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by archgoon 8y ago
The USDS (US Digital Service) was born in the fire of the healthcare.gov fiasco, and several industry veterans from Google stepped in to fix the infrastructure issues they saw within the US Government. Currently, @Matt_Cutts is leading the
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by archgoon 8y ago
I believe this has now been released. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/master...
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by archgoon 8y ago
Omitting conversion factors is a bit like omitting type information. If you already know what everything is, it doesn't add information, and can make the code look simpler. If you don't, not omitting them can help make sense of th
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by archgoon 8y ago
No, not unless you were making relativistic corrections for the vehicles, which would be silly[1]. From the perspective of either vehicle, you do see an oncoming vehicle traveling at (approximately) 140 miles per hour. When dealing with t
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by archgoon 8y ago
It looks like they managed to finally get the source code released 2 weeks ago. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra I'm curious as to what prevented them from doing that on day one. Any legal issues p
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by archgoon 8y ago
People would not want to build banking software for a specific company; however, if banks were to describe their problems in a sufficiently well defined way, people would cheerfully build various 'bank frameworks' for free. Some c
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by archgoon 8y ago
> Any device that you lose physical control of during these encounters must be presumed to be compromised and should be physically destroyed afterwards. Seems unwise to destroy evidence. Find the rootkit, or have your employer or securit
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by archgoon 8y ago
Interesting; came across this Twitter thread with a fairly detailed analysis. https://mobile.twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/111270395164693...
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by archgoon 8y ago
This isn't an article. It's a graph. I didn't see the "About the Data" section when I looked at it the first time time. I was looking in the wrong places, as it is below the generic position advertising part and ass
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by archgoon 8y ago
Is this salary or total comp? It's not specified which. Total Comp figures are important, and differences in effective take home pay will be hidden if you only list salaries.
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by archgoon 8y ago
Huh, according to Jim Breen's dictionary ( http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic ) 'good, fortunate' is '礼' (rei). '令' (rei) is listed as 'command, decree'. The official c
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by archgoon 8y ago
Speculative execution (Branch Prediction) is hardly flashy. It's been present in Intel chips (Pentium) (and just about everyone else) since the early 90s (a quarter of a century ago). This was back when die resolution was 600 nm.
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by archgoon 8y ago
Greatly appreciate the popup that lets you disable the joke interface. Much appreciated.
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What reason does de Becker have to falsely accuse the Saudi Government of hacking Jeff's phone? I don't see any upside for Bezos and de Becker to make themselves enemies of the Saudi Arabian government.
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Funny you should mention the Iraq WMDs. WMDs were cited as justification to go to war against Iraq, a war that the Bush administration had a variety of political, ideological, strategic and economic reasons for wanting to engage in. What in
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by archgoon 8y ago
> are there an infinite number of possible solutions to this problem? Unknown. From the article: 'A major result would be to prove the conjecture that k = x³ + y³ + z³ has infinitely many solutions for every whole number k, except t
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by archgoon 8y ago
Right; I'm trying to understand the difference between this and the "units of measure" approach the grandparent was referencing. (To be clear, your latter point is referring to things like 'dangerouslySetInnerHTML'
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by archgoon 8y ago
What are the problems with using inheritance to handle this? class urlencoded extends String; class xsssanitized extends String; then secure functions can be explicit about what type they need. void embedInPage(xssssanitized x
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by archgoon 8y ago
The technical analysis (from the article), complete with a step by step trace walkthrough, is here: https://chybeta.github.io/2019/03/16/Analysis-for%E3%80%90CV... Also, if interested, direct link to patch fi
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by archgoon 8y ago
Correct, I misread that paragraph. Editing original comment, thank you.
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by archgoon 8y ago
In a similar vein, John Baez was given an opportunity, funded under a grant from DARPA, to use Category Theory for modeling systems. https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/complex-adap...
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by archgoon 8y ago
As dang points out in this thread, The Tech Model Railroad Club was formed in 1946[1]. The TMRC dictionary was first written in 1959. http://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html The TMRC, which is generally cited as
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by archgoon 8y ago
Partial information is better than none.
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This isn't really a language issue. This is strictly at the level of browsers having a very complicated and ad-hoc concept of permissions deciding when a page should be allowed to make requests to, and to which, servers. We could have
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by archgoon 8y ago
The article doesn't discuss this; what are the advantages to using Let's Encrypt for internal services over deploying internally signed certificates? Are there any disadvantages to using Let's Encrypt? The rate limits alone s
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by archgoon 8y ago
You must be thinking of the Sutherland Springs Church massacre which did not have a political or racial dimension cited by the shooter. Mr Bowers, prior to murdering his victims wrote on social media: "A man with that name had posted a
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by archgoon 8y ago
Pittsburgh massacre. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsbu... Also, the bombs sent to a number of democrats, funders of democrats, and Trump critics: https://www.washing
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The issue is not enforcement. That would suggest the issue is tax evasion; which it's not.
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I don't see why using matrix math shouldn't be viewed as a basic primitive. Implementing a matrix library would obscure the point that is being made.
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Spoiler: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks(arxiv.org)
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