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Can somebody explain what the optimizations are that this enables?

Of course you can optimize away the checks but that doesn't count in my world because people put in these checks to make sure there is no overflow and optimizing them away is just wrong.

But I am sure there are other interesting optimizations that this allows and since I am generally against UB I am curious what those are.

Wait you cannot hide posts without logging in? What?

I'm confused by that cookie banner. Is it a joke or not? What do you mean by "Do you consent to sharing cookies?" are sharing cookies a special kind of cookie or do did you just mean storing cookies?

Sorry, if that wasn't clear but I think MDN is not only reference documentation. I agree, for the reference part the AI shouldn't do more than trying to point you to the right parts of the text. But for learning things, nice explanations, even if sometimes slightly off, can be a lot better to digest than reference documentation.

I'm not saying it's great yet, but there is potential for having something that can hand-wave away some details like a human would when explaining something to a beginner.

Please no. The site is an important resource for people learning JS and other web technologies and AI is great at explaining code snippets which would otherwise be follow-up look-ups and at explaining what the often very dense MDN content means. And AI is actually really good at generating code as well, you just have to review it like it was written by a junior dev.

I think most of the hate for current AI tools comes from the fact that people expect the computer from Star Trek which always provides perfect answers.

Edit: So yes, it needs to be made super obvious to users that it might give you wrong answers.

I think the most important point is, that this solution requires a way to securely transmit the generated link. As described in another comment by @ryandvm this has two advantages over transmitting the password directly: 1. It won't show up in logs or be otherwise accidentally stored. 2. If the link expires after a single use you get security in the covert model. However, this comes with problems because some tools like virus scanners automatically hit links.

I don't understand how this relates to the original post. ShareLock is not end-to-end encrypted.

I don't understand the threat model here. The link needs almost the same kind of protection as the original password. The only difference is, that the link expires.

So how do you transmit those links securely and why didn't you use that for your passwords in the first place?

Why does that help?

Do people not mind the paywall or do you just not get it?

This article is behind a paywall.

1. Why is parsing a tree which is encoded in JSON easier? 2. Why does it matter if an element is in an attribute or in child elements. You need some kind of schema anyway, right?

TLDR: not an apology

Yeah, I also don't look at things like

``` trim_string() { # Usage: trim_string " example string " : "${1#"${1%%[![:space:]]}"}" : "${_%"${_##[![:space:]]}"}" printf '%s\n' "$_" } ```

and think: "I should use bash more".

Bash is nice for making simple things simple but for complicated things it's just shitty. I used to think that this is due to the complicated quoting rules which make the simple things simple but tcl does a much better job at that.

In either case I prefer the clean rules of a Python or Perl for anything larger.

So my domain will become more and more expensive? Great.