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by mmastrac 2y ago
Wrong on all three: 1) The victims of yesterday's attack were overwhelmingly terrorist soldiers and mid-level management which fits the definition of surgical. If the results of this operation are as good as suggested by all the early
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I agree -- "victory lap" is just a figure of speech. Yesterday's results were probably far outsized impact on their own, and today's are (apologies for another figure of speech) "icing on the cake". I would ima
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I guess they are taking a victory lap around yesterday's major embarrassment. I never thought that you could dismantle a terrorist organization so surgically by just booby-trapping comms devices. This will certainly be made into a bloc
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by mmastrac 2y ago
That's an impressive supply-chain hack. Spend years showing how insecure modern telecom devices are and scare your enemy into going old-school, receive-only. Set up a shell company to sell pagers to your enemy's shell company. Giv
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Went looking for fountain codes, was not disappointed [1]. It's a shame these have been locked up for so long -- there's a lot of network infrastructure that could be improved by them. The patents are hopefully expiring soon. Gene
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Still waiting on `pipe2` as well!
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by mmastrac 2y ago
These are cute, but another sign that Unicode is straying from their original mandate which was to represent characters already in use in other systems (and to help bootstrap under-digitized languages to become digital). Stop adding random
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The problem with TypeScript is that it’s purely “advisory.” The actual shape of the objects at runtime might not match the declared types in the system, and once type-checking is complete, it’s a free-for-all. That being said, you can use A
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Style nits: this would be much better with an enum Return: enum Found { Empty, Before(T), After(T), Between(T, T), } ... and a range parameter instead of L and R. And, TBH, this should probably just panic! on an invalid pr
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The demo at the CHM is very impressive. They extracted the data from the drives many years ago and it turns out that it was a bunch of records about Canadian companies from the 60s or 70s. I love the sound it makes.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Adding to parent comment's context -- it's specifically called "row-level security". The docs show a number of examples for this: [0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This style of form is aggravating to fill out, but kudos on making it beautiful. If you want to be kind to your users, allow them to scroll through the entire form, see it on one screen and ideally skip ahead without filling out required op
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The list: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/2a00ce74-6d58-4f8e-...
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Elon Musk's X reveals investors in court filing(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by mmastrac 2y ago|1 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Well yeah, obviously LAN and WAN are different. But they're all running over that same LAN fabric to get to the WAN. Having high-speed streaming access to files on the server is somewhat important as well (mostly while travelling). Wit
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by mmastrac 2y ago
That's totally fair. Building out a 7Gb last mile is probably giving them 10-15 years of headroom for last mile upgrades.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I bought a bunch of 2x10gbit/4x2.5gbit switches as well but I'm in a townhouse with four floors and it's a small challenge to distribute that bandwidth. We have individual runs to each room, but part of my network is built on
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by mmastrac 2y ago
My hobby includes a lot of large docker images, self-hosting a somewhat popular website, and attempting to get my file server serving as quickly as possible to the other places in my house. I use a reasonable amount of bandwidth in my WFH j
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I consider myself on the higher end of bandwidth consumption, but it's challenging to see myself ever saturating a 7Gb link. I've been struggling to get 10G working in my house -- 2.5Gb sort-of works, but there's just so much
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Founder and CEO of Telegram arrested at French airport on multiple charges(jpost.com)
3 points by mmastrac 2y ago|6 comments
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Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO(huonw.github.io)
106 points by mmastrac 2y ago|115 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Are you admitting to weaving in and out of other traffic? That is insanely dangerous and I've been nearly hit by drivers like this repeatedly over the years. Maybe there's a good reason the safety system of the car is fighting you
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Unless there's a magical weather controlling radar array out there with an agenda, I'm going to call coincidence on this one.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
From a quick skim of the paper [0], they discovered ~1M antibiotic-like peptides with an ML model, synthesized 100 of them and saw ~60% of them successfully reduce human-antibiotic-resistant bacterial loads in a mouse model by 2-3 orders of
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by mmastrac 2y ago
"Our AI Tutors engage with our models across a variety of tasks that reflect real-world interactions with Grok. During each interaction, the AI Tutors are presented with two responses generated by Grok" My guess is that they'
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Pretty much. I've had a great deal of luck rebuilding older projects. You can lock your toolchain as an added protection, but `cargo clippy --fix` is often enough to fix 90% of those. I think the only time I really struggled with a too
627.
by mmastrac 2y ago
I'm kind of happy to see the horrible, inefficient job posting/application system completely broken like this, but I feel bad for those just entering the market who are going to have an impossible time getting noticed around the f
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by mmastrac 2y ago
There's basically three sides to the story now, for reference: Entropic statement: https://www.entropicengineering.com/defcon-32-statement dmitrygr statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412074
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DEF CON's response to the badge controversy(old.reddit.com)
274 points by mmastrac 2y ago|268 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I can't wait for a re-release of this particular film with the latest deepfake tech integration. It looks quite terrible in the original release -- enough to pull me out of the immersion of the film -- and the fan edits of those scenes

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