Xylakant

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by Xylakant 3y ago
I think he's referring to the Trieste, which reached the Challenger Deep in early 1960. All losses since then are military submarines, AFAICT. German Wikipedia loves lists, so here's one https://de.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Xylakant 3y ago
In 2018, Lithuania replaced a chunk of their ID cards because of a (theoretical) vulnerability in the esignature. Fancy consultants certainly help, but they’re not an invulnerability potion.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
At the moment, this is a theoretical attack using a known to be broken card. But it’s unlikely that this is the only card that is broken. And attacks only get better, never worse, until the theoretical attack graduates to a practical attack
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by Xylakant 3y ago
This attack enables something else: quietly and unobtrusively recovering the private key of the card, effectively cloning it without the owner’s knowledge. It would be interesting to know whether the 65 minutes must be continuous or whether
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by Xylakant 3y ago
If you want to consider non-extradition as measure of real sovereignty, then you’ll note from your parents article that a lot of European countries are on that list. In Germany, extradition of German nationals is barred on constitutional g
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Science? That would be my first guess unless there's reason to suspect otherwise. The underlying paper was published in an academic journal with at least some history, so that speaks for the authors intend. The fact that there's a
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Absolutely. Or in case of a copyright claim, … It’s crucial to know where which piece of code came from and piecing it together from git history is going to be painful.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
As I read the article the issue is not the license. The issue is (allegedly) stripping the copyright information. If you use code under any license you get a permission from the authors to use it under the given terms. The authors still ret
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I'm involved in the Ferrocene project (1), so I'd like to clarify some things about the Ferrocene Language Specification. It is deliberately called Ferrocene Language Specification and not Rust Language Specification. The specific
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Sure, but the crab trademark is worthless. And you wouldn't need to fork the compiler to do that. The community, if it wished, could have formally or informally adopted <crab->foo as a naming scheme.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The law is interpreted, not executed. It has intention that will be applied by judges and juries. Sometimes you can find loopholes in a law if a judge/jury is willing to follow a specific, often narrow interpretation of the law, but th
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by Xylakant 3y ago
As an end-run around the trademark policy in the iceweasel style, crablang is useless. You can already use rust without being in violation of the trademark policy - you just can’t name your project rust-foo or call your compiler rusty unles
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I don’t think that average speed is the relevant measure here. Top speeds would still be noisy. But even at average speed you’d see no noise reduction from electric cars since 20mph is the point where tires are as loud as the engine. So the
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by Xylakant 3y ago
> What this tells me is that the internal combustion engine is a bad idea everywhere but especially in a dense urban core. Engine noise only dominates up to roughly 20mph, at higher speeds the tire noise is the dominating component until
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by Xylakant 3y ago
If you’re right and the gains from productivity improvements were equally distributed among the populace, you’d expect the Gini coefficient which measures inequality to stay level - that is neither rise nor fall. And it’s clearly not for th
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I’m not disputing that society as a whole may win - but the gains are not equally distributed. Look at all the gig economy jobs that are thriving because the other jobs are even more exploitative. Look at the Amazon warehouse workers and de
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The issue with destroying the boring menial tasks is that as a society, we have not come up with a replacement for them. Some people rely on those for their livelihood and have not had the good fortune of an education that allows for higher
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Fun story: There was an advertising campaign for a Zimbabwean newspaper with posters and handouts printed entirely on Zimbabwean dollar bank notes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trillion_Dollar_Campaign
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The twitter post is incomplete. It’s all local and regional transport - including regional trains. Regional trains can run for a few hundred kilometers, for example you can do Kaiserlautern to Osterburken (close to Würzburg) without changin
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Elon Musk’s statements could be ‘deepfakes’, Tesla defence tell court(theguardian.com)
10 points by Xylakant 3y ago|0 comments
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by Xylakant 4y ago
“Test in a live environment before the region becomes open to customers” is a test that’s not entirely representative for “the region had an emergency shutdown with customers on it.” And the latter is something that you can’t reliably test
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by Xylakant 4y ago
They have a few properties that could make them more attractive for emergencies. There are no objects around the highway that would interfere with wings, especially no overpasses, poles or trees. The stretches are long and straight, as well
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Starting up a cloud region after a total shutdown is likely an untested procedure with no well known timeframe, even if the hardware is ok.
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Multi-Zone failure in Google cloud: europeParis (Europe-west9)(status.cloud.google.com)
16 points by Xylakant 4y ago|1 comments
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It seems like much smaller news than what they pretend it is. If you open up the suspicious domain in a web browser, it does explain what it is, who it belongs to. It’s a download location for a GPS almanac, used in assisted GPS. See http:
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Future will show, but I believe you’re wrong about this. It’s still possible to create bots, but now, for a mere 8 USD, I can have it boosted to top, above legit human accounts. This may reduce the amount of cheap spam, but it’s a godsend f
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Paying a tiny sum to get boosted is still a shortcut for grifters. Paying for the effort to do actual verification would be an option, but that’s not what’s happening here.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It is exactly the opposite. The “verification” verifies nothing other than having a credit card and 8 USD to spend. There already have been “verified” accounts with blue checkmarks impersonating the NY government, governor and other people.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
As the person managing phone contracts in our company, I really like that part of eSIMs. I can mail a phone or have the employee purchase one and then mail my providers support and I‘m all set. About one hour later, the phone will have conn
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by Xylakant 4y ago
> Some carriers support SIM transfers from your previous iPhone to your new iPhone without needing to contact them “Some” is true afaik. It’s at the providers discretion. AFAIK it’s also only possible if you’re moving from iPhone to iPho

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