axoltl

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by axoltl 9y ago
I'll be honest with you, I've conducted some attrocious interviews. It's taken me a long time, and a LOT of interviews, to get to the point where I feel like I'm not horribly butchering them most of the time. I found tha
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by axoltl 9y ago
Out of curiosity, were your interviewers largely young? 20-28 years old?
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by axoltl 9y ago
Neither of which can be solved by 'studying' for an interview. I'll argue that the required skills are on the interviewer, not the interviewee. As an interviewer I'm trying to assess a skillset, be it social, be it techn
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by axoltl 9y ago
I'd say ESP* is 'it' for a very small set of people. The Cortex M cores are significantly more ubiquitous.
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by axoltl 9y ago
It has a bug but it's only an out-of-bounds read, not a write. So you might be able to make it crash, but why would you want to? Crashing might make it reboot and continue mining. Instead, send "false\0" and it'll stop d
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by axoltl 9y ago
I came to the US on an H1-B to fill a position that was open for 2 years. They simply could not find a qualified candidate. I don't have a PhD, and I wasn't educated in the United States. I was hired because of all the extra-curri
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by axoltl 9y ago
I came to the US on an H1-B. I work in embedded security (think silicon, PCB level attacks, bootloaders, kernels) which is a field that has, by my best guess, less than a 1000 individuals in it. For whatever reason they are largely European
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by axoltl 10y ago
That's actually not true. From 14 CFR 250.1, definitions: "Confirmed reserved space means space on a specific date and on a specific flight and class of service of a carrier which has been requested by a passenger, including a pas
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by axoltl 10y ago
You bring up an interesting point. I'll let the actual car part be what it is (I should totally be able to change a simple mechanical part on my car). Instead, I'll ask the question if I should be able to swap out the LiDAR on my
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by axoltl 10y ago
Yeah, in general I agree with the article, the 'malloc all your memory' part is something I disagree with heavily. Outside of the fact that many malloc and calloc implementations don't particularly deal well with integer over
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by axoltl 10y ago
It's all about incentive and opportunity. The Geek Squad employee has a good incentive to do so as it means a $500 payday. Considering these guys' likely pay, that's a decent chunk of change. They also have plenty of opportun
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by axoltl 10y ago
It's also a rather important security feature.
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by axoltl 10y ago
I flew into the US this morning (Green Card holder), and before I landed I changed my password to a random string that I had put in my home directory and a USB stick in my house. I did not know what the string was (being 16 bytes from &#x2F
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by axoltl 10y ago
While I understand the audience isn't supposed to be technical, implying that encryption confers integrity is a common misconception we shouldn't be enforcing. Encryption and authentication are two separate concepts, even though t
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by axoltl 10y ago
Dammit, why did you have to remind me... Both LBA and LBA2 stand out as extremely memorable from my childhood. It does look like there's a revival of game-styles from that era, given Thimbleweed Park[0], Pathway[1], and apparently 2Dar
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by axoltl 10y ago
I'm always curious when research like this comes out, as it flies in the face of my (admittedly anecdotal) evidence. I myself am diagnosed with ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive). I've also been part of a few hacker groups over the y
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by axoltl 10y ago
I'm curious to see how this turns out, especially considering things like TouchID which is paired to the Secure Enclave. Allowing anyone to perform that pairing fundamentally undermines their security model.
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by axoltl 10y ago
Looks like there's more: https://crt.sh/?id=63552608 with commonName: jotestintermediate.bbtest.net
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by axoltl 10y ago
This is exactly what they were trying to do in the San Bernadino case with the iPhone. They were trying to set a precedent using an 'indefensible' case. He was a terrorist! We should stop terrorism! It was never about that specifi
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by axoltl 10y ago
If you've ever had proper mayonnaise, you've eaten raw egg.
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SFMTA publishes list of names with license plates(sfmta.com)
33 points by axoltl 11y ago|16 comments
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Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away(fail0verflow.com)
118 points by axoltl 11y ago|22 comments
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by axoltl 11y ago
$105k is a livable wage in San Francisco, but expect about half of that paycheck to disappear into rent and about a quarter or a third going towards food and whatnot. On the other hand, my salary at this point isn't my main source of
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by axoltl 11y ago
That's a good question. I had a hard time getting letters from my previous employers, so that part took the better part of a year. If you ignore that, I'd say 3 years? I was EB3 'other'. EB2 or EB1 category applicants fr
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by axoltl 11y ago
I worked for my employer for about 6 months when we started green-card proceedings. I was a junior engineer on an H1-B then, having been hired straight out of college from the Netherlands. The job-req I applied for had been sitting there fo
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by axoltl 11y ago
The construction of the cipher doesn't solve the biggest problem with using these stream ciphers, re-use of the IV. Depending on your architecture it is very hard to guarantee that you'll never re-use an {IV, Key} pair. Encrypting
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by axoltl 11y ago
C is not a safe language sort of by definition, so you always have to consider all the possibilities. For example, you use sscanf in places, with fixed sized buffers. What happens if someone were to pass a lot of data into your program? Wha
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by axoltl 12y ago
The code seems to suggest this was written by someone that isn't all that versed in crypto, which is more than a little worrying for an ATM: hash_pbkdf2('sha256', $password, $salt, self::ITERATIONS, $saltSize, true); where se