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by anilakar 7mo ago
Here, ambulance drivers are often ex-firefighters and vice versa, and both tend to be in good physical shape. Ship and airliner captains on the other hand are often older and in less than stellar physical condition. My hypothesis is that it
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by anilakar 7mo ago
Parts and labor combined that would be a 4000-5000 eurobuck job. A Nissan importer tried to weasel out of a warranty replacement on a friend's X-Trail so they first offered to completely refund options that had become unusable. The car
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by anilakar 7mo ago
We had to come up with something wireless for authentication as we did not want to install anything visible like RFID readers. We also had a few Pis lying around.
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by anilakar 7mo ago
Frank's guests just need to get the Doorking 16120 default key and start letting themselves in. Edit: undergrad shenanigans from ten years ago: Our university student-run electronics lab had an issue: technically anyone with a student
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by anilakar 7mo ago
Any crypto that prevents casual tinkering is enough to keep most companies from wasting resources on reverse engineering stuff. Back in the day we wrote a simple byte-level nonce + delta obfuscator for a terrible Node-RED-like programming e
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by anilakar 7mo ago
Small businesses very much like to gamble with the box checking.
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by anilakar 7mo ago
It actually prohibits holding the chopsticks in your mouth. You have a chopstick rest (and workarounds) for that. Just like the next term on the list does not prohibit eating food on the bottom but rather digging into the bowl instead of
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by anilakar 7mo ago
You do realize that violating export regulations is a much bigger risk than losing a few individuals relying on snake oil security?
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by anilakar 7mo ago
Agree. Writing code has always been the most time-consuming part that distracts me from actual design. AI just emphasizes the fact that anyone can do the keyboard mashing while reading code is the actual skill that matters. Give a woodcutte
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by anilakar 7mo ago
Someone was asked to test untestable code so verifying mock contents was the best they could come up with.
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by anilakar 7mo ago
Your design will be looked at in direct sunlight on a six inch, non-color-calibrated screen. Stop using low contrast and extralight fonts. Next time we'll ship your Mac. No, we won't give you a new one.
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by anilakar 8mo ago
Reddit's r/namecheap is also full of horror stories.
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by anilakar 8mo ago
> If you want to pretend this never happened – delete your old article and post the new one you have promised. And I will not write “an OSINT investigation” on your Nazi grandfather From hero to a Kremlin troll in five seconds.
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by anilakar 8mo ago
Running microservices on Hetzner is a risky move. Their direct internet connections rarely go down, but links between servers in their internal network suffer from intermittent failures. if you make your service reliable enough to be able t
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by anilakar 8mo ago
It would have resulted in an uninitialized variable access warning, though.
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by anilakar 8mo ago
To be fair, there were multiple wrongs in that piece of code: avoiding typing with the forward goto cleanup pattern; not using braces; not using autoformatting that would have popped out that second goto statement; ignoring compiler warning
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by anilakar 8mo ago
Various macro tricks have existed for a long time but nobody has been able to wrap the return statement yet. The lack of RAII-style automatic cleanups was one of the root causes for the legendary goto fail;[1] bug. [1] https://go
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by anilakar 8mo ago
I'm sick of corporations and bootlickers who claim you cannot do games without anticheats. Even if I am not personally running that software, all the users are still normalizing spying on our devices and networks. If your business mode
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by anilakar 8mo ago
I had subscribed to clearance sale newsletters from quite a few retailers but unsubscribed when I noticed they put stuff in the outlet section only when they run out of sizes S to L.
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by anilakar 8mo ago
My main gripe with UB is that if a compiler is able to detect undefined behavior invocation, it is still allowed to compile (or rather omit) said code instead of crashing.
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by anilakar 8mo ago
> vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities > vibecoded without reading any of the code Remember when years ago people said using AI for critical tasks is not an issue because there is always a human in the loop? Turns o
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by anilakar 8mo ago
It's quasi-legal only as long as Activision execs are unaware.
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by anilakar 8mo ago
Don't worry. Mexico will pay for it 100 %.
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by anilakar 9mo ago
A certain automation system vendor uses proper USB license dongles in their PC software but they do not do challenge-response authentication. Instead they send a hardcoded string to the dongle and compare the response against a list that co
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by anilakar 9mo ago
At 150 eurobucks apiece, printed freshman coursebooks were prohibitively expensive in uni. We just pirated everything as a consequence.
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by anilakar 9mo ago
If you look at your parents' phone, chances are that there are five or more almost empty pages with automatically added icons all over the place.
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by anilakar 9mo ago
Let me guess: an unusually cold winter and coal.
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by anilakar 9mo ago
Yes, and it does exactly what a launcher should do. It is not designed to show a dozen widgets spread over five workspaces. Priced at 15 eurobucks (back in the day) it's the most expensive piece of Android software I have ever bought
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by anilakar 9mo ago
I assume you're using the currently recommended docker-in-docker method. The legacy Gitlab way is horrible and it makes it basically impossible to run pipelines locally.
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by anilakar 9mo ago
Back in the day one company had a dedicated copier operator who was very unhappy after a Xerox service tech did away with the job by enabling the network printing and scan to email functions. The customer had upgraded their old copier out o

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