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by bbayles 3y ago
I wanted to learn how to use Ghidra for reverse engineering binaries. The thing that allowed me to really improve with it was using it to analyze old video games that I played as a kid in the 1990s. Finding previously-unknown cheat codes, c
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by bbayles 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about how "welcoming" PSF is for new contributors. On the one hand, I've managed to get a number of enhancements into CPython. On the other hand, I've fixed small longstanding issues (e.g. to docs)
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by bbayles 3y ago
For a contrary perspective, this wasn't my experience with being acquired by Cisco. I had my issues with the process, but I felt well-treated throughout and was never lied to.
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by bbayles 3y ago
Looking past the editorializing, here's the actual quote from the CFO: > For a decade, in streaming, an enormously valuable amount of quality content has been given away well below fair market value, and I think that’s in the proces
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by bbayles 3y ago
WHATWG rejects ".://", yeah? It's not the most readable spec, but there's a tester here: https://jsdom.github.io/whatwg-url/ I recently published bindings for ada (an implementation of the
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by bbayles 3y ago
For a contrary perspective, see Stuart Ritchie's and Tom Chivers's episode on UPFs: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-6-ultra-processe...
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by bbayles 3y ago
Is the idea that they believed it was plausible before writing the paper, became convinced it was implausible during the writing, and then later switched back to plausible?
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by bbayles 3y ago
> It should matter, a lot, that even a group of scientists who believed a lab leak idea was plausible couldn't muster up an argument that would hold up under peer review I think Nate would say that the problem is that the paper lite
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by bbayles 4y ago
Let's check this empirically. Which cartel-like brands are publicly traded and publish financial reports? We can look at their profit margins next quarter.
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by bbayles 4y ago
For a contrary perspective, see https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13367
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by bbayles 4y ago
Here's something to think about: suppose you buy an assortment of candy from the grocery store and distribute a uniform collection of pieces to a room full of middle school students. Some students will like the sour candy; others won&#
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by bbayles 4y ago
I don't really doubt that he's right about this, but doesn't he have a pretty big incentive to play up how bad the mess is? If he successfully unwinds it then he looks like a genius. If he can't do it, we can't blam
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by bbayles 4y ago
FWIW, I also maintain a "critical" package, and I'm happy that the index is requiring 2FA for it.
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by bbayles 4y ago
The first is better also because you can do things with loggers other than print out their contents. For example, suppose you had a statement like: logger.debug('Database error: %s', error_message) You probably have a log
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by bbayles 7y ago
Something to consider: there hasn't been a great way to get Python 3 on RHEL / CentOS until this year. The IUS repo is an option, but it makes distributing a Python 3 package difficult: you have to get EPEL installed, then IUS, th
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by bbayles 8y ago
See also more-itertools for lots of other things in this vein.
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by bbayles 8y ago
Legacy video-on-demand systems (the sort your cable box can access) get full copies of movies with no DRM that could easily be uploaded to YouTube. They're often sent as part of a package that includes a preview (the trailer), a poster
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by bbayles 8y ago
You're absolutely right about this. This is almost certainly just there to block people who mistakenly paste in an example configuration somewhere. Back in 2010 there were problems that came up when IANA started allocating out of 1.0.
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by bbayles 9y ago
I had fun a little while back abusing decorators to alter the return value of generator functions: https://sites.google.com/site/bbayles/index/decorator_factor...
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by bbayles 9y ago
This is a bit scrambled. Both IPv4 and IPv6 have a spot in their headers to tell what type of traffic is being carried. This is a 1-byte integer called a protocol number. The TCP protocol is protocol number 6. UDP is 17. ICMP is 1. All are
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by bbayles 9y ago
I think it makes plenty of sense to criticize the consistency of the DOJ. What I'm saying is that "Trump doesn't like CNN" is a silly explanation for DOJ wanting either AT&T to spin off DTV or for Time Warner to spin
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by bbayles 9y ago
This is nonsense. The DOJ is asking for either DirecTV or Turner Broadcasting be excluded from the deal, because being under the same roof would be a huge boost to DirectTV over its competitors - cable companies and Dish Network. Turner Bro
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by bbayles 9y ago
Love LibreOffice - I've used it and OpenOffice for over 15 years. I've been heartbroken by recent releases, however - the keyboard shortcuts in Calc (and other components) have changed. This is like breaking my fingers - I'm
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by bbayles 9y ago
The article states that: "At $3 billion for 13,000 jobs, the Wisconsin deal would cost $231,000 per job." By comparison, economists have estimated $125K/job-year to $202K/job-year from the 2009 stimulus (ARRA). [1] [1]
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by bbayles 9y ago
Likewise!
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by bbayles 9y ago
Conflating market cap and total worth is a pet peeve of mine. Market cap is "price of one share" multiplied by the total number of shares outstanding. If you want to buy a small number of shares, you can probably just multiply t
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by bbayles 9y ago
Excellent! Pleased to see VPC Flow Logs included; they are underrated as a security tool and one big advantage AWS has over other providers. At work I co-develop an open source Python library for reading VPC Flow Logs - it can be an easy wa
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by bbayles 9y ago
I admire your charitable interpretation. I'd be fine with the rating system using automation to reduce the number of subjective decisions to be made - I thought the LVM approach was a good one when I first heard about it. As the second
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by bbayles 9y ago
I recently got entangled with some "big data" and "machine learning" B.S. in the form of the U.S. health care system. CMS, the federal agency that administers Medicare, introduced a hospital quality ratings system last y
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by bbayles 9y ago
I really enjoyed The Pale King, and felt that had it been finished it would have been one of my favorite books. The chapters with the David Wallace section in the IRS are _really_ funny.

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