Arch-TK

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by Arch-TK 4y ago
These days LaTeX seems like an obvious choice for a thesis, yet lots of people still use Microsoft Word. It doesn't seem too suspicious that if it was several orders of magnitude harder to use LaTeX then almost nobody, except a handful
842.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Really their policy on open source programming while working there is one of the main reasons I have never considered applying there.
843.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
> Everything is "public domain" in China. Spoken like someone who has never been in a secure facility in a Chinese software company where you have to go through metal detectors to access air gapped computers just to see some co
844.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
You have to fuck around with the storage format because by default scanning sofware, even when scanning documents, will basically just take poorly compressed high resolution images. Maybe there's some service which sorts that out for y
845.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Only 245M? Should have gone for 2.45B. That would have hopefully made Epic reconsider its trashy existence on this planet.
846.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
> The linked article doesn't substantiate "without heading for weeks" either, where are you getting that frmo? The hypothetical world you are putting forward where we get most of our generation from renewables with wind be
847.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Grid scale failures of some kind happen in existing fossil based infrastructure more often, but they are usually far less serious, outside of the nonsense which happened in Texas at least, you don't hear about people being without heat
848.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
It costs too damn much _because_ of woke hippies and authoritarian regulators.
849.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Can confirm, as a security consultant I just use debian(ish) with an archlinux container (or sometimes VM) with all the stuff I need. This is far more sane for me than dealing with the bizarreness of kali. All my coworkers who are windows u
850.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
I mean, aside from the fact that you misunderstood the whole point, nobody ever paid 20% extra for a heating system which didn't have cloud connectivity. In fact, the whole idea that there's something wrong with a heating system w
851.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
For a similar reason why riding a bike through sand is more difficult than on flat tarmac, this will require additional energy and you will pay for it in locally burned petrol. Moreover, it will be less efficient than if you just burned tha
852.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
To be fair. If you had poorly shielded audio equipment (maybe because you bought directional copper and forgot to buy the necessary diamond infused audio grade shielding) then its entirely possible that different memcpy implementations migh
853.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
The cost is not really that enormous when you consider these things are pretty bulletproof, I've had one for about 10 years on my keychain. That's €5 per year. I am currently waiting for NitroKey 3 to have non-alpha OpenPGP SC sup
854.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Only as unportable as bash. Which is probably the most portable shell.
855.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Is this any different to the high ranking results for websites which host re-uploads of literally every windows installer for every piece of software and sometimes even include malware? That, as far as I am aware, has been an issue for at l
856.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Welp, time to move the first piece of my infrastructure (and the only piece currently hosted on Linode) to a different provider. It has been almost 9 years now I think with the prices remaining basically the same. I started in 2014 with a L
857.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Okay, so you agree that the array hasn't decayed, disappeared or otherwise stopped existing and that the word "decay" is a poor choice to describe what is happening?
858.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Can you explain then, when I write: struct s { int bar; int baz; } foo = { .bar = 5, .baz = 6, }; f(foo.bar); Has "foo.baz" decayed? If the answer is no then you have an answer
859.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Yes, but I don't see how this has anything to do with what I wrote.
860.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
D is not C, your experience writing compilers doesn't make this an easy fix. The problem is not the cost of implementing this (trivial) it is the cost to the nature of the C programming language. This will never get past the C WG and w
861.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
That's not the point though. You would still have the same underlying issue (no way to intrinsically tie the size of the memory addressable using a pointer to the pointer) and the disadvantage of code being less clear (are you actually
862.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Wouldn't most people just use Google Authenticator and have it automagically back up to google's nigh unlimited storage space? Obviously not something anyone who respects their privacy would subject themselves to, but it seems to
863.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
> Because lots of us upgrade phones every couple years, or have dropped a phone and had it break, or get water in it or something. This is just a matter of using one of the many TOTP authenticators which allow backups of the keys. If peo
864.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
Obviously custom non-TOTP authenticators are dumb and not much better than SMS 2FA. I was mainly asking why anyone would opt for SMS (or a custom authenticator app) over just a TOTP authenticator.
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by Arch-TK 4y ago
When you're talking about a language which people treat like a portable assembly language, yes it IS expensive. It may be cheap from the point of view of a higher level language where literally every operation is already expensive, but
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by Arch-TK 4y ago
Adding fat pointers to C is a major redesign and the fact that the explanation fits within a short blog post doesn't make it an easy fix. If you don't add fat pointers (thereby requiring a major re-design of the language and causi
867.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
It is not correct. The array length is still there, what is happening is that you are implicitly asking for only a pointer to the first element of the array because of the context in which it is used. You did not ask for its length. The lan
868.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
I really want to know, why has everyone moved to SMS 2F"A"? What was wrong with authenticator applications? Were they really THAT user unfriendly?
869.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
At the cost of basically all performance or incredible compiler complexity. A better solution: Implement a different language with a better type system instead. Or pick one of the hundreds that already exist and can represent the concept of
870.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
And what would it achieve to "fix" this (without re-designing the rest of the language)? Every piece of code such as: int a[SIZE]; foo(a, SIZE); Would have to be rewritten to: int a[SIZE]; foo(&a[0], SIZ

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