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by shawnz 2y ago
When you're a guest at a friend's house, for example, you would have no problem installing their root CA in exchange for the privilege of using their network? Wouldn't you find that to be a little bit antisocial or overbearin
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by shawnz 2y ago
I lost confidence in Fedora when they made the incredibly weird decision to disable swap by default based on the flawed argument that memory compression could replace it
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by shawnz 2y ago
Not even that unlikely, for example consider the well known `rm -rf $STEAMROOT/*` bug in Steam some years ago
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by shawnz 2y ago
Sure, but you're probably not using PeaZip (which is primarily a GUI front-end for existing compression tools) in CI or containerized environments. For those situations there are specialized tools which are more appropriate.
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by shawnz 2y ago
Moving files from one directory to another directory on the same filesystem doesn't actually result in any data getting moved, only the directory entries are changed
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by shawnz 2y ago
In principle I hate the idea of overbearing corporate IT restrictions, but I think this is a big improvement over using MITM proxies and intercepting HTTPS connections. This seems like a good compromise that will enable IT admins to get the
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by shawnz 2y ago
On the other hand, how many additional people would be served by the infrastructure if they would just be brave and take a risk on an imperfect solution rather than bickering about it for X years or decades?
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by shawnz 2y ago
There's a chicken-egg problem here, which is that if nobody sorts their waste then there's no incentive to find better usages for it. I don't mind sorting my waste even if it still ends up in a landfill, just in case maybe th
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by shawnz 3y ago
And in your scenario where you handle errors with an Either type, how many times have you seen code where that kind of thing just gets upcasted because the caller can't be bothered to deal with the specialized error? I think this is a
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by shawnz 3y ago
> unlike exceptions, they force callers to handle all potential outcomes, but no more. Checked exceptions in java also have that property. > they support map, flatmap, applicative etc, making it easy to eg chain multiple computations
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by shawnz 3y ago
With CONNECT-UDP you also get UDP, just like this, and over HTTPS it's not going to be filterable, right?
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by shawnz 3y ago
Why not just use an HTTP CONNECT proxy?
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by shawnz 3y ago
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that improved ability to apply such development practices is one benefit of using a plugin-style architecture for isolating the programmatic steps of your build pipeline. It's not perfect
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by shawnz 3y ago
What? Exercise decreasing the proportion of sleep spent in the REM phase is "basic and ancient wisdom"? Exercise improving sleep quality, sure, but this study is saying something much more specific than that
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by shawnz 3y ago
When your programmatic build steps are isolated in plugins, then you can treat them like independent projects and apply your standard development practices like code review and unit tests to those plugins. Whereas when you stuff programmati
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by shawnz 3y ago
The escape symbol lets you ignore any non-special character, not just newlines: https://github.com/sixarm/usv?tab=readme-ov-file#escape-esc
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by shawnz 3y ago
I think that's exactly the point that the parent poster is trying to make by example? Just because we don't have good tooling today for using ASCII delimiter characters, doesn't mean it's impossible -- just like typing t
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by shawnz 3y ago
What if for example they get conned into spending their life savings on fake treatments that exist today and then have nothing left when a promising legitimate treatment is developed six months from now? And what about their heirs? What if
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by shawnz 3y ago
Doesn't the Air Canada case demonstrate the exact opposite, that real businesses actually are using AI today to replace jobs that previously would have required a human? Furthermore, don't you think it's possible for a real h
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by shawnz 3y ago
I don't think this implies that. Even a human being with strong reasoning capabilities could be made to believe it were something it's not if that is all it was ever taught. This isn't a matter of reasoning.
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by shawnz 3y ago
What makes you think it's not normal that it does this? It's a statistical model that predicts the most likely response to your prompt, and the internet is full of news and references to GPT these days as well as GPT generated out
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by shawnz 3y ago
End to end encrypted implies encrypted at rest. Maybe you're thinking they meant "encrypted in transit"?
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by shawnz 3y ago
It's a statistics software package: > A bug in the seaborn 0.11.2 plotting software [3], used by Park et al. [1], silently drops the largest data points in the histograms.
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by shawnz 3y ago
I'm in the "this decision is stupid" camp, but just playing devil's advocate here, they might not want to risk damaging their brand by letting some third party agency mishandle their website
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by shawnz 3y ago
Consider that regulations are hard to get right and all the people responsible might not have known in advance all the edge cases that were possible. After all, if they knew it in advance, the regulation would have been made before it ever
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by shawnz 3y ago
The TPM collects some measurements to verify that you actually booted to the correct operating system before releasing the key. From there, the system is protected by the operating system's login screen.
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by shawnz 3y ago
That's why I caveated my explanation with "these kinds of attacks aside": this video describes such a bus sniffing attack
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by shawnz 3y ago
Having a non-zero attack surface doesn't mean your security system provides "zero practical security". This is at best equally as hyperbolic as the vendors' own marketing claims that you are arguing against.
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by shawnz 3y ago
These kinds of attacks aside, the intent is that you need to turn on the PC and then actually boot to the intended operating system, which is then protected with a login screen
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by shawnz 3y ago
> The CPU is probably the best cooled thing in a typical desktop (and it needs to be). What? Surely it is discrete graphics cards which have the most sophisticated cooling systems, since they consume the most power. > [...] the amount

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