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New comment by nostoc in "Advanced Python Features"

nostoc — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:11:57 +0000

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)

New comment by nostoc in "Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers"

nostoc — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:52:44 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin"

nostoc — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:44:17 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account"

nostoc — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:29:47 +0000

It's "Bob" all the way down

New comment by nostoc in "Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers"

nostoc — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:43:21 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "Can I take ducks home from the park?"

nostoc — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:08:34 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism"

nostoc — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:49:28 +0000

> . 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 than vacuum tubes, both in terms of space and power consumption.

New comment by nostoc in "PyPI Was Subpoenaed"

nostoc — Thu, 25 May 2023 12:33:54 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam"

nostoc — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:02:03 +0000

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 stream of revenue.

New comment by nostoc in "Kali Linux 2023.1 introduces 'Purple' distro for defensive security"

nostoc — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:13:42 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "ReactOS"

nostoc — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:58:58 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden"

nostoc — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:17:03 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell"

nostoc — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:56:42 +0000

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 to solve on linux.

New comment by nostoc in "Knots 3D – Learn how to tie over 150 useful knots"

nostoc — Sat, 28 May 2022 03:32:54 +0000

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 you go with two bowlines, you end up with a floppy line, not great way to tie a load down.

New comment by nostoc in "Jd"

nostoc — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:39:15 +0000

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.

New comment by nostoc in "The Cube Rule (2017)"

nostoc — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:19:16 +0000

> 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?

New comment by nostoc in "The Cube Rule (2017)"

nostoc — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:17:50 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)"

nostoc — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:12:01 +0000

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

New comment by nostoc in "Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date"

nostoc — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:34:15 +0000

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 the dissenting voices have a hard time being heard. That much is true.

But that is true because most of the time, the dissenting voices are wrong, if not outright lunatics.

New comment by nostoc in "TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector"

nostoc — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:38:03 +0000

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 capped at the same number by the bandwidth available to the offending system.