darthwalsh

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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Memory management vulnerabilities are estimated to account for 70% of bugs. As less code at trust boundaries is being written in memory-unsafe languages, we'll get to 0.001%!
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
We get most of our groceries through Drive Up services, where you place an order the day before and they bring the groceries to your car. Through a combination of a new disability, and a new baby in our family, the convenience is well worth
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Where I live in CA, many end up going to some stranger who rifles through everybody's curbside recycling bin before trash day. It's sad that times are hard, and this is the side job we've accidentally invented.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Yes, but the public npmjs repository also blocks our corporate IP addresses, so our CI/CD pipelines can't ruin npm for everybody else.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
When they send out the phishing-simulation email campaign from the "compromised insider account" it's going to fool a lot more people!
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
What's more likely, the real npm site has a subdomain with XSS (IIRC the issue you linked) or you are manually filling your password into a phishing site? There's strong evidence that the latter is a more common concern.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
No, C# had it: past tense. CAS was neutered in .NET Framework 4.0 then removed in dotnet core.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Personally, I'd rather they put the HIPAA message content straight into the email, and let Gmail sort out the priority. About 90% "you have received a message" notifications are not actionable: "you made an appointment&q
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Is that any different than chocolatey, scoop, or homebrew casks?
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Is there no privacy-preserving per-country analytics library? No need to store IP Addresses!
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
> termux I was excited about termux until about 3 years ago, when I saw that the app needed to be compiled against an ancient Android API version. Google seems indifferent to bricking this project... Today it's still breaking Fdroid
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
No, it's related. In programming, the only employment options are working for a government, for some corporation, or trying to sell directly to individuals? Somebody who had worked for a recognizable tech company is far more hireable t
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Sounds like Google Duplex, but I guess they never expanded the tech beyond restaurant reservations. But on my Pixel now, on some phone trees it shows a UI with numbers and choices, and even predicts ahead for the other choices so you aren&#
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
When I was there the saying was that "V2 isn't ready yet and V1 n't as deprecated" It's impressive the go team managed to buck the trend and only got to V2 after so many years.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Simple, you don't set any env vars after starting new threads
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they have been DDOS'ed in the past, and they're probably running on a tight budget
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
C still supports a huge variety of embedded processors, which I imagine influences the overflow UB. But clearing up the type semantics would be nice.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
And they could add deprecation warnings gradually
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
> since you can still always file your taxes for free Are we talking about the free tax filing that the tax companies hid behind dark patterns? https://cd2.justice.org/resources/research/taxes-and-forced-... &g
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
I'm confident some of the privacy-protecting apps I use have irrevocable EULAs. But I've never seen one from a major corporation.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
I do not think they're operating "at-cost" -- making a profit off of state taxes is a reasonable business model. I also doubt that California charges to e-file: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file&#
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
I can imagine the tax laws and regulations being 90% simpler but my mostly-simple taxes being mostly the same amount of work. We need the IRS to pre-fill tax forms.
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by darthwalsh 1y ago
Too bad we can't treat laying cable as a public utility, then multiple companies could use the same infrastructure to compete. Instead we ended up paying for dark fiber with companies having no incentive to use it.
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by darthwalsh 2y ago
Right, here's the current rules: https://wsdot.wa.gov/business-wsdot/highway-signs/advertisin... It's funny; there was a different hackernews thread just a couple days ago about banning all advertising,
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by darthwalsh 2y ago
Growing up around Seattle, I had never seen any billboard ads on the freeway. I had no idea it was heavily regulated in Washington State! I wish other states would ban them.
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by darthwalsh 2y ago
It's a good thing none of the political parties have recently been floating detailed plans to pack the supreme Court with extra justices. < /s > If they added 10 young MAGA judges to the supreme Court this year, that would b
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by darthwalsh 2y ago
I use a MacBook not because it's the best software for development, but because it's the hardest to virtualize. Our project supports the three major desktop operating systems. I have Windows and Linux VMs that I can switch to when
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by darthwalsh 2y ago
In the FAQ they said that extensions would not be compatible
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by darthwalsh 2y ago
Ugh, UTF-8 BOM. Many apps can handle UTF-8 but will try to return those bytes as content; maybe ours in 2015 too I was on the Power Query team when we were improving the encoding sniffing. An app can scan ahead i.e. 64kB, but ultimately the
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by darthwalsh 2y ago
I thought your link would be https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24751821 > Snowden leaks: Google 'outraged' at alleged NSA hacking

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