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Friday Facts #247 – Pricing and its exploits(factorio.com)
2 points by tekacs 8y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 8y ago
> or using `return` as a variable without exiting Also found in the Nim language (no affiliation/loyalty, just in case anyone is curious to see an existing use of this) https://nim-lang.org/0.18.0/tut1.html#proc
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In MacOS Mojave You Can Now Mess Up Your Desktop(reddit.com)
3 points by tekacs 8y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 8y ago
> The stuff which is actually hard, nobody ever asks about. For instance: How do you know when someone is in a bad mood? How do you deal with loneliness? How do you foster camaraderie? How do you achieve urgency? How do you ever get to k
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by tekacs 8y ago
The first quote makes sense, the latter two are at best mistaken. > Michael Polanyi: not all knowledge is "formalizable". Actually recipes are an example of his: two cooks following the same recipe may give drastically differen
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Why American Students Haven't Gotten Better at Reading in 20 Years(theatlantic.com)
2 points by tekacs 9y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 9y ago
The GP is using mtr: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_(software)
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Putin claims Russia developed nuclear weapons 'invulnerable to enemy intercept'(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by tekacs 9y ago|1 comments
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by tekacs 9y ago
> What possible technical breakthroughs could justify the deaths of millions? The kind of technical breakthrough that saves billions? I'm not especially a fan of this approach, but the absolutist stance that you've taken seems
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“This Is Serious”: Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral(vanityfair.com)
67 points by tekacs 9y ago|35 comments
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Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts(bbc.com)
2 points by tekacs 9y ago|0 comments
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Announcing January 16, 2018 Critical Security Update – GitLab(about.gitlab.com)
2 points by tekacs 9y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 9y ago
So https://xkcd.com/1172/ ?
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by tekacs 9y ago
Not that you should have to know this, but for completeness' sake: Out of the box in Emacs (with no config or extensions) you can simply select the pasted region and hit Tab to reindent the whole area correctly (what you called 'T
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by tekacs 9y ago
You might also find org-journal [fn:1] interesting, if you commonly take date-stamped notes. [fn:1] https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal
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by tekacs 9y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15808065 (which has comments)
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by tekacs 9y ago
Yeah I've noticed this myself - I'm on the fence as to whether this is actually disabling the account or simply creating that impression (it does show as disabled in Directory Utility after you perform this command). My hope in re
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by tekacs 9y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15802113
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by tekacs 9y ago
Having tested this by both approaches (disabling through GUI & shell), the above (through shell) seems to prevent this from re-occurring when you attempt to perform this bogus login again. Disabling the account via the GUI causes the fa
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by tekacs 9y ago
It doesn't if you disable it from the shell like this, as I note in my comment. I've tested both approaches - disabling via the GUI causes this bug to re-occur next time you try, disabling via the shell does not.
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by tekacs 9y ago
If you disable the root user using `dsenableroot -d` from the Terminal, this seems to disable the account in a way that leaves its password intact.
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by tekacs 9y ago
And you might want to disable the root account again with `dsenableroot -d` as well, so that the root account stays disabled after the vulnerability is patched. Unlike doing this through the GUI, this seems to retain the root password and p
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by tekacs 9y ago
Even if you're on a dedicated machine, this vulnerability enables a local user to bypass the authentication prompt on things like System Preferences or other auth checks. I'm advising folks (incl. non-tech) to set a root password
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by tekacs 9y ago
Edit: Okay so it seems that my shell based suggestion of `dsenableroot -d` prevents the bug from re-occurring, but not the GUI version. :facepalm: I updated the post to include the word 'strong', although I would expect most users
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by tekacs 9y ago
Now that this is public, it's likely worth passing this message on to non-technical folks too (e.g. share this or write a similar post - this is my only public post): https://www.facebook.com/amar.sood/posts/1
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Bankai, the friendly web compiler(medium.com)
2 points by tekacs 9y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 9y ago
You might want to to try Spacemacs [0]. It's a preconfigured Emacs configuration (a bit of an overhaul, but not too intrusive if you run it in Emacs or Hybrid mode). You can just open source files in languages you haven't touched
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by tekacs 9y ago
For those fed up of SBT, it's worth taking a look at CBT [0], which is an attempt to do this job more simply and intuitively using plain Scala code (no affiliation). [0]: https://github.com/cvogt/cbt
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Han unification(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by tekacs 9y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 9y ago
I was stunned to find that no article has ever been submitted to HN with 'Han unification' in the title[0]. (there are comments [1] on the topic if you're interested to see HN's discussion on the topic as I was) [0]: ht

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