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by drran 4y ago
I cam do that on MY machine. I cannot do that on your. I can download code, inspect it, install, and then create a RPM package, which can be installed in a safe way by DNF package manager, but I cannot do that with `curl | bash` method of i
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by drran 4y ago
Yes, I look at code. I'm professional developer. I will spend 1-2 minutes at scanning per thousand of lines.
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by drran 4y ago
Nope. It looks like you are waiting for a new Hollywood film about war in Iraq instead of reading and watching evidence. You cannot even open the Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMD_conjecture_in_the_aftermat..
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by drran 4y ago
So what? I can inspect downloaded code and find the backdoor, or a trojan, or an error. I did it few times already in last 30 years. If you cannot do that doesn't mean that nobody can. But I cannot do that with `curl | bash`.
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by drran 4y ago
> If Ubuntu had spent resources to develop a convenient way for developers to directly provide binaries to the users of their OS No way. I will never trust your binary.
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by drran 4y ago
They were used in Syria. Look at YouTube.
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by drran 4y ago
GPL folks are completely OK with something like Copylot when GPL license is obeyed, so all emitted code, generated by AI trained on GPL code, is licensed under GPL again. It's not OK to call our code as «public code» and ignore our lic
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by drran 4y ago
Microsoft just calls others code as «public code». Public code is in public domain.
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by drran 4y ago
Equality is very important concept in mathematics, because it allows to manipulate formulas by rules. When formulas are manipulated, it's important to keep them as small as possible, because it's hard to manipulate a wall of text.
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by drran 4y ago
Spacetime is not a physical thing. It is a 4D array of measurements: `[x,y,z;t]`, a collection of frames in a simulation. It's important to simplify calculations, to predict something, but it connected to reality in same way as height
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by drran 4y ago
So, government will be able to silent anybody anywhere in the Internet just by using standard protocol. A Great World Wide Firewall.
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by drran 4y ago
«Situation» in Ukraine is at mid-WWII level (1942), so plant the wheat. It will be tough to produce and export wheat in Ukraine for next two years at least.
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by drran 4y ago
It looks like risk planning was not done by your project manager. Risk planing includes risk prediction, calculation of possible time and/or monetary damage, risk reduction. For example, if we see that Foo can cause problem in near fut
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by drran 4y ago
It's known as «the bus problem». Peer review is used to address this, to make someone else a bit more familiar with your code, so he will be able to help you when you are overwhelmed and need help (or when you hit by a bus). Also, buil
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by drran 4y ago
So you spent 40 minutes on a bug instead of whole week? Why?! Just use concise and vague descriptions of your work, like "day 1: trying to reproduce the bug", "day 2: investigating root cause of the bug", "day 3: fi
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by drran 4y ago
Because option to enable substitution of minutes(') and seconds(") symbols by proper quotation marks is often called as «Enable smart quotes». For example: 10° 33' 19" -> 10° 33« 19». Very smart!
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by drran 4y ago
SAFe is for managers, Agile is for developers. As developer, you don't need to know SAFe and it rituals. SAFe is not heavy weight, it very lean for the problem it solves. > It somehow promises to combine bottom-up agile with top-dow
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by drran 4y ago
Security is a tradeoff between usability and safety. In this case, the author of ring received a suggestion from Rust security group to yank old, unsupported versions to be on the safe side, which created usability problems with ring. Secur
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by drran 4y ago
Demand your money back!
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by drran 4y ago
It looks like author of ring library tries to protect their user base from security vulnerabilities, but hit by bug(?) in cargo, which changed from warning to error for yanked libraries. Anyway, no promises until API version 1.0.
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by drran 4y ago
Rust doesn't have GC, but it has very good automatic memory management. GC or memory management doesn't make programs immune to buffer overflows, which is the most common security vulnerability these days, while use-after-free is
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by drran 4y ago
Moreover, I try to embedded documentation and diagnostic/debugging tools, such as meaningful error messages and traces, into code. Usually, debugging takes 3x more time than coding, so it is very profitable to reduce debugging time fro
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by drran 4y ago
Yes, but the position will be taken by a honest guy already.
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by drran 4y ago
AI shows signs of general intelligence (e.g. can generate proper text in generated pictures) after about 20 billion of parameters. IMHO, 1 trillion of parameters can be enough to simulate human-like behaviour after reading lot of text, watc
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by drran 4y ago
Template in article is awful. It's better to use this one, which is a real CLI tool: https://github.com/vlisivka/bash-modules/blob/master/bash-mo...
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by drran 4y ago
Engineering games, like Contraptions or bridge buildings, were helpful for me. Roguelikes produces explorers and risk-takers.
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by drran 4y ago
British nation and Great British Empire is not a same thing. Italians and Holy Roman Empire is not a same thing. Erzyas, Finns, Mokshas, Tartars nations, etc. and Russian Empire is not a same thing.
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by drran 4y ago
It's openly available in any post-soviet country.
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by drran 4y ago
Native Russians (русичи, "sons of Russia"), were citizens of the town of Russia (now Old Russa, but old town was near to shore), which was on Russia river (now Porussia river). At times of Plague of Justinian, they abandoned their
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by drran 4y ago
Trident is an anchor, symbol of Christianity, like cross or fish. The cross is the top part of an anchor, while the anchor itself is in the lower part. Anchor has such complex geometry because it weaved from wire. Similar anchors in full fo

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