jasonhansel

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by jasonhansel 5mo ago
> so people can't trick them to attack others' systems under the pretense of pentesting A while back I gave Claude (via pi) a tool to run arbitrary commands over SSH on an sshd server running in a Docker container. I asked it t
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by jasonhansel 7mo ago
It'd be interesting to see an RDBMS that actually dynamically measures the performance characteristics of the drive it's running on (by occasionally running small "fio"-like benchmarks, or by inferring them from scan exe
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by jasonhansel 7mo ago
> The env command is part of a hard-coded read-only command list stored in the source code. This means that when Copilot requests to run it, the command is automatically approved for execution without user approval. Wait, what? Sure, you
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by jasonhansel 7mo ago
More importantly, it avoids the issue where every new editor requires an addition to every repository's gitignore file (.idea, .vscode, etc). IMO, it's best to keep things that are "your fault" (e.g. produced by your edi
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by jasonhansel 7mo ago
I'm glad to see that Vim9 continues to make progress. The center of gravity may have shifted somewhat towards Neovim, but the Neovim ecosystem currently seems targeted towards people who want something more IDE-like. One question is: w
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by jasonhansel 8mo ago
Em-dashes may be hard to type on a laptop, but they're extremely easy to type on iOS—you just hold down the "-" key, as with many other special characters—so I use them fairly frequently when typing on that platform.
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by jasonhansel 2y ago
Can you use this with kubecolor? https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor Incidentally: I have no idea why something like kubecolor isn't built in to kubectl itself.
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A Startup Utopia Became a Nightmare for Honduras(foreignpolicy.com)
3 points by jasonhansel 2y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 2y ago
That just shifts the problem around: if there's a bug or mistake in the smart contract itself, then you face the problem that you can't reverse that smart contract.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
As I always ask on posts like this: Since you're (going to be) selling a product that claims to help with treating or managing a medical condition, have you conducted a clinical trial? And why not?
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Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?(physics.stackexchange.com)
603 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|147 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Sure you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectively_extended_real_lin...
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Substack Has a Nazi Problem(theatlantic.com)
11 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|9 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
This was pretty clearly an attempt by the board to reassert control, which was slowly slipping away as the company became more enmeshed with Microsoft.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
This is why, when you claim to be running a non-profit to "benefit humankind," you shouldn't put all your resources into a for-profit subsidiary. Eventually, the for-profit arm, and its investors, will find its nonprofit pare
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
One answer would be to provide something like a GetPointer() method which, if the inner pointer is nil, creates a new struct of type T and returns a pointer to it.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Unfortunately, the fake hitman site has been shut down, apparently due to financial difficulties: https://rentahitman.com/
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
It's only entrapment if you wouldn't have committed the crime otherwise. I think it's safe to say that, had Rentahitman.com not existed, she would still have tried to rent a hitman if she were able to do so.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Well this is going to be depressing.
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Caroline Ellison: SBF's Philosophy Justified Lying and Stealing(futurism.com)
1 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
> Some people find my indifference off-putting, thinking I'm rude or arrogant. But I'm not. I'm just being honest. The famous excuse of rude and arrogant people everywhere. As Richard Needham once said: "The person wh
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Crossing Antarctica: How the Confusion Began and Where Do We Go from Here(explorersweb.com)
2 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|0 comments
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Murdered by my replica? When pirated books are used to train AI(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
A bad therapist could be substantially worse than no treatment for mental health issues, particularly if people see it as more authoritative than it is.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Here's hoping other HashiCorp products go the same way, creating an excellent new suite of truly OSS cloud tools. HashiCorp shot themselves in the foot, but they may have accidentally benefitted the FOSS community greatly.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
This could well be much worse than nothing.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
I must admit: I'm not a huge fan of structured logging, beyond simple use cases like tagging messages by the thread that produced them. If you want something machine-readable, use a dedicated metrics system, analytics database, or docu
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Honduras threatens ICSID withdrawal over $11B neocolonial “charter city” claim(brettonwoodsproject.org)
2 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
As I recall, the performance of that approach is quite bad, even with Go's concurrency support.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Envoy sells products for managing hybrid workspaces: https://envoy.com/ So they clearly have something to gain here.

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