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The Fool posted:you'll just get all the extra taxes they couldn't figure out for other people Accompanying article about the guy with the "null" license plate who got a bunch of tickets because if an officer entered no or a blank license plate # on a ticket, it would auto-resolve to his: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/8/14/20805543/null-license-plate-california-parking-tickets-violations-void-programming-bug
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The Fool posted:you'll just get all the extra taxes they couldn't figure out for other people this e: oh look, a new page 
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Nov 10, 2020 06:37
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Ralith posted:It's unclear if there was actually a vulnerability triggered, or if they were just being cautious. quote:A Companies House spokesperson said: “A company was registered using characters that could have presented a security risk to a small number of our customers, if published on unprotected external websites. We have taken immediate steps to mitigate this risk and have put measures in place to prevent a similar occurrence. We are confident that Companies House services remain secure.” yeah, according to the spokesman they're just being careful. of course, it might be that they actually were vulnerable and they are just saving face.
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Nov 10, 2020 09:49
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My guess would be "someone important that uses our data was vulnerable and complained, we don't want to mention who they are".
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Nov 10, 2020 09:54
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the Outlook Web App screen for composing an email the "To" address field seemingly isn't marked up as a field that accepts email addresses, so if you're using it from a mobile phone and you want to enter an email address you've not used before... well good loving luck basically. try to enter "alphabravo@charliedelta.com" or whatever, and it'll interpret the dot in ".com" as the end of a sentence and gently caress up the email address you carefully entered. And then you can't manually edit to stitch it back together, because it tries to be all cute and replaces the text of a completely entered address with a little coloured box with rounded corners, in place of the original editable text. Hope you know which menu the option to kill autocorrect is buried in.
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Why are you using owa to compose emails? Its only purpose is to provide access to the features that mysteriously haven’t been exposed in the o365 client.
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I only use OwO to compose my emails and they all start with, "puw my wast emaiw..."
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Nov 17, 2020 19:09
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Soricidus posted:Why are you using owa to compose emails? Its only purpose is to provide access to the features that mysteriously haven’t been exposed in the o365 client. I wanted to email someone a photo I'd taken on my phone's camera.
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Nov 17, 2020 19:27
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I asked my magic 8-ball and it said "Outlook not so good"
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Nov 17, 2020 20:00
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 Now that's what I call a memory leak. 
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Nov 17, 2020 21:48
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Protocol7 posted:
laughs in chrome
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https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1328918322507706368
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Nov 18, 2020 13:05
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Agreed, VLAIS are a horror.
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Nov 18, 2020 14:11
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Hey, it's constant time at least.
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https://twitter.com/harlanhaskins/status/1328750010620469248 I like how the compiler dgaf
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Reminder that a[b] in C is just a*b
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xtal posted:Reminder that a[b] in C is just a*b I think you mean *(a + b)
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Carbon dioxide posted:https://twitter.com/harlanhaskins/status/1328750010620469248 What uses a register calling convention on x86 anyway? Or is it x86-64 using 32-bit registers (don't know what the ABI is for it..)
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OddObserver posted:What uses a register calling convention on x86 anyway? Or is it x86-64 using 32-bit registers (don't know what the ABI is for it..) It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#System_V_AMD64_ABI
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OddObserver posted:What uses a register calling convention on x86 anyway? Or is it x86-64 using 32-bit registers (don't know what the ABI is for it..) Even Microsoft had __fastcall
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feedmegin posted:Even Microsoft had __fastcall fastcall, stdcall, and thiscall all resolve to the MS convention, which does use registers.
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more falafel please posted:fastcall, stdcall, and thiscall all resolve to the MS convention, which does use registers. I meant on 32 bit x86.
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OddObserver posted:What uses a register calling convention on x86 anyway? Or is it x86-64 using 32-bit registers (don't know what the ABI is for it..)
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feedmegin posted:I meant on 32 bit x86. On 32-bit x86 fastcall used registers. That’s why it was fast. Thiscall too if you count putting the this reference in ecx.
