peterwaller

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1. 61.▲
   by peterwaller 11y ago

   > Do you have any examples of the standard library using panics to signal handle-able errors Are those 79 handle-able errors, or are they programming mistakes?
2. 62.▲
   by peterwaller 11y ago

   I would normally not comment to say "seriously, :/", but this time I feel it is warranted so that people can see how much of an inconvenience this is. As a security sensitive person, I don't much feel like putting a load
3. 63.▲
   by peterwaller 11y ago

   If you ever click "merge pull request", github makes the merge commit for you. That means they get to decide the SHA and the full contents of the commit. I'll leave the potential consequences as an exercise to the reader. I g
4. 64.▲
   Live lightning map(blitzortung.org)

   6 points by peterwaller 11y ago|0 comments
5. 65.▲
   by peterwaller 11y ago

   Here's a link to a live Live lightning map: http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en
6. 66.▲
   by peterwaller 11y ago

   Today's attempt scrubbed due to weather at T-03:07 :(
7. 67.▲
   by peterwaller 11y ago

   T-8 minutes as I post this now, at 2025 UTC.
8. 68.▲
   Fukushima Officials: “worst possible result … the technology doesn’t exist”(enenews.com)

   9 points by peterwaller 12y ago|1 comments
9. 69.▲
   by peterwaller 12y ago

   I don't believe you understand how sed is being used here. The sed process doesn't even survive until the beginning of the connection.
10. 70.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    I'm tempted to delete the thread so not to distract from the later release. Thoughts? Admins?
11. 71.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Note: it's unclear to me whether this is the vuln everyone is waiting for. Other links: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0291 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name
12. 72.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    I recently found myself in need of a semaphore in go. They're quite easy to make out of channels: Implementation: https://github.com/scraperwiki/s4log/blob/master/semaphore.g... Use: https:/&#
13. 73.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    "Open Web Alliance". Sounds like a good thing, doesn't it? Open is great! Oh, wait, they want it to be open so that they can read all of your traffic. Wat.
14. 74.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    So you have your (possibly tainted at the binary level, see "Reflections on trusting trust") compiler, let's call it [A]. You take source code to a compiler [GCCsource], which for the purposes of this we'll say we can tr
15. 75.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Reflections on Trusting Trust is a classic lecture by Ken Thompson, which is well worth a read. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomps... I always thought that needing to trust a large b
16. 76.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    I started go-gl (the github organisation) with the intent of things never breaking underfoot. I'm really proud of what other people in the community have subsequently brought to the table over the last three years. It was not a decisio
17. 77.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    I love the simplicity of the main function: rewriteTypes(cfg, prog) rewriteSyntax(cfg, prog) rewriteLen(cfg, prog) fixGoTypes(cfg, prog) renameDecls(cfg, prog) exportDecls(cfg, prog) writeGoFiles(cfg, prog) https:/&
18. 78.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Interactive version: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/
19. 79.▲
    Gigapixels of Andromeda(youtube.com)

    4 points by peterwaller 12y ago|1 comments
20. 80.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    I've lost count of how many times I had to try reordering the certificates I fed to Amazon's load balancer. You get back very cryptic error messages. Which is annoying since it could almost certainly work out the order for you...
21. 81.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Is it interesting if only because it's written in a "memory-safe"* language? * Terms and conditions apply.
22. 82.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Given a file descriptor, this returns an os.File [1] (it's analogous to a `FILE ` from C-land). Which among other things, knows its name [2]. I guess it's hard to in a portable way go from a file descriptor to filename, so it&#x2
23. 83.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    If only then it were a solution which scaled and didn't have harmful effects..
24. 84.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Neat idea. I know it's not a serious proposal, but the problem with this sort of approach will be that the message will be identifiable from the fact that it hasn't actually been sent as spam to many people. So an attacker can ide
25. 85.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    It's unfortunate that it isn't possible to disable pull requests. There is already noise appearing there, which will always be a wart so long as pull requests can't be disabled.
26. 86.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    As of now that project doesn't appear to exist.
27. 87.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    ScraperWiki.com is always looking for talented, generalist engineers - people who can advance our products and build things for our customers. Location: Liverpool/Northwest UK We're currently building https://pdftables.
28. 88.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Another method to protect against malformed output due to the connection being cut short - "shell armour": http://drj11.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/piping-into-shell-may-... { echo { && cur
29. 89.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    Cloudflare probably is easier than running your own servers and configuring them correctly - I don't know since I haven't used them myself. But it sounds like you're not very familiar with the importance of the private key. I
30. 90.▲
    by peterwaller 12y ago

    No. This allows a content delivery network (such as cloudflare) to host content on your behalf without having to have direct access to your private key material. The main use cases you may be interested in are to 1) make it so that users co