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by crucini 10y ago
The key bypass is only on the cheapest consumer safes. Many of those can be opened just by rapping with a hammer. This vuln was found in Sargent & Greenleaf locks. These are UL-listed locks suitable for securing cash in commercial estab
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by crucini 10y ago
Two answers: 1. Yes. It is not easy to take the advice of "suck it up." But if you are getting that advice regularly, there's a reason. 2. Paradoxically, telling people on the internet to fix themselves is the opposite of fix
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by crucini 10y ago
This sentence jumped out at me: >You also have those individuals who are “not rude” but keep telling people to “suck it up”, to get “their act together” or to believe that disrespect is just a question of interpretation. Sounds like the
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by crucini 10y ago
But strstr() doesn't seem rotten or "legacy" in a bad way.
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by crucini 10y ago
> They are bigint-encoding identifiers? There is no sane reason to do this. There needn't be any "encoding" really. Modern CPUs have a 32-bit compare instruction. The CPU doesn't understand types as a compiler does; i
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by crucini 11y ago
In many countries everyone, or every male, has to do military service or training. Linus Torvalds, for instance, had to take a year off from college to serve. I remember a Chinese programmer in Silicon Valley complaining that he toted an AK
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by crucini 11y ago
As Elie Wiesel, another distinguished Holocaust author, put it: Some events do take place but are not true; others are – although they never occurred. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(book) (I'm not sure if Ot
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by crucini 11y ago
It's a step in the right direction, but I'm afraid we need more than this. > Since some Web pages may appear broken when elements that track behavior are blocked, we’ve made it easy to turn off Tracking Protection in Private Br
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by crucini 11y ago
I think some sort of "Iron Law" is at work here - a company never does better than needed. Apple has such vast lockin and momentum that they can make bad UI decisions and probably suffer no consequences.
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by crucini 11y ago
> No one has ever made a "concrete finish" device, Most hand-held plastic devices of the 80s/90s were hair-cell finish, emulating the texture of leather. Engineers knew that smooth plastic will scratch and show scratches.
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by crucini 11y ago
Interface design has certainly taken huge strides, but I don't think they're in a good direction. UIs are increasingly trying to be "pretty", which is in the eye of the beholder, but not useful. I think most of the UI o
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by crucini 11y ago
The DIRNSA isn't really an NSA staff member. He's a general or admiral that represents the agency to Congress, etc. This is relevant to whether NSA experience is a pro or con in the commercial space - he doesn't have the type
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by crucini 11y ago
OK, it does sound like CW misunderstood their own patent in an earlier filing. And maybe that technically makes them lose the point. But CW's current filing contains this: According to the patent, “The MAC-e PDU is sent to the
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by crucini 11y ago
Meh. I'd like to see the complete engineering documents for some of the older missions. That means hundreds or thousands of sheets of drawings, and thousands of pages of specifications. In case you haven't worked on a large engine
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by crucini 11y ago
Albert's hack is definitely impressive, and would make him stand out. I'm surprised at some nay-sayers here. Suggesting he use SVG? Nothing impressive about that. I phone screen a lot, and would be impressed by Albert. However,
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by crucini 11y ago
>$ fix network > Your currently specified nameserver, 104.105.10.11, is pingable but not responding to DNS requests. Try putting in 8.8.8.8. or >$ detect usb >You recently plugged in a device with an ACME-1000 chip. You need t
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by crucini 11y ago
Github has chosen the left/PC side, certainly, as evidenced by the rug death. But I suspect this will help them rather than hurt, as the majority of developers are probably left/PC, as is leadership of major tech companies. They a
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by crucini 11y ago
I don't think it's possible for a candidate to properly value the options part of an offer. Not only is too much information withheld in the beginning, but the picture changes several times through the life of the startup, and em
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by crucini 11y ago
Maybe they can get individuals to buy, maintain and operate the robotic cars. You buy the car and lease it to Uber for 70% of the revenue. Same model as now, minus the "employee" factor.
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by crucini 11y ago
I think Blair is an interesting rarity that distracts from the real problems with media. Very few reporters have the bad judgement to make up entire stories; that's why Blair is newsworthy. Do his sins tell us anything about journalis
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by crucini 11y ago
I thought he made a very interesting point. Your pseudocode looked good until I read that counterargument - now I've got food for thought.
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by crucini 11y ago
Could you give some examples please?
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by crucini 11y ago
> The real secret about success is that it's random Really? Why do corporations pay top dollar for good CEO's? Are they foolish to? Would you claim that hunting and fishing are also pure luck? Doesn't the hunter's ski
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by crucini 11y ago
Possibly it's that business success means building a profitable business, while startup success means positive exit.
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by crucini 11y ago
I think the right answer here is to develop languages or libraries that enforce the constraints you want. I think we should beware of adding layers of "silver bullet" technologies that promise to fix the last crisis, but increase
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by crucini 11y ago
This kind of offends us as technologists, but it may be the wave of the future. I think business would generally prefer to buy a "defined benefit" rather than gamble on the longevity of a device.
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by crucini 11y ago
I take your point, but I have been interviewed with the "pair programming" concept and found it much easier. It also tells the interviewer how you really interact with a computer. I find the whiteboard stressful. I'm tempted
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by crucini 11y ago
Tvtropes tends to drain the specialness from an entertainment product and reveal the generic components. Applying the same lens to politics results in something like "Yes Minister", where we realize government actions aren't
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by crucini 11y ago
Neat. I notice 2 of 4 pictures show inclement weather, which is probably to show their advantage over motorcycles. Since in general a 2-wheeled motorcycle is more enjoyable than a trike. Can this thing provide the crash protection of a no
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by crucini 11y ago
To be fair, they are kind of separate problems. In Clojure, for instance, you can write parallel code and the nuts and bolts are handled for you.

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