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Breaking Down a Phishing Attempt | LINQ to Fail
A look at a phishing attempt on me today
Congratulations, you are human!
Hi, human being. 50 - 70 millennia ago, your great ancestors invented speech. 5 millennia ago, your other ancestors invented writing. That’s the only reason why me and you can communicate through this text right now. Although this communication is one sided, I…
The Farmer's Fable: Free as in Lunch - Taylor Pearson
Today, I’d like to tell you a little story about a farmer named Bill. If you’re not into farming, it just so happens that Bill discovers one of the most important principles in investing and decision-making in this story, so there’s also that. Anyway, back to …
How I improved myself in 2014
I graduated from school in 2008, and my first job is an embedded software engineer. After working for more than 2 years, I joined in another traditional telecommunication company (let me use A to stand for it). Fast forward to 2014, the business of A company s…
The Lost 4-Dimensional Rotation
Update: r/math discussion Occasionally, an article about the Fourth Dimension pops up on Hacker News. For instance, The Fourth dimension: Toward a geometry of higher reality (1984) submitted Febr
Bandits for Recommender Systems
Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
Feedback on “Soul > Features”
I’ve gotten some feedback on the whole idea that software should have a soul, and I’d like to share it with you. Daily Email List reader Chris (shared with permission) said: I’ve …
Works as Currently Designed
I am beginning to think the ways I use AirPlay, which seem entirely normal to me, are exotic outliers heretofore untested by Apple’s engineers because its promise does not match my experience. Here are the two ways I most frequently use AirPlay through my Appl…
The Johnny Decimal system
Discover the Johnny Decimal system and organize anything with grace.
Why Open Source libraries are missing documentation
Open Source is fun and rewarding, but if you want your work to bring any value you need documentation. Why many library are missing it?
The Potential Merits of an Itemized OS
Does an itemized personal computing user environment have the potential to be a new medium in which software could “actually change the thought patterns of an entire civilization” (Kay, 1989)?
koaning.io: Enjoy the Silence
GridSearch is Not Enough: Part 7
My Programming Principles
What guides me after 20 years of writing code for a living
Senate By Population
NST01 table with row headers in column A and column headers in rows 3 through 4. (leading dots indicate sub-parts) Table 1. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019 Geog…
Practical bruteforce of AES-1024 military grade encryption
I recently presented work on the analysis of a file encryption solution that claimed to implement “AES-1024 military grade encryption”. Spoiler alert: I did not break AES, and this work…
The Azure Cosmos DB Journey to .NET 6
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully-managed, multi-tenant, distributed, shared-nothing, horizontally scalable database that provides planet-scale NoSQL capabilities offering APIs for Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Gremlin, Tables, and the Core (SQL) APIs . A core component…
teenage engineering
louder, thinner and 100 times better.
A Generalist Agent
Inspired by progress in large-scale language modelling, we apply a similar approach towards building a single generalist agent beyond the realm of text outputs. The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generali…
DuckDB - Friendlier SQL with DuckDB
2022-05-04Alex Monahan
GitHub - alufers/mitmproxy2swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic
Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic - GitHub - alufers/mitmproxy2swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic
The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer
Let’s talk about a career in tech, but not the usual boring stuff about salary or how to pass the interview process at the place with the most over...
Visual Studio 2022 17.2 Goes GA, Faces Update Issues -- Visual Studio Magazine
Visual Studio 2022 17.2 reached General Availability status this week, but some users outside the U.S. soon encountered download update issues.
Microsoft: Web Forms Is No Silverlight -- Visual Studio Magazine
The death of Web Forms has been greatly exaggerated.
Setting up an Azure Virtual Machine as Azure DevOps build agent
This post is about how we can setup as Azure Virtual Machine as Azure DevOps build agent. Recently I had to provision one virtual machine as Azure DevOps build agent. First we need to create an Azure Virtual machine. I created one with default configuration va…
Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers
Both Intel and AMD have maintained mostly open source Linux drivers for years.
Take your first steps with F# - Learn
F# is an open-source, cross-platform programming language that makes it easy to write succinct, performant, robust, and practical code. It's a general-purpose language that enables you to create many different types of applications like Web API, Desktop, IoT, …
I Miss Heroku's DevEx
I Miss Heroku's DevEx - Xe's Blog
How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising
Gerrymandering distorts the will of the people, but the basic math of geographic representation makes it difficult to get rid of, unless we get rid of representation for geographic districts.
The EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of your private communication – or total surveillance in the name of child protection.
This would be the worst surveillance apparatus outside of China, and completely disproportionate.
Announcing Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT-based Messaging
Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard
Regular Expression Improvements in .NET 7
System.Text.RegularExpressions has improved significantly in .NET 7. In this post, we'll deep-dive into many of its exciting improvements.
Important notice for all customers | BitPrime
Important Notice For All CustomersAs you may have noticed over the last 48 hours, trading on the BitPrime retail website has been suspended. Since then, a maintenance notice has been up on our website.This pause in trading is due to liquidity issues combined w…
World's Best FPV Drone Shot? (Extreme Mountain Biking)
This is a drone shot like you've never seen before. Nicholi Rogatkin takes the @Dutch Drone Gods to the most epic urban mountain bike race in the world with ...
What backs a currency? Terra Luna drops nearly 100% - Economics - Intercoin
I think this shows why having sound reserves matters. Whether it’s China’s Evergrande or Tether or Luna, people are relying on some assets to back the currency. But what happens when those assets themselves become less in demand (say, because the central bank …
Phone Number Validation in JavaScript
Step by step guide to develop JavaScript methods to check for valid phone numbers
How to Convert JSON to XML or XML to JSON in C# - Code Maze
Demonstrate how to convert JSON to XML back and forth using System.Text.Json and Newtonsoft.Json with detail explanation and examples
Deno.js in production. Key takeaways.
TL/DR: The hot new JavaScript runtime by Ryan Dahl is sleek, powerful and easy to use. Most importantly, it is TypeScript native with a…
Structure and Organize .NET Projects with Rider | The .NET Tools Blog
Whether you’re starting out with a new project or refactoring a mature codebase, good folder and file organization makes your life less stressful. Having a good structure for your project creates an a
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Domain Modeling - Anemic Models
When building a domain model, proper object-oriented design and encapsulation should be applied as much as possible. Some teams choose to intentionally create anemic models with little encapsulation, which can lead to problems.
How to hash passwords and when not to
What is entropy and how it changes how to store and transmit passwords
Quic.cs
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C# Method to Check if a Number is Prime
The Best C# method to check if a number is a prime
Configuring the Diagnostics Port for dotnet monitor
So I have been working on the dotnet-monitor tool team since inception and ...
Report a problem with Visual Studio - Visual Studio (Windows)
Find out how to report a problem with Visual Studio
Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools
Certificate transparency is superb improvement to HTTPS certificate security on the web that's great for users and businesses, but on…
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A list of what’s new on flutter.dev and related sites.