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by desdiv 5y ago
For those out of the loop: this is a reference to the Log4j RCE story that's also currently on the HN frontpage. Amazon uses a lot of Java, so the two stories might be actually connected somehow. [0] https://news.ycombinator
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by desdiv 5y ago
In the clean room reverse engineering case: 1a. one team examines the device and products a detailed specification of it 1b. another team works solely off that newly produced specification; this team has zero contact with the actual device
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by desdiv 5y ago
Some context: >The AD1139 is the first DAC offering 18-bit resolution (1 part in 262,1441) and true 18-bit accuracy in a component size hybrid package. A proprietary bit switching technique provides high accuracy, speed and stability wit
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by desdiv 5y ago
>The pebble time used a small FPGA to act as a display controller for their custom ePaper-like color LCD display. Minor correction: the pebble time uses a standard off-the-shelf Sharp Memory LCD display[0]. These displays are commonly u
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by desdiv 5y ago
>Say you bought a vintage car -- do you have to pay more sales tax each time the car appreciates? Some states and countries actually do tax personal property like cars. Virginia and Rhode Island, for example. In those jurisdictions, if y
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by desdiv 5y ago
Methane has more than 10 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. That means if the grazing plants capture 1 mol of carbon dioxide from the air, and then is consumed by cows who turn some of the carbon into methane, then the warming p
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by desdiv 5y ago
>Would they forced to sell their stock? No, the proposed legislation does not affect your existing holdings you had before you become a Member of Congress, as long as you don't touch those holdings during your term of office. "
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by desdiv 5y ago
The US army is restricted from operating fixed wing aircraft heavier than 5,000 pounds due to the Pace-Finletter MOU of 1952[0]. I agree with you that both the air force and the army would appreciate and gladly cooperate with such a transfe
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by desdiv 5y ago
HSBC also previously exited mass market retail banking in Japan, Korea, Brazil, and Turkey. (There's probably more, these are just the first ones I found.) Japan (actually exited both mass market and Premier retail banking): https:&#x
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by desdiv 5y ago
Thank you. I did not know that before. I've corrected my OP.
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by desdiv 5y ago
>You're from Quebec and don't feel at ease using only French words? Don't worry! French Rust is fully compatible with English-Rust, so you can mix both at your convenience. Interesting factoid: in France, most of the stop
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by desdiv 5y ago
I believe they are referring to this: https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/ Though keep in mind that this was back in 2016 and Postgres has changed a lot since then. Previous HN discussions: https:/&#
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by desdiv 5y ago
Here's the timeline of events (AFAIK): 1. On 2017-09-22, Ms. Manning attempted to enter Canada but was denied by the border guards. [0] 2. On or about On 2017-09-25, Ms. Manning received a letter from the Canadian government detailing
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by desdiv 5y ago
From the Wikipedia article, it sounds like a modified EU-compliant variant is coming to EU. >In 2021, a Latvian-based company Dartz (known for their armoured SUVs) announced a plan to sell the Hongguang Mini EV as the Dartz FreZe Nikrob,
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by desdiv 5y ago
>Tungsten carbide is not heavy at all. Pure tungsten is twice as dense. Tungsten carbide: 15.63 g/cm3 Tungsten: 19.3 g/cm3 Pure tungsten is about 1.23 times more dense, not twice as much.
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by desdiv 5y ago
Suppose you have a reliable generator system and your own house's power has reliable uptime. Would the internet still function during power outages? (The upstream telco equipment might lose power during an extended outage.) Another HNe
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by desdiv 5y ago
I see what you mean now. Sorry for the misunderstanding. It's possible that they "bumped up" the intern and junior titles all into "Software Engineer" as a form of title inflation.
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by desdiv 5y ago
From that page, I'm seeing 7 SWE levels from the sidebar: - IC1 Software Engineer - IC2 Software Engineer - IC3 Software Engineer - IC4 Software Engineer - IC5 Staff Software Engineer - IC6 Principal Software Engineer - IC7 Sr. Princip
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by desdiv 5y ago
Hey there, cool service. I signed up immediately. >You cannot have more than $50 in credit at any time. Just curious, why a $50 limit? I'm the weird kind of guy who likes to pay years in advance. If possible, please consider raising
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by desdiv 6y ago
I just dragged a file into the site on my desktop computer and it worked. OP said the site uses the wasm implementation so any browser with javascript enabled should be able to encode files. Decoding needs the Android app.
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by desdiv 6y ago
What you are talking about is a salary renegotiation, i.e. the employer offering the employee a new contract at a lower salary for work to be performed in the future . What had alleged happened in the story is salary theft, i.e. the employ
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by desdiv 6y ago
To be fair, if you brought $50 Bitcoins in 2013, you would have 380x your money today by doing nothing. I'm sure your trading strategy is sound, but it's still a lot of work over the years to get the 500x gain, vs the 380x gain fr
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by desdiv 6y ago
Thank you for that bit of trivia. Very interesting. >U.S. President Bill Clinton owned and wore several early models (including the original) of the watch during his time as Governor of Arkansas and in the early years of his Presidency.
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by desdiv 6y ago
You can also pay a few hundred dollars to take the Series 65 license exam and obtain accredited investor status through certification.
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by desdiv 6y ago
Yes, I should probably clarify: the point of such a law is to _discourage_ the behavior, but not to actually _punish_ the ransom payer, since no jury is going to vote on putting grieving parents in jail. So you end up deterring ransom payme
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by desdiv 6y ago
>the US Treasury Department should impose fines on parents who want to pay the ransom for their kidnapped children Some countries does actually criminalize paying ransom for kidnapped children. The logic being that if society make it har
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by desdiv 6y ago
Here's the Safety Data Sheet for JET A-1[0]: >H226 Flammable liquid and vapour >H315 Causes skin irritation >H336 May cause drowsiness or dizziness >H304 May be fatal if swallowed and enters airways >H411 Toxic to aquati
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by desdiv 6y ago
>The Badger pickup partnership seems relatively safe for GM. At least the traditional electric one. >At the very least they are getting an aesthetically pleasing exterior design and a ready email list of potential buyers. Is a pickup
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by desdiv 6y ago
A tethered unmanned aircraft is still considered an aircraft by the FAA and subject to FAA regulations: https://plane-lyspoken.foxrothschild.com/2017/12/03/tethered...
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by desdiv 6y ago
I read that as the following: 1. half of all Ami _buyers_ have one car and will continue to drive their existing car 2. half of all Ami _buyers_ have at least two children, and those children will the ones driving the Ami 3. 40% of those _d

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