0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

dlew

public static Action1<Throwable> crashOnError() {
    final Throwable checkpoint = new Throwable();
    return throwable -> {
        StackTraceElement[] stackTrace = checkpoint.getStackTrace();
        StackTraceElement element = stackTrace[1]; // First element after `crashOnError()`
        String msg = String.format("onError() crash from subscribe() in %s.%s(%s:%s)",
            element.getClassName(),
            element.getMethodName(),
            element.getFileName(),
            element.getLineNumber());

kaushikgopal

• In general you want to try and put things in onStart and onStop for logical start and stops.

Activity

onCreate

• Dagger inject self into graph
• setContentView(R.layout.xxx)
• Butterknife.bind(this)
• RxJava CompositeSubscription.add (if NON UI related work being done)
• realm = Realm.getDefaultInstance();

JakeWharton

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Jake Wharton
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

akras14

Git Cheat Sheet

Commands

Getting Started

git init

or

tsiege

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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namuol

rage-quit support for bash

HOW TO INSTALL

Put flip somewhere in your $PATH and chmod a+x it.

Copy fuck into ~/.bashrc.

gabrielemariotti

android {

    signingConfigs {
        release
    }

    buildTypes {
            release {
                signingConfig signingConfigs.release
            }

JakeWharton

function dex-method-count() {
  cat $1 | head -c 92 | tail -c 4 | hexdump -e '1/4 "%d\n"'
}
function dex-method-count-by-package() {
  dir=$(mktemp -d -t dex)
  baksmali $1 -o $dir
  for pkg in `find $dir/* -type d`; do
    smali $pkg -o $pkg/classes.dex
    count=$(dex-method-count $pkg/classes.dex)
    name=$(echo ${pkg:(${#dir} + 1)} | tr '/' '.')