nickcano

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Hacking Games by Hooking LuaJIT(nickcano.com)
2 points by nickcano 9y ago|0 comments
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Reversing the League of Legends Client(nickcano.com)
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by nickcano 9y ago
I don't know if this qualifies as rock bottom, but here goes. As a baby, I was adopted by the mother of the man who was married to my biological mother, and at the time thought to be my father, but wasn't my father. Growing up, I
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Designing Multi-Versioning and Auto-Update in an MMORPG Bot(nickcano.com)
4 points by nickcano 9y ago|0 comments
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A Look at the Unique Threading Model of a Popular MMORPG Bot(nickcano.com)
3 points by nickcano 9y ago|0 comments
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by nickcano 9y ago
Author here. At least, from my experience, they are. No Starch Press went above and beyond when working on my book, and they're currently getting hit hard by the counterfeiting issue. Not like there's a need to justify anything he
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by nickcano 9y ago
The problem is, when counterfeiters become the default in the buy box, it gives them market they wouldn't otherwise have. If you go to a bootleg site, you expect bootleg books. If you go to Amazon, you expect legitimate books.
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by nickcano 9y ago
Holy shit, posted in 2009 and still no change. I see this every time I'm on LinkedIn--I hate it. Still nowhere for me to add my book (sure, publications, but it will drown under more recent talks and papers), but it can harass me about
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by nickcano 10y ago
At my last job, we had servers with 64 cores, 1TB ram, and 100+ TB of storage that were taxed to their full extent by one or two people at a time. The job was essentially taking multi terabyte datasets and matching, filtering, and mutating
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by nickcano 10y ago
This causes a ton of compatibility problems, and it's worse that a lot of companies don't seem to care and advertise compatibility anyways. I noticed this a while ago when I wrote this review: https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by nickcano 10y ago
>about every strange error they get from another programming language that js would have just passed silently with a weird result Wait, do you mean to imply that "passing silently with a weird result" is somehow better than thr
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by nickcano 10y ago
I mean, yeah, that's what I feel like is going on. I think it's more like when somebody says the word "January", I pick up that it's a tag in many contexts, one being time, and start picking information associated w
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by nickcano 10y ago
>I simply don't visualize it, I think of it as an abstract concept and don't try to put a picture on it. Right. When I'm asked "what happened in January", I just think back to January. There's no mental pict
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by nickcano 10y ago
That's interesting, I wonder what happens if you take one of the current prototypes and hover off the ledge of a canyon... Will you drop suddenly and go splat, or will you keep altitude? Intuition says the former, but I'd like to
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by nickcano 10y ago
>without some kind of public showdown that involves social media. Maybe many tech communities are capable, and you just don't realize it because they're not having public showdowns.
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by nickcano 10y ago
>bullet proof since it's likely that any sample used to test its effectiveness will be run by VirusTotal first. Nope. There are lots of situations where exploit kits will automatically re-compile and re-pack malware on-demand in way
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by nickcano 10y ago
The bottom line, though, is that ads DO serve malware. I work for an endpoint protection company and the most common traces we get from our customers are ones that originate from ads on legitimate websites.
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by nickcano 10y ago
>the biggest reason to think the universe isn't a computer is just how darn non-computable quantum mechanics is If an intelligence is simulating a universe, they aren't exactly going to be doing it von-neumann style.
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by nickcano 10y ago
How, though? Assume a particle has some Flatten() method that is called only when it interacts with another particle. Until this is called, certain data points (let's say, anything not related to it's movement through space) could
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by nickcano 10y ago
>I remember reading once that the limitation on speed of light could be a performance optimisation. >Things in superpositions only becoming "set" after observation... that is just lazy evaluation. I've always thought ab
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by nickcano 10y ago
Well that's also interesting because it brings the potential count of simulated universes from "some N bounded by the ratio of the amount information containable by a universe to the amount of information containable by all of its
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by nickcano 10y ago
I love contemplating this idea, but really hate when people write about it. They always talk about "The Matrix" or being "Video Game Characters", which really muddies the water. Of course a lot of people will reject the
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by nickcano 10y ago
Ideally there should be a way for the model to say "soccer is a type of sport, let's apply this question to every other sport and only say yes if soccer is the best answer", right? I'm not familiar with Word2Vec, but, pr
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by nickcano 10y ago
I dare you to find someone willing to, without a computer, parse such a description. JPEG is a surprisingly non-intuitive, complex format. You're right, you can be more precise that way, but precise text means nothing if nobody is re
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by nickcano 10y ago
They could have used PCA[1] on their feature set and let a human come up with these; they claim to use machine learning, not that this checklist was generated as a result of machine learning. Otherwise, maybe they have an algorithm that loo
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by nickcano 10y ago
>or downloading an old browser that is still usable in 32bit Are you implying newer browsers don't work with 32bit? Chrome and FireFox run as 32-bit and all IE versions still use a 32-bit renderer. These things are true on 64-bit an
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by nickcano 11y ago
Yes, and those more pressing issues are among spending time debating why it's not worthwhile to spend time debating a topic that is less pressing than the debate about the time it takes, apparently.
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by nickcano 11y ago
At Bromium we do complete task isolation in uVMs and use monitoring to watch what happens inside. Most customer infections we see come from ads, and they're mostly cryptoransomware. It's absurd.
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by nickcano 11y ago
Or they could train a network to recognize persons likely to try and poison their data sets and use it as an exclusion. You could go on to argue that those persons could also poison that data, but then they could handle it in a similar way.
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by nickcano 11y ago
That's not the right way to think about it. Just because you cannot imagine a way your software can be used to attack your company or harm the users, doesn't mean such a thing is impossible or unlikely.

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