RainyDayTmrw

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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
"We didn't know our vendor would do so badly." wink wink nudge nudge
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I think Apple is time and again proof that Tivoization is highly effective, and that if we want to fight it, the fight needs to be legal, not technical, as much as that may dismay the technically inclined.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Do these drives have any unusual performance characteristics, like shingled magnetic recording (SMR) has?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a PR piece, too. In complete fairness, I've heard that they're doing a lot more Python lately.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
More sinister is it then takes 80% of the credit.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I'm always surprised how short system prompts are. It makes me wonder where the rest of the app's behavior is encoded.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Cybercrime is usually international, cross-border, because (1) it's all online anyways, and so it's approximately equally difficult from any country, and (2) to disincentivize your own local law enforcement from getting involved.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Most people, by themselves, have very little say in what messaging apps the people that they need to talk to happen to use. They have people that they need to talk to, and they will use the same apps that those people use. Unless they want
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
One would want to use something like HKDF[1] to create derived values with domain separation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKDF
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
In perhaps a feat of nominative determinism, both the website and the feature are named serdes.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Interestingly, I can't be sure if this is a reference to Go or Sokoban, and it might be applicable to both.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I commented in another thread[1] that it's most likely a unique, artificial QA input, to avoid QA having to repeatedly use offensive phrases or whatever. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486374
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
It may be a squeamish ossifrage[1] or a seraphim proudleduck[2], which is to say that it was an artificial phrase chosen to be extremely unlikely to occur naturally. In this case, the purpose is likely for QA. It's much easier to QA be
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Locking would make that more complex, I believe?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Isn't that basically payday loans, but for corporates?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
It's kinda impressive that they got to 2 billion rows - with indexes, no less - without falling over.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
This is interesting. If you approach this game as individual moves, the search tree is really deep. However, most levels can be expressed as a few intermediate goals. In some ways, this reminds me of the history of AI Go (board game). But t
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
In the limit case, to an actual general intelligence, representation is superfluous, because it can figure out how to convert freely. To the extent that the current generation of AI isn't general, yeah, papering over some of its weakne
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
This, and the few other famous photos and videos of similar operations, confuse me, because it violates my mental model of how buildings work. My mental model is that a modern building has a large, concrete foundation that extends significa
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
AES-GCM-SIV[1] does something similar to your per chunk derived key, except that AES-GCM-SIV expects the key to be user-provided, and the IV is synthetic - hence Synthetic IV mode. What's your threat model? This has "interesting&q
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
This blog post[1] explains why that is not a safe assumption. [1]: https://www.aquasec.com/blog/container-isolation/
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I'm always fascinated by how small teams were in the earlier days of computing, and I wish we could somehow return to that.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I'm pretty sad about this all-around. For whatever it's worth, I actually think this dev is understating the impact of their security issues. They had 2 token leaks - albeit conditional and with prerequisites. Given the sorts of t
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Am I reading correctly between the lines? That sounds like you're suggesting that vendors in this space will actively work against your interests, and scope creep type 1, to get more business for type 2?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The saving grace is that most Linux distros' default browser is Firefox.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
In a similar way: Why was there no Windows 9? [1] [1]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/435584/why-windows-10-isnt-n...
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I know of two major examples - one personal and one word-of-mouth - where a major US company successfully took their Covid era remote work knowledge, applied it to outsourcing, and successfully replaced most of their US onshore developers w
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
AWS is cheaper under certain, favorable (to them) assumptions, primarily around needing fewer employees to maintain the hardware.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
For example, many Linux distributions want to compile everything in their main repositories from source, all the way down. There are comments as such in response to the mailing list announcements. Your average Linux distribution probably ha
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Kinda impressive and terrifying that Chromium needs its own build system. Kinda strange that Bazel was right there, also from Google, and they not only choose not to use it, but also reference it in the name of the new tool.

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