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541.
by amluto 7mo ago
Do check that your heater isn’t doing something ridiculous. A while back I helped someone debug a Mitsubishi Electric system on which the installer had set the fan speed control to high instead of auto (it’s an easily accessible setting on
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by amluto 7mo ago
Commitment validation would indeed be trivial. This whole scheme fails if an attacker can manage to delay a transaction for a day, and if the commitment also commits to a particular transaction fee, then the user trying to rescue their fund
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by amluto 7mo ago
> All serious financial businesses already have a quantum strategy and are actively working on transitioning their cryptography to post-quantum secure algorithms. That’s hilarious and it’s not even April 1 anymore. Lots of serious financ
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by amluto 7mo ago
This seems generally correct, but there are some things to note. Once fiber is installed, it’s not particularly expensive to maintain, indefinitely. That $2k/customer needs to be paid again every five years, whereas for fiber it’s muc
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by amluto 7mo ago
If your bank’s encryption is broken in the future, then, to recover, you will need to change your password, and that’s all. Bitcoin does not have that luxury. Also, your bank can switch to securing TLS with post-quantum key exchange algori
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by amluto 7mo ago
> Starlink seems to just print money. Does it? Those satellites are individually dirt cheap compared to historical communication satellites, but Starlink requires a whole lot of them and they depreciate outrageously quickly. Compare to
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by amluto 7mo ago
That’s kind of adorable. Would you need to pay to record a commitment? If so, how? If not, what stops someone from DoSing the whole scheme?
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by amluto 7mo ago
One thing I find rather amazing about all of this is the degree to which the Bitcoin community has tried, for years, to claim that quantum computers will be another other than a complete break. Sure, it takes a pretty nice quantum computer
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by amluto 7mo ago
No, it’s completely wrong. It’s a very minor refinement of a terrible yet sadly common design that merely mitigates one specific way that the terrible design can fail. See my other comment here. By the time you call the OP’s proposed verify
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by amluto 7mo ago
You’re right, but I think the commenter you’re replying to is also right. The OP is using unreadable hex strings in a way that obscures what’s actually going on. If you turn those strings into functionally equivalent text, then the signatu
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by amluto 7mo ago
> Re: I'd be astonished if 1000s of exit strategies weren't deep planned, maybe a dozen best-outcomes planned, before a single plane bombed anything. The US knows how to exit this. > Isn't this just wishfull thinking? T
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by amluto 7mo ago
> On the one hand it's a science: controlled experiments Those experiments are so hilariously expensive these days, and the results are often not actually fully published, so good data is often unavailable. > calculated dosages O
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by amluto 7mo ago
I find the whole field of radiology to be utterly baffling. There are doctors who specialize in, and hopefully understand, specific diseases and/or parts of the body. But we have radiologists who are supposed to be able to look at ima
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by amluto 7mo ago
> query file size, allocate buffer once, read it into the buffer, drop some NULL's into strategic positions, maybe shuffle some bytes around for that rare escape case, and you have a whole bunch of C strings, ready to use, and with
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by amluto 7mo ago
> Doing so would defeat the purpose of the change, which is to turn nasal-demons-on-mistake into something with less dire consequences What nasal demons? UB is permitted to format your disk, execute arbitrary code, etc. But there’s lots
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by amluto 7mo ago
At least some Thinkpads also have an actual drain: if you spill a not-especially-corrosive liquid on it, you should be okay — the liquid will drain through a channel and out a drain hole on the bottom of the laptop.
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by amluto 7mo ago
On a quick read of the paper, I see two surprising things: 1. If there’s no initializer and various conditions are met, then “the bytes have erroneous values, where each value is determined by the implementation independently of the state o
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by amluto 7mo ago
But they do have constant height in the sense that, unless you resize the window horizontally, the height doesn’t change. For what it’s worth, modern browsers can render absurdly large plain HTML+CSS documents fairly well except perhaps for
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by amluto 7mo ago
PG&E doesn’t even give all its time-of-use ratepayers the same peak hours. The rates are nonsensical.
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by amluto 7mo ago
Huh? Other languages that compile to machine code and offer control over struct layout and access to the machine’s atomic will work the same way. Sure, C++ has a particular way of describing atomics in a cross-platform way, but the actual
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by amluto 7mo ago
I wonder how much of the benefit is simpler redundant power equipment. For AC, you have standby UPSes and line-interactive UPSes and frequency and phase synchronization. And everything needs a bit more hold-up time because, in case of fail
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by amluto 7mo ago
Every decent LED would then need … a switching power supply. LEDs are current -driven devices, and you get the best efficiency if you use an actual current-controlled supply. And those ICs are very, very cheap now. The part that would genu
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by amluto 7mo ago
I am really skeptical that 12VDC power distribution in RVs actually saves power compared to a high-quality (hah!) higher voltage AC or DC system. 12V is absurdly low and you can’t easily lose quite a few percent in resistive losses even wi
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by amluto 7mo ago
Rust’s orphan rule has the property that there is no spooky action at all distance in terms of program semantics. If I write a library, my library behaves the same way regardless of whether the main program imports a different library. In a
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by amluto 7mo ago
I’m not convinced that the problem is actually a problem. Suppose someone writes a type PairOfNumbers with a couple fields. The author did not define a serialization. You use it in another type and want it to serialize it as: { &quot
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by amluto 7mo ago
Wait, what part of the whole login flow involves the browser even contemplating whether it trusts its user’s client cert?
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by amluto 7mo ago
But we can still buy old models: > As outlined below, today’s action does not impact a consumer’s continued use of routers they previously acquired. Nor does it prevent retailers from continuing to sell, import, or market router models
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by amluto 7mo ago
> I'm honestly not sure any major browser will allow you to use a client smartcard without having the smartcard's certificate chain to the trust store used by the browser so this part seems unavoidable. It’s been a while, but I
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by amluto 7mo ago
I've never used one of the DoD smartcards, but I can certainly imagine the DoD wanting a user of one of these smartcards to be able to use it with a COTS client device to authenticate themselves.
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by amluto 7mo ago
> That requires the site to use the aforementioned non-standard DoD CA certs to validate the client cert from the CAC, which in turn requires that the server's TLS cert be issued by a CA in the same trust chain, which means the enti

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