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by archi42 7y ago
Similar here: Even though I was somewhat aware ssh could do some PKI magic, I didn't CONSIDER deploying it. But I'll try to get our sysadmins to use it. Having U2F/FIDO support seems like THE big bonus to me (also I'd li
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by archi42 7y ago
That SIMs are expoitable was to be expected, and is another nail in the coffin of SMS 2FA. I'm just worried about the isolation between SIM and CPU - delivering a crypto locker via SMS would be an impressive feat, but wreak absolute ha
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by archi42 7y ago
I basically came here to say the same, regarding the FET: Most likely there are parts with the same form factor but much lower resistance (both switching and fully on), which don't have that problem. The price-difference might matter i
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by archi42 7y ago
Maybe people who will one day work on compilers? I learned a lot writing a compiler for a subset of C over one semester (in C++), and just recently built a "compiler" that is used in-house for a one-shot conversion task. Without t
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by archi42 7y ago
Hm, last time I wrote a constant elimination I did so in the optimizer pass over the AST (as part of a lecture, we built a custom C frontend for LLVM and added some optimization passes). What you describe replaces e.g. "x = 3 + 4;&quot
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by archi42 7y ago
Neat. Just a small note: On the "Best Of" page, the year selection is too narrow for my system (Chrome on Windows 10, WQHD). The two boxes only contains "20 " (twenty and some empty space); clicking/hovering one re
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by archi42 7y ago
I feel with you, but honestly: If that machine is fast enough, why care? ;-)
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by archi42 7y ago
This is an excellent write-up! Some friends of mine worked at one of the psychology departments as programmers/IT-guys while studying CS, lesson learned: Real knowledge of statistical methods is rare among psychology researchers; one
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by archi42 7y ago
There was another post on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20871727 (10h ago, pointing to a short excerpt on lwn.net; 3 comments) Though I like this one more, as it points to the source.
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by archi42 7y ago
DuckDuckGo/Googling for that yields only the site, no review or some 3rd party information if it is safe to use. I mean, as a side-project, I could setup a website that pulls APKs from Google, infests [some] of them with a virus and pu
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by archi42 7y ago
Oh, which games? The part of me who's still a child is looking for a GOOD reason to justify the spending to the part of me who is now a responsible adult (and to my SO).
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by archi42 7y ago
That's more like "nobody has been fire for buying IBM". I wouldn't blame you, but I'll be pushing for AMD at work now that they're competitive again.
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by archi42 7y ago
Marketing aside: Is the gaming IPC that /practically/ relevant? I mean, I'm gaming on a early-2012 Sandy Bridge CPU (Xeon E3-1235 aka "cheap i7-2600"), and it feels like my late-2013 R9 290 is the limiting factor th
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by archi42 7y ago
I wouldn't claim knowledge; it's only an abstraction from local low density areas: Where I live people drive less (suburbia) than where I was raised (country side) because there's practically no point in driving 30km/19m
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by archi42 7y ago
If you've an android phone, just count your apps? I did, and expected 8 of my 20 apps to use GCM. MicroG revealed it to be 11 (actually 12 due to "MicroG services core" registering with GCM as well). I might be an outlier tho
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by archi42 7y ago
There are multiple problems here: 1. As you stated, Google forces devs to rely on presence of the Google Play Services 2. Devs don't care: I don't see why e.g. Discord should not run properly on MicroG (I get push messages after l
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by archi42 7y ago
I think there are two things at play here: 1. The US is much larger than the UK, with a lot of nothing/low population density. 2. Mentality might be different: I imported my current car used from the Netherlands; the country is tiny, b
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by archi42 7y ago
400 of that was for the brake replacement, and the remaining 2600 sound pretty normal these days (if you're going to a manufacturer contracted garage instead of some 3rd party garage). Remember there is still an ICE for range extension
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by archi42 7y ago
True, I just amended my initial comment to reflect the fact that GitHub is not as bad as I made it look like, but the second class citizen point still stands, even if some workaround like "throw away the TOTP" is applied.
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by archi42 7y ago
Hm, but you have an Authenticator App enabled. If I "Edit" my SMS Number, I get to choose whether I want to proceed with "Set up using app" or "Set up using SMS", but not "Set up using security key".
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by archi42 7y ago
You're right, but I dislike that route for three reasons: 1. It should just be plain unnecessary to apply such a hack. 2. There is still a single weak point for all services. 3. While this prevents against the run-of-the-mill "att
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by archi42 7y ago
That sounds nice. But while using U2F/FIDO for a few years (with two HyperFIDOs, one for "daily" use attached to my key-chain, the other as a backup in a safe), I found the most common problem was that websites/services
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by archi42 7y ago
In fact, the compiler building a static switch table from non-constant expressions sounds a little bit impossible ;-)
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by archi42 7y ago
The second point is true for large quantities, e.g. if they want to cash in on 100MUS$. But they can still pay hosting fees, or send the coins to their friends in western countries to seed propaganda (or worse) there. //edit: The
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by archi42 7y ago
In Austria and recently (since April?) there is a provider called Awattar. They sell energy with a flexible price model that's based on the energy spot market. They claim "you might even get paid to consume power". My car cha
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by archi42 7y ago
These are not the only ones doing stuff like this: I've met a guy with a huge, blue Van (older Mercedes Sprinter?), charging his car at an IKEA in Germany. The ICE was removed and he could go 200km on battery; this was done by a shop&#
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by archi42 7y ago
I have a hybrid (2013 Volvo V60 D6), and I really like the car itself with it's three modes, Pure, Hybrid and Power (Pure feels like a BEV with a tiny 40km battery; Hybrid is mostly like my previous car, just 15 years younger; Power is
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by archi42 7y ago
You mean something like model-based development? That is a thing, at least I know it is in use for some safety critical development. The two products I am aware of are: * SCADE Suite: https://www.ansys.com/products/embe
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by archi42 7y ago
It's nice that that's possible for you, but I'm afraid it is not universally possible for everyone and everycity. E.g. bike access to our university (plus institutes etc.) when coming from the city is via narrow but heavy tra

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