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N=1 here, but I'm sure you can find many many more examples. In a mass shooting in Boise, Idaho, a woman stole items off a fallen security guard that was lying on the floor. https:…

But through short selling the stock market already allows the ability to bet against a company.

If the requirement causes a massive security hole, the lawyers will probably tell you that knowingly allowing a security hole from a liability perspective is worse than turning off…

The $5 wrench isn't about breaking encryption. It's about breaking will power. If they achieve their goals great for them. If not they proved the second volume either didn't actual…

This is always been the dumbest thing about "hidden volumes": It relies upon your adversary not knowing about veracrypt's hidden volume. Which BTW, is plainly ADVERTISED on the web…

Yes. And we are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783117

How does it deal with pointers if everything is stack based? You can't really return a pointer to something on the stack because it could get overwritten between when you return it…

I've been working on a SDN software for mikrotik routers (and wireguard, etc) and Fable dies when working with any kind of wireline protocol or potentially implementing any authent…

Businesses have been anti-human for a while now. If you think AI is bad, wait until I tell you about the horrors of social media who profit on controversy and division, US health i…

I have list of issues with SQL. Not composable. Unable to detect query errors at compile time because the schema is only loosely coupled to the code base. And as you yourself point…

In amateur radio there was a famous DXpedition there this year. https://3y0k.com/ There are some videos on facebork but you have to trade your data to see them apparently. Alternat…

More likely they'll convince congress they will need their own. Only it will 20-200 times more expensive and the US taxpayer will be paying for it but won't get access.

Honestly those are used as weights now in some kind of obscure calculation (or maybe not so obscure calculation but I still don't understand it). What I really learned during that …

Honestly, I think the biggest enjoyment I got from this thread is that programming culture is often toxic in ways that people aren't really ready to admit on this site which is ded…

Have you thought of opening your own truck repair shop? Often there are places where trucks break down and the solutions are slim to None. A good repair shop in the right place mig…

I did that too years ago, but the management of it was kind of annoying. DKIM was just getting introduced when I stopped using it. SPF had controversy. I understand both of those a…

The more and more rude interactions like ghosting we have, the less human we become. Relationships become transactional instead of meaningful. On the other hand, talking to people …

So is this in lieu of using permissions to protect apis? Because it seems like API's should have some kind of permission mechanism around them anyway.

I was writing MCP servers, now I just write tools for agents to consume. It's often easier to simply write the tool you need and suggest to it to look at the tool to do that thing.…

Is that true with the mac book airs? My understanding is that they're completely sealed, and they use the case as a heat spreader.

I met Simon for the first time this year at pycon. Wow, what a great guy.

I remember seeing laser cutter drivers which only ran on Windows XP, but the cutters themselves were still in use and worked great. For (ham) radio programming software which often…

I've been in the process of cutting the DC side of power bricks and crimping anderson power pole (APP) connectors onto both sides of the wire. For camping and ham radio, it's reall…

There was a point in the 1990's where microsoft word wasn't truly WYSIWYG. IIRC it was like an infinite page and the line breaks and page breaks were "estimates" Further many docs …

Companies are mulling about how many software engineers they can get rid of and replace with AI instead.