chaps

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by chaps 1y ago
My real point was to emphasize that play is important because it expands our world of interfaces, whatever those interfaces may be, and however far those interfaces go. Your antagonistic attitude is not productive nor playful. Lighten up, f
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by chaps 1y ago
So what? :)
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by chaps 1y ago
Not making a qualitative assessment of any of it. Just pointing out that there are ways to build separate sets of intuition outside of using the "usual" presentation layer. It's very possible to take a red-team approach to th
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by chaps 1y ago
I highly recommend playing with embeddings in order to get a stronger intuitive sense of this. It really starts to click that it's a representation of high dimensional space when you can actually see their positions within that space.
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by chaps 1y ago
I dunno about that. IME, python is much, much more universally installed on the hosts I've worked on. Sure, usually it's 2.7, but it's there! I've tended to work on rhel and debian hosts, with some fedora in the mix. (On
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by chaps 1y ago
Kinda, but not really. Of the infrastructures I've worked on, not a single one has been consistent in installing perl on 100% of hosts. The ones that get close are usually like that because one high up person really, really likes perl.
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by chaps 1y ago
Often times I don't! Entirely depends on what I'm doing. #1 thing off the top of my head is to remove That One Column that's a bajillion characters long that makes exploratory analysis difficult.
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by chaps 1y ago
Oh dang, that's good.
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by chaps 1y ago
Things are already like that, friend! We have mawk, gawk and nawk. But it's fun to think about how we could improve our ideal tooling if we had a time machine.
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by chaps 1y ago
Awk is great and this is a great post. But dang, awk really shoots itself so much with its lack of features that it so desperately needs! Like: printing all but one column somewhere in the middle. It turns into long, long commands that real
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by chaps 1y ago
"no[t] a 'data structures' person" says the person who wrote an extremely technical 20k word blog post on data structures! <3
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by chaps 1y ago
Not sure your aggression is warranted, friend. Many distros over the years have had tmpfs mounted and many distros over the years haven't. Some hosts should have tmpfs mounted and some shouldn't. For those that don't, I can j
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by chaps 1y ago
A past role in a past life had me installing security services on servers. One server had incredibly awkward permission sets across its common directories so our deployment script failed. The fix? Just throw it into /dev/shm and i
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by chaps 1y ago
This isn't great advice because /tmp is not always mounted as tmpfs. I've used /dev/shm extensively for large datasets and it's consistently been a massive speed improvement. Not sure what you're talking a
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by chaps 1y ago
Um. The same could be said to you? I don't see what your point is.
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by chaps 1y ago
Many, many of those claims were found to be significantly exaggerated. It bothers me immensely that people still talk about this nonsense. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-ret...
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by chaps 1y ago
"This points more towards" -- you have any source towards this? :)
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by chaps 1y ago
This is how a (video game) programming class in my high school was taught. You had to transcribe the code from a Digipen book.... then fix any broken code. Not entirely sure if their many typos were intentional, but they very much helped
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by chaps 1y ago
What is this article. GPS has been used for cow tracking since the 80s at least. Some of the companies have gone on to do ankle monitoring of people. Turns out GPS isn't that accurate :)
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by chaps 1y ago
Your comment is even sillier, friend. Pine being a low-quality wood doesn't mean it's not useful.
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by chaps 1y ago
Yeah. The "extremely unreliable" part of that is the stinker. Some of the exports I get through FOIA are thousands and thousands of pages, so the unreliability really compounds really quickly. It's frustrating, because there
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by chaps 1y ago
Hah, no. We would be going from 200,000 formats to 200,001 formats. Begone, shallow xkcd references!
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by chaps 1y ago
Microsoft is one of the bigger contributors to this. Like -- why does excel have a feature to export to PDF, but not a feature to do the opposite? That export functionality really feels like it was given to a summer intern who finished it i
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by chaps 1y ago
Indeed! I've used it to parse documents I've received through FOIA -- sometimes it's just easier to write beautifulsoup code compared to having to deal with PDF's oddities.
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by chaps 1y ago
Yes really. Our argument, upheld by a judge, was that there was no value to an attacker. Their point stands legally, but nothing else. Despite all that, Chicago still pushes back aggressively. Here's a fun one from a recent denial lett
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by chaps 1y ago
The City of Chicago's lawyers went the opposite direction in response to @tpacek's affidavit that the release of table/column names would have "marginal value" to an attacker. The city latched onto that to get a tri
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by chaps 2y ago
This is interesting! I've been having some pretty bad intermittent panic attacks over the past year or so and a thing I've noticed is that I have general inflammation across my body along with the panic attacks. For a long while I
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by chaps 2y ago
Had the experience of poking at tracking dots recently for circumstances I won't share here. Do y'allself a favor and get a blue LED flashlight and point it at a color print. It's shocking how many are printed. It looks like
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by chaps 2y ago
They were using a bit of hyperbole for sure (though another poster accurately pointed out to you methods used against Northern Irish folk), but the reaction of gov agencies to use imprisonment (even as a threat!) for pointing out security f
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by chaps 2y ago
Yep! That's exactly what I was thinking of. I've been on the side of disclosing a handful of times and it's a gamble each time whether I'm going to get a CFAA threat (both implicit and explicit threats).

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