giaour

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by giaour 3y ago
I had to deal with a bunch of mainframes in a previous job and tried to learn a bit of COBOL. One interesting thing I learned early on was that programs are almost never written exclusively in COBOL. The language isn't Turing complete
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by giaour 3y ago
> And I know about the Shadow Brokers. Not personal information. "Tools and methods" are in fact considered more sensitive than any personal information in the IC. The system you're proposing presumes the existence of at
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by giaour 3y ago
> in reality mass leaks of private data have never been an issue. This is just wildly untrue. The 2015 OPM hack (in which an APT stole security clearance records) was a mass spill of private data. The Shadow Brokers leak put the NSA&#x27
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by giaour 3y ago
I was the primary maintainer for one of the services they asked about, and I still got that question wrong. 4/20 for me, but three were lucky guesses
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by giaour 3y ago
There are a few exceptions in US law (e.g., provisions in the Defense Production Act) that can allow a patent owner to be compelled to license their IP. IANAL but I believe this generally requires an officially declared emergency of some ki
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by giaour 3y ago
Under the model you're proposing, would I potentially need to download an old copy of Excel because the sheet I'm trying to load relies on an older python runtime?
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by giaour 3y ago
> Many languages that are considered "precision" languages have some form of suffix to denote large/long/arbitrary-sized literals. (C# there's a big useful difference if a literal ends with `m` or `l`.) The failu
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by giaour 3y ago
"You can build arbitrary-precision rationals" is a far cry from saying, "this is a language designed for precision arithmetic." You can technically build arbitrary-precision rationals without BigInts using arrays, but it
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by giaour 3y ago
True, but financial calculations tend to involve non-integral numbers. Python has arbitrary-precision decimals via: https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/decimal.html
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by giaour 3y ago
Whether it runs in the cloud or locally, the included python source will be written for a specific runtime version and environment. If excel were to run python locally, it would presumably bundle an interpreter (+ any needed pip packages) r
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by giaour 3y ago
> Javascript in Excel would be nice. JS has been one of the supported add-in languages for a while[0], but that's not quite the same thing as the new python offering (which sounds more like jupyter within excel). Since excel is ofte
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by giaour 3y ago
I keep notes in markdown in a local folder and sync across machines with git. I tend to use VS Code to edit/read because I like the way its search feature works, but really any text editor would work fine. I sync with a private github
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by giaour 3y ago
Choose whatever language you're most comfortable/familiar with so long as it's not C or C++.
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by giaour 3y ago
> He allowed the show to explore some of the ramifications of a universe that clearly still has scarce resources that need to be allocated. I always thought it was interesting that the scarce resources you could get at Quark's were
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by giaour 3y ago
Usually people use "state" to mean that the resource accumulates data. E.g., a VPC is stateless, but the s3 bucket containing flow logs for the VPC is not. Tearing down and recreating a VPC can be disruptive, but that doesn't
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by giaour 3y ago
The UK doesn't need to implement a Great Firewall; if they succeed in convincing service providers to voluntarily exit the UK market, then each service provider will block traffic to/from the UK on its own. A few shitty laws may b
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by giaour 3y ago
That would be a bigger scandal. If Apple's communication protection protocols could be subverted in flight (i.e., not via endpoint compromises) without Apple's consent or active participation, that would imply that the protocols t
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by giaour 3y ago
I have seen people who make $250K a year be swayed by free muffins. It has nothing to do with money.
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by giaour 3y ago
Security, Cryptography, Whatever did a good general overview of the spec a couple of months ago: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/04/22/mls/
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by giaour 3y ago
Just like how pets.com's market value was measured in "eyeballs" rather than dollars.
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by giaour 3y ago
That's not true. I am old enough to remember that we had boutique dog treats in the 90s, too. The vet my parents used sold some, and I recall several nearby bakeries (not chains) selling house-made dog biscuits.
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by giaour 3y ago
I realize you meant the above as a joke, but a configurable throttle on CreateFile would probably only be part of a Pro SKU. Ransomware is a much bigger threat in a business setting than for personal devices
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by giaour 3y ago
> I have a painting. You visit. By shining light on the painting I'm reproducing the image on your retinas. You say copyright violation? I say preposterous! What if I take a picture of the painting that I own and show you? Uh oh. Th
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by giaour 3y ago
> but you can sell the original copy, show it to whomever you want, etc The license associated with physical media does have restrictions. You can't mount a public display of the work without acquiring a separate license. E.g., you
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by giaour 3y ago
We're talking about passenger rail here, not cargo. Amtrak has a legally mandated monopoly, so you can only compete with them by building your own rails or using a different travel mode (e.g., bus or air). If you find their service to
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by giaour 3y ago
Offering shitty, expensive service. It's not like customers can use a competing rail line, so every dollar you invest in customer service is a dollar out of your pocket.
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by giaour 3y ago
You can cut a hole through a panel van with a standard tool in the firefighter arsenal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_rescue_tool
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by giaour 3y ago
Assuming your numbers are accurate, that's still $5K per trashcan . Aviation is stupidly expensive. Maybe contacting to a custom shop was an option but would take an extra week, and they needed those E3s in the air ASAP. I don't
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by giaour 3y ago
Planes get grounded when they have missing or nonfunctional parts. E.g., commercial jets can't fly if the toilets don't work, even though the toilet is not critical to aviation safety. Imagine you have four multimillion dollar air
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by giaour 3y ago
$300 probably represents the amortized proportional cost of the original design, certification, and manufacturing run. $50K for a crash can is absurd, but $200K to spin up a production facility and get the output certified to whatever aviat

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