pandalicious

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by pandalicious 1y ago
> The presence of EMTE leaves Spectre V1 as one of the last avenues available to attackers to help guide their attacks, so we designed a completely novel mitigation that limits the effective reach of Spectre V1 leaks — at virtually zero
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by pandalicious 2y ago
Am I misreading this or is that "How close is Spanish from Different Countries" graphic kind of jank? There's intersecting lines that are missing, like Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic.
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by pandalicious 6y ago
that's amazing, do you know why it works?
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by pandalicious 6y ago
For anyone else that’s confused, TLS = thread local storage
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by pandalicious 6y ago
"apps my mom could build" kind of describes Excel workbooks. People effectively use excel to build (highly constrained) GUIs for processing data using custom logic that they specify themselves. And excel's popularity speaks f
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by pandalicious 7y ago
The .NET standard library docs are a thing of beauty because they intermingle autogenerated javadoc-style documentation with generally well-written freeform "remarks" sections that include more general explanations, context, and c
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by pandalicious 7y ago
>Don't all great projects start young and gain interested folks to make it widely used? The counterpoint to this is that making a robust cross-platform GUI library is a massive endeavor and there is a veritable mountain of cross-pla
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by pandalicious 7y ago
sort/index the db table by string length, start your search with the closest length strings (bigger and smaller) and then stop if you find a levenshtein distance that's smaller than that the length difference between the key and t
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Nightmare Scenario: Employee Deletes AWS Root Account(medium.com)
2 points by pandalicious 7y ago|0 comments
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by pandalicious 7y ago
Spotify vs Google Play Music is the perfect showcase for this. They both get the job done but Spotify is better in so many small ways. Meanwhile, instead of being improved, GPM is in the process of being abandoned for the new shiny thing, Y
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by pandalicious 7y ago
what about local filesystem access, os integration, and all the other things that you expect a desktop app to be able to do (like in this case executing a separate binary) which violate the security models of browsers?
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by pandalicious 7y ago
I think you're overestimating how much development at tech companies is done using newer languages. Java is the dominant language at both Amazon and Google.
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by pandalicious 8y ago
Looks like the Iran connection came from a guy with a history of opportunistically jumping in on big security news stories: https://mobile.twitter.com/imdeaconblues/status/110504680622...
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Toward race-free process signaling(lwn.net)
23 points by pandalicious 8y ago|2 comments
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by pandalicious 8y ago
I always wonder why Google didn't just keep improving/extending Hangouts. Was the codebase just unsalvageable? Was it something to do with Google's internal politics?
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by pandalicious 8y ago
I think that’s one of the reasons that WPF never saw much use in terms of widely distributed desktop apps. You couldn’t assume the presence of a particular version of the framework on any given Windows install and (until now) you couldn’t b
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by pandalicious 8y ago
Most people who buy EC2 instances at scale won't want most of them to have persistent storage attached. Storage is handled by a DB or S3.
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PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise(lwn.net)
1 points by pandalicious 8y ago|0 comments
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Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017)(nongnu.org)
235 points by pandalicious 8y ago|135 comments
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by pandalicious 8y ago
It's funny how all these replies are almost an answer in an of themselves. You laid down a basic truth: the only thing technically distinctive about a blockchain is the trustless consensus algorithm. The rest of it is perfectly run of
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by pandalicious 9y ago
>Utility tokens exist to provide access to a good or service on a decentralized, blockchain-based network. [...] Siacoin is specifically designed as a utility token and has never been used for fundraising. And yet it looks and behaves ex
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by pandalicious 9y ago
I'd really like to see his proposal as something you can toggle when you navigate to someone's twitter profile, since when I do that I'm usually only interested in things they wrote themselves, not things they retweeted.
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by pandalicious 9y ago
Does their patch also disable root accounts that were enabled using the exploit?
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by pandalicious 9y ago
It seems like the concepts are orthogonal though. The reason powershell works is that it replaced the entire shell toolchain with object-oriented equivalents. Without that you're fundamentally limited because your inputs are still plai
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by pandalicious 9y ago
There was a reddit comment I came across years ago and saved because it sums up the limitations of shell scripting so well: I think I've just come to realize a sad fact though: processing raw text streams through mostly-regular langua
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by pandalicious 9y ago
It's pretty telling that Linux distros are pretty much the only end-user platforms where binary distribution and packaging is built around shared libraries. Pretty much everyone else (Windows/OS X/iOS/Android/etc) g
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by pandalicious 9y ago
Yep, WPF is probably the best platform at present for creating rich GUI apps. It's failure to really take off is overwhelmingly caused by its complete lack of cross-platform capability. If you're creating a new Windows app from sc
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by pandalicious 10y ago
Did you even read that email? It's from an academic in the Arts and Humanities world and the whole email is basically just a guy waxing philosophic to Podesta about the current election. In context, there is NOTHING revelatory about t
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by pandalicious 13y ago
This is exactly what I do as well and it drives me nuts that it's not the default normal way that adblockers work. Do you also use a "@@*$document,domain=~foo.com|~bar.com" filter in order to accomplish it?