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Comment · 5 years ago
Why do you need the API key? Why not just do it like a traditional escrow service: you receive both the money and the item traded to a steam account you own. Then once both are received you send the money and you send a trade request giving the item to the receiver?
Comment · 5 years ago
I would say self hosting is best. At least if you lose your domain name you still have your emails.
Comment · 5 years ago
Not updating a web browser is a fantastic way to make your computer very insecure. I understand the desire to keep things the same but personally I would value security above that.
Comment · 5 years ago
And what is safe? C has well defined, tested, and documented specifications which layout exactly how to use C safely. Languages like Rust are more safe but nothing is just safe. If you are an inexperienced developer it is still very easy to write insecure code in Rust.

Sure, moving to safer languages is good. But it is impossible to rule out the use of a language so established that every major operating system is written in it. It is practically impossible to not use C - safe languages are normally bootstrapped by it and eventually your “safe” code will run in an environment programmed in C.

Comment · 5 years ago
Oh I see, I thought you were comparing it to the printf style methods but compared to methods that do not take a format string that makes sense.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why is snprintf slow? I am surprised that it would be slow especially when compared to methods like asprintf that allocate the buffer.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, this is certainly easy to cheat at, but the point is to have fun
Comment · 5 years ago
In Tom’s videos (which this post is based off) he says that you just have to reach sea water
Comment · 5 years ago
C++ can be safer but that does not mean it is safe. The fact you have out of bounds accesses, even if it is rare, is not really acceptable in a language that would like to be considered “safe”.
Comment · 5 years ago
I believe it’s about which numbers it ends with, not starts with
Comment · 5 years ago
A flat price certainly does not mean no more people want to buy it, or even that a significant number of people no longer want to buy it
Comment · 5 years ago
> nobody wanted any more Tethers

Can you provide a source on that? I certainly don’t want any Tethers but I know plenty of people that do.

Comment · 5 years ago
Could you clarify what you mean by “coming through education”?

I would’ve thought that population representation is the definition of underrepresented because it shows they are underrepresented in the population. But I am interested if there is another way to measure this.

Comment · 5 years ago
Your comment assumes that the parent commenter was male worrying about females taking their place.

It could equally have been a fear that if more than 50% of women are qualified for the job some will have to be excluded.

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