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j-scott··on Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox
DJs are typically playing on promoter or venue provided equipment, which is usually industry standard of pioneer/AT.

Otherwise, they bring their own, especially if it’s anything custom or specific to their performance.

j-scott··on Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox
The feature definitely does what it says it does, but I think that the mount is generally accessible outside the software may be where the “surprise” lies.

I definitely would not have used this feature on a public network or exposed the mount to the open internet as well.

j-scott··on Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox
Rekordbox is one of the worst pieces of software I have to interact with regularly, and it reminds me of others descriptions of IoT software/firmware.

"PRO DJ LINK" enables you to access rekordbox libraries (and load music files) remotely from other devices, whether that be on a computer or dedicated Pioneer/AlphaTheta hardware.

The vulnerability in question requires the attacker to be on the same local network as the instance of rekordbox and for the remote library feature to be enabled. Interested in the full writeup once it's released

j-scott··on Slay The Spire 2 – Major Update #2 – v0.107.1
Sharing as a follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552844
j-scott··on Go's Sweet 16
My bad! I was wrong; added a playground demonstration the parsing behavior above.
j-scott··on Go's Sweet 16
Never mind, I was wrong. Here’s a playground showing how go parses each one: https://go.dev/play/p/hyWPkL_9C5W
j-scott··on Go's Sweet 16
My original comment was incorrect. These are being parsed as octals, not decimals: https://go.dev/play/p/hyWPkL_9C5W
j-scott··on Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet
Not a hyperscaler, but we’re multi-cloud and probably one to two steps down.

My team’s service implements a number of performance and functionality improvements on top of your typical registry to support the company’s needs.

I can’t say much more than that sadly.

j-scott··on Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet
I work on the container registry team at my current company running a custom container registry service!
j-scott··on Pawn is a simple, typeless, 32-bit extension language with a C-like syntax
See also Sourcepawn[0], popular in the sourcemod engine community for custom server plugins and game modes.

[0] https://github.com/alliedmodders/sourcepawn

j-scott··on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?
Music production, but I’m finally taking the leap after a decade of saying it wasn’t for me.
j-scott··on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
I think this was meant as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004919
j-scott··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
In my most recent cycle, I didn’t ask to use AI and I was only warned once about using AI when I had the official language plugin for an IDE annotate some struct fields with json tags. I explained the plugin functionality and we moved on.

When I was part of interviews on the other side for my former employer, I encountered multiple candidates who appeared to be using AI assistance without notifying the interviewers ahead of time or at all.

j-scott··on Ask HN: How is your job search going? (January 2025)
Not in the Bay Area, but I have friends at FB and I believe their RTO policy is strongly enforced unless you’re senior and have been at the company for a year at which point you can go remote.
j-scott··on Ask HN: How is your job search going? (January 2025)
Phone screen was 2 problems in 45 minutes, I believe the onsite portion would have been more of the same but I didn’t get that far :D
j-scott··on Ask HN: How is your job search going?
Databricks, Snowflake and Stripe required NDAs for the onsite portion of the loop.

The NDAs covered anything internal discussed during the hiring loop.

j-scott··on Ask HN: How is your job search going?
Started prepping/interviewing in Oct after reading this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402581

Secured interviews with Facebook, Databricks, Snowflake, and Stripe (3 referrals, 1 recruiter reach out).

Bombed the FB phone screen due to nerves/first interview of the cycle. Completed the remaining three loops by December, and got offers from Databricks and Snowflake (Stripe went on two week holiday break and hasn’t gotten back to me yet).

Accepted the Databricks offer!

Happy to talk about practice/process (within the limits of the interview NDAs)!

j-scott··on Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)
This is very similar to an issue I had while playing games on a wired Windows desktop. I haven’t run into it in a long time now that I think about it. I wonder what might have changed.
j-scott··on Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in industry
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos

Stressing over these things is certainly a Sisyphean task.

However, investing in automating and standardizing the application of these things every time a new repo is created eliminates an entire class of problems and saves you all sorts of trouble down the road.

j-scott··on The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent
I've lurked on hacker news for a number of years, and this post is what inspired me to finally make an account. Thank you for sharing; this aligns with my current situation and reinforces my recent decision that I need to make a change.