adambatkin

8 ms·

31.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Don't blame the language, blame the library. At least it's not part of the standard library - in C, if you accidentally pass a user-provided string to the first argument of printf() you could be in just as much trouble.
32.
by adambatkin 5y ago
It depends. There is always an increased demand for memory (which can impact the whole hierarchy) but other than that it shouldn't be bad. And I think the point is that compared to interface{}, generics will almost always win. And real
33.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Mikrotik!
34.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Maybe your opinion is unpopular for a reason. C and C++ has always suffered from the ability to corrupt some memory (like overrun a buffer) and jump into and start executing some user-provided arbitrary data. Perl/Python/Ruby&#x2F
35.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Out of the box (at least on my text 1.8 JVM): corbaname, dns, iiop, iiopname, ldap, ldaps, rmi For full details of how this works, use a vulnerable log4j version, log a simple (bad) lookup, and step through with a debugger for a while. Sour
36.
by adambatkin 5y ago
GitJournal is pretty great. The automagical git sync Just Works, so everything is right where I need it, when I need it. I spend 90% of my time on my "daily" notes, so (selfishly) that's where I would focus. My challenges the
37.
by adambatkin 5y ago
I recently started using Obsidian for exactly this reason. Although the software is non-Free, it's just a fancy Markdown editor (but more than that). Since all the data is Markdown - and most importantly, stored on the filesystem _as_
38.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Being able to self-host is a hard requirement for many organizations. Especially for tools like a wiki, which may contain proprietary/secret business information. The last time we reviewed the Atlassian Cloud hosted products, they did
39.
by adambatkin 5y ago
I do the challenge verification using DNS and Route 53, and the process has permission to update the challenge record and nothing else. So what you are describing is definitely possible.
40.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Source? I am not aware of a law in the US that requires Apple to actively scan images, or to store them unencrypted (or keep copies of the keys).
41.
by adambatkin 5y ago
> What do most buyers not want? They don’t want to see all kinds of scary-looking controls surrounding a media player. They don’t want to see a whole bunch of buttons they don’t understand. Funny. When I first switched from iPhone to An
42.
by adambatkin 5y ago
AWS offers a bunch of different queue-like services: SQS, Kinesis, MSK, Amazon MQ (supporting both ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ). I don't think it's possible to build a queue-as-a-service that is any simpler than SQS, so there is literal
43.
by adambatkin 5y ago
IAM "Should have been called Users, Keys and Certs" That's funny. Because we have hundreds of developers using AWS every day, using IAM all the time, and never using a single IAM User. IAM is actually named extremely well. id
44.
by adambatkin 5y ago
If you reverse-engineered the protocol (either from scratch, or by looking at existing implementations) and happened to (independently) come up with an identical looking data schema, that would _not_ be protected by copyright.
45.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Is the wire protocol copyrightable? If not, then this license only affects the _document_ itself, not downstream implementations that may _use_ the document. And if there is a differently-licenses _implementation_ of the protocol, one would
46.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Those whispers must be pretty quiet. Do you have any sources for this?
47.
by adambatkin 5y ago
This article misses out on one of the most important things, something that CAN NOT be moved: Purchased apps. Somehow, I have two different Apple accounts. Both are tied to the same e-mail address (which _should_ be impossible, and in fact,
48.
by adambatkin 5y ago
The citation is literally The US Constitution: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
49.
by adambatkin 5y ago
This X 1000. Even as a developer, I don't always know which repo to file something against. And most "issues" span multiple repositories. Sure, I need to add feature X to repository A and feature Y to repository B (in order t
50.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Yes, of course, when working on a piece of code (a low-level task), one should know where it sits within the bigger system. One needs to know all kinds of things about what lives both upstream and downstream, as well as some high-level arch
51.
by adambatkin 5y ago
No. Modern programming languages and frameworks are explicitly designed so that you don't need to see how your code fits into the whole. That's the whole point of building abstractions, because it's too hard to keep all of th
52.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Blockchain as a technology is definitely innovative. The problem is that, in practice, the way that it solves certain problems come with tradeoffs. This isn't a technical problem per-se, just that it doesn't (IMHO) solve any real
53.
by adambatkin 5y ago
The "crypto" world, as in Cryptography has far more practitioners and far more hardware and software than cryptocurrency. And most of of the world's communications (among other things) rely on "crypto" as in Cryptog
54.
by adambatkin 5y ago
This is incredible insightful, and I wish more people thought this way. Computers are just a tool. Sometimes we get caught up in the shiny new toys and pursuit of some theoretical perfection, instead of just getting work done. I'd bet,
55.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Frontier also serves a bunch of reasonably large cities (for example territory they purchased from AT&T later in life). Where I live, I can get Frontier's "up to 24Mbit/s" service (probably closer to 10 if I'm l
56.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Zionism is the idea that Jews should have a homeland in what is (now) Israel. It is not exclusionary - there are non-Jewish (including Muslim) citizens in Israel, and they have full rights (far more than they would have in most of the neigh
57.
by adambatkin 5y ago
The Palestinian people definitely deserve sympathy, and I think everyone (even Israelis) agree. The difference of opinion is that some people blame Israel for their problems, while others blame Hamas. Let's be clear though: Anti-zionis
58.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Why Node and not Dino?
59.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Lombok and Kotlin are both much easier to integrate into existing Java applications and libraries than Scala.
60.
by adambatkin 5y ago
Mine too. But it has nothing to do with the hardware or software (I'd argue that for many things the Apple ecosystem makes things harder due to its inflexibility) and everything to do with the fact that whenever they have a problem the

More ›