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by briHass 3y ago
Doctors prescribe stimulant medication for ADHD because it is remarkably effective, well-understood, and reasonably safe, if doses are controlled and potential addiction is managed. Why would a doctor mess around with a less effective (argu
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by briHass 3y ago
The age old battle of security vs convenience. Most Linux distros don't force you into pre boot, PIN TPM encryption either. It is controllable through group policy, so orgs that care can force users into it.
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by briHass 3y ago
Note: there's also Bitlocker for non-boot drives, aka Bitlocker to Go. It functions more like TV/VC in that you can encrypt a drive/partition/removable storage with a password. You probably don't want it to auto-unl
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by briHass 3y ago
Exactly. An attacker that has full access to the device can get past encrypted TPM parameters, it would just slow them down. The best method is pre-boot auth where the TPM itself requires a PIN to release the keys. Windows doesn't use
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by briHass 3y ago
No big deal here. This attack looks like it's using a crusty old TPM 1.2 laptop, so encrypted parameters to the TPM aren't supported. Even with Win11 and TPM2.0 (required for Win11), encrypted parameters to the TPM would just slow
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by briHass 3y ago
They are not middle class by any metric. They may feel overextended, but that can happen at any income level, and (as in this case) is often due to the spending side of the equation.
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by briHass 3y ago
You forgot a big asset on this hypothetical balance sheet: the individual's (your) productive output over their lifetime. Until we get to a point where all existing, and all possible, human output can be done by machines at no cost to
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by briHass 3y ago
"Everyone driving slower than me is a slowpoke, everyone driving faster is a maniac" This was on full display back in 2017-2018 when tax code was changed to limit the amount of State and Local taxes (SALT) that could be deducted f
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by briHass 3y ago
I mostly agree, but from a devil's advocate position, the downside is the likelihood that you end up reimplementing queue basics like retries, delay/scheduling, and of course, the essential transactional state flips without lockin
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by briHass 3y ago
I realized that I owe a debt to my mother for consistently correcting me as a child on I/me, they/them and other subtle rules. I don't have to think about the rule, the incorrect word just sounds 'wrong'. The downsi
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by briHass 3y ago
Took a class of his at University of Delaware around the turn of the century. He was a great professor that clearly had a love for the subject. NTP was much more complex and nerdy than some of the other trivial protocol RFCs, especially by
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by briHass 3y ago
It also gives you much more resolution, in integers, over the range a human is likely to experience. For something like a home thermostat, 71F, 72F, and 73F can easily be destinguished by feel and represented as a 2 digit number. Doing the
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by briHass 3y ago
Only if you don't use a TPM PIN and/or have a <2.0 TPM. Bitlocker using TPM with PIN has no way to know your hard drive key without asking the TPM, which requires the PIN (and has anti-hammering/lockout built in.)
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by briHass 3y ago
Care to list some of the basic tenants of nutrition that are widely agreed upon? About the only things I see as generally accepted are to eat a varied diet (whatever that means), keep total consumed caloric content near the amount expended,
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by briHass 3y ago
MDMA in particular has such obvious usefulness for relationship/marriage counseling therapy. After many years of experimenting with pretty much every conventional and 'research' drug, MDMA is the only one that stands out to m
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by briHass 3y ago
You could be remembering a time when McD's used to cook their fries in beef tallow. They switched to 'vegetable' oil around 1990 [1] due to the persistent myth that animal fats promote heart disease, or at a rate higher than
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by briHass 3y ago
If I'm being charitable, I assume most of these IoT devices that could just use local-only networking for basic functionality do it through a central (Internet) server for 'security'. If the device just opened a simple TCP&#x
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by briHass 3y ago
If they're homeless, they aren't 'paying' into a single payer system, regardless of it being at the State or Federal level. People that pay little to no taxes 'mooching' off the taxpayer funded services is exac
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by briHass 3y ago
The case of duct work not being sufficient for a oil/gas -> heat pump conversion is pretty common. A heat pump, especially one of the conventional split types (non-minisplit) generally wants 300-400 CFM of airflow per ton. So, a 3 t
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by briHass 3y ago
At least in PA, having a disability (I'd assume MS with motor difficulties would qualify) makes it pretty straightforward, based on my experience. Like most government interaction, there's lots of paperwork, but the employees admi
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by briHass 3y ago
These conversations never consider that the US does offer pretty robust welfare programs for cases just like this. He would undoubtedly meet the case for 'disabled' as defined by the Social Security Administration if he lost his i
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by briHass 3y ago
It doesn't, or at least it doesn't for traditional applications. UWP (store apps) might, but I've never seen it. To be fair, identifying an app when not delivered through some locked down store mechanism is actually problemat
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by briHass 3y ago
I'd argue that is actually the hard part of software engineering. Sure, I can learn the basic syntax of a new coding language in a week or so, but learning all the deep frameworks to do non-trivial stuff, conventions, deployment, and h
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by briHass 3y ago
Sounds like setting up a torrenting system is in my future, since my beloved newsgroups are dying a slow death. The big killer for newsgroups is indexers. Posts of content to the newsgroups have to be obsfucated to avoid near instant DMCA t
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by briHass 3y ago
The argument is essentially that a noncompete is a voluntary contract, and generally the courts don't want to prevent individuals from freely entering into agreements. Noncompetes already must have 'consideration', which is t
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by briHass 3y ago
There's also significant engineering calculations and guidelines/rules about the expected volume of air that is expected to enter/exit vents vs their size and grille restrictions. This is more to prevent loud airflow, but the
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by briHass 3y ago
You might be surprised about the old Skylake. If it's using a solid state drive and any unnecessary fans/peripherals are disabled, it's probably only going to use 10w or so at near idle (as a firewall would be with that chip.
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by briHass 3y ago
It's pretty hard to be mad at Microsoft here. They supported Win 10 for a full decade, and anything newer than Coffee Lake CPUs (2016-2017) likely had the option to upgrade, for free, to Win 11. The biggest roadblock is usually lack of
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by briHass 3y ago
PTFE pans are definitely not overrated. Yes, they do eventually wear out, but more modern NS cookware is much more resistant to scratching than old school Teflon pans. If not abused -- no scraping with metal, dishwasher, scrubbing pad, etc
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by briHass 3y ago
If nothing else, it should humble you and make you appreciate how lucky 'you' are now to have found and be good at one of few remaining white-collar jobs that pay well. That list of high paying jobs is shrinking rapidly, and it&#x

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