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The existing, human standards are based on human capabilities. Humans may not have read all the papers that could be cited. However, all these papers are almost certainly in the AI…

Do you have source for IWF funding being by big tech? Haven’t found anything that breaks their funding down by source and the majority on the UK govt site is from “charitable activ…

Anycast DNS doesn’t mean what you think it means. Your DNS traffic to Cloudflare is routed via anycast. If Cloudflare is sending this DNS query (eg to an authoritative DNS server),…

Putting aside the WASM sandboxing (I’m not familiar enough with it to understand how sandboxing works) there’s a DoS vector at least. Even regexes have had many DoS issues, and I c…

There’s a big difference in the expected use of a file. If the file is attacker provided, and the fallback path is being used, the attacker can embed whatever WASM payload they wan…

Providing access to the data is easy. It is just an MCP or equivalent, and coding such CRUD is cheap now. Applying the actions is unsolved. Unless you YOLO the LLMs, taking statefu…

If your goals were fame, then yes. But you can still pursue excellence even if there is an alternative “easy” path. The equivalent is something like hand tool woodworking - it’s st…

UK has never had net neutrality, there are many limited data phone plans that include unlimited music/video etc

I think I read somewhere (but could be wrong) that it was because they didn’t want to own any “authentication” services. Their infrastructure was zero trust (as in they don’t hold …

Making it explicit wouldn’t be particularly problematic no? Option in Rust terms. Or for this specific case, a GADT (Single | Married )? It could even use a special “NULL” address.…

Pure CS is not necessarily equivalent to pure maths. For the “science” bit of CS, you do need to do the equivalent of experiments (for more applied topics). For example, a physics …

Changing the links and doing nothing else would be a pretty dumb MITM. You could do a more complex variant which is not so easy to spot (targeting specific networks, injecting malw…

I find it interesting that they bought Astro ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/astro-joins-cloudflare/ ), which from my definitely-not-a-frontend-person perspective seems to tackle a s…

You can make it so employees don’t have ambient access to data, and require multi-party approval for all actions that require user data. Giving away a user password should be treat…

It doesn’t have to be a compile time constant. An alternative is to prove that when you are calling the function the index is always less than the size of the vector (a dynamic con…

A global train outage would be quite a spectacle, is that even possible?

Management not having to listen to engineers is the structural problem. How do managers know which concerns that engineers bring up are actually relevant? How do engineers know whi…

I think it depends on the scope and level of solution I accept as “good”. I agree that often the thinking for the “next step” is too easy architecturally. But I still enjoy thinkin…

I guess this is also a matter of organisational policy and how much power individual teams/organisational units have. I would imagine mature organisations without serious short/med…

Team lead manages the overall direction of the team (and is possibly the expert on some portions), but for an individual subsystem a senior engineer might be the expert. For work c…

To be clear, they definitely use ingress anycast (ie anycast on external traffic coming into Cloudflare). The main question was whether they (meaningfully) used egress anycast (mul…

So reading the article you’re right, it’s technically anycast. But only at the /24 level to work around BGP limitations. An individual /32 has a specific datacenter (so basically u…

It’s possible, but I think it’s typically used for ingress (ie same IP, but multiple destinations, follow BGP to closest one). I don’t think I’ve seen a similar case for anycast eg…

I guess my workflow for this is more fragmented. Either I’m prototyping a script (and edit and test it directly) or just need throwaway loop (in which case fish is nicer). I also d…

For POSIX: I leave Bash as the system shell and then shim into Fish only for interactive terminals. This works surprisingly well, and any POSIX env initialisation will be inherited…