ben509

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by ben509 5y ago
Talk to a lawyer.
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by ben509 5y ago
GHC[1] is almost there >_< [1]: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20210309-apple-m1-story.htm...
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by ben509 5y ago
The CPU doesn't know what processes are, that's handled by the OS. So there still needs to be a fault.
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by ben509 5y ago
> because I am ... most likely to have a functional dishwasher and even if yours is better I am not going to buy one more. Break the population into groups: 1. Have a working dishwasher / don't need one 2. Old dishwasher is fai
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by ben509 5y ago
The main narrative is the usual war mongering. You're doing it in your post. These are criminal actions, as they're not endorsed by the state. But it doesn't have to reach the scale of war to be bad. The broader narrative is
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by ben509 5y ago
I noticed that after I posted and had read a bit more; but you're also using F# which has proper ADTs. I'm typically writing support scripts in Python or the like, and even very good libraries like click[1] nevertheless reflect th
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by ben509 5y ago
Same here. I send everything that is firstlast@gmail straight to junk. > I also get a lot of email from idiots who don't know their own address Holy crap there are a lot of them. I've got one bank sending me the dude's sta
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by ben509 5y ago
I've done that and called the counter option --for-real, but I'd like both args so runbooks can spell out: 1. do-step-one --dry-run 2. (do validation) 3. do-step-one --real-run 4. (do validation) Many commandl
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by ben509 5y ago
Sometimes it can be covered by business owner's policy[1], but there are specifc policies covering cyber extortion, e.g. [2] [3]. As you suggested, they are generally paired with risk management. [1]: https://www.investopedi
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by ben509 5y ago
He's not understanding that in the normal operating environment for Macs, there's an additional fan he's not seeing. The person who bought it.
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by ben509 5y ago
US law derived from common law, which recognized a right to self defense. All 50 states, DC, and federal jurisdictions then codified that right as law. While the 2A is not directly about self-defense, it plainly guarantees an individual rig
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by ben509 5y ago
The relevant blurb seems to be: > Build it Yourself > The DIY Edition is the only high-end laptop you can customize and assemble yourself from a kit of modules. Coming in at just 15.85mm thick and 1.3kg, the Framework Laptop delivers
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by ben509 5y ago
They probably had to rotate their password three times while writing that memo.
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by ben509 5y ago
Don't rely on technical details from Bloomberg.
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by ben509 5y ago
I don't think people here are considering all forms of ransoms, but you hit on an interesting aspect of it all the same. It's why, I think, such a law wouldn't pass Constitutional review. If your person is threatened with imm
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by ben509 5y ago
Yeah, I was pushing that all under "recovery." Say it all sums to $C. Arguably the bigger problem is you don't know that the ransomer will actually give you a valid key, but suppose you guess a likelihood P that they do. Now
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by ben509 5y ago
It'd have to be an international effort as there are big mining operations are in Russia, Switzerland, China, Iceland as well as the US. Being legal means that you can run big mining operations, so you could clamp down on those and slo
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by ben509 5y ago
Part of the problem is it's very hard to value security because, frankly, so much security is theatrics and snake oil. For instance, look at the consumer market, which is where an executive without security knowledge is coming from. Al
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by ben509 5y ago
No, there's a hard upper limit on ransoms; the cost of recovery.
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by ben509 5y ago
No, multiple checkers will drive you crazy because one type checker will support one feature while another will report errors for it.
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by ben509 5y ago
Yup, we're all waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to MM/DD/YYYY.
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by ben509 5y ago
Big-endian is natural when you're comparing numbers, which is probably why people represent numbers in a big-endian fashion. Little-endian is natural with casts because the address doesn't change, and it's the order in which
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by ben509 5y ago
The XY problem is really a collaboration problem... most discussion media are all horribly transient. When you're explaining a problem you did figure out all that context, but you're guessing as to what context the next person nee
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by ben509 5y ago
> And some questioners ... really seem to dislike if my first impulse is to ask "Why do you want to do that?" An interview works both ways. If you can suss out the interviewer's nature and help you determine it's not
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by ben509 5y ago
One test is to search for something that's obviously a scam: '2TB flash drive' You know these are scams because SSD chips with a high enough density to get 2TB in a keychain form factor are going to be cost thousands. When th
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by ben509 5y ago
What's nuts is that the production company could have avoided this debate by contacting some photography studios and asking them to sponsor the show. Perversely, they would have gotten better press if they asked the photographers to pa
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by ben509 5y ago
Thank you so much! I can finally remove those stupid highlights that show up when searching Python docs. docs.python.org$removeparam=highlight
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by ben509 5y ago
There were reports of the dangers of asbestos back in the 1900s, and the first medical report was in 1924. It took until the '60s before people took it seriously. Many cases of mesothelioma could have been prevented if we had listened
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by ben509 5y ago
That's the claim made by Google and many other big corporations. It's plausible enough, but I haven't seen any hard evidence that it's true. Suppose it is true that these companies can't reveal their decision making
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by ben509 5y ago
Most of my unit tests have print statements in them, permanently, because I usually know what things I expect will break. There's a ton of utility in being able to understand a problem by reading a transcript. That's print debuggi

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