LennyWhiteJr

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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
The number of classes isn't necessarily indicative of the size or complexity of an app.
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Damn that sounds like an incredibly exhausting experience, and all he got out of it was... a hugely expensive bill. All I can say is props to him to keeping his principles, I really hope he's be able to grow HIBP into a sustainable gig
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Bravo. Aside from WSL, Windows Terminal is probably the best developer tool Microsoft has come out with in quite a while. I've finally been able to retire my Cmder installation.
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
One thing a microservice architecture does really well is enforce bounded contexts. Oh you want to access that data? Well you need to go through the public API because it exists in a separate process. In a monolith it's all too easy to
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Potentially. GitHub at least already started collision detection after Shattered was published. https://github.blog/2017-03-20-sha-1-collision-detection-on-...
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
The root certificate authority for my company's Active Directory is signed using a sha1 hash. What are the practical implications of this chosen collision? How do I convince my IT department to update our CA to sha256?
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
> Croissants, cakes, Doughnuts Those things are also loaded with sugar.
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
I keep trying to get my in-laws to drink whole milk but they've had it beat into their head for decades that dietary fat = bad so they continue to drink gallons of skim milk. May as well drink water!
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
True, but cancellation tokens allow you to alleviate backpressure by safely dropping in-flight requests once you hit a given threshold instead of adding to an unbounded scope.
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
I wish he would have commented on .NET's async implementation. Microsoft really got it right here and it's arguably the best implementation I've seen. All .NET async APIs take an optional cancellation token parameter which so
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
async/await in .NET is actually good because they added async equivalent APIs to nearly all blocking operations. There's also always (from what I've seen) an optional cancellation token parameter that allows an easy mechanism
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Hybrid vigor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis It lets you create a sort of super crop... but it only works for a single generation. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Cash crops use something known as hybrid vigor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis ) which breeds together two distinct, albeit mediocre, blends into a single offspring that is sort of like a super plant. The catch
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
How the hell do you pwn a server with iDRAC?
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
> The attacker gained access to the server — which had been active for about a month — by exploiting an insecure remote management system left by the datacenter provider, which NordVPN said it was unaware that such a system existed. Th
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Wait till you find out that all the world's cash crops are essentially genetic clones of each other. We're literally one superbug away from global famine.
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Code Signing and HTTPS are two completely unrelated concepts...
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
Can self-host behind an enterprise firewall and get all the benefits of open-source software model within the company without exposing proprietary software projects to the whole world.
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by LennyWhiteJr 7y ago
The phone OS must natively implement the WebAuthn protocol by using built in biometrics like fingerprint/iris scanner. Windows Hello is also starting to support this for desktop PCs.