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by torginus 7mo ago
I think most vulnerabilities are in crappy enterprise software. TOCTOU stuff in the crappy microservice cloud app handling patient records at your hospital, shitty auth at a webshop, that sort of stuff. A lot of these stuff is vulnerable by
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by torginus 7mo ago
Just reading this, the inevitable scaremongering about biological weapons comes up. Since most of us here are devs, we understand that software engineering capabilities can be used for good or bad - mostly good, in practice. I think this sh
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by torginus 7mo ago
Not that rare in my experience, I constantly had to write software like this. Not every day, but it certainly did come up quite often in my code and others' Oh and oone more thing - the very (developer-managed) complexity makes it that
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by torginus 7mo ago
I don't like it - you're forced to pass around this token, constantly manage the lifecycle of cancellation sources - and incredibly bug prone thing in async context, and it quickly gets very confusing when you have multiple tokens
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by torginus 7mo ago
this might be just my impression, but I feel like most people are using CC for fixing their React frontends, and they prefer the decreased latency and less tokens spent as opposed to performing well on extremely difficult problems? That sai
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by torginus 7mo ago
I mean it's a general sign of the times across all of computing that problems keep getting solved wrong at all levels of the stack, and since the low level implementation can't be relied on for some reason, an implementation get
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by torginus 7mo ago
I wish you were joking, but one of the giant companies we work with as a supplier suggested we switch to the Windows version of their (desktop) software, running it under Wine. In fact they told us they have plans to discountinue the true n
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by torginus 7mo ago
The Ubuntu defaultism still puzzles me to this day... Canonical has been shown to subject users to its horrible science experiments pushing broken software on its users sometimes even persisting for half a decade or more (see pulseaudio, it
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by torginus 7mo ago
It's a huge issue of ARM based systems, that hardly anyone uses or tests things on them (in production). Yes, Macs going ARM has been a huge boon, but I've also seen crazy regressions on AWS Graviton (compared to how its supposed
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by torginus 7mo ago
Imo somebody decided to write a stream-of-consciousness blogpost, and then somebody else posted it here without context. The topic's interesting and worth discussing, and like many HN posts, the gold seems to be in the comments, so I w
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by torginus 7mo ago
Ubuntu is still pushing snap - they still kept the practice of silently replacing apt packages with snaps, I think the default Firefox is still a snap, and so is node.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Finally - I think the biggest issue of Linux today is the inability to ship a binary and have it just work across distros. While there was - an unfortunately failed - push for having ABI compatibility (remember Linux Standard Base?), this h
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by torginus 7mo ago
I'm sorry this the this kind of (far-left) political comment that usually starts the argument from 'basic human decency' and gets to calls for mass murder in the span of a sentece or two is as hilarious as it is sad :(. And u
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by torginus 7mo ago
I read it, and was hoping I would be more sympathetic to their side, but it was essentially 'they violated the rules our newly added non-contributor board members set, and by those rules, we kicked them out'. Essentially this 100%
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by torginus 7mo ago
Even on AWS, if you go for the managed magic version of the thing, they'll make you pay more, lose some flexibilitym and the relinquished control will change things in a way that benefits AWS (slower scaling, limitations, unnecessary o
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by torginus 7mo ago
So essentially 'we f**ked you over but we still expect you to do the work'?
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by torginus 7mo ago
Personally, when asking others about their opinions on various cloud providers, AWS tends to emerge head and shoulders above the rest for one simple reason - AWS works. And the reason AWS works is that AWS runs on AWS (in stark contrast to
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by torginus 7mo ago
The thing that strikes me as odd is how is it that Delve becomes an unicorn superstar (by iself), and the company they steal stuff off of, is much much less of a success story. It would make more sense that the people who actually built the
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by torginus 7mo ago
--reasoning_effort: xhigh
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by torginus 7mo ago
I replaced my old iPhone XS when they stopped making IOS updates for it. I was also curious what the news ones could do. Turns out not much more.
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by torginus 7mo ago
The problem is that due to how templates work, each compilation unit will end up with its own copy of templated function, which creates extra work, code bloat etc. The compiler also doesn't really inline or optimize functions as well a
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by torginus 7mo ago
I mean for some reason this was downvoted, and your answer is sarcastic, but my question was genuine. As far as I can tell, SpaceX's business model is doing government contracts, and selling space internet, and they had serious cashflo
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by torginus 7mo ago
Not that I approve of that, but when image generation was hot and new, the insane amount of refusals I got from the major ones for apparently no reason, exacerabated by the general slowness, quotas and inherent trial and error workflow has
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by torginus 7mo ago
Does this mean that before june SpaceX will do something highly noteworthy, to justify the IPO price?
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by torginus 7mo ago
This made me think of something - at work, if we wfh, we have to use one of those MITM proxies that intercept HTTPS at the kernel level. Imo such a thing can easily read the traffic and thus is indistinguishable from a distillation attempt
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by torginus 7mo ago
Even a billion dollars is crazy money. If you have a company with a subscription service that costs $100 yearly, you have ~2m customers, with a 50% profit margin. Your company makes ~100m every year in profit. Imo that's what is actual
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by torginus 7mo ago
Not according to FIFA
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by torginus 7mo ago
The whole medical industries business model is that they create so much compliance regulation that you need every compliance product under the sun to comply with them, thereby you can keep out competition.
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by torginus 7mo ago
But in the 80s I guess there was the pressure to one-up the Soviets, so everything had to be done yesterday, but Artemis has existed most of my adult life at various levels of maturity (Orion and its predecessors certainly did), and conside
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by torginus 7mo ago
I dunno, but CC might give away tokens for cheaper, but when I used Opus as standalone in Cursor, I definitely get way more mileage out of a token. Considering how much progress I made vs how much I paid, I couldn't make a scientific a

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