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by dralley 3mo ago
Most of those don't require fingerprints or photos. Those that require addresses, do so because they're literally billing and/or shipping items to you. And none of them is comparable to physically entering another country.
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by dralley 3mo ago
I don't even understand what this comment is supposed to be saying in relation to the previous one.
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by dralley 3mo ago
I've tried both Magnesium Glyconate and Magnesium L-Threonate and both have helped my sleep, Magnesium Citrate did very little. Which makes sense, the latter is known to not be absorbed very well. I've not noticed any significant
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by dralley 3mo ago
Here's hoping this screws up the collateralization of the Paramount takeover deal, and the whole thing unravels.
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by dralley 3mo ago
Possible, yes. But it's not like it's terribly difficult to verify correct usage of "unsafe" that amounts to a basic function call to a C library. Trivial uses of unsafe are pretty innocuous.
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by dralley 3mo ago
It's a shame they missed out on the AI server boom.
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by dralley 4mo ago
The same people attacked Iran without a plan for what to do if they closed the Strait of Hormuz
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by dralley 4mo ago
How to tank morale even harder
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A Man Who Ran Putin's Hit Squad [video](youtube.com)
6 points by dralley 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dralley 4mo ago
But how often do people just copy and paste code in the C/C++ ecosystem? Or reimplement things badly? Last I checked VLC had a homegrown XML parser.
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by dralley 4mo ago
>Otherwise, it does not bode well for Rust code because any type safety glitch will be considered a vulnerability. I mean, this is basically true. And it goes beyond type safety - there have been CVEs filed against the Rust stdlib for T
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by dralley 4mo ago
The thing is that if step 2 isn't proprietary, but rather more open source code, then it's not "extinguish" it's just garden variety open source competition.
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Update on supply chain compromise of Red Hat cloud-services NPM packages(access.redhat.com)
3 points by dralley 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dralley 4mo ago
Considering a substantial fraction of the commit history since then has been removing those instances of "unsafe" not all of are actually usages of "unsafe" (seems like there are a fair number of functions / types w
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RHSB-2026-006 Supply chain compromise of RedHat-cloud-services NPM packages(access.redhat.com)
2 points by dralley 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dralley 4mo ago
How would that help? These are not general purpose, base system libraries, these are libraries specific to a product that uses them. Either you're not using them and hence they would not be installed in the first place, or you'r
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by dralley 4mo ago
Typically BLEVE is used in a petrochemical context, where the hot "boiling liquid, expanding vapor" ignites on contact with oxygen.
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by dralley 4mo ago
There are a number of compiler performance enhancements (and correctness improvements) that are being worked on that are kind of at a chokepoint behind some other piece of work. Unfortunately it's not that easy to discern what state t
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by dralley 5mo ago
And yet, that hasn't translatd into additional support for Ukraine. In fact, Russian oil sanctions are lifted for the second month in a row, and Congress Republicans haven't put a Russian sanctions bill on the table because Trump
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by dralley 5mo ago
The existence of other influences does not diminish the fact that Trump is enamored with Putin (and most "strong man" dictators generally, but Putin in particular) and it does impact his foreign policy decisions and those of his a
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by dralley 5mo ago
Because that's exactly what it was. I agree with you, the puritanism around special effects doesn't make sense when there's plenty of high quality archival footage out there, and instead of using that or CGI to look similar,
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by dralley 5mo ago
If you use unsafe improperly, it is possible to encounter UB in "safe" code which relies on the unsafe code being correct.
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by dralley 5mo ago
>There are well-known tools in the Rust ecosystem that detect this kind of error Yes, tools like Miri, which this very post is about.
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by dralley 5mo ago
There is a significant difference between being able to see one flaw and being able to chain together multiple disparate flaws, to be fair.
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by dralley 5mo ago
As a matter of fact he has mentioned that one of the Jacob's Ladder videos was the only time he messed up and came close to actually electrocuting himself (by reflexively trying to grab the leads as they fell off a table). Otherwise al
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by dralley 5mo ago
Not really though. That's like saying that no language is "safe" because the compiler could have a bug. It's true that safe wrappers around unsafe code sometimes have bugs in them, but it's orders of magnitude easie
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by dralley 5mo ago
A tiny fraction of programs need to use win32 or Mac OS functions beyond the standard library or other safe wrappers for said functions.
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by dralley 5mo ago
I have had none of those issues on Fedora 44, FWIW.
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by dralley 5mo ago
Still probably the safest herbicide, mainly because the competition (organophosphates, etc.) is so much worse.
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by dralley 6mo ago
> Elite security researchers find bugs that fuzzers can’t largely by reasoning through the source code. This is effective, but time-consuming and bottlenecked on scarce human expertise. Computers were completely incapable of doing this a

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