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by greiskul 5y ago
A non zero click remote code execution would be for example the attacker sends the victim a message, with a link or attachment, that if the victim interacts with it, the attacked gets to run code they wrote in the victims device. A zero cli
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And Mel is a great story, but it is also misses that engineering is about tradeoffs. And in many, many programs, space and time efficiency is actually way, way less important than maintainability, extensibility, etc. There will always be th
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Try working with Kotlin. Much saner language then Java, way less verbose, but with equally good IDE support.
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That only works if your threat model is someone that is randomly mugging you. If it is a targeted wrench attack, they would already know your wallet, and the amount of funds it contains. Crypto has a lot of properties in common with cash, a
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Yeah, heroku is absolutely the best in just getting something running. Truth is most projects don't ever have to scale, either because they are hobby projects, or cause they just fail. Heroku is the simplest platform that I know to jus
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by greiskul 5y ago
Yes, you could add anyone to your list of people you wanted to your friends list to see if they were online. And if they were online, there was a spell that told you the cardinal direction they were from you, plus a fuzzy distance (they are
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I've used this in whatsapp so much. You can set it to 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 8 hours. Great way to meet up with someone, for Carnival me and some friends used to share our location in a group chat, so we could find each other if we wan
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by greiskul 5y ago
I think a good comparison is to look at gaming. Most consoles have been walled gardens, ever since Nintendo revitalized the market. You end up with centralized power in the hand of a few big companies. While in pc gaming, small indie studio
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As someone that used to have to program in Java, moved over to Kotlin, but now have to work with Java again... I miss extension methods so much. Util classes feel so hacky, and are so ugly to use. Specially for cases like streams, where you
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Programming language syntax matters. It's the interface in which the programmer writes the code, synthetic sugar can reduce the "mental overload" of a feature. For example, in C, the array operator is mostly synthetic sugar f
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by greiskul 5y ago
Science advances in strange ways sometimes. Plate tectonics started basically with the anecdote of "south america really looks a lot like it fits into east Africa", but wasn't believed at first due to no hard data. Anedoctes
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The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it. - Jeff Bezos You can think many things of Bezos, but he does know how to
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One thing that can hopefully change that, is the move to remote work where that is possible. It allows high income earners to move to lower cost of living areas (or never leave them to begin with), removing the power that landlords of exist
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Google search is one area of Google in which this big company problem actually doesn't happen that much. Changes in the algorithm are never implemented by fiat, Google employs raters, and performs blind experiments to test if a change
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by greiskul 5y ago
There are many uses for Ethanol like starting fires, some stoves, not to mention industrial uses. Alcoholic beverages are normally taxed with a 'sin tax' to discourage consumption. Goverments realized that people could just drink
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> Owners for residential buildings are typically individuals with some kind of shared structure for payment of common building issues. This is something that always surprised me of the US. About 5 million people live in condos in the US.
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I think it might depend on the period, but mounted infantry uses horses for travel but fights on foot, while cavalry fights mounted.
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I hate this practice that some companies do of testing their sql database usage... By using another database. For postgres, if you are using the jvm, you can use the amazing test containers library to test reasonably fast, with a postgres d
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by greiskul 5y ago
From: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/global-tables/ Consistency and conflict resolution Any changes made to any item in any replica table are replicated to all the other replicas within the same global table. In
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by greiskul 5y ago
It's called whatsapp. Doesn't suck, is multi platform, has a bunch of features, and the end to end encryption means that all the privacy fears people have are FUD. Only valid complaint I have is that they are too restrictive with
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by greiskul 5y ago
What about the reports of users that were iMessage users, and then decided to switch to Android? And then Apple just does buggy, shitty things to them like sometimes not send SMS messages from iPhones to them. Which causes users to blame An
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The giant bag of money is the tax. If they weren't having problems with retention and hiring because of the ethical dilemma, they wouldn't have to offer such a large retention bonus.
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Well, the engineer could also take a job at another company, and just used the increased compensation to buy more Apple stock. Unless they significantly believe that they working in Apple will be a significant factor in Apple stock price in
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If you are manually typing a command, then the shell could do this work instead of the file system, right? That's what the shell is for, to be the bridge between humans and the computer right. In a perfect system, you would type ls &#x
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I have had a job where my small, internal tool, for debugging purposes, had to be deployed to a minimum of 3 datacenters. I had 2 of them in the US and one in Europe, and was asked to move one of the US ones to a datacenter that was in anot
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> Ban politics. That's a political statement.
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Ok, one of my favorite subreddits is about an specific American book series based on a modern genre of Chinese fiction. Do you think that Reddit can scale to manage that kind of content without volunteer mods? It's the same thing as pe
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Well, there is also a possible psychological component. Lots of women end up seeing single men as a possible threat. With a baby in your arms, you can signaling that you are much safer to them in a multitude of ways, many of them in a way t
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> many companies have already told their employees that if you choose to go remote to a Lower cost of living state your salary will be adjusted to reflect that. But at the same time, that makes the company vulnerable to the employee see
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> I'd assumed until recently that early robots and other forms of artificial being were friendly and regarded as a good thing in early science fiction. Now it seems they were symbols of arrogance and guilt right from the start! I be

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