jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

marktheunissen

This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.

hafichuk

Gists: How to merge changes from a fork

# Clone your gist
git clone git@gist.github.com:abcdef.git 
cd abcdef

# Add the fork as a remote
git remote add downstream git@gist.github.com:uvwxyz.git

# Merge in the changes from the fork

postrational

#!/bin/bash

NAME="hello_app"                                  # Name of the application
DJANGODIR=/webapps/hello_django/hello             # Django project directory
SOCKFILE=/webapps/hello_django/run/gunicorn.sock  # we will communicte using this unix socket
USER=hello                                        # the user to run as
GROUP=webapps                                     # the group to run as
NUM_WORKERS=3                                     # how many worker processes should Gunicorn spawn
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=hello.settings             # which settings file should Django use
DJANGO_WSGI_MODULE=hello.wsgi                     # WSGI module name

hofmannsven

Git

Global Settings

• Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
• Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
• Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
• Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/

Reminder

Press minus + shift + s and return to chop/fold long lines!

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

grugq

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

gtback

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Extract malware from Contagio Zip files, determining the password
automatically.

Note that the password for each zip file consists of a common base password
along with the last character of the file name (prior to the .zip extension).
If you don't know the base password, please contact Mila directly.

imjasonh

* {
    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: monospace;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
    cursor: default;
}

Neo23x0

This Gist has been transfered into a Github Repo. You'll find the most recent version here.

YARA Performance Guidelines

When creating your rules for YARA keep in mind the following guidelines in order to get the best performance from them. This guide is based on ideas and recommendations by Victor M. Alvarez and WXS.

• Revision 1.4, October 2020, applies to all YARA versions higher than 3.7