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by ajb 2y ago
One of the problems of no-one being liable for security, is that no-one has the incentive to thoroughly separate software you really need to trust, and that you care whether it's vulnerable to hacking, from that which you don't. &
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by ajb 2y ago
Well that's an interesting theory. However, on reading it, my leading hypotheses are that people who express such disbelief in the possibility of their being selfish, either lack self-insight, or are lying. Your theory I would give a s
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by ajb 2y ago
The big question is not whether the infrastructure will be built, but whether it will owned by rent-seekers who charge everyone without their own driveway a massive premium to charge their vehicles.
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by ajb 2y ago
Hmm I'm far from an expert but no-one else had commented on this aspect: it's not just about how they take in information, it's about how the lack of sight will affect their development. So worth thinking about what the diffe
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by ajb 2y ago
Tangentially related - Hezbollah used pagers because they could not trust mobiles. One reason is that mobile basebands are locked down: if they weren't, it's quite possible that by now someone would have implemented a baseband f
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by ajb 2y ago
It's possible that they expected a higher kill rate. It's also possible that the kill rate will turn out to be higher after the consequences of injuries have time to play out.
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by ajb 2y ago
Cool, I'll try it with some longer text As a browser extension would be most usable (although I'd have to think about the privacy issues with that).
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by ajb 2y ago
The difficult part would be keeping it working after it gets popular, and all the marketers in the world try to break it.
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by ajb 2y ago
This is hilarious. I think it could also be a serious tool - without the added snark. I'd pay for a version of this that allowed me to look at product pages and just get the facts without the manipulative bullshit.
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by ajb 2y ago
Hmm, it's years since I properly thought about this anecdote Yes, in theory you could have done everything with checks. It didn't completely happen though, until after computerisation. In the UK, it turns out that employees had th
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by ajb 2y ago
When I was in high school, the computing teacher remarked that some people still don't believe that computers have benefited society. His answer to this was that they have nearly eliminated armed robbery, because when people were paid
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by ajb 2y ago
You're right, this is a non-starter. I should stop posting late at night. The owner of a suspect device just needs to bite the bullet and use a destructive method.
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by ajb 2y ago
You don't quite say, but I get the impression you want to keep working as a PM, not a software engineer, but be able to do so in these areas? I think a masters that gave you expertise in the subject area be better than a generic CS mas
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by ajb 2y ago
So this always overwrites the device to test it, and I was wondering if that was necessary (say, you had started using it). Presumably you only need to write at most N+1 blocks, where N is the number of blocks the device actually has.l, i
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by ajb 2y ago
Nice investigation! My 25 year old microwave is really solid, except for the lamp, which has blown. It's an old bulb so it should be replaceable - except that physically there's no way to do it without unscrewing the magnetron, wh
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by ajb 2y ago
Famously , academics analysis found (virtually proved) share options manipulation by statistical analysis alone, which was a bombshell in the tech industry a decade ago, threatening many executives with imprisonment. However , it's not
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by ajb 2y ago
Exactly! So reminiscent of "the luggage". Albeit with the legs facing sideways
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by ajb 2y ago
I guess it's just down to the percentage of the aperture that is blocked? There's an amusing picture where a large owl has blocked a substantial portion of the view: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030401.html
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by ajb 2y ago
Very informative, thanks. "none having to do with the ship sinking Titanic-style." It's rare, but not nonexistent. The Costa Concordia springs to mind. Schettino ended up with all the blame, but it did seem to be that there w
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by ajb 2y ago
It's about the tradeoffs between guarantees in distributed systems generally. But I don't really think the allusive writing style is a good fit for tech. Actually it's pretty annoying even with non tech. YMMV. Here, it's
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by ajb 2y ago
Question from a non chemist: Ok so you do some chemistry and produce a vial of supposed medicine, how do you tell that you didn't fuck up and produce something toxic? I guess a modern lab would just stick the result in a gas chromatogr
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by ajb 2y ago
These days the machine itself should also warn if it's on too long, so perhaps the operator was relying on that. These days even UV treatment gets added to your record so that further treatments don't accumulate too much. Well, i
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by ajb 2y ago
That's cool. I wonder how they reduce the dose enough that it's safe. Presumably they were quite careful about how long the exposure was?
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by ajb 2y ago
That is a fascinating story. Historically there were actually "live" x-ray machines, where you could have seen yourself wiggling your toes. They aren't used now due to the horrific exposure to x-rays, but before that was und
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by ajb 2y ago
"trash is an inescapable fact of the human condition" Not really. There didn't used to be anything like as much. But what we did before wasn't necessarily better. Most consumer products were made of organics, like wood,
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by ajb 2y ago
Oh that's why forest land has gone up so much! Thanks, I'd seen the same rise, and couldn't figure out why.
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by ajb 2y ago
It says something about the UK that of the 10 oldest companies, 5 of them are pubs (and two more are hotels with rather pub sounding names). Three share the name "The Old(e) Bell"
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by ajb 2y ago
Hmm that still recommends that distros allow admins to install to /usr/local, albeit in such a way that it at least can't break the OS. IMO the idea that a 'Linux admin' is better informed than a 'Linux user&#x
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by ajb 2y ago
This is the right answer for internal threats, because having each employee have their own login to services means there are auditable. However it does mean you need to think carefully about the SPOF issue (single point of failure). Especia
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by ajb 2y ago
There are three different kinds of environment: - Startup. Doesn't know how to make money yet, or if it does, is still learning how to execute its vision. It's essential to have a small team of maximally competent people, so recru

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