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https://twitter.com/gottapatchemall/status/1334628520165658631
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I'm doing the Advent of Code this year, and using it as an excuse to cultivate some good habits and build up some experience with stuff I tend not to use very often. One of the things I'm trying to do is to learn and use LINQ when I can justify it. Spoilers for solutions to part 2 of yesterday's puzzles Yesterday's challenge involved figuring out your seat on a sold out flight, when you've forgotten your boarding pass but managed to scan everyone else's passes. Coming from a deep SQL background, I immediately thought of how I would use LEFT OUTER JOINs to do this and implemented this nonsense in LINQ: // Looking for an unclaimed seat with neighbors // Means we're looking for a pair of seats where one does not exist between them. var missingId = boardingPasses // self join to boarding passes where the seatID is one higher .GroupJoin( boardingPasses, p1 => p1.SeatId, p2 => p2.SeatId - 1, (lowerPass, upperPassEnumerable) => new { lowerPass, upperPassEnumerable } ) // flatten the upperPass IEnumerable, and default to null if the enumerable is empty // map into a lower pass and an upper pass .SelectMany( pair => pair.upperPassEnumerable.DefaultIfEmpty(), (lowerPair, upperPass) => new { lowerPair.lowerPass, upperPass } ) // Preemptively filter out anything where we have a matching pair. We only want ones where the upperPass is not found .Where(pair => pair.upperPass is null) // Join again to boarding passes, on passes whose seat IDs are 2 higher than our pair's lower seatId .GroupJoin( boardingPasses, p1 => p1.lowerPass.SeatId, p2 => p2.SeatId - 2, (lowerPair, upperPassEnumerable) => new { lowerPair.lowerPass, middlePass = lowerPair.upperPass, upperPassEnumerable } ) // Once again flatten the upperPassEnumerable and default to null if it is empty // Map into a trio of passes .SelectMany( passTrio => passTrio.upperPassEnumerable.DefaultIfEmpty(), (triple, upperPass) => new { triple.lowerPass, triple.middlePass, upperPass } ) // Filter to only cases where we have a non-null set of outer passes, and a null middle pass. .Where(passTrio => (passTrio.lowerPass != null && passTrio.middlePass is null && passTrio.upperPass != null)) // Derive the missing ID from the upper and lower SeatIds .Select(p => new { missingId = (p.upperPass.SeatId + p.lowerPass.SeatId) / 2 } ) // Give the first entry in the final set .FirstOrDefault(); Console.WriteLine(missingId); I shamefacedly shared this solution to my colleague who told me about Enumerable.Range() and Enumerable.Except(): var seatIds = boardingPasses.Select(pass => pass.SeatId); var idRange = Enumerable.Range(seatIds.Min(), seatIds.Max()); var missingId = idRange.Except(seatIds).First(); Console.WriteLine(missingId); It's me, I'm the horror. A friend of mine enjoyed how, earlier this week when I wrote a searching algorithm for a puzzle, my parameters were named needle and haystack. Nth Doctor fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Nth Doctor posted:A friend of mine enjoyed how, earlier this week when I wrote a searching algorithm for a puzzle, my parameters were named needle and haystack. Nice, I use the  for any abstract "find thing in a collection" tasks
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I got needle and haystack drilled into my head from the PHP manual, because it's seemingly random which one comes first in a parameter list.
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Not to detract from the fun of it, those are widely used, see https://www.php.net/in_array
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Using PHP is the real horror.
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Nth Doctor posted:A friend of mine enjoyed how, earlier this week when I wrote a searching algorithm for a puzzle, my parameters were named needle and haystack. yes, I do the same. But that particular naming convention is fine in any codebase IMO, it's not being overly clever. If you speak English to a decent standard then you know the idiom "to look for a needle in a haystack", so seeing those parameter names you know exactly what the parameters are for. It's a lot more understandable and succinct than any other way of expressing "thing that is looked for inside another thing"
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Hammerite posted:yes, I do the same. But that particular naming convention is fine in any codebase IMO, it's not being overly clever. If you speak English to a decent standard then you know the idiom "to look for a needle in a haystack", so seeing those parameter names you know exactly what the parameters are for. It's a lot more understandable and succinct than any other way of expressing "thing that is looked for inside another thing" Oh I definitely wasn't trying to say that was the horror. Just an aside to my overarching I'm terrible at LINQ post. 
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Nth Doctor posted:Oh I definitely wasn't trying to say that was the horror. Just an aside to my overarching I'm terrible at LINQ post. LINQ is great, but every so often I finish writing something and realize I've written something absolutely abominable.
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https://twitter.com/LloydLabs/status/1336866373331546112
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I've never played Cyberpunk 2077 but I'm getting so much entertainment from it
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Back in my day the launcher was the game!
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Unless unprivileged accounts can write to that JSON I don't see how this is supposed to get me any access I didn't have before
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I don't think Cyberpunk even has privileged access, it says it's signed so I guess it can run in the context of CDPR's app certificate or something. The tweet isn't exactly clear about the implications or why this is any different from e.g. being able to add calc.exe as a custom game in Steam and then launch it from there.
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Volte posted:I don't think Cyberpunk even has privileged access, it says it's signed so I guess it can run in the context of CDPR's app certificate or something. The tweet isn't exactly clear about the implications or why this is any different from e.g. being able to add calc.exe as a custom game in Steam and then launch it from there. This probably isn't a threat to most business networks, but is a threat to tons of individuals. For instance, launch a persistent keylogger prior to launching the game. Or launch something that requests privilege escalation because most users just want to play their game and will click "OK" immediately. This isn't overriding the location pointed to by Steam, it's taking advantage of the fact that anyone can edit the JSON that the Cyberpunk launcher reads from when the user presses a button. (and this isn't unique to Cyberpunk; many game launchers have this kind of vulnerability)
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