elric

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961.
by elric 2y ago
Yeah, and I've noticed that they seem a lot more fragile than previous generations of USB cables. Recently failed to flash a phone until I switched cables ... they were identical, but the failing one had been in my bag for a good while
962.
by elric 2y ago
I hadn't heard of either PCIe auth or USB-C auth. Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole!
963.
by elric 2y ago
I've seen banks disable USB ports by means of hot glue. Hardware attacks are super hard to defend against. Depending on your threat model, drastic measures might be warranted. Anything with a USB plug can be a keyboard with an attack p
964.
by elric 2y ago
They're already allegedly charging a metric fuckton for TB4 certification/licensing. It's weird how it's 2024 and we can't have simple interoperability ...
965.
by elric 2y ago
Bit late to the party, but I can warmly recommend "Discrete mathematics with applications" by Susanna Epp. There are a couple of books with similar titles, but the ones by Epp are amazingly well written. An incredible amount of ca
966.
by elric 2y ago
Nice little overview. Being able to draw common data structures is something I've often found helpful over the years. Animated versions of algoeithms on those structures are even better, e.g. binary search on a tree, or A* on a graph.
967.
by elric 2y ago
Sigh. Seriously? More of this shit? I've never heard of The Rage before, given the name I'm going to assume that they're deliberately phrasing things to be rage-bait. But even with that in mind, this seems insane. What are th
968.
by elric 2y ago
I'm sure all that user data was acquired from consenting users who knew what they were doing, and not at all illegally. Right? And certainly not while taking advantage from a monopoly (or duopoly) in many areas?
969.
by elric 2y ago
I would love to grow some of my own food, the way I did when I was a kid. But alas, I will never be able to afford a garden, and the soil here is heavily contaminated with PFAS, heavy metals, and goodness knows what else.
970.
by elric 2y ago
I found it to be incredibly annoying, with overly dramatic music and narration, not to mention nonsensical claims. This kind of thing immediately turns me off to any product.
971.
by elric 2y ago
Well that would certainly explain why I've always been absolutely terrible at drawing...
972.
by elric 2y ago
Java has a long history of getting inspiration from other languages. Happy to see it's continuing to evolve at a decent pace, while mostly maintaining compatibility with previous versions.
973.
by elric 2y ago
Come now, that's a disingenuous take. I explicitly mentioned that some symbols make sense while others don't. Obviously the + sign is pretty universally known for addition. Overloading + for string concatenation was probably a mor
974.
by elric 2y ago
> Keep in mind that some types may be complex (e.g. when using generics) That's exactly why I'm not fond of the question mark, that already has an overloaded meaning in generics. Foo<Bar>, Foo<?>, Foo<Bar?>, F
975.
by elric 2y ago
Can't say I'm a fan of the proposed syntax. Random question marks and exclamation marks do not improve the readability of the language. Introducing new symbols wouldn't bother me as much if they made sense. E.g. square bracke
976.
by elric 2y ago
Archive link because the site is currently down: https://web.archive.org/web/20240802081039/https://bugs.open...
977.
by elric 2y ago
Most mathematicians don't need much in terms of funding. They don't use expensive sequencers, fancy electron microscopes, lasers, particle accelerators etc. Maybe a timeshare on a compute cluster and some disk space, if that.
978.
by elric 2y ago
Several lawsuits have confirmed that. Google regurgitating articles from French newspaper sites comes to mind. This is not an easy problem to solve. In my naive take, authors get to decide how their work is used, not scrapers.
979.
by elric 2y ago
Because that's what they practiced, presumably. Given that they misspelled a 3 letter word, I suspect they were better at arts and crafts than writing?
980.
by elric 2y ago
I have never come across a house museum that claims to be haunted. Must be a cultural thing that doesn't exist in Belgium. Possibly because loads of things are ancient here anyway, no need to embellish with more nonsense I guess.
981.
by elric 2y ago
Hah, I was going to post the same quote when I read the parent comment. Glad to see I'm not the only grump who remembers TDR quotes. But he's right. And with the endless stream of leaky CPUs and memory (spectre, rowhammer, etc) he
982.
by elric 2y ago
Searching buses and passenger cars is quite common in Belgium as well, "probable cause" is enough, and we all know how easy it is to find probable cause.
983.
by elric 2y ago
I have multiple blogs (the link to one of which is in my HN profile). The tech stuff is pretty safe, and so some tech people in my life know about it. The other blogs are reserved for people who are involved in other aspects of my life. In
984.
by elric 2y ago
I wonder if all those ergonomic chairs are a mistake. I mean they sure all comfortable, with all the support everywhere, but I'm beginning to think they might be worse for you than a plain old wooden chair.
985.
by elric 2y ago
Escrow in general refers to a third party acting as an intermediary trusted by both parties. This works for source code, but also for money, goods, or anything else. Say if I want to buy a large diamond from you, you hand it over to the tru
986.
by elric 2y ago
Yeah, I don't get it. Paying a high day rate to hire me is somehow fine, but a desk is where they draw the line. Let alone an office.
987.
by elric 2y ago
They can either maintain it themselves, or let another party do it for them, indeed. The contracts specify under which circumstances the code can be released, but usually it's going out of business or cancelling a product. It's so
988.
by elric 2y ago
Citation needed?
989.
by elric 2y ago
If I don't have a dedicated desk where I can leave stuff, I won't be coming to the office. Simple as that. Wasting time commuting is bad enough, but if I'm not even worth 2 square metres, why would I want to work for those pe
990.
by elric 2y ago
I once had to take a 4 hour trip to France to go on site to debug a customer's problem. As soon as I got there, my contact walked me into a meeting room, and promptly started a Teams meeting with a team in Paris. At no point was I allo

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