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by jgerrish 4y ago
The article mentions one of the things I remember most about The Cuckoo’s Egg. It was Stoll's use of simple tech, a printer, to securely log the activities of the intruder. No worrying about tampered logs, or any of that. Of course,
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Hackernews provides a cool space on the Internet at this brief moment in time. It's wonderful randomly seeing passionate voices that are experts in their field speak up in comments. Your input is appreciated, but I hope this space doe
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> "It’s a tradeoff and it sounds great, but it’s going to really screw up people’s careers.” I would be careful with that. There are software engineers, and talent in other fields in this world who are targeted by competitors. The
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ApplePy experimented with providing a client-server model years ago for the 6502: https://github.com/jtauber/applepy It's great to see somebody picking up the idea again and extending it. It's a cool idea. L
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> Nowadays this metadata should be extended with description of AI postprocessing operations. Of course. But to ensure that's valid for multiple purposes we need a secure boot chain, and the infrastructure for it. To get there we n
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It feels like we're being deliberately herded into Mastodon. Obviously, that's paranoid thinking. But the results are the same in many cases. A market for lemons developing. A reinforcement of the strategy for others. And more
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> That's what regular devs do, they don't even bother writing articles or commenting on HN :-) I'll take the bait, and roll up several of my comments into one. First, the support contract costs from the commercial vendors
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But he didn't. He posted that classic XKCD comic about critical infrastructure. So while thousands of principal engineers at companies around the world hold meetings today on what to do about this critical bus factor issue, I'm go
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That's actually pretty cool. My post was a bit cynical, but the network effects would make it. The community would make it. If it ever happened, I hope the contributors have fun.
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Sometimes, hitting those roadblocks leads to a better solution. Maybe the new model is slower, and somebody looks into it, and realizes if they add a caching layer between the "REPL" module and the kernel ioctl, or service orwhate
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> Teaching the competence to program boils down to the training of misfits. Haha. Ohh geez, herding cats. Of course, the joke is I can have the most consistent, predictable engineer ever. He gives me a constant stream of ones. Always
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On of my most memorable courses in school was an evolutionary computation course. It dealt with algorithms like using genetic algorithms for search. Interesting work. One of the lectures I remember mentioned some work being done using gene
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> It is interesting that this (otherwise great piece) does not mention cryptocurrencies / blockchain at all The term "crypto bro", and its societal connotations, is relatively new. Even if cypherpunk work is decades old.
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First, a caveat. Some communities could use more resources for protection than others. It's just a statistical truth. That doesn't mean every member of that community needs protection. People scrape their knees, right? Let&#x27
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I'm late to this discussion, sorry. But at the risk of loss of respect, I'll wait for Rust2ShinyNewLanguage to solve this. All I know is I hope I'm smart enough to understand ShinyNewLanguage's compiler. Or maybe even b
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> the time when forth was a solution has long since past. It depends on the problem. If it's education, I'd argue Forth still has a place. Writing a Forth compiler is a manageable project for a single developer. Restricted res
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This comment has bothered me the past few days so I'm returning to it. More than thorny and interesting problems with indexing modes and building blocks. Which is frankly sad. I don't know how many kilometers of neurons I'v
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I appreciate every project I come across that has contributors lists using Unicode, or documentation or other resources. It's a reminder that we live in a shared world. And if we start seeing more keywords in alternative scripts... Tha
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Want to hear a 1ame joke? Look closely, and you'll see it. Your solution helps. But the better solution being pushed for, which is frankly the correct one, is "out-of-band" certification of domain names. Whether it's a
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> Unethical? Not if you disclose it. That's unfortunately not how many humans work. Take VCR tape rewinding. It's one of those things you just let slip, because it's so inconvenient. Maybe you lie to yourself about the r
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It's not a sad story. It's a lesson to others. It's interesting how the story switches between reasons. To me, the most salient is: "could not overcome Heisenberg's complete lack of interest and gave up the effort
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We've got Seth Bullock and Sol Star over here selling shovels when the rest of us were panning. Smart.
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I don't know the whole story here. I hope he doesnt have a lot of baggage my generation has with over work. It may just be a bus-factor issue. I don't have the whole story. I remember a story my Dad told about cultural clashes
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My kid: Parents kid 1+ I should put in a base case and one child test. Eh, I'll do it later.
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And exponential backoff can help in a larger context. And coordination and yada yada. The bigger thing is asking yourself these questions should reduce the pain. When it doesn't, what are we doing?
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Before deploying this, do some analysis of your system and failure modes. And document it. For example, do you have read-write filesystems or swap? If it gets corrupted, will a reboot cycle with fsck corrupt it further, preventing post-mo
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We all love Ooey Gooey Cookies, right? So, how can I make that without killing the crowd? That's the question of the day. Is stevia a decent substitute for sugar? Is sugar ok if consumed on weekends only? I know, silly questions. An
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&check; botulism... No, I'm not a bot. Hello.
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> since those are benevolent All Natural substances harvested under blue skies to a background of chirping birds and gentle breezes. No shit Science? This is reasoned discourse? One of the most critical components of our world-wide heal
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And I do understand. I am one who reached out. Thank you for showing me. They understand who I am. Have a good week!

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