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by corty 5y ago
The expected use time of a dishwasher is 10 years. Which is a machine with mechanical parts and a lot of wear and tear, corrosive chemicals, decaying seals, etc. A computer with fewer movable parts and a higher price should last longer. Tha
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by corty 5y ago
Updates that kill devices are at best a defect that is the manufacturer's responsibility to fix or pay for. At worst computer sabotage, which is a crime. Unfortunately courts have yet to get "bitey" on this issue. I guess it
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by corty 5y ago
The general aim of "right to repair" is to extend lifetime of devices. All the things the author mentioned are means to achieve this, and all are necessary: Schematics, repair manuals, deliverable parts for a sufficiently long per
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by corty 5y ago
Depends, different countries (and sometimes states) have different standards there. And those reporting standards also sometimes changed over time. Which is why numbers are not completely comparable internationally and from different period
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by corty 5y ago
> - The Appstore model will eventually have to change so that people can resell the apps they purchased Unfortunately, courts have upheld the special protections that DRM measures are afforded. So while you may in theory be able to resel
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by corty 5y ago
Depends on your viewpoint. The current mess with software rentals and cloud-based everything is (among other reasons) a consequence of this. However, maybe people will see the light and go with free software instead (as in freedom, not beer
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by corty 5y ago
This is underappreciated. So useful. Just works. Can do almost anything. I think KDE in general needs better marketing. It is by far the best desktop environment available.
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by corty 5y ago
Also, in most parts of Europe, there is no "fruit of the poisonous tree". Meaning that law enforcement can use all the ill-gotten evidence they like, with extremely rare exceptions.
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by corty 5y ago
Now if the sword strikes would only leave a GDB stub...
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by corty 5y ago
Yes. We had a joke that either RR wasn't properly software-engineered the way RR proponents demand, so they weren't even dogfooding. Or it was and the process clearly doesn't work, even for its proponents. Because obviously,
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by corty 5y ago
Writing tests instead of utilizing the compiler is wasted time and effort. And it is one of the worst kinds of code duplication, because you are reimplementing all the type-checking, bounds-checking, etc. Usually badly, buggy and again and
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by corty 5y ago
I think the "good doctor" starts as soon as the checklist is finished and there is no result yet. I'm not a medical professional, but in other areas, using a checklist is helpful and necessary. You may cut short the known-use
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by corty 5y ago
I care. That it has worked for the last decade only means that Python was without a working debugger for 2/3 of its existence. 1/3 of which I had to suffer from it. Also, pycharm isn't really what I would call a proper debugg
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by corty 5y ago
Haskell debugging by testing is great for small functions where you can use quickcheck. But larger tests for the more complicated stuff don't work in quickcheck and there isn't much else that one can easily do.
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by corty 5y ago
Also, in almost all languages debuggers are an afterthought. Take e.g. the situation with Golang, Haskell or Python. Either there is no useful debugger or there is one, but it came late and still cannot debug everything the language does.
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by corty 5y ago
Yes. There is a special circle in hell for braindead firewall admins filtering ICMP. Unfortunately happens often enough that "MTU problem" is the first thing that comes to mind at the grandparents description. Next in line would b
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by corty 5y ago
Well, if the house should be worth anything, it won't be that cheap, yes. What you can find tons of is stuff like "Denkmalgeschützter Bauernhof Brandenburg" for really cheap, because the renovations will cost you big time. Sa
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by corty 6y ago
And remember, the company only has a duty to its shareholders to be more greedy!
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by corty 6y ago
Recently, near my grandmother's, public transport got a new train stop in the outskirts of Frankfurt. House prices in the adjacent villages have more than doubled. And they weren't cheap to begin with, considering it is commute di
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by corty 6y ago
I don't think it is a typo. There are areas out in the sticks where nobody wants to move (because no internet, no mobile reception, no public transport, next city is 50km away, next supermarket 20km), where 100€/m² is possible. Bu
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by corty 6y ago
The "empfohlen" (recommended) in the law is usually fulfilled by the vaccination being officially recommended in the vaccination list by the STIKO of the RKI (roughly the vaccine working group of the German disease control office)
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by corty 6y ago
I'm not fine with it. But those researchers are not helping at all. And also, if I had to pick between a somewhat inclusive mode of work where some rando can get code included at the slightly increased risk of including malicious code,
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by corty 6y ago
No, Germany: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__60.html Don't know about the US situation.
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, but if anything should happen to you because of a non-recommended vaccine you are on your own for treatment and disability pay.
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by corty 6y ago
That question has been obvious for quite some time. It is always possible to introduce subtle vulnerabilities. Research has tried for decades to come up with a solution, to no real avail.
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by corty 6y ago
They proved nothing that wasn't already obvious. A malicious actor can get in vulnerabilities the same way a careless programmer can. Quick, call the press! And as for the solutions, their contribution is nil. No suggestions that haven
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by corty 6y ago
I think in some cases, you wouldn't even need multiple patches, sometimes very small things can be exploits. See: http://www.ioccc.org/
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by corty 6y ago
It is your job as a researcher to make the committee fully understand all the implications of what you are doing. If you fail in that, you failed in your duties. The committee will also tell you this, as well as any ethical guideline. Given
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by corty 6y ago
I'm not holding my breath. I don't think they will pull that paper. Security research is not always the most ethical branch of computer science, to say it mildly. Those are the people selling exploits to oppressive regimes, allowi
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by corty 6y ago
He is doing a great job. But I think a few insults earlier on might have prevented a whole lot of trouble.

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