SAI_Peregrinus

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811.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
RJ45 isn't even actually the same connector, at least not in the original FCC naming. That was an 8P8C keyed modular connector. RJ45 connectors had only two of the positions connected to wires (one phone line) an internal resistor be
812.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
No, there's no way to check which workspace is in use, just that the domain matches. That's the problem.
813.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
> which isn't the case basically anywhere else in the US Hi from Buffalo, NY! We get clouds and apocalyptic snow !
814.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Oh, failure is way better. But a lot of the original APIs didn't have failures, they just returned a value, and MS doesn't like to break backwards compatibility even when it'd be easier for everyone if they did. For "t
815.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
C is a small language. People confuse simple with small quite often. As languages get smaller, using them gets more difficult once below a certain size. The "Turing tarpit" languages like Brainfuck are extremely difficult to wri
816.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Yeah, they could have mapped code points to their textual descriptions. That'd require reallocations, but converting ＂to UNICODE_FULLWIDTH_QUOTATION_MARK_U+FF02 would be unambiguous. Ugly, but obvious what happened. Better than � IMO!
817.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Miscreants have a history of independently discovering vulnerabilities. Software vendors have a history of not fixing security issues. The current coordiated disclosure with a deadline forces vendors to fix their flaws while also allowing u
818.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Synchrotron FELs are already used, and their construction paid for due to their scientific uses. Building new ones would require new synchrotrons, which are more expensive than the crazy "hit molten tin drops with lasers to make a plas
819.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Only chattel slavery involves purchase or sale of a human. Any forced labor is slavery, it just might not be chattel slavery.
820.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Which locks haven't been picked? Abloy Protec 2 got picked, Bowley got picked, StealthKey got picked… I'm not aware of any designs for an unpickable/unbypassable lock. Whereas several AEADs have not been broken.
821.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
With the application of sufficient force, any object can be made to fly at least once. No AI necessary.
822.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Nothing particularly new, since none of the cases around this have concluded. If I were to guess, I'd say the output of an LLM isn't copyrightable (it's not the creation of a human), unless it's a verbatim copy of some c
823.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
I prefer autosuggest to autocomplete. And I didn't like copilot, doesn't seem to work very well for embedded code, though it's been a while since I've tried it. LSPs are useful.
824.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
> "Formally verified" means someone has written a correct mathematical proof that the code has no bugs No, only that it complies with a formal specification. The code will have bugs if and only if the specification has bugs. Th
825.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
That's commonly called engineering notation.
826.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
I just bought a tester from Treedix. It's a small board with a bunch of USB connectors (host side has 3.0 A, 2.0A, C, device side has micro-B, lightning, mini-B, 3.0 micro-B, C, and 3.0 B), a CR2032 coin cell, and a bunch of LEDs that
827.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Lich fits better according to the stories. Zombies are mindless undead who eat the flesh of the living. Liches are kings sustained in unlife through magical means, and retain their minds.
828.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Linear regulators can do it easily, if used in a constant-current driver configuration. That constant can be variable, so regulated-current might be a better name. Your classic LM317 linear regulator can do it pretty easily, with a potentio
829.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Fine, ECC doesn't care much about primes, and is asymmetric.
830.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
In context I read PRNGs as being compared to CSPRNGs. CSPRNGs should be the default.
831.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
I just use a strong PascalCase passphrase (as strong as feasible if they have a stupidly short limit) and the year & month of the last password change. Something like `PascalCasePassphraseButRandomlyGeneratedProperly2024-12` for one thi
832.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Yes-ish. They're not enabled yet, but post-quantum signatures & KEMs are available in some experimental versions of TLS. None are yet standardized, but I'd expect a final version well before QCs can actually break practical si
833.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Try "ex girlfriend"!
834.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
The video shows the gun malfunctioning repeatedly and the shooter having to clear those malfunctions by racking the slide. That's likely caused by a poorly-installed silencer. Hardly professional.
835.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
That doesn't mean the good guys lost, just that one set of bad guys lost and another won. As usual.
836.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Or "5% of the time, our product actually manages to act as it was instructed to act."
837.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
IMO, Goodhart's Law[1] "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes" or "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" is a big p
838.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Having used it, no, it doesn't. At least not that I could find. Last tried it about a year ago though, so they might have added it. IIRC it was just pretty graphics over exposed `git` workflows, instead of any higher-level abstractions
839.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
Looking at the docs I'm not sure what functionality that adds over git. It seems like just a GUI, no extra abstractions for the complicated operations. E.g. modifying older commits[1] still looks to require manually branching, resettin
840.
by SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
It'd be nice if there were a GUI way to rebase by dragging links in a graphical view of the DAG. This program seems to allow reordering commits, but it's not clear how well it handles the more complex cases.

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