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Go figure.
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Not everything, but this is.
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Go figure.
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Not everything, but this is.
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Splitting the rent.
In the UK, she has some claim to shared equity.
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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon
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I don't know where you get "listing" = "logging". It's a term (apparently archaic, today I learnt I'm old) for the text of a program.
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Welcome to [email protected] - What do you selfhost?
I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.
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Keir Starmer pledges to seek major rewrite of Brexit deal
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TBH the UK in the single market is a better outcome for the UK as well as the EU. It puts something like reins on our frequently out-of-control government and leaves one powerful neoliberal voice out of the shouting match.
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Keir Starmer pledges to seek major rewrite of Brexit deal
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You're kidding. It'd be an astonishing political victory.
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[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java
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I think you vastly overestimate the separability of these systems.
Picture 10,000 lines of code in one method, with a history of multiple decades.
Now picture that that method has buried in it, complex interactions with another method of similar size, which is triggered via an obscure side-effect.
Picture whole teams of developers adding to this on a daily basis in realtime.
There is no "meaningful progress" to be made here. It may offend your aesthetic sense, but it's just the reality of doing business.
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It is happening! r/place goes out with a bang
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The opposite of "goth" is "ostrich"?
Yeah, I can see that.
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Brexiteers in meltdown after crowds wave EU flag at Last Night of the Proms
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You don't understand correctly. There are a bunch of requirements which (were they not waived, which there's a nonzero chance they might be) are little more than establishing aspirations - adopting the Euro is one of those.
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Boris Johnson says WhatsApps for Covid inquiry recovered
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You say that but based on past performance it's probably a lie.
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History repeats itself
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rerere is a lifesaver here.
(I'm also a fan of rebasing; but I also like to land commits that perform a logical and separable chunk of work, because I like history to have decent narrative flow.)
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Is moving to IPv6 worth it?
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That's not correct, but it shouldn't preclude you from applying defence in depth.
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Is moving to IPv6 worth it?
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Yes. The sandbox gets whatever capabilities you expose to it.
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OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text. That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.
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I think you're trying to handwave at someone who knows more about the steganographic watermarking approach than you do.
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Rust Foundation Security Initiative Report
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Apology appreciated, but unnecessary.
I don't want to derail a useful tool. It's worth going a bit beyond "hope" as a strategy, however, and thinking about if (how) this might be exploited.
I doubt anyone will be mining crypto in your sandbox. But perhaps you should think about detection; might it be possible to mask a malicious crate with a second that attempts to detect sandboxed compilation, for instance?
In any case, I think this still looks exceedingly interesting in the typical case, which is of detecting the impact of bugs from non-malicious actors.
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Rust Foundation Security Initiative Report
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Given the widespread existence of wasm sandboxing, rustc itself might want to think about alternative strategies for running compiler plugins. I suspect there'd be a performance hit with such an approach, but wasm tooling is getting really good; perhaps it is minor.
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The alternative is to continue with a process that's been demonstrably successful, despite it offending your sensibilities.
Banks are prepared to pay for it. People are prepared to do it. It meets the business needs. Change is massively high-risk in a hugely conservative industry.
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Is moving to IPv6 worth it?
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Doesn't need to be a "traditional" container. Modulo noisy-neighbour issues, wasm sandboxing could potentially offer an order of magnitude better density (depending on what you're running; this might be more suited to specific tasks than providing a substrate for a general-purpose conpute service).
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Given the existence of macros, doesn't this let package maintainers run arbitrary code in the painter sandbox?