mmastrac

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by mmastrac 2y ago
Abusing the DMCA to take down videos stealing user funds seems... questionable.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I clicked the audio icon on the tab -- it muted the entire thing :)
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This is ridiculously fun, kudos. I could definitely waste a few lazy afternoons playing this.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The Rust project seems to be understandably afraid to officially document the memory layout and get locked into supporting an ABI that might need to change at some point. The preference seems to be supporting extraction of data via library
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Looks like a CGRP blocker ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcitonin_gene-related_peptid... ) sold under the name Qulipta ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atogepant ): > Since the discovery of calci
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Yep, totally, although there are still some holes in that. pipe2 being missing on Darwin is one example. You also need to hope that all the libraries you're integrating with are using O_CLOEXEC as well.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
FDs really should have been opt-in for inheritability from the start, with the possible exception of stdio. Inheritability being an fcntl is definitely one of the worst bits -- if the APIs for fork()/etc were designed today it would pr
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by mmastrac 2y ago
My favourite part of these videos of people rescuing obscure tech is when they talk about the community of other people also rescuing the same obscure tech and team up with them. The internet might be a bit of a cesspool now but these littl
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Not a great couple of decades for civilian air travel near Russian airspace, that's for sure.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I suppose this is mostly used for generation of novel subtitles, but there's probably enough infrastructure out there to combine Whisper and Llama to build a local-first closed-caption-style subtitling system. I've seen enough bad
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Lookup tables aren't necessarily faster these days for a lot of things when using low-level languages, but it would have been interesting to see the comparison here.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This card apparently has three - but none of those additional ones you listed, unfortunately.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I read the technical description of this and the whole work seems like magic. Antenna design, extremely low-power passive networks, etc. On top of that, it can tap into network signal bursts as a communication medium. It feels like a projec
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Branded lifetimes are painful in practice as they infect _everything_ and often make it impossible to interop with other things. I don't think you'd find a GC library to be useful to most developers if it required that. For those
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Kudos. This is one less papercut for async rust. I first started using futures in Rust in the first release and it's been a slow road, but gradually improving with each fix like this. In terms of what's really left before async ru
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by mmastrac 2y ago
That wasn't the library I had an issue with but the general problem is this: Downstream consumers of a library that have integrated Dependabot get alerts for CVEs filed against a library, even if the are "awaiting analysis".
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by mmastrac 2y ago
You missed the point. The code purported to be vulnerable is not slow because of the length of the string. The "example exploit" is slow because the reports use slow methods to construct the string under test. When timing the affe
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I got hit with a CVE spammer last year which forced me to re-release a library to fix a fake vulnerability that cannot be disputed in any way -- https://gist.github.com/6en6ar . They do nothing but post exploits where long s
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This applies to code as well. I worked on an internal PostgreSQL protocol driver for work and I've been focusing on understanding the binary message format inside and out, then the server state machine and query behaviour, and only the
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by mmastrac 2y ago
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
"unto the end" and "commoditized to death" made me briefly paranoid that Mr Watterson had died, but thankfully he is still quite alive: "Watterson lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio as of January 2024"
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Cybertruck was probably the last gasp for the fumes of Elon's impenetrable (at the time) persona of a wunderkind. This is probably where the memeing was more important than the product, which is almost certainly why the product 1) suck
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I don't think quoting RFK is a good example of showcasing a rational view of vaccines.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> If that makes me an anti-vaxxer, so be it. Don't really care. I'm pretty sure setting a personal bar/risk tradeoff that lets you take a significant number of vaccines doesn't make you an anti-vaxxer.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's amusing to see the early signs of the anti-vax movement here. The history of that movement is long. Humans are built to thrive in danger, chaos and instability. I think a good chunk of humans go insane in a safe and stable environ
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> The museum closed in February 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] In June 2024, The Paul Allen Estate announced that the museum would be permanently closed and that the museum's collection, most of which was owned by the Estate
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Every time I end up using repos with submodules, I'm stuck in the submodule unwedging dance at some point. It's just not worth it. Either it's stuck with changes that accidentally snuck into the subtree (rm -rf and submodule
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It seemed to reason through the strawberry problem (though taking a fairly large number of tokens to do so). It fails with history questions though (yes, I realize this is just model censorship): > What happened at Tiananmen Square in 19
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I deleted my account under my real name on S.O. within a few years after its founding because of the toxicity. I ended up in an argument with a rando that was a regular who had no idea what they were talking about, and realized it wasn&#x27

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