Programming Horror

Regarding Sicarii’s broken decryption process, researchers said that “during execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key.”

In 2025 AI still requires you to watch it do it’s work and catch it early before it goes fully off the rails, like driving a Tesla. That’s impossible in the github UI. It doesn’t help that the MS engineers are shit a prompting ("tests are failing, please fix” is way way too vague) but the whole idea of doing it through github is doomed from the start.

Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor July 23, 2025 at 11:31 a.m. PT

Python static typing Ludwick hunger games

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With modern tools, you have to try very hard to do something stupid, because the tools (rightly) recognize you’re doing something stupid. [Andreas Karlsson] can speak to that first hand as he tried to get four billion if statements to compile.

I was looking through various RCON tools and found this. Someone does not like commit messages.

For those unfamiliar with JS: subValue (the first argument in the forEach callback) is the value contained at arr[index].

what do i do in this position ?

no words

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