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by blincoln 2y ago
How much legacy code have you maintained/added features to vs. writing new code? I find that getters and setters seem like pointless overhead when I have an idea that I want to test empirically as soon as possible, but if I don't,
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by blincoln 2y ago
Hotel laundry services of any kind are unbelievably expensive in my experience. Usually US$10-30 per item , or the local equivalent, with e.g. socks and underwear being at the low end, slacks and collared shirts at the high end. Dry cleani
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by blincoln 2y ago
If you don't enable backup, Google Photos randomly reprompts on a regular basis with a "sure would be a shame if something happened to your photos!" modal. It's very easy to accidentally turn it on without noticing whe
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by blincoln 2y ago
Military labs do work with bioweapons, and (unsurprisingly) they sometimes have trouble containing them just like regular labs. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Aral_smallpox_incident https://www.fred
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by blincoln 2y ago
Unfortunately, that story is likely a hoax/urban legend. https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/10/26/angels-glow-civil-war...
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by blincoln 2y ago
There's an important caveat, though. The software you're working with needs to support Metal/MPS, or you'll end up using the CPU instead of the GPU. For example, as of a few weeks ago, PyTorch still didn't support n
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by blincoln 2y ago
Frida is more like a debugger, or a very fancy Action Replay. But once can generally just patch put the detection mechanism given sufficient time and motivation.
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by blincoln 2y ago
100%, and a lot of them are truly terrible use cases for LLMs. For example, using a LLM to transform structured data into JSON, and doing it with two LLMs in parallel to try to catch the inevitable failures, instead of just writing code tha
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by blincoln 2y ago
> how can they be underpaying people (i.e. paying them less than competing employers) and yet people still choose to do it? "paying them less than competing employers" being synonymous with "underpaying" is probably n
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by blincoln 2y ago
One more reason to use PEX instead of cPVC for supply lines? Or does PEX have phthalates in it as well?
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by blincoln 2y ago
There are FLIR consumer devices with 320x240 sensors, like the E8, but they're a lot pricier, and low-FPS due to ITAR. Consumers in the US can buy 60FPS FLIR monoculars as well, but they come with ITAR restrictions. The T2S+ seems to b
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by blincoln 2y ago
A thermal imager does make detection of most electronics very easy if they're powered on: https://www.beneaththewaves.net/Photography/Images/Thermal_I... When I travel, I use mine to sweep the room.
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by blincoln 2y ago
Pinning in mobile apps/IoT is usually done the way the grandparent comment suggests. The fingerprint of the key is hard coded into the app somewhere,[1] so there's no initial connection without it. IMO, pinning only solves the cor
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by blincoln 2y ago
Direct GitHub link: https://github.com/BishopFox/BrokenHill
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Show HN: Broken Hill: A Productionized GCG Attack Tool for Use Against LLMs(bishopfox.com)
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by blincoln 2y ago
> But GCIRS 13E appears to be 26,000 light-years away. Hint: 3.16 light-years x 20 is not even close to 26,000 light-years. The article isn't describing how far away from Earth IRS 13 is. It's describing how far from the galact
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by blincoln 2y ago
Maybe I missed an alternative mode that's already present, but this feels like it would benefit enormously from a heatmap view, so that one could see where fatality hotspots are at a higher level before zooming in to examine specific
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by blincoln 2y ago
Multi-tenant Kubernetes[1] is a strcpy-level footgun IMO. It's perfectly fine as long as everyone involved does everything correctly and never makes a mistake. Kubernetes itself is very complex. The "who needs a UI when you have c
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by blincoln 2y ago
> Building codes require earthquake strapping and take landslide risk into account. "In Tennessee, jurisdictions can decide whether to opt in to building codes with earthquake provisions, while other states — like Missouri — don’t h
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by blincoln 2y ago
While a lot of security people misuse "enumeration" in this way, it's not accurate. They should use the term "oracle", eapecially since it's from the same field.
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by blincoln 2y ago
I dual-boot on my personal desktop. I mostly use Debian, but there's a Windows partition for games and a few other Windows-specific things. The GPU in it was way too expensive to justify buying two, and I use it under Linux for ML, has
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by blincoln 2y ago
I don't know for sure about 256MB, but some Xbox prototype games require a debug BIOS and the extra RAM in the debug kit.
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by blincoln 2y ago
"The public prosecutor does not pursue cases where responsible aka coordinated vulnerability disclosure was applied." That seems like a pretty substantial claim to make without any sort of "in [country/state/provinc
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by blincoln 2y ago
Setting up separate accounts for every ticket purchase seems like a LOT of overhead (especially scalpers buying many tickets at once and piecemealing them out), and is easy to defeat, e.g. require out of band auth via the phone number assoc
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by blincoln 2y ago
There are plenty of people who take homeopathic and other alternative products instead of prescription products because they can't afford the prescription products, and fraudulent advertising makes them think the alternative is more or
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by blincoln 2y ago
Please try watching the opening sequence of Aliens with motion smoothing enabled sometime. Without motion smoothing, the model shots still look reasonably convincing 40 years later. With motion smoothing, it looks like a low-budget B-movie.
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by blincoln 2y ago
I am reasonably sure that the intended behaviour of Linux is that a process can only be ptraced by one other process level at a time. However, a few years ago, I discovered that a process inside a container being ptraced could be ptraced by
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by blincoln 2y ago
If you have root access, you may be able to re-enable ptracing: https://github.com/BishopFox/asminject/tree/main/ptrace_scop... That specific technique only works if root can still load kernel modules, b
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by blincoln 2y ago
That's awful. In any field, a writeup of a discovery should include enough information for a peer of the author to reproduce the results. Ideally, it would include enough detail for an enthusiastic amateur to reproduce the results. Thi
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by blincoln 2y ago
Given the content in the Quanta Magazine article, I would have assumed the explanation was straightforward: the hotter the water is, the more the molecules inside are bouncing around randomly, and therefore more likely to end up randomly en

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