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by olliej 3y ago
I feel there have been plenty of stories about smash and grab stuff in apple stores but surely the trucks carrying shipping container of new apple products must be valuable targets
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by olliej 3y ago
There's also the component of "there are millions of lines of existing C and C++ that continue to exist and the majority of new 'safe' languages are not designed to support gradual adoption/replacement". So you
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by olliej 3y ago
My comment was more in the vein of every security bug that gets reported is followed with comments along the lines of "don't they fuzz their software", or languages like Zig that aren't memory safe but claim "debug
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by olliej 3y ago
The whole point is the implementation and runtime for any safe language _requires_ code that is fundamentally unsafe. If you write a safe interpreter your safety is still dependent on the compiler and runtime for your safe language having n
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by olliej 3y ago
Oof, another reminder that it does not matter how aggressively you fuzz, it’s still fundamentally stochastic and you can miss things like this for years :-/
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by olliej 3y ago
Yet another unuqdated Electron app?
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by olliej 3y ago
So many layers of BS here (in the his treatment I mean, not the article). First off lets deal with law enforcement: * Why was he in jail for two weeks if he could presumably unambiguously demonstrate he was not even in the state at the time
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by olliej 3y ago
Yeah I've gotten this repeatedly from CNN. It's the "We want to track you, but we have to provide an opt out, but we've intentionally constructed the opt out mechanism to fail if you have any kind or privacy filters enab
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by olliej 3y ago
That’s my assumption - I imagine there’s general “prepare the update” path that gets canceled explicitly by clicking a “no” button and can easily imagine that kind of logic missing close the window or whatever.
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by olliej 3y ago
Automatic updates are a system setting that you can just turn off. I’m not sure how you hit this path if you don’t have it turned on. That said on a dialog like this anything other than an affirmative confirmation should be considered to no
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by olliej 3y ago
I feel that advertisements that say “could be free” or “up to X% off”, or similar should only be legal if the statements are accurate for the overwhelming majority of customers. E.g you could advertise “free filing” if your free filing appl
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by olliej 3y ago
Because it’s always been about power and ego. I’m sure there’s an element of “we can get people to quit without having layoffs or having to compensate them”, but the overwhelming reason for mandatory RTO is power and ego tripping. If it wer
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by olliej 3y ago
I am still unclear what expenses are being taxed differently now that should not be. What are the expenses for software R&D that aren't salaries and/or depreciation of equipment? This is a serious questions, every time this co
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by olliej 3y ago
wait have FAANGs started that take home test BS? That’s beyond dumb. I really do feel people don’t understand the point of white board coding questions, and have constructed a whole new system of weird and unnecessary steps. I do not unders
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by olliej 3y ago
Alternatively, the company should have ensured that wherever (or whoever) they were providing data for were providing accurate information. Apple got that information from somewhere, and wherever they got it from presumably got it from the
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by olliej 3y ago
... yes? just like you need a google account to use google's business services So you weren't unable to do it, you made a choice to rely on automated systems getting the right information through scraping or whatever they do. That
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by olliej 3y ago
It sounds like what you're saying is that Apple should not list any company that does not create a direct contract with them and guarantee provision of accurate information? To me that would imply small businesses that can't affor
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by olliej 3y ago
Yeah, I've always been a suspicious of how extreme the difference is presented but actually working out the honest comparison seems like too much work. You get similar from the "self driving" car people where they say "w
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by olliej 3y ago
Every browser implements the full profile, and all of the non-insane parts. I think it was the defunct SVG2 attempt that may have had raw sockets.
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by olliej 3y ago
Many many aeons ago when I was still working on the webkit SVG implementation[1], we had to deal with this. Essentially all other complex "images" are in isolated worlds from the page itself, e.g. they're static images (no is
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by olliej 3y ago
1. containerization is often implemented these days in terms of partial virtualization, because the historical approach that were essentially a bunch of variations of chrooting were not sufficiently isolated to create a sufficient security
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by olliej 3y ago
ah yeah, I just relied on the auto title. I wonder if HN could automatically work this into the auto-titling logic for things like YouTube?
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Mike Monteiro: Fuck You, Pay Me [video] (2011)(youtube.com)
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by olliej 3y ago
I haven't seen this circulate in a while, and recently some friends in solo contractor-ville seemed to be getting screwed due to not having familiarity with the stuff covered in this talk.
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by olliej 3y ago
who's post was edited? If they're referring to my original one, then there's only one possible edit I made, because I recall making a comment today that was missing a word, but I updated that instantly so there were no commen
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by olliej 3y ago
Honestly I feel like ([edit: removed personal detail that in hindsight isn't really relevant in this specific discussion]) translation vs emulation is very close to a purely marketing distinction. I feel like the only thing that makes
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by olliej 3y ago
Ah, that's not quite accurate. Rosetta is an emulator (sorry <marketing>translator</marketing>) for userspace. Happily Apple actually provides direct support for linux in rosetta (as in it can parse linux binaries and
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by olliej 3y ago
This was going to be an addendum to the above comment, but I took to long trying hunt down old marketing material for Virtual PC, anyway here is the intended addendum. [edit: Giant addendum starts here, in response to comments in replies, r
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by olliej 3y ago
[addendum: per u/pm215 Hypervisor.Framework does still apparently exist and supported on apple silicon apparently, I assume the absence of hardware docs just makes it miserable. OTOH maybe the Asahi GPU drivers, etc can work in that m
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by olliej 3y ago
s/forget to cancel/unable to cancel/

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