nostoc

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by nostoc 1y ago
Instead of catching the `StopIteration` exception, you can simply provide a default case to `next` : next((c for c in candidates if predicate(c)), default)
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by nostoc 2y ago
AES is kinda useless for securing communications without assymetric crypto, unless you want to be sending keys by courrier.
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by nostoc 2y ago
It's very much the "how", what were you looking for that's not explained in the blog post?
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by nostoc 3y ago
It's "Bob" all the way down
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by nostoc 3y ago
Yeah, because statically typed language never had any kind of deserialization vulnerabilities.
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by nostoc 3y ago
That ambiguity only lives in the article's title, the queries themselves are all quite clear.
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by nostoc 3y ago
> . It would be enormous, tedious to build (couldn't use modern lithography), and also consume tons of power. Sounds to me like you're saying that Transistors are more efficient than vacuum tubes, both in terms of space and p
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by nostoc 3y ago
Just to clarify : What's not true is that Canada jails people for criticizing islam, not that it was claimed : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36061407#36064645
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by nostoc 3y ago
I suspect AI went that way in radiology not because of the chances of False Negatives, but because radiologist are entrenched in the system and will not yield an insanely lucrative stream of revenue.
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by nostoc 4y ago
Kali was running everything as root up to a few years ago, I'd be very surprised if this had application sandboxing.
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by nostoc 4y ago
This project is a boon to all reverse engineers, especially when reversing malware that uses undocumented features of windows.
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by nostoc 4y ago
I also don't know anyone who refers to it as wolfram, but wolfram is all over the tungsten wikipedia page.
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by nostoc 4y ago
Powershell is powerful because of the deep integration with the .NET ecosystem, and by extension, the OS. This new shell lacks that, I agree. But I think it's a way harder problem to solve on linux.
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by nostoc 4y ago
The trucker's hitch is usefull because you get a mechanical advantage to tension your line. Typically, I'd do a bowline on one end first, and tension it with a trucker's hitch. If you go with two bowlines, you end up with a f
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by nostoc 4y ago
Still is a fully integrated and mature programming language though. And I do believe you wouldn't have any issue finding people who think the same of J.
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by nostoc 4y ago
> Sushi: Mostly no (the carbs don't protect you from the insides, the seaweed does) If you wrap seaweed around a sandwich, is it no longer a sandwich?
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by nostoc 4y ago
It is unnacceptable that what is preached as a universal food categorization system doesn't even attempt to categorize rice.
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by nostoc 4y ago
True, and while the title is somewhate clickbaity, I think your point was pretty clear in the article.
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by nostoc 5y ago
Going down the "Some quacks were right, therefore all quacks are right" path will not lead you to a healthy place. Yes, there is inertia in the scientific community, and sometimes the dissenting voices have a hard time being heard
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by nostoc 5y ago
I assume by limit OP means the remote system's bandwidth. at 4 billion to 1, there's in practice very little difference between CVE-2022-26143 and what you describe. Both will be capped at the same number by the bandwidth availabl
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by nostoc 5y ago
Transitioning was hard, especially with all the libraries in various state of support between 2 and 3, I had a similar experience. But I disagree with you about the separation of bytes and string and the current state of the language. I wri
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by nostoc 5y ago
The "OPSEC fairy" as referenced in previous post is typically a random coworker, so no, they generally not have a broad license do tinker with your workstation. An actual OPSEC person would not go and change your desktop's ba
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by nostoc 5y ago
Both of your solutions are great but don't fully cover the use case. They are useful for multiline strings, but implicit concatenation is also often used to break long strings that may not have newlines.
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by nostoc 5y ago
you want to delete a file called '-rf' ? rm ./-rf If you have some weird characters in the filename, you can also let your shell escape whatever character is problematic by using autocomplete, starting with './&#x27
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by nostoc 5y ago
For anyone who reads this and think it's funny, it is, but do this in the wrong workplace and you'll be the unemployed OPSEC fairy.
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by nostoc 5y ago
Random key bashing in vim can have a lot of unforeseen consequences for whatever poor file you had opened.
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by nostoc 5y ago
First time hearing about ULIDs. The locality is interesting, but they leak information about when they were generated down to the millisecond, which could lead to problems if combined with other issues. I'd be wary of using them client
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by nostoc 5y ago
Injection means you can modify an existing query. The example are not SQL injections, they are full queries.
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by nostoc 5y ago
Okay big guy, show us your implementation of the JVM and we'll talk.
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by nostoc 5y ago
A cryptographic hash definitely should, but there are many more use cases for hashes. You want SHA to be maximally non-continuous, but you certainly want the opposite for ssdeep for instance.

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