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Suggested edit: Simplify, standardize terminology, retag. No attempt to change original meaning (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290992 |
It has the `nc_permit_dns` option (nc = name constraint?). In the past, when I tried this, I got errors about how a root CA can't have NC. But I just tried adding it and it works. Would you like to post this as an answer so I can upvote/mark worked? (more) |
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GnuTLS config for my own root CA, for use on internal server I am trying to generate my own root CA certificate. Context My goal is to sign an intermediate CA with this certificate, and then install the intermediate CA on my own client machines. The intermediate CA will be used to sign a server on my private LAN. The server has no inbound route and cannot ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290747 |
I guess that's where I disagree - I think possessing a good answer is indicative of a good question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290817 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: How to hide files from the VS Code sidebar without pattern matching? You could just move the files to a new folder and open that :) Alright alright here's a serious answer: I noticed that VSC automatically dereferences symlinks. So if you create a temporary new folder and symlink only the files you want, this will effectively accomplish what you are asking. To m... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290786 |
While indeed bash is code, bash discussion tends to happen on linux.codidact.com/ so perhaps this question is better move there so it can get better answers. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290788 |
This is surely explained at https://developers.google.com/identity? (more) |
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A: What is the difference between hashing and encryption? Hashing is lossy compression. You can't recover the input of a hash from the result. This would obviously not work as an encryption. How would you decrypt it, if half the message is destroyed :) Consider the SHA hash. You can hash a 1 GB file into a 0.1 kB string. Wow! Why don't we just sen... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290747 |
IMO, the downvotes are inappropriate here. The question is well-written and easily answerable - in the negative, as I tried to do.
Asking how to do an impossible thing shouldn't be downvoted. Someone trying to learn about a topic may be unaware of what's possible or not, but there's nothing wrong ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290815 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Building a language model completely from scratch This is not feasible as described. To learn LLMs, you can look at models like 3B WizardLM. These are open source and should be possible to just train and run as is. The build may be very complex, and consumer hardware may be insufficient (but the easy solution is to run it on the cloud). You ca... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290526 |
It sounds like your problem isn't really about Chatty or speech recognition, you just have a simple import error. See if you can follow the answer in https://software.codidact.com/posts/290550 (more) |
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A: How to troubleshoot ModuleNotFoundError? `ModuleNotFoundError` means that in running your program, Python attempted to import some module `xyz` but it was not present on your system. It could be that you forgot to install the module (forgot to `pip install -r requirements.txt`), misspelled the module name, or tried to import a module tha... (more) |
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How to troubleshoot ModuleNotFoundError? I ran some Python code and it crashed with `ModuleNotFoundError`. What is the general approach for dealing with these situations? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290502 |
I think people make a new rainbow table in that case. (more) |
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A: Are "strong passwords" at all meaningful? The assumption of 1k attempts/s is wishful thinking, as is the idea that a hacker will go on mail.google.com and try to guess your login (they would get a captcha after like 5 failed attempts). Password security comes into play when someone steals the whole table of all accounts and password hashe... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290343 |
Fair enough. I know that this is one of your self-answer canonicals. I think the question is interesting, but I noticed all the answer you posted are quite long. So I decided to post a shorter one for people who are in a hurry, and also as an example for how it can be made more succinct. I operate un... (more) |
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A: Does Python have a "ternary operator" (conditional evaluation operator like "?:" in other languages)? The Python ternary "operator" is `if` and `else`: ``` x = 1 if somecondition else 0 ``` In Python, this is called a "conditional expression" rather than an operator, and the documentation explains it: https://docs.python.org/3.12/reference/expressions.html?highlight=ternary#conditional-expressi... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289753 |
This is a good question, but IMO it mixes too many things together, so it's hard to write a good answer. In my own answer, I try to call out the specific things I think should be a separate question. (more) |
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A: Understanding mutable default arguments in Python Everything you put on the line with `def` is global (global to the file, not as in the `global` keyword), so the (initially empty) list you create with `param=[]` persists and gets reused between calls to `example()`. You probably want to create a local list for each invocation instead. For that, you... (more) |
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PEP20 on namespaces: What exactly is it saying to do? PEP20 aka the Zen of Python has a statement: >Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! What exactly are we supposed to "do" according to this? Is it saying we should have more "honking great ideas" like namespaces and add them to the language as PEPs? Is it saying ... (more) |
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A: What is the point of triggering CI/CD with an empty git commit? The reason this practice exists is because CIs suck. The frameworks/services themselves suck, and the way people write the configs also suck, and the two combine to create a mega-suck. A CI is supposed to trigger as you make changes so you automatically have an up-to-date indicator on whether the ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290301 |
If we're going to have "what is the default setting X in Y program" questions, they should give some version range ("at least in version x.y.z") to avoid becoming less than useful a few years later. (more) |
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