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by vesinisa 7y ago
Nevertheless, the parser failing at only 100 levels of nesting is shockingly bad.
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by vesinisa 7y ago
The reason for the MCAS hack was not any engineering wisdom but simply allowing them to build a completely different plane that they could claim was in fact the very same plane, and then sell it to airlines as such. While the aircraft manuf
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Exactly, my first impression when seeing the design is that it looks like a massive ticking mold timebomb. If at any point in the building's lifecycle the thick glass wool insulation is wetted (such as through a building/materials
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Don't read too much into my paraphrasing, as per the article they did in fact raise substantiated malpractice complaints. The troll had entered into a forbidden profit sharing arrangement with a non-lawyer, and was being purposely ambi
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Unfortunately, the challenges before the bar associations were apparently not successful. Their wording is careful since "disciplinary proceedings in front of bar associations are generally confidential", but they do remark that &
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Still, no scheduler can operate on granularity lower than the fundamental kernel tick rate. Which is by default 4 ms (1000 ms / 250), as you said.
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by vesinisa 7y ago
> One process runs for a bit of time, then it is suspended while the other processes waiting to run take turns running for a while. The time slice is usually a few milliseconds so you don't really notice it that much when your syste
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by vesinisa 7y ago
This does not sound plausible, more like the work of an Internet troll. The user's GitHub handle translates as "Fuck you all, damn it!". When asked to provide evidence, he comes with excuses in the linked thread. He has filed
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by vesinisa 7y ago
In fact, the system where the password originates from (3BSD) was released in 1979 and had commands like net(1) for "execute a command on a remote machine" - given a password was provided. Since quite the early days Unix has been
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by vesinisa 7y ago
From the blog I linked. They might have meant the feature was on by default in 2013 . I edited that part away. Here is a much better blog by the library author themself: https://medium.com/@cowtowncoder/on-jackson-cves
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by vesinisa 7y ago
This seems to be a yet another manifestation of the same underlying issue that has marred this library since 2013: https://blog.sonatype.com/jackson-databind-remote-code-execu... The only reliable fix is surely stopping ser
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by vesinisa 7y ago
The problem being that the world, by a pretty long shot, can not withstand 11 billion people leading a Western lifestyle unless there are giant leaps in green tech.
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by vesinisa 7y ago
> And over-population also seems to have largely been solved as well. Huh? I always thought over-population as the leading cause for global warming.
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by vesinisa 7y ago
What about IBM? Founded in 1911, $13B profit in 2018. Most successful company in several online business sectors. What about Nokia? Founded originally in 1865 as a paper mill, re-invented itself multiple times in countless different industr
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Hah! Thanks, edited. It might be also said that their innovation most recently has focused on some less-than legal technologies. But innovation it is, nonetheless.
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Company being old certainly does not mean it needs to be full of legacy systems and business processes. It only means that the company's management is not competent at evolving the company's processes and systems, which means it w
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Indeed, I was recently intrigued to learn for how long the connection between anthropogenic CO2 and global warming has been suggested. Someone recently post this short "note" in a newspaper from 1912: https://i.redd.it&
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by vesinisa 7y ago
You're right. It's the Signal IM app, which seems to use the iOS emoji pack.
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by vesinisa 7y ago
It seemed to come to my German Pixel 1 as an over-the-air update straight away as well, currently downloading it. Nice job, Google!
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by vesinisa 7y ago
FYI, EU is enforcing PSD2 directive from mid-September (yes, that's in two weeks). After that, all bank accounts in EU should - at least in theory - be available to 3rd party aggregators. I am sure Plaid is looking into it. This should
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Thank you! It looks really sleek. I have one question: Financial data is generally viewed as highly private. What measures have you taken to ensure that the data that I enter to the service won't get exposed?
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by vesinisa 7y ago
To be fair, not all civil disobedience is always for emancipation from oppression (think publicly smoking cannabis to protest prohibition.)
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Yes. That's how a disruptive companies operate in outdated regulatory environments, and that can be a win for all. Call it corporate civil disobedience? Case and point: Uber was basically a (hugely popular) mediator for illegal cabs
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by vesinisa 7y ago
What's so wrong with MessagePack, BSON etc.? Apart from de-serializing arbitrary classes from untrusted inputs being obviously insane, it's almost always an overkill as well. Why not simply stick to a binary format that doesn&#x27
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by vesinisa 7y ago
It's only a matter of time before this will happen. Once any one of the big players (rubygems, npm, Maven central, PyPi) enforces 2FA, all other repos will soon have to follow suit or risk giving appearance of haphazard attitude toward
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by vesinisa 7y ago
No, this document was drafted by Boris Johnson's pro-Brexit government. E: Apparently it was his predecessor, but it's nevertheless not drafted by Labour.
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Exactly. This comment is not even an exaggeration, wolf attacks on humans are exceedingly rare. People fear wolves usually either out of ignorance or for economical reasons (livestock).
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Hmm, the prize is defined to be at maximum €50,000. The formula is 50,000€×(1-S/L), where S is the compressed size + code of your program and L is the size of the current best entry. So if you are able to produce 5% smaller compressi
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by vesinisa 7y ago
jq is freaking awesome! It can do amazing stuff, it's like awk for JSON on steroids. Highly recommend reading the documentation: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/
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by vesinisa 7y ago
Here is an excellent in-depth explanation of the concept from one of my favorite educational YouTube channels - Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/v5OANXk-6-w

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