andy_boot

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by andy_boot 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Hustle I remember this, this was good, lots of social engineering before I knew what it was called.
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Dust Hits Version 1.0.0(github.com)
1 points by andy_boot 2y ago|1 comments
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by andy_boot 2y ago
Rust project 'dust' (du-in-rust) has hit version 1.0.0
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by andy_boot 6y ago
Didn't Russia make a habbit of killing journalists who criticized either the old or new regimes from 1990 to present day? Pretty sure that was prevalent. Maybe they weren't tracking online much in the early days though.
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by andy_boot 6y ago
I believe he joined as a late founder, he wasn't on the original team.
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by andy_boot 7y ago
I also noticed this. We came up with a variant to fix this. You have to say what the next person in the circle said they'd do yesterday before your talk. This forced everyone to pay more attention as you don't know who would be st
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by andy_boot 7y ago
That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Because it was frustrating to track down what had used disk space.
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by andy_boot 7y ago
I've taken 2 sabbaticals from work. In the UK at least most companies are totally fine with you doing this.
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by andy_boot 7y ago
I don't see why water used for cooling can't later be used as irrigation water
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by andy_boot 7y ago
I'm quite relieved that the higher ups were able to successfully de-escalate the situation. It is so easy to read about situations where some pompous military officer trys to escalate and kick start a conflict. But fortunately a situat
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by andy_boot 7y ago
Personally, I agree with your summary of the Fountainhead. If you choose to read Atlas Shrugged, however, her opinions start to get more extreme and unsettling.
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by andy_boot 7y ago
That gets tricky though, Can tradespeople can use their vans to do their food shopping? Can private citizens become a painter/decorator so they are then allowed a vehicle? Can a private citizen have a vehicle if their sister is disable
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by andy_boot 7y ago
Usually depends on the type of option. If they are 'double cliff' then the employee stock option will vest automatically, if they aren't then the emplyee will lose them.
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by andy_boot 8y ago
I made this: https://www.windowfunctions.com
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by andy_boot 8y ago
Simplistic yes, but also true. He became throughly disillusioned with socialism because he felt that someone like Stalin would always take control of it. My interpretation was that he was always anti-authority, but his experiences led him t
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by andy_boot 8y ago
I highly recommend Homage to Catalonia if you liked Animal Farm. It really explains how Orwell became disillusioned with communism (while fighting for it).
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Hypothesis is shit(nuclearcarrot.co.uk)
1 points by andy_boot 8y ago|0 comments
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by andy_boot 8y ago
...cockpit, displays, controls, ejector seat. Designing it so the G-Force won't squash the pilot, strengthening the weak and vulnerable cockpit. Supporting both seems wrong to me.
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by andy_boot 8y ago
Foxconn, SAP ? These are good examples aren't they. Edit: Not nvidia. Realised OP was asking for None-US companies
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by andy_boot 8y ago
I have used this pattern too. I like it. One small problem is that depending on how your threading and cache works it might be possible for the cache to be cleared after the contains call but before the get.
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by andy_boot 8y ago
Catch 22. - I can re-read that over and over laughing at the silliness of their situation. Also If you enjoyed Catch I recommend Vernon God Little
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Learning about Linux filesystems and blocks(nuclearcarrot.co.uk)
2 points by andy_boot 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust(github.com)
3 points by andy_boot 8y ago|0 comments
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by andy_boot 9y ago
Errr, They (probably) did that a few weeks ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43443271
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by andy_boot 9y ago
several conventional luxury cars already have this feature - they detect crashes and call emergency services.
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I let people run Unsanitized Input on my Database(nuclearcarrot.co.uk)
7 points by andy_boot 9y ago|0 comments
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by andy_boot 9y ago
It is now more locked down (at least "pg_catalog, public, information_schema" are no longer available). Thanks.
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by andy_boot 9y ago
Noted, I am currently running on the assumption that there is nothing interesting in that PG (There isn't). But yes I would like to lock that user down further it really shouldn't be able to access those things.
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by andy_boot 9y ago
Good points. I'll update Q3 and look at Q4 it was not intentional to use keywords.
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by andy_boot 9y ago
No problem, just restarted it. Its a brand new project so I may need to do some hardening.

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