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by MertsA 3y ago
I think the charitable explanation here is that this was an undocumented debugging interface. Apple knew about it and did not disclose it in any publicly available material. The NSA almost certainly has access to Apple's source code an
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by MertsA 3y ago
They are referring to Tesla selling the lower half of a car. It'd be battery pack in the middle, motors, suspension, wheels and then you build the rest of the car around the barebones powertrain from Tesla.
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by MertsA 3y ago
Would Nvidia the company want to engage in this? No. Would some middle manager involved in poaching this guy from the competitor want to do it? I have my suspicions. It takes two to tango and Nvidia didn't catch this themselves which r
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by MertsA 3y ago
It's kind of hard to fault Troy here when Microsoft came up with that gem of a name. https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/RD
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by MertsA 3y ago
SNMP is completely different than SNTP. SNTP is basically just a minimal NTP client that just queries the time and doesn't attempt to do anything like compensate for network latency or use multiple NTP servers.
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by MertsA 3y ago
It's been widely speculated that his extreme diet is likely what caused or contributed to his pancreatic cancer. Supposedly he was also ignoring his doctor's medical advice and had some irrational belief that his fruit diet would
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by MertsA 3y ago
Or really the lack of a small in-line filter. Nobody at the head end knows if a house is getting more channels than they paid for until an audit years later turns up a discrepancy. At that point you don't really know if it was the home
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by MertsA 3y ago
I recently went down this rabbit hole and assumed the duplicated serial number in the EDID was playing a role in triggering it but even after switching to different monitors later on MacOS would still do this all the time. Just recently I m
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by MertsA 3y ago
I've been using this or something similar internally for months and love it. The thing that gets downright spooky is the comments believe it or not. I'll have some method with a short variable name in a larger program and not onl
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by MertsA 3y ago
Human intelligence is arguably not even truly ordinal, let alone cardinal. No one who reasonably understands human intelligence believes it's as simple as a normal distribution. IQ is defined as a normal distribution but that doesn&#x2
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by MertsA 3y ago
Same way you sue anyone. Sue them if you have a reasonable basis for your claims and subpoena the defendant directly instead of trying to approach this like suing a John Doe. If they try to delete it this is no different than any other civi
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by MertsA 3y ago
That's pretty standard for any sort of fraud prevention. You never tell people what triggered it because when it's not a false positive you're telling scammers what to avoid next time.
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by MertsA 3y ago
That kinda lends credence to the notion that the post really was just libel. If it was true and more than just a one sentence diatribe then the plaintiff wouldn't have needed to bring Meta into this suit. I don't really see what t
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by MertsA 3y ago
>if users want to lock themselves into only using vendor firmware that's something that users should be able to opt into. But even this is a potential risk all by itself if you aren't making sure this can only be done by someon
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by MertsA 3y ago
There's the PPIN MSR on some CPUs but access to it needs to be enabled in FW before you can read it.
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by MertsA 3y ago
I work at a big tech company (not Google) and this flagrant contempt for the legal hold is absolutely shocking to me. We're also under a legal hold. It has nothing to do with anything relating to my work. I will never have anything res
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by MertsA 4y ago
> if you're not the parent of this child, then we strongly recommend that you encourage a parent to contact us using the instructions above. Given that the instructions are to prove ownership over the phone number as well as trying
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by MertsA 4y ago
And I doubt you've ever bought the Brooklyn Bridge but that doesn't mean you can't call out the con artist trying to sell it. The price of the snake oil isn't the problem. The problem is that he's scamming people ou
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by MertsA 4y ago
Forget "ShieldsUp!" This is the guy who still sells SpinRite for $90 when it hasn't seen an update since 2004. It's old enough to vote at this point and Steve Gibson is always spouting off blatant lies about how it'
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by MertsA 4y ago
You could even go a step further and require the person requesting the unlock to provide photo ID and affirm that they are claiming to be the legitimate owner of the device to dissuade thieves from trying to use it and also for the unwittin
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by MertsA 4y ago
It's proof of purchase from an Apple authorized seller, if you bought it from some random owner you're out of luck.
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by MertsA 4y ago
Yeah but that was the one claiming he could retroactively make it okay so now that Biden is president I guess by that logic it's retroactively okay as well.
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by MertsA 4y ago
Bold of you to assume a regular reboot will also reboot the BMC (it won't although I guess there might be BMCs which do). Some things you really need a full cold boot. I've seen a test cluster of storage servers where after reboot
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by MertsA 4y ago
The one thing that annoys me the most about modern grading is the fact that so many courses heavily weight homework and projects. You can do exceptionally well on tests and quizzes and objectively understand the material in the course but s
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by MertsA 4y ago
>AP test score transfers credit across the country while being unnecessarily stressful and long courses. community college credits cannot be guaranteed to transfer and have more utility locally or in an adjacent school system, while bein
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by MertsA 4y ago
I went to high school in Florida so we had dual enrollment available at the local community college for free and it counted as high school credit as well as college credit. Quite frankly the actual college class was way less work, an easier
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by MertsA 4y ago
The grandparent ships out the SenseAir S8 for CO2 so presumably they're still happy with it. I have no complaints myself but I haven't compared it to any reference standard. He's the founder behind AirGradient. https:/&
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by MertsA 4y ago
I think there's a slightly charitable reading of that opinion. Replacement organs are already in short supply, it's a real problem. By "bigger problem" he's referring to bigger than it already is, not that organ rec
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by MertsA 4y ago
This isn't correct. Chernobyl was a steam explosion but it's literally not possible for any nuclear power plant to ever have a true nuclear bomb type explosion. That's a trope straight out of the Simpsons. Chernobyl was just
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by MertsA 4y ago
Those two holes are transparent windows across the toner cartridge. It's a level sensor.

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