biddlesby · HackerTrans

Is there a list online somewhere of all the crazy shit that can legally happen to you in the US? How long you can be detained for, what data can be extracted from you, and so on? Like if you had a really bad day and the authorities exercised all of the powers over you they legally have.

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It’s amazing what a difference it makes when you just good names and formatting

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Thank you! The article lost me after the reverse shell, but your explanation helped me to understand.

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> Not long after we started exploring the environment we landed our shell in we noticed a new file in the /mysql/tmp directory named ‘greetings.txt’

I interpreted the "new" as meaning that it wasn't there before

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This strikes me as a bit pessimistic. I think you are mostly against _bad_ standards than standards per se.

If the consortium does its job well it will produce a good standard that all the major libraries like: from a UX as well as a performance viewpoint.

If it produces a bad standard, all that will happen is that nobody will sign up. No libraries are going to be _forced_ to do anything.

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I see. Thank you for the explanation!

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Yeah, it’s really confusing. Unless I don’t understand the term, it hasn’t been a zero day vulnerability for the past two years...

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All good, just make sure to restart your computer at the next available opportunity

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Completely agree! The article is blinkered to the security aspect. But imagine if compilers didn't create reproducible builds. Debugging would be a nightmare!

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I find the tone of this Twitter post exhausting. He talks as if his work revolutionized the world and Jeff Bezos is a god among men.

They made a fairly useful gadget that sold well. Seriously, come back down to earth.

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Totally agree. Having to think about how I need to organise my thoughts as the same time as coming up with the thoughts themselves always seems like a burden!

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I'm inclined to agree. Framing environmentalism as a problem that individuals need to solve isn't going to get us anywhere. It's a problem with the rules of the game, it requires political willpower.

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Just because there's no objectively correct measure, I wouldn't say that means it isn't wrong. There's nothing objective in ethics.

In your example of people not caring about their health: the environmental impact of diet is in a different ethical class for me. If you choose to ignore your own health that's your deal, but if you make choices that negatively impact the lives of millions I think the ethics are different.

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I wouldn't say soya is out. It's about relative impacts: soya has a vastly lower environmental impact than meat.

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I didn't know about RETURNING and enjoyed the post. It's a much nicer way to learn than via a textbook. A blog post doesn't have to be novel to have value.

That said, I'm with you on the clickbait title. That really grinds my gears.

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I wouldn't agree with that. People may have made their choice based on incorrect research or incorrect assumptions: there is value in discussing the latest research.

It's like saying discussions about whether cigarettes are good or bad for you are pointless, the important thing is that people are able to buy them if they want.

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I can sympathise with you on that. The whole of pure mathematics seems to be about making definitions and seeing what weird places and surprising connections you get. This isn't as exciting as seeing how mathematics can describe and predict phenomena in the real world.

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This is a great point. You might take a different approach depending on when you expect your reader to already be proficient in the language or the framework, compared to whether a non-developer might be reading the code.

One argument against these kind of comments is that they aren't the right place to teach somebody a programming language. However I can definitely see cases where they are justified.

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That sounds really interesting - thank you

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To be fair, "the centre of the distribution catching up" is exactly the fear that the article is criticising. The fear isn't that one company is going to make some huge leap in AI - it's more about what happens if that leap gets adopted en-masse by the whole economy.

I think the OP's comment is very relevant.