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by petters 6y ago
It's always nice when you want to make a comment and it's already the top one. Happens a lot on HN. Indeed, some of these are possible to falsify with experiments. For example: > 14. A good type system is worth its weight plus
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by petters 6y ago
It's pretty interesting that YouTube offers such a huge surface area for processing user-uploaded files. Some of those obscure formats should have a security flaw. But the ffmpeg processes are surely sandboxed with seccomp or similar,
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by petters 6y ago
A version of Google for power users would be so nice. I'm sure the changes in search over the last decades helped the majority of users, but sometimes a "Google for developers" would have been nice.
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by petters 6y ago
I have worked several years at FAANG, and error like this were very hard to make due to how the frameworks were written. But it seems that this was third-party code, which I guess explains it.
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by petters 6y ago
Thanks, this seems likely.
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by petters 6y ago
Why did you turn it on? For testing?
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by petters 6y ago
This is great! This function belongs in the standard library.
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by petters 6y ago
You can use this for integration testing. If you have enough memory, you can then run several tests in parallel. Or, of course, if you need to do something with headless chrome while serving a request.
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by petters 6y ago
This can be done much faster. The problem is memory/disk bound. Decoding the PNGs should be most of the work if written properly. Edit: Yes, this is more reasonable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25405595
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by petters 6y ago
How on Earth did this endpoint pass code review at Facebook? The person who wrote it probably was working under the assumption that the calling user was logged in, but still....
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by petters 6y ago
It does not flash white. See e.g. https://instant.page/
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by petters 6y ago
Yes! We're building a fairly complex web app and page refreshes are < 100ms. With prefetching on hover this becomes virtually instantaneous.
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by petters 6y ago
I made my own some time ago: https://www.strandmark.net/prediction.html On that page, I seem to mention that the original was "The Mindreader Applet." Don't know if that's true, but since it is/was
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by petters 6y ago
I tried OBS studio, but could not figure out how to use it properly. Ended up using Xsplit Vcam instead, which is really good. I think I managed to remove the background in a really, really crud way with OBS studio. Like using a chroma key
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by petters 6y ago
The latter would be legal in several European countries.
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by petters 6y ago
Yes
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by petters 6y ago
Poetry is good, probably the best for Python, but it is not without issues: - 1.1 is not compatible with envs created with earlier versions. - The parallel installer in 1.1 is enabled by default but has race conditions and must be disabled.
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by petters 6y ago
I did the same! Honestly don't remember how I figured all that stuff out without internet and stack overflow. Also, my friends would call me and ask for the secret code to start Doom. I'd begin: "cd doom2"....
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Tesla confuses waving flags for red lights(linkedin.com)
1 points by petters 6y ago|2 comments
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by petters 6y ago
I thought XPath was terrible beyond 1.0? E.g. https://tomforb.es/xcat-1.0-released-or-xpath-injection-issu... But it does not seem to be mentioned as an argument.
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by petters 6y ago
> Google poured an infinite amount of effort into Unladen Swallow Google most certainly did not.
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by petters 6y ago
Congratulations! https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by petters 6y ago
> Examples of people being nice to each other in FLOSS projects is certainly something we could always use more of, sure. Is that what this is? Yes. That's how I interpreted it, at least. (I think it's great)
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by petters 6y ago
It is useful to have the sum and product of empty lists be 0 and 1, respectively. This means that sum(A ++ B) = sum(A) + sum(B). (++ is concatenation)
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by petters 6y ago
It definitely is malicious if he actually places orders. Jail seems like a possibility if every restaurant actually is affected.
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by petters 6y ago
> Permanent (lifetime) guarantied [sic] real-time technical support (Skype, Slack, etc.) Seems hard to guarantee something like this? Very cheap for a business, if actually guaranteed.
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by petters 6y ago
Amazing that this video is not more widely known! Thanks
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by petters 6y ago
Here is an interesting discussion of this work by physicists: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756
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by petters 6y ago
WSL + GUI
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by petters 6y ago
It seems to me that both Google and Microsoft would benefit a lot if all Android applications were available on Windows. So I would not be surprised if they were wording on it.

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