jacobwcarlson

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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
Assuming input is from a benign source is literally the cause every single security issue ever. It's bizarre that I've been downvoted for this. And you're commenting about how I'm wrong without even reading the code. I s
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
It's weird that over the course of 7 hours no one on a site called Hacker News noticed that send_email.cpp passes unsanitized user-supplied args to system(). I've spent less than 5 minutes looking at this code, so maybe that'
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
This is rather odd. Knee cartilage damage is extremely common among athletes, so one would think that the treatment would be as well. But I've never heard of it used for professional athletes. Speaking anecdotally, I've had 4 wris
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
I believe he's saying that the Rust book[0] is very good (and completely free). [0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
For the most part savings from labor should reduce prices and in the aggregate, "all of us" do share in the benefit. Now obviously there is no guarantee of that, but competition will likely result in a good portion of savings pass
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
Indeed, and I'm almost positive that I've seen models other than the C90s. I didn't realize that they were toting real passengers, though. I thought they were just Alpha Tests As Marketing. Given that they made this announcem
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
And Black-Scholes just codified what seasoned options traders had understood for centuries. The reason it was important and rewarded is exactly that codification, which enables rapid understanding to a wider audience. Discovering something
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
There is no cost-effective way to get residential earthquake insurance in the Bay Area.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
> Interesting yes, but "novel"? I'm not sure. It's not. And I don't know anything about SentinelOne so maybe they're amazing, but being stymied by dynamic analysis of VBScript malware seems, um, odd.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
That's an odd slippery slope argument to make on a site called "Hacker News."
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
"Sola dosis facit venenum": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
> So a spammy email in one of the thousands leaked happened to contained malware? And this is newsworthy why? Because it's another example of the unconscionable lack of attention to detail that Wikileaks pays when putting out these
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
I think you may be misremembering the medication. I take 1200mg of Gabaptentin/day for ulnar neuropathy; I don't think that 75mg would accomplish anything. And FWIW I code all day long.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
Population growth in the US is approaching 0.7% annually and has been declining for 2 decades. Not sure what scaling needs you foresee.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
> To my utter surprise, something as stupidly simple as coffee blended with butter with coconut oil (or MCT) first thing in the morning did unbelievable things for mental productivity. Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. If that doesn
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
You could've answered those questions yourself if you actually looked into the language, but you didn't. You instead offered facile and superficial judgement. If you have complaints, state them. Speaking in generalizations just so
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
> The biggest barrier to entry is getting a mainframe to experiment with. Is there a barrier to emulating these systems? It's probably difficult (illegal?) to emulate the various Tandem operating systems on virtual hardware, but I&#
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
That's only true for NQ options. With ISO options you aren't taxed until you actually sell the shares they covert to, and then as a capital gain tax, not as ordinary income.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
Probably the part where we can amend our state constitution with 50% + 1 on ballot initiatives.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
There are many improvements that could be made to this code. However the developer is extremely antagonistic and unwilling to accept criticism so I doubt that the issues will ever be fixed.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
It would be nice if that returned the number of characters printed, ala sprintf() in c.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
I live in SF and was a little surprised how many SF-based candidates responded to a front-end engineering position I posted on Stack Overflow (the position is remote and my location wasn't part of the post). But I certainly don't
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
AFAIK Gibson's just really good at assessing culture and predicting its course.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
The absence of Idoru[1] references is surprising. Almost as surprising as learning that book is 20 years old. I may need to re-read it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
> And hoarding isn't a bad thing. If you aren't spending your money, then you aren't taking resources out of the economy. That means more resources for everyone else. Spending money, consumption, is what should be discoura
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
There is no tl;dr for crime, society, and geography. Even if there were I think San Francisco would still be an outlier. Regardless, arrests and incidence of crime are separate things. Making it easier to look at data is certainly useful an
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
> https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/ad-blocking-report/ Can anyone shed light on the relatively widespread adoption of ad blocking software in Poland and Greece? A cursory search doesn't indicate any particul
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
They lost a golden opportunity to start this with "Congratulations on your purchase of a Space X Falcon 9..."
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
"We are backed up in how much stuff we have to deliver to space" certainly seems like one of the better problems have.
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by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
Because drawdowns are inevitable and investment companies need operating capital even in (particularly in) down markets. If they were paid solely based on performance then you would also pay points on the spread between what you lost vs. wh

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