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by l0b0 5y ago
Is there a type 3 error? If not, or if the question is as meaningless as I suspect, why would anyone ever want to use "type 1 error"/"type 2 error" rather than "false positive" and "false negative&quo
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Erika Fatland's Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan (originally published in 2014, so pretty recent) is a fascinating view into those countries from a lone traveller.
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by l0b0 5y ago
Some examples of common cultural (that is, completely avoidable) antipatterns: - LISP dialect devs insisting on using incredibly obscure technical abbreviations for important names, like car/cadr/cdr instead of first/second&#
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by l0b0 5y ago
You wouldn't even need to serve actual malware, just give people an old version of PuTTY with either a known vulnerability or insecure defaults.
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I don't think GP was talking about replacing all downloads with malware, just key ones, like individual targets.
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That's a cheap barb. First, I maintain a bunch of (small, to be fair) FOSS projects, mostly with zero payment over many years. Second, I've supported several projects with actual money. Third, if I can't reach anyone at the
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If you think that's bad, try figuring out where to report bugs or even find the original source code for several of the tools and libraries we all use every day. Some of them don't seem to have a web site, only a bunch of unoffici
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One option is to trust on first use, checksum the installation script and at least casually verify the diff each time the checksum changes[1]. Pros: - Protects against simple hijacking. - Reproducible as long as the installer doesn't a
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Everyone in charge is less competent than they seem.
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I'd recommend a project from work, Geostore[1]. Highlights: - 100% test coverage (with some typical exceptions like `if __name__ == "__main__":` blocks) - Randomises test sequence and inputs reproducibly - Passes Pylint with
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by l0b0 5y ago
Third try, nice! Does anyone know of an open source version of this, like Lexica[1]? [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.serwylo.lexica/
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Poetry2nix[1] is good for that. A lot of packages unfortunately require overrides to work, but poetry2nix ships with a bunch of these by default. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix
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Cool stuff! Have you considered using Nix for this? That way you get even more reproducibility, because all the OS packages (including Python and Poetry) can be easily pinned. If you only use packages which are already in nixpkgs you won&#x
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Meta: I posted a "PyPI is down" link a few days ago, and the post got insta-flagged. Is there some rule about this sort of thing?
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Thank you for the tip. The issue is that I want the project to be usable by people who are not using Nix. IIUC I'd have to duplicate the configuration to do that with pre-commit-hooks.nix. Is that correct?
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Did you actually read the comment thread? My comment: > NixOS isn't broken. I'm running into the same problem (link above). The response: > if you don't have a functioning ld or libstdc++ that's on you,
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If you're worried about reproducible builds, make sure to use a commit ID for the `rev` property rather than a (movable) tag, optionally with a tag comment: rev: 148ec47877499e3d671f6366f9eed812db181b40 # v1.2.0
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My favourite pre-commit feature is how it'll stash any unstaged changes before running checks when committing. No more irrelevant linter errors when committing part of a change. (And yes, it does the right thing when doing `commit -a`.
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I don't understand this comment. Google clearly cares about the performance of that product, since it's the fastest webmail I've used by a long shot. Or maybe you care more about performance than almost everyone, and use Mutt
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There are three kinds of web developers: - Those who don't care about performance, as long as it loads within a few seconds on their own beefed up system on the LAN. This article is for them, and we can only hope they will listen. - Th
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by l0b0 5y ago
I might not be familiar with that. Do you mean the /network/updates page of a repo?
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Bash as a CGI. It took all of a couple minutes to work out my first ever remote execution bug.
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Dependabot on Gitlab(paperless.blog)
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From the article: > A NASA spacecraft has entered a previously unexplored region of the Solar System — the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. > The mission’s closest approach is scheduled for 2025 at a distance of just 6.2 mil
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The Mathematica showcase on Code Golf[1] is by far the most impressive showcase of any language I've ever seen. (Start reading from the bottom.) [1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/44683/9570
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"X is obsolete" for any X which is not literally marked "obsolete" in the relevant reference is just a convenient lie. The real reason is going to be either "I don't like X" or "I don't unders
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ls | grep '.csv$' | xargs cat | grep 'cake' | cut -d, -f2,3 > cakes.csv That's quite a few antipatterns in one go. Unless you have a bajillion files the `xargs` is unnecessary, the `cat` and `ls` are unne
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Shout-out to Toitū Te Whenua LINZ, the New Zealand government mapping authority, for actually funding several projects in the geospatial field.
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Some things which have worked for me (Scandinavian working elsewhere, senior dev): - Re. keywords, trim the CV according to the job you want. I've worked with PHP, PL/SQL, VBA and other technologies I'd rather never touch aga
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by l0b0 5y ago
Now, can we please get GitHub issues back into third party search engines? Now, whenever I search for something I know is in an issue I only ever get results from those crappy GitHub scraper sites. This is happening on both Google and Duc

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