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Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two files are identical. And this blurb contains its own blurb
It's apparently an exercise for the reader to determine why it's a big deal.
I mean, sure, it's neat, but ...???
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Might it be another example of "only because you can..."?
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It means that you can potentially be able to create arbitrary content that prints a desired MD5 - quite a big deal if said MD5 is used to authenticate a library, update or executable for example.
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Denis,
This has actually been possible for around 15 years now. Not even sure why it made the news.
MD5 collision generation
PDF, DOC, ZIP and executables have already been publicly demonstrated. I would argue that images are easiest, you can use the EXIF block and leave the image data untouched.
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Randor wrote: This has actually been possible for around 15 years now. Not even sure why it made the news.
I'm glad for that since I didn't know it 
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I recommend avoiding SHA-1 as well. 
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I recommend avoiding cylinder locks in e.g. doors and padlocks. It has been shown, many years ago and numerous times, that such locks can be picked. So they are quite useless - in practice, anyone who wants to walk in your front door, or take the driver's seat in your car, or start its engine, can do so even if the door, or engine, was locked.
Cylinder locks have no value and should be abandoned. Maybe forbidden.
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M.C. Escher would be proud.
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A simple and powerful framework for ironing out confusing code. Is that the one where you can only paste some code if it's been in the copy buffer for six seconds?
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I find this article interesting. In good UI design, it's known that the human brain can instantly pick out an item in a list of up to seven items. More than seven requires scanning (think index seek vs. table scan in SQL). This article points to a deeper underpinning by using a similar rule - six items at a time for human cognition.
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On Monday, as part of the DART mission, NASA will send a spacecraft to collide with Dimorphos, a never-before-seen asteroid. Here is how you can watch it happen live. People only watch this stuff for the crashes
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Yep - definitely want to see the crash. It will be interesting to see whether NASA was able to move this asteroid, which is the intent of this test.
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It’s more important than typing speed or your data structures knowledge. It’s more important than math, coding language knowledge, or perhaps even more important than knowing how to Google. Whatever. What he said.
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I thought it was understanding foreign languages as "Project manager", "Boss", "executive", "Marketing" and similars
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Threes Rev 1.1 - YouTube
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The customer proceeds to go through each change line by line.
Excruciating detail which no logic can divine.
When it ends there's only four not sitting there agog:
The customer, the manager, the pony and the dog.
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Some would say "developing software..." 
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that's just crazy talk 
TTFN - Kent
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ACK.
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It’s not the hospital but the cybercriminals who have been tricking several people across Bengaluru city to sell their kidneys for a hefty sum. What can I get for a heavily-used liver?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What can I get for a heavily-used liver?
I suppose the same as I would get for my lungs... cough cough
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Nobody who's ever had their liver taken out by us has survived! 
Part Five - YouTube[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Do I have to show a certificate of provenience?
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A person's distrust in humans predicts they will have more trust in artificial intelligence's ability to moderate content online, according to a recently published study. And if you don't trust either?
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