Darkstryder

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by Darkstryder 6y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned that Windows Defender does something very similar (checking for never-seen-before binaries at runtime, uploading them to Microsoft servers, then running them there ) : https://news.ycombinator
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
If like me you have a browser opened at all time, on Linux you could consider using the 1Password browser extension even needing a password not web-related. I use 1Password for Firefox on Linux and it works flawlessly.
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
On top of what others have said, when outside the US the Cloud Act has been a big one for most previous companies I worked for. Using AWS / Azure / Google Cloud (even using datacenters from your own country) implies that the US go
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
Remember that the "cost per instruction" ought to be very different depending on a lot of other factors, including but not limited to: - how much data do you need to move to actually perform the computation - whether the computati
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Liger(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Darkstryder 6y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
You’re right, and actually this is also true in France: the party in power only controls one of the two chambers but not the other.
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
I would have trouble talking about the difference between American and French views of the law, or even speaking for all French people for that matter. What I can say is that personally, I definitely think I live in a country ruled by law.
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I'm French. In french "gouvernement" (french word for "government") only refers to the executive branch, and our justice system is strongly attached to its independence from the two other branches. So it seems stran
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
As most democratic countries, France has a complete separation between the government and the justice system. This is a justice decision. The government has nothing to do with it.
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Thank you. I did note the passing of John Conway but I certainly did not associate it with the black bar. It could be interesting to make the connection more discoverable, ala Google's Doodles.
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Ask HN: Why is there a black bar above HN's top menu sometimes?
2 points by Darkstryder 7y ago|2 comments
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I really like the concept but I wonder if doing it with someone external to the company is a good idea for those of us with NDAs, confidentiality clauses and so on. Especially if it is done using a communication channel that hasn't bee
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
In 2013-2014, I was tracking a strange bug in a legacy accounting software. I was reading the business logic that triggered the bug and it made no sense. I activated the blame view of the code, and I realized most of the code had been writt
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Secondary drowning, while not shown on-screen, is an important plot point of the series The Affair.
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Ciphertext Stealing(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Darkstryder 7y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I agree with this. My grandmother (who passed away in 2018 at the age of 91) tried to get into computers regularly for a decade, starting in the early 2000. We tried a lot of things, nothing stuck. Every device we would give her would quick
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
That is a really hidden feature indeed, as I've been using iOS daily for ten years and was not aware of that. Thanks for the tip! I wonder how much undiscoverable features like this one I'm still missing.
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
A french forum I've been heavily involved with for the last 14 years used to require a proof of ID to join (for both reading and posting) for a decade. However members were still pseudonymous once approved. In my opinion it had two sub
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France Télécom suicides: Three former bosses jailed(bbc.com)
3 points by Darkstryder 7y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Reading this news, I remembered I had an old secondary account (for a musical project) that I hadn't used in years but wanted to keep. I logged in using this old account, and Twitter asked me to prove I was not a bot. It required I wou
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Interview with Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves(lifehacker.com)
1 points by Darkstryder 7y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Sometimes no. For instance a database migration script is not equivalent to the diff between two database creation scripts. While it should be possible to take a database creation script (state A) and a database migration script (edge A-&gt
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
In the same vein, I wish there would be a standard workflow for putting code inside commit logs. The typical use case would be database migration scripts : IMO they are always a pain to version properly because fundamentally Git and all t
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
You don't mention a big part of the puzzle : security updates. Given the current state of infosec, any OS that has not received any security update for a year or two is doomed to become a sitting duck for malware. Device security is a
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
https://outline.com/XkpW3b
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Elizabeth Holmes hasn’t paid her attorneys in more than a year(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by Darkstryder 7y ago|1 comments
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I agree completely. But it is a trade-off you need to be aware of, and need to be confident it will still be true in the future. I've had situations where a client wanted a 99.95% availability SLA for our SaaS service instead of 99.5%
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Yeah, I agree. It was more of a general comment, because you seem to have one Postgres instance for every client, which is already a big step against SPOF. At $previous_job we had a "one service" = "one MySQL instance" p
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Yeah. I guess after having been bitten myself a few times with failed MySQL failovers and especially after having read the GitHub October 2018 incident postmortem [1], I stopped considering failover solutions as a reliable availability solu
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
> Prematurely designing systems “for scale” is just another instance of premature optimization > Examples abound: (...) using a distributed database when Postgres would do This is the only part of the article that bugged me a little,

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