mjw1007

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by mjw1007 2y ago
When I come across bad documentation (which is often), by far the most common problem I find is that the information I needed just plain isn't present. Articles like this one really aren't helping. If you wrote a piece of software
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by mjw1007 2y ago
"-let" is another one, which is sometimes used in non-childish contexts (eg in "tasklet" or "chiplet").
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by mjw1007 2y ago
> Apple/ARM platform development will continue downstream. If I feel like sending some patches upstream in the future myself for whatever subtree I may, or I may not. I suppose it's possible that that could turn out well. The s
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by mjw1007 2y ago
> after a quick look at the SMART stats, everything appeared normal. Later, though, the reader did a more thorough Field Accessible Reliability Metrics (FARM) test and discovered [that it wasn't] I had a look at how to run these FAR
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Probably not. Letsencrypt don't provide a way to tell them "I'm not using this certificate any more", so they send out so many false-positive warnings that they're likely to drown out any signal. Every time I move a
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by mjw1007 2y ago
The part which describes the circumstances where she's seen an unstructured group work is interesting. In particular, this condition > Its function is very narrow and very specific, like putting on a conference or putting out a news
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Active exploitation of vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti products(ncsc.gov.uk)
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by mjw1007 2y ago
So don't have a default. Have securerandom() and insecurerandom() and make the programmer choose. That has the advantage of avoiding problems in a generation's time: if most platforms moved to random() being secure, it would be ex
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by mjw1007 2y ago
One of the first prosecutions under the UK computer misuse act (R v Bedworth in 1991), ended up as effectively a jury nullification. IIRC the judge explicitly told the jury that the offered defence wasn't valid as a matter of law, but
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Part of the problem is the way that policies like this one are written. They're saying things like "may not do that" and "cannot be used unless ...", when what they really mean is "we're not granting any s
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by mjw1007 2y ago
It's not entirely a new thing for Rust, at any rate. The current trademark policy [1] is very similar: > Using the Rust trademarks (even in modified form) for social events like meetups, tutorials, and the like is allowed for events
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Note that part is unchanged from the current trademark policy here: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/policies/logo-policy-and-me... (Except the current policy says "Distributing" rather than "Publicly di
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by mjw1007 2y ago
JavaScript method call notation is arguably a ternary operator, or a candidate for the "Near Misses" list (because « foo.bar(x) » isn't the same as « var meth = foo.bar; meth(x) »).
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by mjw1007 2y ago
I disbelieve that starting a lawsuit against Oracle because their software didn't work as it was supposed to would ever end well. Do you know of any examples of that happening?
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by mjw1007 2y ago
I remember Ubuntu's decision to abandon its original "no open ports in the default install" policy for the sake of zeroconf/mdns was controversial at the time. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZeroConfPolicySpec
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by mjw1007 2y ago
I think the biggest weakness of github issues is that the main content it shows when you visit an issue page is the original report. That's very often unhelpful because: - it's likely that the actual problem wasn't understood
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by mjw1007 2y ago
The nice thing about this is that, with filesystem permissions on one end and a check for SCM_CREDENTIALS or SO_PEERCRED on the other, you can effectively get user-based access control working between two machines. I think this is the one r
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by mjw1007 2y ago
mosh is for interactive sessions, to keep them working when the connection is flaky. autossh is for keeping unattended ssh tunnels alive, if the connection is flaky or one end is only intermittently available. So for using tunnels for the s
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Yes. For example, I've seen #5 in non-"geek" circles and I haven't seen it in "geek" circles.
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by mjw1007 2y ago
But surely DEF CON know that isn't true, because Dmitry evidently provided them with the firmware after the "stop work" order to EE (otherwise it couldn't have included the easter egg).
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by mjw1007 2y ago
The early days of setuptools/easy_install (around 2004) were interesting. The way I remember it, the main developer had a clear "don't ask for permission, just build what you think is best and put it out there" approach.
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Looking at the example near the bottom of the page, they seem to be making the common mistake of thinking that if I want 16px text turning into 32px, then I also want 24px text turning into 48px. I really really don't. I'm already
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by mjw1007 2y ago
If I understand correctly, in principle there isn't an asymmetry based on point of view, only on time. If the New Yorker had been able to publish their story in the days immediately following the trial, it wouldn't have been block
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by mjw1007 2y ago
It's very hard to argue that a story like this is really getting in the way of the integrity of the legal system. I don't know whether the problem is that the judge doesn't have the discretion to lift reporting restrictions i
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by mjw1007 2y ago
I don't think they have any desire to control what you see, because you're not going to be on the jury in her next trial.
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by mjw1007 2y ago
This isn't being done "in the name of" stopping disinformation. It's being done "in the name of" not prejudicing a future jury.
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Right. If the categories were things like "using search as the most convenient way to find a well-known website", "entering a term that's likely to appear in a news headline", and "asking a fully-formed questio
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Improving this is the subject of RFC #3621 [1], which appeared today. [1]: https://github.com/Darksonn/rfcs/blob/derive-smart-pointer/t...
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by mjw1007 2y ago
Liability for paying amounts of money is not at all the same thing as blame.
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by mjw1007 2y ago
There is no law of conservation of blame. Why would there be?

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