Gh0stRAT

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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
I'm completely missing how his example of a Word document that can only be opened by approved users on approved hardware within the corporation is supposed to be a bad thing. Honestly, that sounds pretty fantastic. I've been using
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Not GP, but from having run a small/niche search engine that got hammered by a crawler in the past: Webserver was a single VM running a Java + Spring webserver in Tomcat, connecting to an overworked Solr cluster to do the actual facete
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
The extremely contagious nature of the newest strains is in many ways a direct consequence of our global failure to contain it early on before it had so many chances to mutate. (eg how we did with MERS and the original SARS) Asymptomatic sp
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
$350k in 1997-dollars means that 25 years ago, it was worth $627k in today-dollars. Adjusting for inflation, it's doubled in real value over 25 years, which works out to <3% APR. It's a decent return, but we've also ignore
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
RE chargebacks: stolen cards are often monetized these days with a scheme known as "triangle fraud". Here's how it works: 0) the scammer somehow acquires Person A's credit card info 1) the scammer sets up an online store
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Out of curiosity, would you say the numbers on Levels.fyi are generally too low or too high?
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
And for another, it allows ransomware gangs to much more easily extract payments from their victims as well.
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Imagine you're making a web browser plugin that blocks ads, or malicious sites. Let's assume the blocklist is a hundred megs (easily fits in ram) and your millions of users need to get the latest data hourly in order to keep up th
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Yes, you could do it with deltas instead. The tradeoffs are that it won't be as fast and will cost you a LOT more in bandwidth. (and cost your users more bandwidth as well. They might be on a very slow/limited data plan) Maybe you
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Homes are massive, illiquid assets with high transaction costs and (unless you have many of them) are poorly diversified. I'd even argue it makes more sense to look at a primary home as a forced savings plan rather than as an investmen
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
I agree, but git and most code reviewing tools I've used only show a few lines of surrounding context so the reviewers might not even realize there's a comment further up that needs updating.
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Not OP, but residential ISPs were caught injecting ads into HTTP sites at least as early as 2014. [0] I certainly wouldn't trust Comcast to keep malicious ads out of their ad network, either. [0] https://www.techdirt.com&#x2
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Chase is the only big US bank I'm aware of which lets you give Oauth tokens with limited permissions to third parties.
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Processed meats and red meats are linked to colorectal cancer. I believe it's something like 70% of CRC cases can be traced back to red/processed meat consumption. >In 2007, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) stated that the
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
> to company reports, Zelle processed $35 billion in P2P (person-to-person) payments in Q4 2018 versus $19 billion for Venmo. The thing that makes this a bit trickier is that Zelle is transparently used under the hood by some banks to mo
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
It's a lot more complicated than that due to edge cases like format conversion, resolution downscaling, chunking, etc but people are working on a solution in this vein: https://contentauthenticity.org/ Full-disclosure:
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
True, but that definitely wouldn't stop Oracle from suing over it anyway. (See the rangeCheck chapter of Oracle v Google [0]) Also, Oracle v Google opens the possibility of a fair-use defense in the event that Copilot does regurgitate
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Not OP, but I wouldn't say significantly more dangerous, no. Older aircraft sometimes have to undergo modifications to mitigate faults that have been discovered over time in order to stay airworthy. By and large, a 50 year old aircraft
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
I'm not OP but it almost looks like they got the username and password fields mixed-up when they were creating their account. For all we know, their password might be something like "remote_worker"!
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
It's a rate, so the same way you can drive 60 miles per hour between two points that are less than 60 miles apart.
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by Gh0stRAT 5y ago
Besides nearly eliminating the risk of hospitalization and death, the vaccines also greatly reduce the odds of contracting COVID-19 in the first place which logically would lead to a reduction in long covid. (contracting covid is a prerequi
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
While I agree that APIs should not be copyrightable, the Supreme Court has been criticized for "legislating from the bench". Avoiding the temptation to set bigger and more far-reaching precedents than is strictly necessary for the
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
The slower the boat travels, the closer to the wind it has to point in order to avoid being pushed into the leeward shore. (assuming it doesn't have significant thrust-vectoring capabilities at both the bow and the stern which as far a
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
>That's wayyy cheaper than any of the other big players T-Mobile has a $15/mo prepaid plan without having to pay a year in advance.
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
Early in my career, I learned so much from reviewing other more senior peoples' code. I suppose I technically did have "veto power" as my approval was required in order to merge the PR, but nobody ever thought of it in such a
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
I've never needed to reach out to either for support, but I've heard only negative things about Google's customer service. To the point where I would expect to at least be able to reach someone at Microsoft but have zero hope
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
California has CalFile. (way better than FreeFillableForms) Not sure about other states.
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
Watching it in slow motion, it looks almost like pieces of insulating foil.
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
Hi Giorgio, thanks for sharing! You mentioned that tries have had recent advancements, could you please point me to a paper about these advancements so I can learn more? I did a quick Google search but wasn't able to find anything that
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by Gh0stRAT 6y ago
The closest thing I know of is the annual proceedings of Sigbovik. It's a humorous conference traditionally held on April 1st and "was formed in 2007 to celebrate the inestimable and variegated work of Harry Quacksalver Bovik. We

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