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by anitil 6y ago
I work in this field. There's two components to this. There is the possibility to track devices from the manufacturer via serial numbers etc. Regulation will help here. This isn't useful until after the fact for evidence gathering
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by anitil 6y ago
I actually work in the drone detection/jamming field. My only surprise is that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. We already see drones used for drug smuggling and privacy violations, as well as the use of drones to car
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by anitil 6y ago
Disclosure: I work for a company in this field. They are easy to jam if you don't mind also not having GPS, Wifi and 3G/4G/5G service. You can do selective jamming but this is much more sophisticated
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by anitil 6y ago
If you're interested in trucking, the podcast 'Over The Road' is worth a listen. The host Long-Haul Paul has a voice to die for, and the oncoming change to autonomous trucks plays a part in some episodes. I think there's
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by anitil 6y ago
Planet Money had an interesting episode recently of some of the sketchier ways that drivers are exploited. Worth a listen if you're interested - https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/901110994/big-rigged
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by anitil 6y ago
This kind of reasoning also makes it hard in pyramid-scheme calculations. When people say they lost X Billions from Madoff or whoever it's hard to know how much of that was on-paper losses. If I put in $10, got told I had $100 in earni
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by anitil 6y ago
Huh I guess the jury is still out then
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by anitil 6y ago
I believe they did wipe out much of the mega fauna, so not necessarily sustainable in a modern sense.
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by anitil 6y ago
At least in Sydney, I found that bare-metal jobs typically paid far less and required far more experience. Some of the best engineers I know are being paid peanuts but are just happy to be quietly amazing in their corner. I was proper bare
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by anitil 6y ago
My understanding is that this is because a temporary file needs to be created next to the db in WAL mode so write permissions are necessary on on directory. ( https://www.sqlite.org/tempfiles.html , search for 'WAL'
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by anitil 6y ago
In my time in the embedded world we would reorder fields to deal with issues like alignment in MIPS. If you wanted to avoid this you would have to use a directive like __attribute__((packed)). Does go allow you do do the same? So I used to
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by anitil 6y ago
What a strange world we live in. Thanks so much
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by anitil 6y ago
Thanks for clearing that up! I had no idea there were two versions of this concept.
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by anitil 6y ago
> considering that everything that hangs off an insect is basically a modified leg That is the sort of tantalizing comment I can't ignore. for someone with essentially no background in biology or evolutionary history outside of yout
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by anitil 6y ago
It's very irritating talking about whatever hyperloop is, because that the bar for what the hyperloop is keeps changing (Is it tunnels? Is it in a vacuum? If there's no vacuum isn't it just a tunnel? Is it your own car or a p
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by anitil 6y ago
Great tool. I heard about it from Julia Evans a few weeks ago, and it replaced my janky half-baked script that used inotifywait
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by anitil 6y ago
There was a RadioLab episode touching on this [0], with a significant change of behavior following surgery for epilepsy. Disturbing listening, so be warned. [0] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segment
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by anitil 6y ago
Huh, I always thought that it was oxidation from getting wet that damaged the blade. I even remember getting a recommendation to clean the blade with alcohol to dry it of faster. I always find myself falling for this sort of 'Well of c
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by anitil 6y ago
Ordered the book, but would you be willing to go in to the issues around C while I wait for it to arrive?
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by anitil 6y ago
While obviously terrible behavior on the part of Zenefits, it highlight that there's a weird line you have to walk as a potential employee. You need to pretend that you are 100% committed to the new company, even when you barely know t
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by anitil 6y ago
> Perhaps it would be better to send them a letter? They only take fax
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by anitil 6y ago
Maybe this is just me being thick, but I still don't have a clear idea of what they actually did. Did they send spam SMS? Or were they using the numbers as another data point for analytics?
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by anitil 6y ago
I can't speak for NYC, but in Sydney commercial properties are typically valued at a fixed multiple of the rent. This matters because if they change the rent, any loan they've taken out now gets revalued, which could put them unde
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by anitil 6y ago
There is the Matt Levine answer to this which is 'Everything is Securities Fraud' [0]. He claims this is partially because securities law is broad and relatively functional, violations of other laws end up being pursued under secu
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by anitil 6y ago
I'm only part way through the proposal, but perhaps this would be a candidate for being placed in the vDSO so there's no context switch at all.
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by anitil 6y ago
Wow this comment just made me fall down a rabbit hole. I've only just surfaced. The Kaitai project actually comes with some pre-defined bindings for cpio which meant I was up and running very quickly. https://formats.kaitai.
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by anitil 6y ago
That's a cool product, didn't realise Shodan did that
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by anitil 6y ago
Oh I wish I'd known about 'xxd -i' ! When I saw it in the video linked above I was so annoyed that I hadn't used it before
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by anitil 6y ago
I had a good chuckle at : > message: "Do not write a SQL injection vulnerability please"
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by anitil 6y ago
One example might be the BRCA gene mutation. It gives you a higher chance of breast cancer and is typically associated with Ashkenazi Jews. I'm sure your insurer would be interested to know if you have it, and that potentially your chi

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