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by brians 6y ago
How come Marcy Wheeler and others have so many criticisms of the accuracy and sourcing of his journalism?
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by brians 6y ago
System 76?
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by brians 6y ago
It's a descendant of Zephyr, a lovely chat system that had great success in the world of stable IPv4 addresses, statically assigned, but which really hasn't made the mobile transition acceptably. Namable threads are amazing.
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by brians 6y ago
I love Seibel’s work, but it’s important to know he has retracted much of the emphasis on code reading. He apparently read that into his subjects words, perhaps in a manic period.
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by brians 6y ago
It was the only path for my family—illegal immigrants in the inter-war years who served in WW2 for citizenship. The US kept its promise to Europeans, even those not then considered white—but broke its promise to Filipinos. We have a lot of
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by brians 6y ago
That’s a really good comparison! Lua has real types in a dynamic language; in Tcl everything is a string. They can both pass functions around, but Tcl’s work by “eval” all the time—so security is quite tricky. Lua has real higher order func
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by brians 6y ago
I believe it’s going to be great for ANE users, but let’s just say that this author’s opinions on how local Docker shouldn’t be part of the “core development cycle” don’t match my environment. This is going to mean investment in Linux lapt
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by brians 6y ago
Assurance that you’re getting the right $5 device is tricky—when the factory has so many incentives to do otherwise.
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by brians 6y ago
The paper’s ideas are not yet implemented. Right now, it’s encrypted to whatever keys Zoom likes, including the PRC’s. Same system as Apple’s or Google’s
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by brians 6y ago
Knuth was being paid by Burroughs to implement an Algol-58 compiler in 1960. He’s still programming, and seems to have advice for others on the subject. But I don’t expect to see him here. Congratulations on being in that company, and may i
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by brians 6y ago
I could have written exactly the above until a Bear sync bug ate my notes. Beat customer support had nothing to offer but condolences. It was during an iOS beta on one of the devices, so perhaps not their fault—but I’ve been unwilling to pa
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by brians 6y ago
He’s got a book now, too! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34184069-the-storm-befor... But the ancients did not think like us—I like Lendon for explaining how and why: https://www.goodreads.com/
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by brians 6y ago
No, but now they see that the minimum is not where they had thought. As someone who does security professionally, of course a business wants to do the minimum necessary for security. The point of security systems is to break things that wou
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by brians 6y ago
Apparently it includes minion-master interaction. If that’s to be “hardened” over SSH, what’s the point of all the salt keys?
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by brians 6y ago
Salt uses AES too. The problem is it puts together standard primitives in homebrew protocols. Cryptographic protocol design is as likely to mess your system up as cryptographic primitive design.
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by brians 6y ago
Based on what we see of other stars, we’re overdue.
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by brians 6y ago
I read an early indictment of skeuomorphism, from the same place that generates current opposition to skeuomorphic design.
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by brians 6y ago
What would kill Python 2? RCE in pip?
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by brians 6y ago
As a manager, I want to measure leading indicators of success and failure. Absolutely, feedback control based on the real output is important. I must measure that! But I’m always looking for ways to predict that, so I can steer more gently
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by brians 6y ago
Sure. And the insurance plans will all tie you up with requirements for their firms to justify it or they won’t pay.
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by brians 7y ago
We built one. It didn’t work then. He said it wouldn’t, and indeed it didn’t. He’s been dead for decades, and we haven’t built a working one now—but somehow it’s his fault!
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by brians 7y ago
There’s a terminal program from Pignology that works with FTDI and similar UARTs
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by brians 7y ago
For one thing, it’s how they show the manual. And the release notes for updates.
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by brians 7y ago
What makes you think they have only those five ingredients? I’d bet on more gluten, malt, potato starch, a couple exotic salts, and more.
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by brians 7y ago
And EE “Doc” Smith of the Lensmen invented tech critical to Krispy Kreme. Food science is important work—it took a LOT of attention relative to comms in the first half of XXc.
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by brians 7y ago
Great. Who reports idle power on a datasheet?
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by brians 7y ago
Exploding streets, thunderstorms, whoops there went the dog. And friction still gives you transmission losses.
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by brians 7y ago
Drink tonic water. Quinine’s close enough.
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by brians 7y ago
Not like the CRISP! It implemented the C call stack in hardware, with no registers—almost every instruction directly addressed memory, or the register-like arguments on top of the stack.
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by brians 7y ago
Predatory? I don’t see the problem with demanding these businesses, or their landlords, comply with the law to make them accessible.

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