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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? L…

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

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

> 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 mean…

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…

I see. Thank you for the explanation!

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...

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

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

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…

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!

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 p…

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…

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

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 …

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 sayi…

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…

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…

That sounds really interesting - thank you

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 …

Ever since my undergraduate I've wanted to understand what representation theory is and the rough outline of how Andrew Wile's proof was constructed. This article gave me both in a…

I see this argument a lot: in the "good old days" there was Unix and apt and it was brilliant, now we have hundreds of toolsets and libraries that are flaky and need updating every…

Totally agree with you. Given the title I expected to find an interesting article on what can go wrong if we overly rely on quantitative methods in the humanities. But this article…

Yeah, definitely agree. Reading is a much more efficient way to absorb information