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    Comment #43771759

    Instead of catching the `StopIteration` exception, you can simply provide a default case to `next` : next((c for c in candidates if predicate(c)), default)

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    Comment #42408938

    AES is kinda useless for securing communications without assymetric crypto, unless you want to be sending keys by courrier.

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    Comment #42078288

    It's very much the "how", what were you looking for that's not explained in the blog post?

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    Comment #37998921

    It's "Bob" all the way down

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    Comment #37559369

    Yeah, because statically typed language never had any kind of deserialization vulnerabilities.

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    Comment #37513371

    That ambiguity only lives in the article's title, the queries themselves are all quite clear.

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    Comment #36955301

    > . It would be enormous, tedious to build (couldn't use modern lithography), and also consume tons of power. Sounds to me like you're saying that Transistors are more efficient th…

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    Comment #36069952

    Just to clarify : What's not true is that Canada jails people for criticizing islam, not that it was claimed : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36061407#36064645

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    Comment #35530691

    I suspect AI went that way in radiology not because of the chances of False Negatives, but because radiologist are entrenched in the system and will not yield an insanely lucrative…

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    Comment #35157718

    Kali was running everything as root up to a few years ago, I'd be very surprised if this had application sandboxing.

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    Comment #34427373

    This project is a boon to all reverse engineers, especially when reversing malware that uses undocumented features of windows.

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    Comment #34358014

    I also don't know anyone who refers to it as wolfram, but wolfram is all over the tungsten wikipedia page.

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    Comment #33420518

    Powershell is powerful because of the deep integration with the .NET ecosystem, and by extension, the OS. This new shell lacks that, I agree. But I think it's a way harder problem …

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    Comment #31537373

    The trucker's hitch is usefull because you get a mechanical advantage to tension your line. Typically, I'd do a bowline on one end first, and tension it with a trucker's hitch. If …

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    Comment #30909587

    Still is a fully integrated and mature programming language though. And I do believe you wouldn't have any issue finding people who think the same of J.

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    Comment #30798287

    > Sushi: Mostly no (the carbs don't protect you from the insides, the seaweed does) If you wrap seaweed around a sandwich, is it no longer a sandwich?

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    Comment #30798280

    It is unnacceptable that what is preached as a universal food categorization system doesn't even attempt to categorize rice.

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    Comment #30798249

    True, and while the title is somewhate clickbaity, I think your point was pretty clear in the article.

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    Comment #30722017

    Going down the "Some quacks were right, therefore all quacks are right" path will not lead you to a healthy place. Yes, there is inertia in the scientific community, and sometimes …

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    Comment #30614822

    I assume by limit OP means the remote system's bandwidth. at 4 billion to 1, there's in practice very little difference between CVE-2022-26143 and what you describe. Both will be c…

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    Comment #30119772

    Transitioning was hard, especially with all the libraries in various state of support between 2 and 3, I had a similar experience. But I disagree with you about the separation of b…

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    Comment #29907484

    The "OPSEC fairy" as referenced in previous post is typically a random coworker, so no, they generally not have a broad license do tinker with your workstation. An actual OPSEC per…

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    Comment #29849141

    Both of your solutions are great but don't fully cover the use case. They are useful for multiline strings, but implicit concatenation is also often used to break long strings that…

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    Comment #29839867

    you want to delete a file called '-rf' ? rm ./-rf If you have some weird characters in the filename, you can also let your shell escape whatever character is problematic by using a…

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    Comment #29839774

    For anyone who reads this and think it's funny, it is, but do this in the wrong workplace and you'll be the unemployed OPSEC fairy.