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by csirac2 11y ago
It's been a while since I did much perl, but FWIW I seem to recall doing (undef, my $foo) = do_stuff(). Perhaps modern perls have tightened up allowing undef as the target of an assignment.
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by csirac2 11y ago
You don't need an insane antenna setup to start out. A lot of Amateur radio people love optimizing their antennas for efficiency, skywave propagation, frequency agility etc. but it's not required for basic operation especially in
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by csirac2 11y ago
I hate to be a buzz kill, but some of those Baofengs really need harmonic suppression filters installed. They're popular here in Australia, but I saw a friend put his on a spectrum analyzer and saw 2nd harmonic at ~-5dBc! I know they&#
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by csirac2 11y ago
The technical limitation is the basic geometry of GPS. Satellites are at ~20,000km, aircraft at ~10km max. And you want 0.0003km resolution in altitude. We barely even have 0.003km in the lat/long plane, and it's only that good be
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by csirac2 11y ago
It's why I try to deploy xen dom0s without any QEMU installed at all; reading through past xen CVEs was enough to convince me that HVM guests seem more exposed.. If anybody knows a writeup on what you might lose in terms of isolation
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by csirac2 11y ago
It's with those thoughts in mind that usually deploy Xen dom0s without QEMU installed at all (so only PV guests). You just have to read through past Xen CVEs to see that HVM presents a lot of attack surface, admittedly I'm unsure
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by csirac2 11y ago
Biasing is indeed non-trivial, and most designs require temperature compensation to keep drain current constant. In fact, it's pretty easy to fry a GaN part without proper bias sequencing at power-on and off. At least it is with the pa
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by csirac2 11y ago
I've been working with GaN parts for RF after being out of the hardware game for a few years. GaN was around but nowhere near as prolific as it is now. I thought SiC would have made more inroads than it has. GaN parts just seem incredi
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by csirac2 11y ago
Yes, we can argue that the content is less than perfect (are there really no permissible controls to get around 90day passwords, such as 2FA?), I'm just taking issue with the assumption that this is a conspiracy designed to line the po
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by csirac2 11y ago
Woah. Precisely the reason that card networks and issuers have been so lax previously is that they want consumers and issuers to use their damn cards. Being painful to use for merchants and consumers is incompatible with that. Until now los
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by csirac2 11y ago
I had to abandon my reading before I reached the end, I was too angry at the disgustingly sloppy referencing. In particular his second paragraph put me in a bad mood straight away: > In order to fill these gaps, a storage solution or a b
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by csirac2 11y ago
To be fair I have this problem on Debian too. Sometimes there is foo-nox, the foo version without X dependencies, but I seem to find myself building such packages for myself to omit some afterthought GUI bit which drags in Qt, gtk, or half
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by csirac2 11y ago
Shared code is the only sane way to manage secure systems. Not only do I not want to wait 6 months for an lzo or libpng RCE to be fixed separately in 28 different pieces of software (some are no longer maintained so I'll have to wait f
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by csirac2 11y ago
Also in this space: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet - seems to have some pretty notable people involved.
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by csirac2 11y ago
Really? Last I checked there was no BIOS support to recognize them and Intel was only giving support for embedded CPUs. Ta, I'll have a look
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by csirac2 11y ago
Ok, except... Well I can't help but think that if they can create a crazy unicorn land of negative interest, surely by comparison the monetary policy option of keeping the mint idle would be a would be a walk in the park...
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by csirac2 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that's Ubuntu's fault :)
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by csirac2 11y ago
I'm typing this on an X230, with 16GiB RAM. I busted the screen recently and considered an X250... it's such a shame that "ultrabook" means "one DIMM slot" these days, i.e. they max out at 8GiB RAM - same as I
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by csirac2 11y ago
Yeah, but this article makes no sense for another reason: hardly any of the money supply is actually made up of cold hard cash! Less than 4% according to these 2004 stats: http://www.frbsf.org/education/publications&#x2
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by csirac2 11y ago
We live in shitty knee-jerk reactionary times, but did anyone else see his tweet at the time? At best, it seemed in poor taste. At worst, the outcome seems depressingly predictable. I don't know what I'm trying to contribute here,
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by csirac2 12y ago
Something that bothers me is (seemingly) widespread use of passphraseless ssh keys or, using ssh-agent without a timeout setting (so your keys are always loaded). I have to wonder if part of this is because ssh-agent -t starts the timeout c
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by csirac2 12y ago
Hrm, I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in the Java/C cohort around ~2004-2006 who discovered Ruby/Python and friends and felt.. liberated. Java 1.3/1.4 was so thoroughly completely awful and unproductive, I'm quite
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by csirac2 12y ago
"However, all practitioners in data science and statistics would benefit from integrating Bayesian techniques into their arsenal" - that this wasn't already the case is news to me. Perhaps bioinf is less mainstream than I tho
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by csirac2 12y ago
A few countries already do this around the EU - Latvia, Czech Republic: http://www.ica.cz/Get-ZEP-package
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by csirac2 12y ago
That's an important distinction, thanks.
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by csirac2 12y ago
Mary L Boas "Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences" [1] has absolutely been my favorite and most-used maths text in the 9 years since graduating uni. It's like a reference manual of just about all the non-CS (i.e. con
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by csirac2 12y ago
Make sure you have wheezy/security as well. The vuln tracker often indicates issues fixed in wheezy/security iceweasel packages a lot more quickly than wheezy.
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by csirac2 12y ago
The mint packaging of the real Mozilla Firefox (tm) works for me, on jessie at least.
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by csirac2 12y ago
You should have iceweasel 31 according to https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/iceweasel Which websites refuse to work? You could always just add the linux mint repositories and install the real firefox that way. http:&
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by csirac2 12y ago
It's a strange title, given that towards the end it seems more like he's recommending to not bother migrating from bcrypt to scrypt (if you're already using bcrypt). But now I'm curious: the author states that neither sc

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