SAI_Peregrinus

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by SAI_Peregrinus 3mo ago
DST is bad because it changes the clocks in huge jumps. Very poor for people's health. Noticeably increases excess deaths. Fixed clocks are bad because they don't track the sunlight. We should change the clocks by 10 minutes, ever
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by SAI_Peregrinus 3mo ago
It's a nitpick, but testimony under oath is evidence to US courts. All evidence is either testimonial or circumstantial.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 3mo ago
The laws which any contributors to the OSS project are subject to. Some projects geographically restrict who can contribute to avoid issues like this, but when laws are passed by a jurisdiction in which existing maintainers reside those mai
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by SAI_Peregrinus 3mo ago
POSIX specifies a common subset of functionality of several different shells (and C libraries) that existed when it was created, and that any compliant shell (or C library) will share. Some functions like `echo` are guaranteed to be present
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
I agree. The problem is that anything which solves this won't be compatible with email, since these issues are inherent to the protocol. Fixing email isn't possible, so the solution has to be replacing it. Unfortunately that'
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
The Register is highly irreverent, as a rule.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
email can be read by any server in the chain between the sender & recipient. It's not secure. PGP doesn't fully fix this, it still leaks message content (subject) and metadata. So does S/MIME. That doesn't mean attac
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
To get excessively pedantic, he walks very poorly. Toddles around. So his gait makes him a literal toddler. All 1 & 2 year olds toddle, but not all who toddle are 1 or 2 years old.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
Resistors don't go in the cable. They go in the device. They indicate that the device can't negotiate voltages above 5V, so just send 5V. USB-A has no ability to provide voltages other than 5V, so there's no need for indicati
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
In contrast, OS CSPRNG APIs usually only provide access to a CSPRNG that the OS seeds on its own, in some way not fully controllable by the user. E.g. using fast key erasure & hashing in data from a hardware entropy pool.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
Most likely is either extracting the private key from the camera or getting the camera to sign arbitrary data. If the signing isn't part of the sensor die itself there's a bus where the image data gets transferred from sensor to s
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
It's always been about the safety of their valuation.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
Disagree, availability is part of security. That's why denial of service attacks are a security issue. Bad enough usability is indistinguishable from a DoS attack.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
More verbose code takes up more space in the context. It's harder for humans to review, but also harder for future AIs to edit. Unless you manage to keep the AI to firm module boundaries & have it replace modules wholesale it'
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by SAI_Peregrinus 4mo ago
Or Next Tuesdayism: the universe will be created next Tuesday. Your current sense of experiencing reality is merely the fabricated memory which will have existed after the universe gets created.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
A COPV tumbling & venting gas as it does so.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
There's a disconnect between TDD using all sorts of tests (unit, integration, hardware-in-the-loop, in-field, etc.) and TDD using unit tests only. Unit tests provide the least value/line of test code of all types of tests. They&#x
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
Pad. And one of the lightning protection towers. And the transporter-erector.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
John Grimsmo's knifemaking business has a Kern which is perfectly capable of doing the tolerances needed behind the apex. That's a very expensive CNC machine, but it's capable of precision & accuracy well beyond what&#x
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
3-5, usually. Tuesday is used as a placeholder for "generic day like any other". Monday & Friday might be special, or they might not. But Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are generic & interchangeable: you're not catc
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
Johnny Ive presumably likes it.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
> Obviously that precludes any and all automated systems. What if it's not an automated system? The automated system merely takes pictures of your license plate & face, then some human decides whether those pictures are evidence
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
Instead of hanging spools off the side, get a few Creality Space Pis or similar filament dry boxes you can print directly from.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
You can write a C compiler with exactly laid out well-defined semantics. You can't assume those semantics hold for C-the-language, because it doesn't define those semantics. UB is a property of the language, not just of a given
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
The semantics are well-defined in both modes. You can predict exactly what will happen in either case. In C, the semantics are not defined at all , you can't predict what will happen and it's allowed to change between compilati
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
That's related to PNS syndrome (PIN Number Syndrome syndrome (Personal Identification Number Number Syndrome syndrome)).
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
Halt and Catch Fire
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
It's indistinguishable from unspecified behavior, not from undefined behavior. Unspecified behavior has to pick from a finite list of allowed behaviors. Undefined behavior can do anything .
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
A core idea of the conservative state is that there are some chosen people, whether due to their might, wealth, ethnicity, a "god", or something similar, and that the state should protect & serve the chosen people. Those who a
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5mo ago
An attack that could remotely ring my old-fashioned hard-wired doorbell would be really cool to read about. It's the classic electromechanical style with an AC line transformer wired directly between the chime & the button.

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