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by bostik 5y ago
> We are training kids that someone is always watching. This probably goes down better in religious societies. It used to be that this "someone" was an amorphous deity. A child was constantly told they are under the watchful
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by bostik 5y ago
There's a lot of overlap. In fuzzing you generally generate inputs that exercise the underlying (hidden) branching conditions. Some explicit, some implicit. In PBT you generate inputs that exercise branching and value range conditions
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by bostik 5y ago
Legacy is any code you wrote before lunch.
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by bostik 5y ago
Peeking in from the sidelines, as someone who probably will want to arrange a demo too, here's a thing I've been scratching my head with. Your online pitch contains a logical puzzle I haven't been able to decipher. Patch mana
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by bostik 5y ago
> cost of doing business That's exactly what it is. These companies buy, research and stockpile exploits, and keep a few always at ready for when the currently deployed ones get burned. All exploits have a shelf life, and the more
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by bostik 5y ago
> SolarWinds was bad but it was likely intel operation. s/likely/definitely/ Yes, tens of thousands of companies were hit by the trojaned update. IIRC, only 30 or so companies were then exposed to the second- and third-s
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by bostik 5y ago
It's not theft. It's fraud. Framing the action of defrauding a person as a downstream effect of being a victim of theft, is nothing short of institutionalised victim blaming. No, just no. The person was defrauded because of sto
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by bostik 5y ago
That's funny, I must have been an outlier then. I've been using Postgres since 1998, and I tried getting MySQL up first. There was more documentation available for the latter, so it should have been simple. Failed. It just didn&
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by bostik 5y ago
If you are slightly more paranoid, keep in mind that the file you downloaded for manual inspection may not be the file you download automatically for bash-piping. This article from 2016 was making the rounds on HN about three years ago: ht
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by bostik 5y ago
Only tangentially related, but try getting a UK or US bank account as a gambling company. Doable, yes. Easy, no. Low-effort, not a chance. And you still risk getting kicked out for no reason at all. Banks are terrified of gambling compani
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by bostik 5y ago
30% was highway robbery from the start. Pure and simple. It was merely a less awful deal than most other indie commission models, with sites like Kongregate and their ilk demanding >80%. Against that kind of flaying and skinning, 30% w
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by bostik 5y ago
Some years back I wrote a post about interviewing, from the point of view of the _interviewer_. I emphasised that during the interview, the candidate is the most important person in the world. It only later dawned to me that our industry ha
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by bostik 5y ago
Cartels pay their bills, and have very effective ways to collect from people who want to skip paying theirs. If you had billions to invest and transact with, you'd have banks bending over backwards for your business too.
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by bostik 5y ago
Ok, that's actually quite an interesting - and remarkably specific - customer segment. If your core customer base pulls in 4 or 5 figures a month from their own hustle, they might be willing to pay up to $15/month for features tai
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by bostik 5y ago
In my previous job me and latency-sensitive engineering teams in general mostly went with just four core latency measurements.[ß] - p50, to see the baseline - p95, to see the most common latency peaks - p99, to see what the &q
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by bostik 5y ago
DOJ can pressure Visa, Mastercard and Amex to stop processing payments for Apple. Due to how the international payments systems work, that's a global sanction, even if Apple had no footprint in US. And before you claim that's absu
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by bostik 5y ago
> Apple is in effect implementing anti-virus - for ideas. Should we call that anti-dissent? Or thought police?
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by bostik 5y ago
Plato's ideas were also rooted in the times he lived in. He lived in ancient Greece, in the city-state of Athens - the birth place of democracy. And the word "citizen" does a lot of heavy lifting... At the time, roughly 3% of
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by bostik 5y ago
> but there's no entity that I'm aware of that has a monopoly in residential real estate or anything close to it. Singapore might come close.[0] 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapor
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by bostik 5y ago
I believe you can use any character your keyboard and/or chosen input method supports. I happen to like ß. From memory alone I've seen people use the +/- symbol, the upright cross, the double-cross and the cross product symbo
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by bostik 5y ago
Nitpick: more than a decade. Google as a company has existed for less than 25 years. Doesn't absolve them of terrible business practices, just shows that they caught up with them pretty fast.
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by bostik 5y ago
Is this still true? I know it certainly was several years ago, and the problem was magnified by every video sharing site using it in their ingestion and transcoding pipelines. It's a single, incredibly powerful and versatile tool, to
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by bostik 5y ago
Propaganda 101: we have always been at war with Oceania.
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by bostik 5y ago
There's a pretty big gulf between software / OS interoperability and data / protocol interoperability. Think about cars. You can take a vehicle manufactured for US market and take it to, say, Japan, but it won't
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by bostik 5y ago
Sorry about the really long delay with answer, the week got better of me. Your original post posited a reasonable question, but I felt the details were somewhat muddled. The reason I reacted and answered was that I have seen this style of q
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by bostik 5y ago
Disclosure: I worked, through a subcontractor, for Nokia from 2006 onwards. According to the people who deviced [no pun intended] the 770, it was never meant to be a product. It came originally as an internal prototype / developer mach
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by bostik 5y ago
No, you need just one: "every phone connected to at least two of these N base stations over this 48-hour window". Which is quite a modern take on a historically reviled phenomenon, so you should call them for what they are: genera
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by bostik 5y ago
This isn't a question about condoning child abuse. It's a question of doing probabilistic detection of someone possessing "objectionable content". Not sharing, not storing - possessing. This system, once deployed, will b
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by bostik 5y ago
I don't think anyone here is trying to detract from the horrors and the crimes. My problem is that these lists have already been used for retaliation against valid criticism. Scope creep is real, and in case of this particular list,
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by bostik 5y ago
Rather than try to rehash the arguments myself, I'll just point you to Matthew Green's detailed takedown: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14230910979334266... But just to highlight one aspec

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