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Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation(arstechnica.com)
89 points by iroddis 3y ago|37 comments
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by iroddis 3y ago
LORD was so much fun. I also ran a BBS, first on Wildcat (RIP graphics were amazing), then on RoboFX. Bought all of the above by saving up $2/week allowance. RoboFX was insane. It was this little-known host that offered a full windowin
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by iroddis 3y ago
In this case it sounds like just a bit longer than is necessary to make ends meet.
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by iroddis 3y ago
FUSE is used to present a file system interface of something that isn’t a file system. E.g. present an LDAP directory as a file system. Writing FUSE drivers is pretty frustrating, though, and not well supported by all OSs. My takeaway is th
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by iroddis 3y ago
I love this idea so much. It’s a shame that it would all get lost when passing through a recruiter or when needing to re-enter all the info on applications.
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by iroddis 3y ago
To save others from searching, RLHF [1] is Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_hu...
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by iroddis 3y ago
This really reminds me of FidoNet mail [1] back in the good old days of BBS. What’s old is new again; now with 100% more json! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet?wprov=sfti1
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by iroddis 3y ago
You’re right, and that’s part of the reason I remarked my comment’s shallowness. It was more of a personal lament rather than a strong criticism of what looks like a really interesting language.
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by iroddis 3y ago
This quite a shallow observation, but I really wish new languages would cut down on verbosity and boilerplate. Making people type out “function” instead of “fn”, “def”, or nothing at all feels like unneeded friction. I’m not looking for APL
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by iroddis 3y ago
I travelled to Singapore on business once, and the immigration form had a warning about the death penalty for drug-related offences printed in red, all caps lettering. It was definitely jarring.
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by iroddis 3y ago
I don’t think that’s much clearer at all. I realize that you’re citing a specific example, but if your approach is to understand the problem first, then you may as well use the closed-form solution of your problem: sum(1,n) = n*(n+1)/2
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by iroddis 3y ago
I found a Bohm through the excellent book What is Real by Adam Becker. It was one of the first books that advocated the philosophy of science that I’d encountered, and it was fascinating. Warning: If you’re a huge fan of Bohr and the Copen
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by iroddis 4y ago
I also find curly braces/parens/etc annoying to type, but recently had my mind blown when I saw a typing tutor program that recommended using left-shift to create those characters. For 35+ years I’ve been using right-shift for thi
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by iroddis 4y ago
I really like this, the simplicity is really refreshing. Nothing to do with the article, but it would be nice if Slack (or IOS/Android) offered better customization of notifications. Errors and warnings are indistinguishable from regul
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by iroddis 4y ago
Thank you very much for your work! I learned about mermaid about a year ago, and have used it pretty extensively since, including as a visualization and control interface for a DAG execution framework. Mermaid’s flow chart layout engine is
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by iroddis 4y ago
If you’ve used IMDb, you may enjoy tmdb.org . It is much, much faster, and has good coverage. I rarely need to fall back to IMDb unless it’s something quite obscure.
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by iroddis 4y ago
“Flip around the decimal”… you haven’t accounted for irrational numbers. The reals are not countably infinite. Even if they were, pi is not between zero and one, so would not appear in your list. The rest of your argument is difficult to pa
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by iroddis 4y ago
What kind of latency are you talking about? Async latency for completing a task isn’t deterministic, and there’s no guarantee data will be processed as soon as it becomes available. Async runtimes rely heavily on hints from their tasks as t
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by iroddis 4y ago
Many new cars have electric heaters for the air venting into the cabin. In that case their statement about confusing warm air with a warm engine would be true.
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by iroddis 4y ago
Thank you for linking to zero2prod. I just bought it after looking at the repo for the example code and scanning the sample. I wish I’d read this book a year ago. I’ve worked my way through a couple of rust books, but this was the first one
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by iroddis 4y ago
You’re correct, sorry for the confusion. Phase 1: iPhone w/o autocorrect but with text replacements. Phase 2: iPhone and macOS, but text replacements are synched without option to disable. I don’t want autocorrect or replacements while
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by iroddis 4y ago
This how I operated for a long time as well, but made liberal use of text replacement for frequent things like il -> I’ll. Unfortunately, when I got a Mac laptop, those replacements were synched and for some reason can’t be disabled on j
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by iroddis 4y ago
This phenomenon is neatly captured in the locker-room wisdom for the recommended amount of protein intake for athletes here: 1 gram per pound of body weight.
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by iroddis 4y ago
This project is amazing, and looks to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you very much!
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Ask HN: Multi-Protocol Chat Clients
5 points by iroddis 4y ago|9 comments
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by iroddis 4y ago
It's been a long time since I've done that kind of work, unfortunately. I still do have projects that I can be productive offline, most recently in rust ('cargo doc' is really amazing for this kind of thing). It could be
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by iroddis 4y ago
In the good old *nix days the system provided pretty much everything you needed: C, perl, man pages, and well documented header files. Throw in a couple of good books on programming, and you could do a lot. That's still the case, but i
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by iroddis 4y ago
+1 for Feedly, although I use Feedly Classic on IOS for a more concise, no-frills UI. I really appreciate the header + summary without thumbnails format for quickly going through large-volume sources (like HN).
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by iroddis 4y ago
Ha, good catch. You're right, it just promises to desynchronize, not to delete any copied data. There is no opt-out, unfortunately, either during the add process or after the fact.
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by iroddis 4y ago
I just tried the Outlook desktop client at home for the first time with my Fastmail account. This screen [1] pops up during the Add Account process, saying that all my messages will be synced to the Microsoft Cloud for "better experien

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