pacificpendant

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by pacificpendant 4mo ago
If all the libraries are rust as the article claims having the top layer in Python probably makes even less difference. I tend to agree with the article’s statement about the value of the test code though, may even have been true before LLM
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by pacificpendant 4mo ago
And they’re introducing an EV tax that’ll be charged per mile. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jw9l7gx92o
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by pacificpendant 4mo ago
It definitely does come up. A common complaint in the UK is that there are two types of tax added to fuel prices; fuel duty and VAT. So you end up paying VAT on the fuel duty you’re paying. We have had fuel price protests too, sometimes inv
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by pacificpendant 5mo ago
Without giving away exactly how old I am… I am old enough to remember old programmers complaining about the wave of new shareware/freeware apps that people made with Visual Basic when that came out. Many of the apps were visually awful
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by pacificpendant 5mo ago
The article is relatively clear that it is an assumption that the apps are vibe-coded based on the jump being so large. I guess they could’ve tried to cross-correlate that with sales of books or courses on app development that vibe-coders w
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by pacificpendant 5mo ago
Having previously spent a reasonable amount of time on Metaculus I’m familiar with Brier scores and rating my confidence. I assume that’s how I was able to get better than average results. It’s an interesting app. It’s something I’m interes
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by pacificpendant 6mo ago
I’m not the person you’re talking to but the stats are copied from the second link in the post, the web archive one.
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by pacificpendant 9mo ago
https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/sbom_m... Depending on who you ask an SBOM might not need a hash. NTIA only recommend a hash.
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by pacificpendant 9mo ago
You’re right that SBOMs cannot be used to attest that a library is correctly used. I’m not sure if that’s a common use-case of SBOMs though. I normally see people wanting SBOMs for security transparency (customer can see if you’re maintaini
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by pacificpendant 3y ago
A long time ago, so the details are vague and may have changed, I was interested in adding trees and tagging their species in OSM. I asked some people that know more about OSM than me and was told that OSM doesn't want to store data th
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by pacificpendant 3y ago
I had regular emails from a security testing tool telling me that internal IP addresses were being exposed on a webpage, in reality the page was a forum post where someone had pasted some console output including an IP address they were wor
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by pacificpendant 3y ago
Did you find that after reading https://labs.hakaioffsec.com/nginx-alias-traversal/ by any chance? Semgrep has a nginx ruleset too https://semgrep.dev/p/nginx
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by pacificpendant 8y ago
In one of the TV interviews a cave rescuer talked about a rescue where an inexperienced diver was restrained whilst being brought out of a tunnel. Given the distances involved here it would seem unlikely they would sedate them. EDIT: "
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by pacificpendant 8y ago
When people say things like "serious possibility" they are not merely intending to alter the perception of the likelihood but also attempting to impress upon the listener the gravity of the event. In cold war era America would peo