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by jdefr89 2y ago
Likewise! I can understand drugs and such… But gambling? At least with drugs you have a guaranteed reward. You purchase heroin and you use it, you’re high. Task accomplished gambling it like “here’s money so I might possibly get high if I’m
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Yup. It’s just an excuse for their awful behavior.
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Dunno about everyone but my 9-5 salary is awesome. I do Vulnerability Research at an MIT lab. Working there is amazing. Much rather my situation than one where I am forced to “trade” and make it big in order to eat and or anything else in l
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Uhhhh… It was trained on ARC data? So they targeted a specific benchmark and are surprised and blown away the LLM performed well in it? What’s that law again? When a benchmark is targeted by some system the benchmark becomes useless?
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Damn... I wish I could say this wasn't true. Been trying to lie and say it hasn't but it absolutely has made programming less enjoyable by far... I been trying to convince myself other wise but I am just lying to myself.
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by jdefr89 2y ago
There is Zig and a couple others. Rust borrows those features from functional languages they aren’t new innovations by any means..
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Alright so I exaggerated a bit for sure. But I am seeing way too much “Rust in the silver bullet” nonsense…
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Lcamtuf, the creator of afl shares the same opinion… I linked to his Substack in my original comment. Give that a read. My main point is over emphasis on memory safety doesn’t seem to pay off when there are lower hanging fruits on most larg
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Can you link me to a viable/real world kernel rewritten in Rust? One that supports modern hardware? I am not talking about implementing a toy kernel here.
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by jdefr89 2y ago
You’re right that is an opinion. I said that to emphasize the opinion…
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by jdefr89 2y ago
I have been doing government work for a while and understand why they respond that way. Nation states can in fact develop very powerful kill chains. My entire start up was created and sold based on a vehicle kill chain but that took us a ye
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Yes it has and can be done with rust. But usually by writing “unsafe” code so what the hell is the point if the majority of the code isn’t gonna have the Rust memory guarantees it would normally have? Furthermore, not all MCUs have a Rust c
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by jdefr89 2y ago
LMAO. Alright you made me laugh you got me there. My secret plot fam…
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by jdefr89 2y ago
A team can learn and start using Golang in a week. That is in fact what is powering a lot of companies right now. Golang has even better memory safety guarantees than Rust and you don't really need to worry about memory management at a
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by jdefr89 2y ago
CVEs are being assigned recklessly these days. Most of them aren't even security bugs and or cannot be exploited. Be wary of CVEs and their practical utility. Also this is a good read from AFL creator lcamtuf: https://lcamtu
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by jdefr89 2y ago
I understand that. It is just they end up writing Rust code and then you go and see it's linked to libc or filled with "Unsafe". It isn't too difficult to write correct, safe C++. You can enable compiler settings that ar
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by jdefr89 2y ago
What are the other advantages exactly besides tool chain? A lot of people using Rust where the could have just used Go or another language that is memory safe and actually productive. Maybe I am just being a hater because I grew up on C&#x2
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Say you have to develop an embedded project. Try dealing with Rust and its dependency hell as everything you do requires a million different packages.. Or, develop me a driver that needs DMA.. How about a kernel allocator? Want to do that?
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Developing a full kill chain for adobe usually requires chaining together several bugs. "CVEs" are getting ridiculous. Prove to me it is easy and go win Pwn2Own or you can do what I do. Sell it to government contractors for a heft
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by jdefr89 2y ago
80% or more of the code you write day to day is just grunt work. Boring code that has, for the most part, already been written in some form such that it was copied from Google or StackOverflow. AI is basically a shortcut to using that stuff
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by jdefr89 2y ago
To be fair the paper that helped launch LLMs to a new level was from Google. “All You Need Is Attention”, Keras… They fell behind when it comes to marketing AI maybe…
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by jdefr89 2y ago
It’s hilarious seeing people getting LLMs to traditional takes traditional discrete algorithms do perfectly already. “Let’s use LLM to do basic arithmetic!” Like, that’s not what they are built for. We want more generalization… So much to
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by jdefr89 2y ago
I haven’t seen LLMs do anything I wouldn’t google. LLMs are a great time saver, prevents me from having to manually Google. This is just funny. Because the data LLMs use is supplied by humans, and often we give out, and even believe, wrong
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by jdefr89 2y ago
I wonder if grayscale images are more efficient for compression to some degree. Too lazy to actually test or even explain why I am wondering...
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by jdefr89 2y ago
What is wrong with "python -m http.server"?
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Awesome. I produce all my beats on the MPC2 Live. I go by the moniker h3xadecible. If anyone’s interested I have a beatstars https://www.beatstars.com/h3xadecibel
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by jdefr89 2y ago
Ironically Rust binaries link to libc.
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by jdefr89 2y ago
I can’t begin to start explaining how bad these arguments are from a Security Researchers point of view. He suggest using IRC.. this way we can give some random person virtually all control of your information instead of a company that can
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by jdefr89 3y ago
Dunno where you been but the quality of HN has been degrading for quite some time…
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by jdefr89 3y ago
Ironic I am researcher at MIT and a college dropout lol.

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