Xylakant

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by Xylakant 4y ago
Apples lockdown even includes hardware such as screens. You can’t just transplant an iPhone screen from one phone to another.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
They will sell the hardware to unwitting victims as new via eBay, Craigslist, … and disappear before the victim figures it out. It is a new iPhone in the original shrinkwrap - who’d become suspicious?
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s not related to personal theft, but to activation lock. Apple can (and will) lock these phones as well.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Your a bit more than 20 years late with the oil rig idea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
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by Xylakant 4y ago
“Normal” boats only go in reverse when they are maneuvering, never for extended distances and at travel speeds. Unless they’re purpose built they never travel in reverse - rudders are less efficient if going reverse, propellers are as well,
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I’m fairly confident that the “bow” in that case is always the direction of travel in this case and that starboard/port side change. The lighting scheme on ships indicates the starboard side with a green light and the port side with a
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Electric vehicles are often heavier than comparable ICE vehicles, but not necessarily larger or even large. Chevy Bolt, VW ID.4, Smart Fortwo EQ etc are all perfectly small electric vehicles.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The weight difference between an ICE SUV and an electric SUV doesn’t make any meaningful difference. It doesn’t matter whether you get run over by two tons of steel or three tons. The primary factor for the increased injury rate is the high
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by Xylakant 4y ago
> Doing nothing about it is approximately the least defensible. Everything you do has a cost. Increased friction which makes people work around it. Lower productivity. Time spent implementing it that cannot be used to implement something
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I agree with your general thrust, but I don’t see how your point refutes mine. First, it’s not required to actually run the package. Installing it is sufficient. All package managers that I worked with so far can run code at install time. S
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Any package from pypi can at any time run code that’s malicious. IIRC, even at install time. So installing any package, even in a python virtual environment bears the risk of arbitrary code execution - before you have a chance to inspect it
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by Xylakant 4y ago
As I understand the article, the problem is that an employee machine is misconfigured and uses the public package repo for a private package. The package in question seems to be explicitly pinned in the requirements.txt - that’s essentially
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Essentially it’s impossible. You can make it harder, but if you grant developer machines access to the internet, they can download an untrustworthy package from anywhere and use it as a local dependency. You can protect production and CI sy
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Hard learned fact: USB cables are consumables, just like ink or toner for your printer. They need to be refilled every so often.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Even if we assume that all of the code was written by the author of the post, it‘s much more helpful to reason about how the mistake happened than just bluntly saying „I made a mistake and it will never happen again.“ Because it will, at le
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by Xylakant 4y ago
That’s half an hour to work, half an hour back. Not outlandish, if you compare normal commutes.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Wait until it starts hallucinating tasks for you. That’ll be fun.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Note: paid add-on, and I believe it requires an enterprise subscription to start with. There exists some open source tooling in the same space.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
You can’t teach all of the things at the same time. People will just freak out, be confused and learn nothing. There’s a lot of the things that you’ll teach “wrong” at the beginning. You’ll never talk about CI/CD at that stage, deploym
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by Xylakant 4y ago
> "Legalization" is absolutely worse. Millions of dead sooner and with more collateral damage. Portugal tried. In 2001, they decriminalized the possession of all drugs for personal use and started treating drug possession as a
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by Xylakant 4y ago
And maybe don’t hand smartphones to 5 years olds unsupervised.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It was considered safe at the time because the mixture is usually not very sensitive. Hindsight is 20/20.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Cyclists behaving better in the Netherlands than in Cambridge is likely true, but at the same time a statistical bias: In places with bad road conditions, only the die-hards cycle. Those tend to contain a larger share of assertive or aggres
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s easy enough that children can do it. Cycling on hard-packed snow is not particularly hard, less so than sand, I’d say comparable to gravel. Ice is a problem. Convenience is relative. Sure, cycling in winter requires a good pair of mitt
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by Xylakant 4y ago
This video is a great explainer https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The problem is that a lot of people will jump to a random side if you ring. Another large fraction will yell at you. Something that worked comparatively well for me it so shout “I’ll pass on your (left/right)”
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I have video proof of a car ramming me when pushing into my lane. Police declined to investigate because there “no proof of deliberate action.”
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s probably a HSD, the GSD’s bigger sibling. I know folks that bought it exactly for that feature and are very happy with it.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
In your case, a Tern HSD/GSD longtail may be a better option. It’s not quite as convenient as a long John, but much more compact and parks upright, so it fits even a small apartment. Transport capacity is still great and the bigger ver
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by Xylakant 4y ago
What is your point then, if not “cycling drunk is as likely to kill somebody else as driving drunk?” If it is “it’s technically possible to kill somebody cycling drunk” - then yes, I concede the point. But it’s not a useful point in this d

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