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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I did enjoy the one which computes π; > Naturally, a more accurate value can be obtained by using a bigger program. I think that's a first for me.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I'm not sure if it's entirely bullshit, but certainly the phrase "remained in the oncoming lane for longer than necessary" is doing some heavy lifting, feels like some key information has been omitted.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Waymo told the Chronicle in a statement that the robotaxi “detected that there may be a risk of a person within that crowd who had fallen down, and decided to carefully initiate a passing maneuver when the opposing lane was clear to move a
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
It's just the halo/horns effect. If you think (Tesla|SpaceX) is an innovative company doing some great envelope-pushing stuff then you probably empathise with their engineers more than usual and you're willing to give them a
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> discovering the "Insert Special Character" feature along the way (that I hoped would contain :smiley:) Heh, back then, "special characters" meant "characters you get in languages that aren't English but
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
It is indeed a dangerous world. A good parent equips their child with tools to mitigate those dangers -- teaching the child to swim in a gentle and supportive way, for example. A bad parent subjects their child to an intentional near-drowni
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
On the face of it there is this difference: > In his summary, Judge McFarlane noted that "with its now customary speed", the system granted the order just 21 minutes later. In the equivalent pen and paper situation, the solic
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
...and also means that (a) your battery will be heated ready for a fast charge when you arrive, (b) the charger will likely actually be in operation, and (c) you can start charging your car as soon as you plug in without messing around with
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I agree: we allow people to be in command of thousands of kilos of metal, moving at up to around 30m/s, with really quite minimal training.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Even more importantly from a strictly business point of view, the CEO of VAG isn't telling his engineers to make the customer experience significantly worse to save $50 of parts on a $50k vehicle.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Indeed: > Dumping is, in general, a situation of international price discrimination, where the price of a product when sold in the importing country is less than the price of that product in the market of the exporting country. -- htt
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
CAPTCHAs are an example. Although I am not sure if they're a good example.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
This isn't a real ssh server, so the "cost" to you of the attack isn't really relevant. You can choose not to run this software at all, and the additional cost to you is zero.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
You're understanding perfectly. The way this works is that it sends a slow drip of junk before the SSH version banner string. A scanner running at any real scale is going to have an overall timeout beyond which it doesn't bother w
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Golang works well for this application because it can easily cope with very large numbers of idle goroutines. What the author may be missing is that golang also works well for bots and scanners, for exactly the same reason. Attackers'
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The specific point I'm making (in the sentence following the one you quoted) is that no, there is not a better chance of those things. If a bridge of this size is going to fail in any significant way, it is going to lead to loss of lif
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Why would slumping or buckling but not-quite-collapsing be a functionally better outcome than complete failure? In both cases, the sheer size of the physical changes is going to lead to forces that humans won't survive, so there's
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I'm equally confused, but in the other direction! He was acting without any special knowledge, so the only thing he was taking advantage of was the gullibility of the general public. That's usually legal, no?
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Well, String Phenomenology is a thing [1]... although more recently they appear to have to switched away from studying the frankly gargantuan set of viable vacua in favour of examining the even larger set of non-viable models [2]. And the c
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> ... techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising “Take two aspirins”? Off topic, but Buffett could also have
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Thanks for replying to what was a rather half-baked question, typed out in some excitement. I guess a more thought-through version is as follows: Currently, the CT logs with state == usable are operated by only six entities (Cloudflare, D
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The "standard" list of all known CT logs is maintained by Google at https://www.gstatic.com/ct/log_list/v3/all_logs_list.json and follows the schema at https://www.gstatic.com/ct&#x2
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
He wasn't fired for his political beliefs. He was fired for persistently heckling a senior leader during a public presentation, which meets anyone's definition of gross insubordination. He could have gone on a tirade about how Goo
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
They're also, equally categorically, not "a list of every bug in every system." If you want that, make a new enumeration. As 'arp242 says, we need to consider what is useful. Pretending that all CVEs are severe and must
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure the market is there for the "plausible CVE" replacement you mention. We already have EPSS and KEV, and we regularly see attempts to replace CVSS with something better -- Zoom di
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
There's a good-faith community norm that CVEs are for bugs that the reporter believes are security-related. Sure, that norm is regularly violated, but community standards always are and it doesn't diminish their value.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I would have no problem at all with the kernel developers introducing the concept of a "universal bug identifier," and developing a system for cataloguing and managing those UBIDs. I would also have no issue with CVEs being replac
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Let's continue your reductive line of thinking. If the only purpose is to ensure that developers are talking about the same issue, then why does the kernel need need CVEs at all? Their existing bug tracking mechanisms should be entirel
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I am in the UK and I certainly don't think of trains this way. I rarely have the occasion to take a train but whenever I do it seems like a special little treat: I sit at my laptop in a warm and vaguely comforting space, with a coffee,
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Some of the older posts ( https://leben-im-zug.de/howto-nachtreise-im-ice/ ) explain that when he was travelling second class, he was able to sleep on a luggage rack most of the time. That practice actually appears to co

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