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Python Practical Package Packing 2024

matt.sh

35 pointsby kr0bat2 jaar geleden35 comments

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list

arstechnica.com

21 pointsby kr0bat3 jaar geleden1 comments

Android 14 – Detect when users take device screenshots

developer.android.com

4 pointsby kr0bat3 jaar geleden1 comments

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster

adamdrake.com

2 pointsby kr0bat3 jaar geleden0 comments

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

So that's 74,000 assaults against a population of 1,328,000[1]. So about 5.57% of the armed forces were assaulted sexually in one year.

But the United States as a whole had a reported ≈325k[2] sexual assaults in 2021. That's 0.09% of the population.

Are you really over 60 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in the military than in the general public? And are over a fifth of sexual assaults in America happening between military personnel? Somebody please tell me what I'm missing because I must be making a serious logical mistake.

[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11994

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/642458/rape-and-sexual-a...

2 jaar geledendiscuss

The 10 foot ceilings are too low for the modern renter's sensibilities, apparently.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

The picture painted was accurate and relevant

> Self-described ‘news’ accounts rapidly spread falsehoods around the perpetrator. One viral narrative falsely named him as “Ali al-Shakati”, a Muslim migrant new to the UK. This was later debunked by the police. Nonetheless, false claims surrounding the attack quickly garnered millions of views online, galvanised by anti-Muslim and anti-migrant activists and promoted by platforms’ recommender systems.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Yep, I didn't add enough newlines. Fixed

2 jaar geledendiscuss

As mentioned, the SMTP protocol only allows for 1000 bytes of data per line. The author also mentions that they are sending html emails, which ignore line breaks.

So a message intended to be sent by an SMTP client:

DATA

Hello customer,<br>[978 characters] 27.00

Was erroneously formated into:

DATA

Hello customer,<br>[978 characters] 27

.00

.

The period after 27 will be removed. And this is how the html will be rendered.

Hello customer,

[Lots of text] 2700

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I consider myself technically inclined, yet up until today I didn't realize numbers COULD be spoofed

One day a few months ago I woke up to a missed call from a verified number. I had been in a car crash the night before, and I was worried I missed a call from the driver's insurance company.

I called them back, and I was told that I was talking to a civil engineering firm; the receptionist was polite, but she sounded even more confused than I was. I had googled the number while I was on the phone, and yup, it belonged to a civie firm.

At the time I just assumed some engineer fat fingered my number by mistake, but I guess I missed a call from "Amazon" or "your insurance company" or some other nonsense. Funnily enough an insurance scam might have gotten me in the state I was in.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Some people lack an ear for accents, especially if they're subtle. Personally, my ear is so bad that I get Brazilian accents mixed with Eastern European accents; and west African accents mixed with Carribean accents.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I stopped reading when he criticized Google's "Don't be evil" motto as a corporate say-nothing. Yes it's a truism, but I'd argue that it was chosen because software engineers value simplicity and conciseness.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Hold on, I've heard of the replication crisis - though I don't know the scale - but are you saying that over 50% of "hard science" is bunk? I find that hard to swallow.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

The paper was very careful to describe the mass increase of Cuban immigrants as "immigration shock", not just immigration. I don't think the conclusions of this paper can say any one thing about the effects of our (I'm assuming you're American as well) standard levels of immigration. Also..

  These results suggest that immigration shocks do have implications for the fertility decisions and outcomes of natives, though these tend only to be temporary and short-lived. There therefore appear to be little long-term or sustained consequences for the fertility of natives from governments pursuing labour augmenting strategies through more open immigration policies.

From the conclusion. I only really skimmed the abstract and the conclusion, please tell me if I'm missing something.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

There's still no way for TikTok, or any app, to determine your password hash, so even if they test for validity (by conforming to OS pin restrictions), how would they test for veracity (being given the user's ACTUAL) passcode.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I wish the article put more emphasis onto the facg that TikTok was requesting the password through a system prompt. They don't have anyone's passwords, just a conformation from the device that the correct password was inputted. This is such a nothingburger.

All that aside...is this an nypost article referencing a Dextero article referencing an (unsourced) reddit comment?

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I'd love to read the writeup if you find it.

You might be thinking of Microsoft's Raymond Chen? I'd be surprised if he's written about the web in depth

3 jaar geledendiscuss

How you could have enough control over the machine to reroute the error log to (what I assume was) a Pastebin api, while also lacking access to any of the files on the machine? In my mind you'd be required to ssh into the machine to upload, and if you're ssh'd in, why not just cat the log?

3 jaar geledendiscuss

It sounds like the issue is that these service providers are obeying Google's aliasing rules, but also ignoring the fact that you shouldn't be using email as a primary identifier [1]? It's funny, if they had adhered to the spec more they'd be fine; but if they adheredess and treated alias' as distinct emails, these platforms would at least be more secure.

[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/openid-connect/openid...

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Really, this sounds believable. How often does the average programmer use anything beyond arithmetic? I'm only a few years out of school, but I'm re-learning calculus since I haven't touched it once since college.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Title editorialized ever so slightly for clarity.

For those wondering how applications detected screenshots in the past.

    Previously, apps were able to detect when a screenshot had been taken by listening for file changes while they were in the foreground, but this was less than ideal.

https://www.androidpolice.com/android-14-screenshot-detected...

3 jaar geledendiscuss

  To find the two’s complement of 5, we invert all the bits (changing 0s to 1s and 1s to 0s) and then add one to the result.

I am embarrassed by the fact that I wasn't aware of this. I always interpreted the two's complement as the difference between the all the numbers before the high bit, minus the high bit. Aka 10000000 – 01111011 = 0101

3 jaar geledendiscuss

  But the evidence was there. Personal attacks against Nick Bostrum, Robin Hanson, among other leadings figures, not for their positions on the most important issues, or even for being wrong, but for not conforming to the socially desirable position on the current thing,

Nick Bostrum very clearly states that he believed blacks to be inantely intellectually inferior to the rest of humanity. I didn't realize that this was decidely correct, or even unimportant. Doesn't the belief of a racial hierarchy affect one's ability to decide on most optimal forms and recipients of altruism?

This blogpost just reads as a "go woke go broke" victory lap that has very little new to say about the current state of EA. At the very least I do genuinely appreciate that Chau directly linked to the detractors he discusses (even if the twitter link leads to a deleted post)

3 jaar geledendiscuss

The author suggests making cultural changes that will discourage the suppression of socially unacceptable topics, and seemingly believes that the suppression of rational discourse is the violation of a basic human right.

At the same time he doesn't seem to outline any solution to dealing with the suppressing voices in society. "Ultimately, we have to accept the implications of human creativity." But how will this acceptance be achieved? There is no mechanism in place to tear down a stand in the free marketplace of ideas.