford to do the work that you're hoping they will do.
> Blumenthal: And I believe that those outliers -- and they are outliers -- will be successfully prosecuted, civilly and criminally under this law.
I'd like to believe a more charitable interpretation he misunderstood the point of Goldman's question and the "outliers" he's referring to are the "illegitimate players" (as opposed to the "legitimate players" that Goldman references). I personally doubt that he was saying that the "smaller players" are the outliers who will be prosecuted.
IMO, saying "But in that unusual moment of candor, Sen. Blumenthal seemed to lay bare his opinions about Internet startups—he thinks of them as unimportant outliers and would prefer that the new law put them out of business" is quite disingenuous. The zinger at the end weakens the quote with its trite outrage. Just having the first part of the quote -- "But in that unusual moment of candor, Sen. Blumenthal seemed to lay bare his opinions about Internet startups—he thinks of them as unimportant outliers" -- would be a more accurate characterization, and is just as powerful.
I don't see a transcript anywhere, but here is the full hearing (I just googled the quote and found a link in another article)
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/9/comm...
alloyed commented on The tech sector might be evil tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/robin_reala
The most productive thing: Voice dissent. Ensure the higher-ups have thought through their position and the consequences. Assume they know things you don't. Ultimately, follow the order.
Once it's their call, you're absolved of any responsibility. Both morally and in every meaningful sense.
If your intent is to improve the world, and not just act superior, I don't see what this accomplishes. Hear dissent without action long enough and it becomes noise.
If you have 32gb of RAM and you're getting type lag after 2 days, it's probably not a RAM issue, right?
it can still be an issue with memory even if it isn't as blatant as "out of memory".
The easy example being a datastructure growing over time and getting slower to manipulate and query. This is a problem where being cavalier with the amount of memory you allocate and use will hurt you, even if you've got lots of memory to spare.
Why would you use Solid instead of Svelte?
I'm coming from React and most alternatives seem quite similar to me. Only Svelte does things very differently with its compiler. Vue and Solid just seem to be a different flavour of React.