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by darkr 1mo ago
> until the train went off the rails Ironically the core application is written in rails, which may be part of the issue
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Mark J. Wielaard (Mjw) Receives Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom(sfconservancy.org)
5 points by darkr 1mo ago|0 comments
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The Unreasonable Power of Identifiers(cogna.co)
5 points by darkr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by darkr 3mo ago
C is a weakly typed language. It’s statically typed, which is a different thing
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by darkr 6mo ago
For customers who repeatedly do this - put your prices up by 10%. Offer 10% discount for paying within net 15.
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by darkr 7mo ago
> iPad Air is a fantastic value TIL American English treats “value” in the financial sense as a countable noun
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by darkr 7mo ago
It’d be nice to have in stdlib, but it’s pretty trivial to write a generic wrapper for it
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by darkr 8mo ago
air source heat pumps, though they're improving won't do well in extreme cold; even if they can operate they'll still be running at much lower efficiency. For temperatures significantly into negative territory a ground source
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by darkr 8mo ago
yes - this is also part of the privacy extensions spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4941
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by darkr 1y ago
It’s not uncommon. Google AIP spec requires it for example. I think the main driver for it is implicit idempotency.
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by darkr 1y ago
It's basically a long form linkedin article.
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by darkr 1y ago
Incorrect
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by darkr 1y ago
At least historically, google engineers had 20% of their time to spend on projects not related to their core role
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by darkr 2y ago
> IMO the culling over managers over the past few years is really a way to make sure you don't have someone you can discuss career development, promotion, and pay increases with That’s the point, surely
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by darkr 2y ago
> those nuclear weapons quell a lot of our more violent habits, hasn't been a world war since It’s only been 85 years, give it a bit more time…
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by darkr 2y ago
The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
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by darkr 2y ago
Similarly python in optimised mode with -O or -OO flags will disable asserts. I see asserts as a less temporary version of print() based debugging. Sometimes very useful as a quick and dirty fix, but 9 times out of 10 you’re better off with
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by darkr 2y ago
Great PR move, but surely better to invest in more basic security measures supported by their app (chain of trust, verified callers/messaging etc). Instead their app is primarily a react native sales tool. Part of the reason that o2 wa
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by darkr 2y ago
Americans are weird. I’ve been going to the same barber for years. He doesn’t know my name, barely says a word and it’s just so comforting.
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by darkr 2y ago
If there’s any scope for a user to inject JavaScript, then potentially this gives a vector of attack against other internal things (e.g admin.domain.com, operations.domain.com etc)
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by darkr 2y ago
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s...
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by darkr 2y ago
Cheap stud finders are usually not great. The good ones are radar-based using similar frequency bands to wifi, but they cost lots of $$
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by darkr 2y ago
In the UK, dew point highs will peak above 22 degrees multiple times per year, so the safe temperature to cool to is something like 25 degrees. Might provide some benefits on really hot days, but it’s still uncomfortably warm for working in
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by darkr 2y ago
It would only need to be 4.7 to beat a gas/oil system that is 100% efficient. In reality, a very good gas based system that is well specified and installed might reach 80% as a whole. Most UK gas/oil heating systems are significan
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by darkr 2y ago
WRT cooling with water based system there are a few of issues: 1. A system that also provides cooling isn’t allowed under the heat pump government grant. 2. You might actually need planning permission for this 3. Especially in a humid envir
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by darkr 2y ago
Those figures are for the unit itself. It takes a lot less energy to heat air than it does to heat water, but water retains heat for much longer. What matters is the SCOP for the system as a whole. In a traditional Victorian house with a fi
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by darkr 2y ago
Another issue with heat pump rollout, at least in the UK is a severe lack of qualified heating engineers with a basic understanding of thermodynamic principles. Thus you get plumbers with experience installing gas boilers, resulting in poor
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by darkr 2y ago
This. The cost of installing and upgrading a big old drafty Victorian house to a COP 4+ efficiency where the running costs actually beat oil/gas would have a break even point way past the end of my lifetime.
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by darkr 2y ago
Based on the reports that I’ve read so far, this vuln was different to the one I found, which was on an authenticated endpoint. Definitely some similarities though, I’d love to see some concrete technical information on it.
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by darkr 2y ago
This doesn’t surprise me. I found an information exposure vuln on the user registration endpoint a while ago (given a phone number of an authy user who had previously registered via another customer, retrieve all other numbers/devices&

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