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by pizza234 5y ago
> Unfortunately, the new development and progress is gradually breaking more and more extensions, making it less useful to me as time goes on. I have very strong suspicions about the engineering quality of their work (but can't con
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by pizza234 5y ago
This specific activity has a direct contact with the victims, which makes it considerably different from other gray-area activities, where there is a strong disconnection with the victims (in which case, the concept of victim additionally b
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by pizza234 5y ago
> if companies paid for in-house security professionals competitive with what one might imagine BM pays, would people still choose the grey work? Interestingly, they answer very clearly: > We have not been involved in legal pentesting
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by pizza234 5y ago
Posted in a sibling comment, but I repeat it because I think it's a very important point. > I cannot say much more about Rust syntax since I am even more of a Rust newbie than the author - perhaps someone can have some further comme
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by pizza234 5y ago
I don't see much (if any) value in this article. The code was very unidiomatic to start with, and the issues are not just a matter of style - they're very substantial, and the code is still unidiomatic. At least one of the conclus
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by pizza234 5y ago
It's not necessarily "ridiculous". AFAIK in US is typical to change SWE job every few years (those 2-3 years indeed). Those who succeed in doing this consistently (I'm not implying one should, or not) ganerally end up wi
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by pizza234 5y ago
The devil is in the details. At least on Ubuntu, and possibly on Debian, the Bluetooth stack has been broken until around 20.04. It's still partially broken as of 20.04 (the discovery module is incorrectly configured). This applies to
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by pizza234 5y ago
Android 8.0 is not supported anymore, and it suffers from very serious security vulnerabilities. Versions up to 8.0 constitute around 20% of the phones (as of June 2021¹), which creates a significant amount of e-waste, particularly embarras
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by pizza234 5y ago
I'm confused at why the author is using static mutable variables, which, while sometimes required in Rust, they are at a high risk of design issues. In addition to the design issues, they are also implemented via mutexes, which have ov
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by pizza234 5y ago
OS matters a lot. The fragmentation on Linux is astounding; I have experience with maintenance of Linux-based projects. You'll be surprised at how fragmented distributions are, even within the same family (e.g. Ubuntu-based). The natur
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by pizza234 5y ago
If that's the meaning, then the parent statement: > especially since server developers switched to macs doesn't make much sense. MacOS is certainly very relevant, but there has been no exodus. Here there are some interesting st
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by pizza234 5y ago
What is a server developer? It's a very odd title, in particular, because most servers are Linux and Windows.
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by pizza234 5y ago
I think this is overly pessimistic, although fundamentally correct. The silliest yet most iconic (no pun intended) problem I can think of is the necessity to create bookmarks multiple times for each of the graphic libraries of the system, d
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by pizza234 5y ago
> It's a fun way to kill like 15-20 minutes a day, it's probably the closest thing I waste my time on that's like a video game these days yet 100x more productive. I've tried to use Duolingo to learn a new language. I
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by pizza234 5y ago
One certainly can, but the increase in complexity shows that Bash starts not to be the most effective tool, when performing tasks it isn't designed for (and compare to a full-blown programming language, there are many).
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by pizza234 5y ago
The same can be said about the "making it far enough to be an L6 at a well known tech company" barrier. Actually, I believe this is a better qualification in terms of capacity, since it's more selective.
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by pizza234 5y ago
Bash is indeed very limited on some aspects (and confusing/quirky on others, etc.etc.). Regarding the multiple ways though, I think it's a matter of good judgment. Depending on the input, one may choose different tools - one shoul
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by pizza234 5y ago
> The extra overhead and impact on runtime of context switching to load in a new program is non-trivial if you have to loop over it thousands of times The specification is: "speed does not matter". The long answer addresses thi
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by pizza234 5y ago
I did, and unfortunately it's usable only for extremely basic cases. Images of a few megapixels will cause it to crash or hang on selection. Happened so many times that I am forced to use GIMP.
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by pizza234 5y ago
Tesla has a perverse incentive not to "wake up". It's advantageous to overpromise than to admit the hard fact that self-driving (in a strict sense) cars may potentially not be feasible for a long time. Doesn't help that
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by pizza234 5y ago
Resources availability is only one factor in the bigger picture - sustainability. Without sustainable politics/culture, the population will need endlessly to new locations. Space colonization would just postpone the need.
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by pizza234 5y ago
Last time I checked (I think it was a few months ago), Borg had a couple of significant limitations: 1. no realtime incremental backups (that is, use filesystem observers in order to be able to perform incremental backups at short intervals
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by pizza234 5y ago
Some time ago I spoke with a Norwegian, who told me that smoking is socially perceived as negative, to the point that it may happen that somebody ends a date because they find that the other person smokes. They've told it's been d
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by pizza234 5y ago
> The difference is that people actually need to get around This is really context-dependent. Some cities/countries do have efficient enough public transport, and/or they're flat enough to make bikes usable. In such contex
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by pizza234 5y ago
At least in Europe, paying the salary off the book in large part, is very common.
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by pizza234 5y ago
I'm not knowledgeable with this, but I think so, as it'd be a standard passthrough. What needs to be kept in mind is that, as the standanrd passthrough, it's subject to the IOMMU groups handling (in best case, there's no
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by pizza234 5y ago
The specification you present is a bit unclear. Any modern virtualization has very fast CPU virtualization (it's hard to say near-native, as there are always corner cases), and snapshotting tools. I don't know about Sharepoint; th
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by pizza234 5y ago
Two reasons (in the context of a standard desktop user, not headless server): 1. Desktop environment, which uses the video card; this is not a big deal, since one can terminate the session 2. video drivers correctly and fully releasing the
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by pizza234 5y ago
It depends on what do you mean with "easier". Technically speaking, for machines where VFIO works, there is no maintenance, and the setup can be easy (excluding one significant issue due to a specific linux kernel upgrade, my VFIO
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by pizza234 5y ago
This is an interesting question, since it's actually the underlying strategy of Microsoft (I don't imply it's a wrong thing). My personal motivation is that Linux power users will miss the control, or at least, customizabilit

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