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grog454 commented on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k   brutecat.com/articles/lea... · Posted by u/brutecat
kasey_junk · 7 months ago
And then what?

Exploits need to plug into a business plan. Like any business plan there has to be somewhere that money gets extracted and that money needs to be more than the exploit cost & infrastructure costs & a risk premium.

If you can’t trivially say how the exploit explicitly gets turned into cash you probably are on the wrong track. Doubly so if it’s not a known standard and commoditized way that’s happened before.

grog454 · 7 months ago
> Exploits need to plug into a business plan

Or, you know, develop a new "business plan" around an exploit.

grog454 commented on Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard   frontiersin.org/news/2025... · Posted by u/geox
pc86 · 7 months ago
I would expect at least some evolutionary pressure to get rid of unused things in your body. Let's just take the appendix as an example because it's probably the most common "you don't actually need this" thing that people know about.

Some appendixes burst. Sometimes this kills people. Sometimes this happens before that person has been able to reproduce. Wouldn't this cause selection for people who at the very least don't have bursting appendixes (appendices just sounds wrong to my inner narrator in this context), but also for people who have smaller ones. Over time this pressure would decrease but shouldn't it theoretically over many many generations result in smaller and smaller, eventually disappearing, appendixes?

grog454 · 7 months ago
I would think so. Who says that's not happening now? It seems reasonable that evolutionary pressure can be strong enough to have a significant impact in 1-2 generations (for example due to the introduction of a new environmental threat) or weak enough to take thousands of generations.
grog454 commented on Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]   brightonruby.com/2024/get... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
moritonal · 8 months ago
Fleet commander or I'm guessing .IO?
grog454 · 8 months ago
.io. There have been more Nebulous's since I last checked :)
grog454 commented on Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]   brightonruby.com/2024/get... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
jumperabg · 8 months ago
Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase?

Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?

grog454 · 8 months ago
> Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase?

My game Nebulous was 1.5 devs (one full time one part time) and multiple millions of MAU. 9.5 years later it's still going well.

> when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it

Delete bad code. Replace with good code. Sounds simple enough but in my experience at mega and mid corps, step 1 is almost never done. Whether that's because of ego or chasing local optima I'm not sure - probably a mix of both.

grog454 commented on A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."   theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ColinWright
rawgabbit · 9 months ago
I never liked this type of puzzle. It is not formal logic but more about the idiosyncrasies and conventions of the English language. I put this puzzle on par with Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries. It requires a suspension of disbelief and logic to be believable.

Someone who always lies means in the purest sense means you cannot trust anything they say. Even the word “hat” could mean they are talking about their pet cat that they like to carry on their head.

What the author would probably say is “All my hats are green” means the liar is either lying about All or Green. Either all their hats are some other color or only one hat is green. This means you have to assume the liar has a hat. How do we know that?

We only know that because of similar puzzles that came before. In other words this is not logic but more pattern recognition.

grog454 · 9 months ago
The article clearly defines someone who always lies to mean they only make false statements. It's not hard or ambiguous to determine various scenarios in which "all my hats are green" is false.

The solution article also discusses vacuous truths ("all my hats are green" is true if you have no hats, vacuously). Truth has a definition in formal logic too, but we've gotten far enough that this problem is already solvable and unambiguous.

grog454 commented on A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser   quickpoint.me... · Posted by u/edoloughlin
gregorywegory · a year ago
That was something I thought deeply about. I decided that an imaginary user would see a page change as a navigation event. Pressing back and having the whole thing poof could be just as anger inducing. Most SPAs use some type of router to do just that.. I imagine I won’t hear from anyone who prefers it that way so until I can afford some user testing I won’t know. Quite a bit of anxiety about that one. I had initially used replaceState…

Yes, plain text to create it not displayed as plain text. I didn’t write the post so the title may be a little misleading. Flashy JS heavy output for minimal input is the point.

grog454 · a year ago
I scrolled down. Then I scrolled up. Then I scrolled down. Then I scrolled up. Then I was ready to leave so I hit the back button. Only instead of that happening, I was scrolled up, and down, and up, and down, and up, and then I could leave.

Taken to the extreme, I think it becomes more apparent which choice is better.

grog454 commented on Engineers investigate another malfunction on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket   arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/perihelions
verzali · a year ago
So, some perspective on whether the FAA will get involved or not.

The FAA care about safety. If you have anything falling back to Earth you have to prove it is safe. That usually means you have to do some analysis to show your chance of killing someone on the ground is less than 1 in 10,000 (that's the European level, I believe the US level might be tougher).

An easy way to meet this is to land in the middle of the ocean, since there's a lot of space and very few people around, hence SpaceX target the Pacific for the falling second stage.

As part of this you need to identify your expected landing zone, which is then used to warn sailors and aircraft about the risk. But also this is not really enforced - nobody goes out there to check the zone is empty before the launch is authorised, like they do around the launch pad.

But you also need to account for failures in your 1 in 10,000 analysis. So as part of it you look at the probability of something failing and of pushing you off track, and then the risk of killing someone if that happens. Again, this is easy if you are targeting the ocean, since being even a thousand miles off still brings you down in empty water.

So this scenario, where the upper stage fails and comes down in the wrong place, is almost certainly already included in SpaceX’s planning and licensing.

Where the FAA might have questions is whether the probability of failures is correct, or if something has changed in manufacturing to make them more likely.

For SpaceX, obviously, a dodgy second stage is a bigger problem. They need the stage to be reliable for upcoming interplanetary flights and others going beyong LEO. And they'll want to understand what caused it in order to make sure it couldn't happen earlier (which in this case could have been while astronauts were still attached).

So there's a good reason SpaceX are investigating and already announced a pause in flight, and probably a good reason too why the FAA is keeping quiet so far. Behind the scenes I'm sure they're already in contact about the matter.

grog454 · a year ago
> you have to do some analysis to show your chance of killing someone on the ground is less than 1 in 10,000

How'd people decide to accept 1 out of 10,000 killing someone? Maybe the metric should be deaths per year since the number will only go up over time. To be fair, I have no idea what it is right now.

grog454 commented on Fraud, so much fraud   science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/nabla9
grog454 · a year ago
I'm not a scientist because of fraud and other reason related to academia, but I thought one of the tennets of an experiment was reproducibility. Were his experiments reproduced independently? Why not?
grog454 commented on AnandTech Farewell   anandtech.com/show/21542/... · Posted by u/janice1999
bheadmaster · a year ago
> what would have happened if search engines had been prevented from displaying search results from news organizations that happened within the last month

News sites would probably change whatever metadata Google is using to check site age to make their news articles appear one-day-more-than-month old to Google crawlers, all as a part of Search Engine Optimization techniques.

grog454 · a year ago
There is a trivial solution to this. Store your own copy (or hash, or whatever) of the article and don't rank it until your copy is at least a month old.

The idea is still nonesense because some other search engine will show up without this restriction, and any news site would prefer to be listed there, rather than not.

u/grog454

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