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by dancek 8y ago
Not sure about this. You can damage most devices by hitting them with a hammer or pouring coffee on them. That's about $50 cheaper to do.
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by dancek 8y ago
Thanks for sharing! I spent one day this autumn getting the open source toolchain working and dimming the onboard led on an upduino. Turns out testing on hardware when you don't know what you're doing is cumbersome (surprising!).
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by dancek 8y ago
The existence of the device is important in itself. If it was possible to make a device like USB Killer, nobody would care. But now that you can order one online for cheap, it must be taken into account. But yes, it's mostly for malici
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by dancek 8y ago
I noticed the same system in the Google Cloud python samples repository. It's actually quite useful to have the full code available and to easily see which parts are displayed in docs. Feature request, though: include a url in the sour
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by dancek 8y ago
The reason to use a salt is mostly that an attacker doesn't then have a precomputed library of hash values. Say, if someone uses the password 'gwpmkq' and a site uses plain MD5, they store cc733aac12981561dfc4944dd34a595f in
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by dancek 8y ago
1. Don't start spending. 2. Get a part-time normal job, at least until you figure out a meaningful way to spend your time. 3. Help people who have nothing and face a crisis. $1k could completely change someone's life or it could g
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by dancek 8y ago
This brings memories. I wrote a planetary simulation in Java/Swing as a programming course project in 2008, back when I didn't know much about programming. That application also had sliders for control, RK4 etc. I started programm
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by dancek 8y ago
> affordable for students and RF enthusiasts Takes a lot of scrolling to see the price, which is $480. That's probably affordable considering the specs. But the cheap way to experiment with an SDR is to repurpose a $20 USB TV tuner.
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by dancek 8y ago
Good to know! I'll have to consider switching to Keepass, then.
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by dancek 8y ago
I don't think that's naive. A browser plugin is another component that you have to trust. But maybe you haven't considered all threats. I use the Chrome password store. Copying passwords over clipboard seems quite unsafe to m
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by dancek 8y ago
People don't seem to understand how dangerous browser add-ons are. Protecting people from eg. malicious add-ons emptying their bank accounts is probably one of the reasons for restricting add-ons. However, restricting add-on installati
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by dancek 8y ago
At least they were recruiting with that angle some months ago. I'm assuming it'll take a while even if all goes well, though.
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by dancek 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. I read another comment about Nim being nice on microcontrollers because it compiles/transpiles to C, and my first thought was ESP32. I've written Rust for STM32 and MSP430 and it's awesome.
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by dancek 8y ago
Yes, I'm talking in the context of SPA frameworks (which the article referred to).
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by dancek 8y ago
Do you have data to back that up, or are you speaking from personal experience? I know how it can go wrong, but SPAs can become a mess too. I had one project where we built a very beautiful, modern site that had about 50 lines of js in tota
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by dancek 8y ago
Of course, but time is limited and there's a huge number of things to learn. So my point about a customer paying the cost of learning SSR may be moot, but someone has to pay it. I also assume the ease of implementing SSR is highly depe
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by dancek 8y ago
The days of work needed to set up server-side rendering? I realize I must look stupid saying this, because when you know your tech stack inside out the setup might be 15 minutes instead of days. But a large proportion of developers only lea
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by dancek 8y ago
The earpiece and speaker distort the sound so much it doesn't really matter what DAC you drive them through. ARM microcontrollers tend to have built-in DACs that are probably good enough for that kind of use. But when you have your hig
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by dancek 8y ago
I somewhat disagree. Yes, if the GUI has five possible actions and you're only familiar with one of them, it's much easier to learn to do the other four things with the GUI. But it's tedious to do something the GUI wasn'
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by dancek 8y ago
Moving or copying files a single time might be a bit faster using a GUI (or TUI). But when you factor in starting the file manager and navigating to the right place, it's not a big difference. And when you need to do a more complicated
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by dancek 8y ago
That is true and a good point. But when you think about it, with a large enough budget you could create hardware backdoors in microprocessors in the manufacturing plant without the chip designer ever knowing about it. Then you're in a
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by dancek 8y ago
fd is awesome so I have to check the others out too. Thanks for the tip!
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by dancek 8y ago
I also love zgen and used to use some parts of OMZ with it. But after debugging weird issues a bunch of times and always finding a funny opinionated config in OMZ I changed everything to Prezto. Zgen supports Prezto natively. FWIW, here&#x2
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by dancek 8y ago
I do think there's still the point that we're wasting our geniuses by making them specialists.
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by dancek 8y ago
My first thought on the requirement of reaching the top 1% was that it's unrealistic to achieve in three very different fields. But after some careful consideration it might actually be possible for quite a lot of people. What does it
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by dancek 8y ago
Wow, pelulamu.net still exists! I remember a friend talking about it about 20 years ago, i.e. when we were in school. The font looks nice and is probably strictly an improvement over most terminal fonts of the same size. I just wish they ha
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by dancek 8y ago
What's the pricing structure going to be, ie. how much should I expect to pay for hosting a dozen of small git repos? I can't access the billing page without an account. Thanks for your work for the FLOSS community, btw. I've
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by dancek 8y ago
It would only take mainstream media to change the way it portrays nuclear energy and a couple of years. But yes, you're right.
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by dancek 8y ago
How is it better? Does it do the same thing?
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by dancek 8y ago
You have a good point, which is that cars have a horrible UI. One of the most important requirements is the ability to brake fast in an emergency, yet the UI requires you to physically move your foot to another pedal before you can even sta

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