Vexs

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by Vexs 22d ago
I see asserts used in production code as part of flow control way too frequently, so I assume the majority of python users aren't aware of the -O flag, much less this behavior- which I too haven't ever heard of. Of recently, I&#x2
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by Vexs 2mo ago
Observationally, for people that /aren't/ using models to code but to just do their white-collar job, claude.ai /is/ AI, now. The entire perspective for how to use AI is through claude skills, claude projects, claud
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by Vexs 3mo ago
> You have to review the source of every PKGBUILD from the AUR you install, full stop I don't really think this is a solution- the usual workflow for these attacks has been to hide your payload in some dependency. This one is somewh
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by Vexs 4mo ago
Published CVEs seems a bad metric to use for this- unless we assume that the ratio of really nasty vulns/not-too-bad vulns is consistent.
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by Vexs 4mo ago
It's worth reading this one to the end- the point of this paper isn't about the math involved, it's that this math was the result of the federal funding of maths research. > The cost-benefit ratio of Mathematical research
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by Vexs 6mo ago
Some time ago I wanted the original MS solitaire playing card files. Wasn't too hard to find a copy of the binary, but the interesting thing to me is it appeared the files were handwritten- a couple possible typos in color and not a si
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by Vexs 6mo ago
You don't. The normal procedure here is to have multiple unique keys with multiple unique secrets. If one breaks that's it it's broken . This also allows you to revoke a key without removing all keys.
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by Vexs 6mo ago
It's not even just that- with component selection you have a handful of datasheets that give you (ideally) fairly truthful information about the device. You can rather deterministically look at these and compare them. Regular consumer
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by Vexs 6mo ago
Buddy you've got like 10 top-level comments on this thread are you doing okay
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by Vexs 6mo ago
You could pretty reasonably vibe code that in a single prompt odds are. Additionally, there are browser extensions that can do this- check on a timer, see if some page content is there, and then notify.
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by Vexs 6mo ago
They're also, as it turns out, vulnerable to a drillbit
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by Vexs 6mo ago
The only thing that seems to have gotten a lot worse is the trend of ai articles- which isn't kagi's fault but it would be nice if they could figure out how to filter them. They all follow the same patter- "specific thing you
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by Vexs 7mo ago
I don't remember exactly what I wrote and how the logic works, but I generally remember the broad flow of how things tie together, which makes it easier to drop in on some aspect and understand where it is code-wise.
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by Vexs 7mo ago
Almost anything I write in Python I start in jupyter just so I can roll it around and see how it feels- which determines how I build it out and to some degree, how easy it is to fix issues later on. With llm-first coding, this experience is
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by Vexs 7mo ago
I recently accepted-ish a position at a very ai-forward company. Manual programming was somewhat discouraged entirely. I've used AI tools in the past for maths I didn't understand or errors I couldn't make sense of, and wrote
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by Vexs 7mo ago
Holy cow! I've been pushing around a TQFP48 tonight and thought I was pretty good.
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by Vexs 7mo ago
I don't think that modern boards are really repairable at all beyond component replacement- 4+ layer stackups being the big reason. If there's a way to do anything to those boards besides total replacement I'd be super intere
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by Vexs 7mo ago
You know, I reckon if you serve up smut or instructions on bomb creation or something they stop hammering you...
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by Vexs 10mo ago
I don't really know that this is avoidable without buckets of work and probably legal issues on behalf of core's (or anyone's) engineers- it's really just something that plagues hardware in general. Hell, lots of sensors
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by Vexs 10mo ago
I don't think _anyone_ who's buying the new pebble watches is to some degree not interested in software, and probably pretty interested in open-source community work. It's a wildly niche userbase, and this sort of thing is go
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by Vexs 11mo ago
> restart required a hardware security module (HSM) smart card. Out of curiosity, does anyone know why? My guess would be the PW DB would be encrypted with some token generated from this card. I've had lots of "I have a secret
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by Vexs 11mo ago
Figure 3 from the report- that's an Adafruit sensor module on a 3d printed bit of plastic with a teensy-brand microcontroller just sitting in there! Actually, the entire electronics enclosure appears printed. Very funny to see in what
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by Vexs 2y ago
It's a bit silly IMO, but USB PD EPR _can_ support 24v and 48v- for charging laptops, I believe. The day I see a server rack with a pair of USBCs plugged into it is a far day off I hope though.
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by Vexs 2y ago
The dude tests basically anything and everything, and gives them generally pretty reasonable goes at a proper test. Sure, it's far off from an industry standard in a lot of cases, but unlike the industry (generally) he does side by sid
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by Vexs 3y ago
midjourney and discord have a number of internal agreements- they're not on there for free anymore...
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by Vexs 3y ago
It's a bit of a convolution, but let's say we've got some iterator of unknown size and we want to have a prime each iteration. We can do the following in python, which saves us from having to pre-compute the primes _or_ know
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by Vexs 3y ago
Please god no. So much info is already getting dumped to discord and nowhere else making searching or archiving impossible, we don't need more of that.
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by Vexs 3y ago
Well god damn there it is! Three days fresh, even! Thanks! Looks like a fair lot of work to get it configured, but few good things come entirely free. Wonder if there's enough people that could get together for a communal one...?
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by Vexs 3y ago
Every time I see tailscale do something really neat I'm always a little disappointed to find out they still offer only the three auth schemes- and I really don't want to tie my networking to google/github/ms. On top of t
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by Vexs 4y ago
The hackaday community's mooltipass kind of solves this- puts passwords on an external device with a smartcard. The OS never accesses the whole breadth of it, just what's exposed by the hardware. I think that's the right appr

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