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by brians 9y ago
Sphero is selling toy robots like hot cakes.
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by brians 9y ago
Why would that be minimal? If I’m your competitor, I’m going to sign up my colleague, and have him report you for spam. And I’m going to loop this until you lose your mailing privileges.
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by brians 9y ago
For me, yes. I use Python plenty too, but Awk is great for a tiny state machine, and unique in the ease of setting up an event stream view of a text file. I could use Python, add a loop and a big set of conditionals—but a one page awk progr
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by brians 9y ago
Capacitor electrolytics. Air bubbles in silicon, thermal expansion, and a zillion day night cycles. Humidity and dust enter, contributing to occasional momentary shorts. Oxidation anywhere you have electromechanical connections. Magnetic st
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by brians 9y ago
I’ve never heard of them stopping you from teaching something extra. Does this mean you dropped something to make room for grids?
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by brians 9y ago
Yes. He would have tried to persuade them, perhaps cut out the researchers to persuade CERT.
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by brians 9y ago
But the CPU and chipset need to talk to all those ports. If any USB-C port can suddenly need to do Thunderbolt 3, that’s ridiculous bandwidth requirements. You probably can’t do that to 8 ports on anything.
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by brians 9y ago
Well, yeah: the cable shielding should have been bonded to the chassis at both ends.
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by brians 9y ago
SSH Keys are for login authentication. If tomorrow we crack RSA-2047, you can replace them before we get to 2048 bits. GPG Keys are for secrecy. If the adversary gets a ciphertext, he can hold it until 2030 and decrypt then. Very different
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by brians 9y ago
When I switched around Red Hat 6 (not RHEL 6), the difference in quality of uninstall scripts and dependency management was stark: you can install and uninstall Debian packages without changes to your system. They test for this. If you need
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by brians 9y ago
Fifteen? I read that by 1991, latest. It’s nearly thirty. And it’s just what I thought of here: this article has the same simple clarity.
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by brians 9y ago
That’s funny. Disk Utility is the successor to Disk First Aid, which has been available since the mid-80s. It’s not the iOSification; it’s deep Mac tradition.
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by brians 9y ago
Nah. It’s a bug in a critical security system that made it to release. It should have been caught by automated testing—can you grep for the password, or decrypted volume encryption key, in an encrypted filesystem? When you change the pass
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by brians 9y ago
What do you use for ESC? Escape for vi and Meta for emacs have been my stumbling blocks in this model.
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by brians 9y ago
What were the targets? Apparently 1500 model 3s. That might just be a months delay in startup; we'll know for sure in 3 months.
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by brians 9y ago
Dijkstra famously compared this to astronomers who have no interest in telescopes or observing. I love theory, would happily retire to it—but I can’t see how anyone could have the right imagination calibration without lots of practice.
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by brians 9y ago
Twenty years and it’s done. No big deal. But the patent on teepee fires, log cabin fires, elm fires, oak fires, pine fires that start faster, maple fires, fire for cooking chicken, fire for cooking turkey, fire for smoking meats, fire for s
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by brians 9y ago
He’s a young man with a future to think about. Using all the powers you have can offend some people, some of whom are in a position to help or hinder your future efforts for decades to come. If this works, it’ll be Jobsian brilliance. If,
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by brians 9y ago
It looks like this has some of the same product people as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV , but critically not Jeri Ellsworth.
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by brians 9y ago
I'll take that deal personally. No, seriously: you solve the "live... for centuries" part and you see how many volunteers show up.
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by brians 9y ago
50 Billys. Why, where do you keep the rest of your books?
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by brians 9y ago
An important thing about layers, about defense in depth, is that you can’t even begin to attack one mechanism until you’ve defeated its predecessors. DANE + TLS doesn’t give you layers. If I can subvert your DNSSEC, I can endorse a fresh
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by brians 9y ago
Ham.
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by brians 9y ago
That has massive import/export implications, changes how you can ship them, all sorts of nonsense. As always, when a group of hundreds of smart engineers are doing something superficially inexplicable, it's actually either: a) co
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by brians 9y ago
The article's not silly. Leveson and Hamilton's works cover that explicitly. Start with Engineering a Safer World's Intent Specifications, move on to Safeware, and look at the attention that goes into writing the right TLA+
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by brians 9y ago
Turing hardly prevents it; indeed, by the Church-Turing thesis, shows us how it’s done: write an abstract model of your problem space. This is your types and type functions (like Option/Some/Maybe). Write a type that is the theo
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by brians 9y ago
Same experience: my 4yo built a rainbow-colored case for a Pi2 B, cabled in monitor and keyboard and mouse and power, and knows it’s the computer she built. Following Goerzen’s advice, she gets a text login—so three years later, she knows
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by brians 9y ago
It’s best, in my experience, for simple expressions. We usually have a lot of those, and this helps it flow like text. Big expressions are so complex,you really want to keep your eyes on the real input.
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by brians 9y ago
The tracker/torrent numbers I see are consistent with more than a quarter of US college-aged people using them, and more than three quarters watching media obtained that way—those are better numbers than HBO. It absolutely has a role
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It’s tight poetry, reliant on meter for memorability and often with tricky internal meter, puns, and rhyme. It doesn’t depend on overt culture, but prying it out of its native language works as well as Seuss or Joyce.

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