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Assuming input is from a benign source is literally the cause every single security issue ever. It's bizarre that I've been downvoted for this. And you're commenting about how I'm …

It's weird that over the course of 7 hours no one on a site called Hacker News noticed that send_email.cpp passes unsanitized user-supplied args to system(). I've spent less than 5…

This is rather odd. Knee cartilage damage is extremely common among athletes, so one would think that the treatment would be as well. But I've never heard of it used for profession…

I believe he's saying that the Rust book[0] is very good (and completely free). [0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/

For the most part savings from labor should reduce prices and in the aggregate, "all of us" do share in the benefit. Now obviously there is no guarantee of that, but competition wi…

Indeed, and I'm almost positive that I've seen models other than the C90s. I didn't realize that they were toting real passengers, though. I thought they were just Alpha Tests As M…

And Black-Scholes just codified what seasoned options traders had understood for centuries. The reason it was important and rewarded is exactly that codification, which enables rap…

There is no cost-effective way to get residential earthquake insurance in the Bay Area.

> Interesting yes, but "novel"? I'm not sure. It's not. And I don't know anything about SentinelOne so maybe they're amazing, but being stymied by dynamic analysis of VBScript malw…

That's an odd slippery slope argument to make on a site called "Hacker News."

"Sola dosis facit venenum": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

> So a spammy email in one of the thousands leaked happened to contained malware? And this is newsworthy why? Because it's another example of the unconscionable lack of attention t…

I think you may be misremembering the medication. I take 1200mg of Gabaptentin/day for ulnar neuropathy; I don't think that 75mg would accomplish anything. And FWIW I code all day …

Population growth in the US is approaching 0.7% annually and has been declining for 2 decades. Not sure what scaling needs you foresee.

> To my utter surprise, something as stupidly simple as coffee blended with butter with coconut oil (or MCT) first thing in the morning did unbelievable things for mental productiv…

You could've answered those questions yourself if you actually looked into the language, but you didn't. You instead offered facile and superficial judgement. If you have complaint…

> The biggest barrier to entry is getting a mainframe to experiment with. Is there a barrier to emulating these systems? It's probably difficult (illegal?) to emulate the various T…

That's only true for NQ options. With ISO options you aren't taxed until you actually sell the shares they covert to, and then as a capital gain tax, not as ordinary income.

Probably the part where we can amend our state constitution with 50% + 1 on ballot initiatives.

There are many improvements that could be made to this code. However the developer is extremely antagonistic and unwilling to accept criticism so I doubt that the issues will ever …

It would be nice if that returned the number of characters printed, ala sprintf() in c.

I live in SF and was a little surprised how many SF-based candidates responded to a front-end engineering position I posted on Stack Overflow (the position is remote and my locatio…

AFAIK Gibson's just really good at assessing culture and predicting its course.

The absence of Idoru[1] references is surprising. Almost as surprising as learning that book is 20 years old. I may need to re-read it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru

> And hoarding isn't a bad thing. If you aren't spending your money, then you aren't taking resources out of the economy. That means more resources for everyone else. Spending mone…