Etheryte

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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Interesting, TIL. Trains don't do that where I'm from for obvious safety reasons, but I understand infrastructure everywhere comes with different baggage.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Things do not work well in general. DB is internationally infamous for its garbage service because everyone who has ever taken DB has a horror story. I lived in Germany some years ago and not once did I manage to catch a train that was on t
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Electric trains don't get power via the tracks like that, they use power lines. Metros are a different matter, but that's not what the article is about.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
There is massive incentive for all banks to get onboard with this as soon as it's available. Paying a few percent vs nothing at all is the easiest sales argument ever.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
This trail of thought is not logically sound. The whole argument is built on the notion of what modeling is and isn't, but the original quote doesn't make the assumptions you imply. Sure, they might have a model that assumes cows
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I get where you're coming from, but the word humiliation is not constructive in a professional setting. Reasonable decisions can easily look stupid without context and hindsight is always 20/20. Being responsible for your actions
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Commit logs are isolated and per repository. In large organizations, you're usually working with numerous services, often with different owners and split across a number of repositories. Figuring out what caused something to happen can
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
A trademark is literally a form of IP. Clearly you don't know what you're talking about.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
That makes complete sense though? They don't hold the IP, I don't really see any way they could be granted a trademark on it. As for the list, see [0]. [0] https://opensource.org/about/authority
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
The OSI definition of open-source software is recognized by several governments worldwide as definitive and legally binding. What you're describing is source available and that's a very different thing.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I can't even recall when I last needed USB-A, literally everything I have uses USB-C (or bluetooth for mouse and keyboard). What do you use it for?
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Here's hoping this will never come to browsers because this would become an endless pit of fingerprinting loopholes, similar to canvas and other related APIs.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
The author specifically calls it out in the post, no? > They also left helpful comments in their code marking the malicious sections - professional development practices applied to supply chain attacks. Someone probably has a Jira board
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
It wasn't intended to be a variable, but it did become one. Its value varied, it's in the name.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
It's literally in the description? Because of aliasing, a variable that should've been zero became four.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
It would, I was not familiar with the specific package, more so commenting on the problem at large. Even coding problems that sounds fairly straightforward can be a source of many dragons if you don't have good tools to solve them.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
That's how I imagine most people would start, but unfortunately that will break on anything beyond basic ascii strings. Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, etc use diacritics, combining characters and so on, and this isn't even getting int
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Many of these issues stem from the fact that Javascript doesn't have anything like stdlib or equivalents. I'm willing to bet money that most people can't write a bug free left-pad in Javascript on the first try without lookin
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Yeah, there's whole industries where you simply cannot operate without enforcing this. The author's view is pretty narrow, both on this front and on the other points.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
You know, if you'd actually read the article you're commenting on, you'd know that both of these things are discussed extensively. But easier to just spew nonsense in the comments I guess.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
This is true and a category of music that got hit notably hard was live recordings. What had a wide array of live recordings made by sound engineers straight from the mixer. This is something that you simply cannot find now unless you maybe
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
To put this into perspective, What.CD [0] was widely considered to be the music library of Alexandria, unparalleled in both its high quality standard and it's depth. What had in the ballpark of a few million torrents when it got raided
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
The animations don't keep up when you scroll the page quickly and it really makes the whole thing a pain to glance through. When you scroll fast or just jump to a point in the middle of the article with the scrollbar, you get a bunch o
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
The modern state of the art is inherently not verifiable. Which way you give it input is really secondary to that fact. When you don't see weights or know anything else about the system, any idea of verifiability is an illusion.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Good job, reading this sentence physically hurts my eyes.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
That's one aspect I really love about macOS. I'm from a small country so nearly no one makes hardware with our exact layout, but with macOS I can always just long press to fill in the gaps. I just wish all apps used native inputs,
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by Etheryte 11mo ago
That's fair, but even the commonly cited longest route [0] you could theoretically walk without intentional detours, Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia, is approximately 14k miles. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r&#
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by Etheryte 11mo ago
I wish they fixed the keyboard focus and UI shifts around that. It's one of the most buggy things I've ever seen, oftentimes I can't even see what I'm typing because everything is offset in weird and incorrect ways.
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by Etheryte 11mo ago
The approach the attacker took makes little sense to me, perhaps someone else has an explanation for it? At first they monitored what's going on and then silently exfiltrated credentials and private repos. Makes sense so far. But then
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by Etheryte 11mo ago
The distance is more than the circumference of the Earth. If you wrapped a rope around the planet at the equator, the length would be around 25k miles.

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