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by lixtra 8d ago
How do you verify the ‚beauty‘ of a result. There have always been infinite provable Theorems around. Only some are interesting and beautiful.
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by lixtra 2mo ago
> You set up an HTTP server that literally sends people the data when they request it. Don't do that if you don't want people to have the data. By the same argument I could say: If I send you an exploit and you execute it, don’
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by lixtra 3mo ago
Would that large trial have shown the cancerous effect of smoking? If not, do you then agree that some possible adverse effects were not checked for and could have slipped through?
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by lixtra 3mo ago
Of course, all the generated code has to reviewed and vetted for by a senior developer. Of course, this has to be re-done every now and then when new classes of vulnerabilities appear that the previous generation didn’t have in mind. Or do
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by lixtra 3mo ago
Hand in your paper when you’re on vacation or even better on a conference in Europe. GDPR will apply. Of course it will take so long that you won’t benefit from a decision for your studies. And one possible outcome is that your college won’
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by lixtra 3mo ago
While there was some intent to cause harm their attempts were amateurish. The actual damage was done by the agent setting up aws infrastructure not on the demands of the owner.
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by lixtra 5mo ago
Ideally, you submit your own project as https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by lixtra 5mo ago
Yes, there are also many other lucrative illegal activities.
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by lixtra 5mo ago
> The cleanest mitigation is to return results in a canonical order, such as lexicographic sorting. And hope that the sorting time cannot be used as a side channel.
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by lixtra 6mo ago
I agree it’s awkward. But I don’t find it creepy per se. It was a tradeoff to which all parties consented. In one case there was just that one room available stranded in the middle of nowhere. In other cases it was due to lack of financial
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by lixtra 6mo ago
Example Finland. Could you end up in a nude Sauna with your superior? Yes, especially if it is same sex. Example Germany. Which law would be broken? Internal compliance rules, yes, that would be often the case.
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by lixtra 6mo ago
HN guidelines say: Assume good faith. We should apply it to Sheryl here as well. In Europe several of my acquaintances shared a bed with their professors/superior for various non-sexual reasons. It’s also a cultural thing.
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by lixtra 9mo ago
As you would expect from a state press release, not a tabloid publication.
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by lixtra 9mo ago
The 4% rule is considered safe for a 30 year retirement period. So at 50 you might want to withdraw a little less.
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by lixtra 11mo ago
Somehow this code lacks the magic I‘m used from rails: class BooksController < ApplicationController def show @book = Book.find(params[:id]) add_breadcrumb("Home", path: root_path) add_breadcru
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by lixtra 1y ago
Layer8 DID the thing though, skimmed through the code and thought about security issues.
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by lixtra 1y ago
The requested feature is more like list-unsubscribe headers for mailing lists[1]. Instead of categorizing the mail as spam (blocking) you send a clean unsubscribe back to the sender. [1] https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blo
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by lixtra 1y ago
Yes, you could use union. But then you have to pad the columns of the other tables with NULLs to arrive at the same output and carefully count. And we all hate counting.
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by lixtra 1y ago
You might even split them so that k out of n trusted people are needed to restore them. For example https://shamir.securitytools.io/
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by lixtra 1y ago
A naive approach could still leak information through side channels. E.g. if you search regularly for foobar, the answer might suddenly get slower if foobar appears more in the document base. Depending on the context it could be relevant.
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by lixtra 1y ago
Maybe thought provoking. But sad to read ai garbage. It’s easy to imagine a better world. But you also need to provide a way to reach it. For example a lot of things are wrong with docker. But it enables us to run yesterday’s software in t
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by lixtra 1y ago
Spock in the Wrath of Khan: “As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create.”
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by lixtra 1y ago
It’s like putting curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | sh In your action. For sure happens.
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by lixtra 1y ago
(2014) [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140901000000*/https://www.cut-...
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by lixtra 3y ago
Intermittent fasting could work. And time.
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by lixtra 3y ago
> It makes writing the happy path slower, but is writing the happy path _programming?_ The happy path is just fine for many cases. Your home isn’t built to withstand a determined attacker with a tank. But we live in a happy world and a l
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by lixtra 3y ago
What’s the advantage of INSERT-only table over having a normal table and all normal users only have INSERT privilege on that table? As admin I can still recreate the whole insert table with modified data, etc.
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by lixtra 3y ago
Law is not about logic. It’s about hermeneutics. It’s closer to religion than to math.
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News addiction linked to poor mental wellbeing and physical health(sciencedaily.com)
7 points by lixtra 3y ago|1 comments
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by lixtra 3y ago
This sounds like a great direction for an advanced seminar in university.

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