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by exikyut 5y ago
Just to clarify - was this a reference to you discovering and deleting DRVSPACE.BIN, or had you actually lost a file a la http://bash.org/?5273 ?
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by exikyut 5y ago
CET = Control-flow Enhancement Technology TL;DR: > The ENDBRANCH (see Section 73 for details) is a new instruction that is used to mark valid jump target addresses of indirect calls and jumps in the program. This instruction opcode is s
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by exikyut 5y ago
I have no info about the UT's use of GPS, but given that you can basically construct a practically-unbreakable geofence around the fact that the UT can only physically see a specific set of satellite(s) at any particular point in time
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by exikyut 5y ago
I might be mistaken, but the geofencing might be based on the specific satellite you were connecting to, correlated with the time of day. And very likely verified/audit-logged on the satellite side too.
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by exikyut 5y ago
> Maybe you're a person who works to live? If so, embrace it. > Those who enjoy their work are often the opposite: they live to work. Huh. Squinting at this from exactly the right angle, that can kinda read the very idea of l
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by exikyut 5y ago
I was idly curious about the account state, so went digging for visualization tools. Most of them have nice designs and not very much info :) but - https://mempool.space/address/12PCbUDS4ho7vgSccmixKTHmq9qL2m... shows
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by exikyut 5y ago
I don't care if this is canon or not, I like it enough that this is mine now and I'm using it
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by exikyut 5y ago
Ah, a gigantic time series event firehose. (That was what I was curious about.) I guess this cues the stereotypical "have you looked at kdb+" question, then, which you've probably already fielded :) ( https://kx.com
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by exikyut 5y ago
Oooooh. That means the score chart would go something like... If EEPROM: Level 0: Determine that it's an EEPROM and dump the full contents Level 1: Locate the undocumented vendor control string (which doesn't exist) and unlocks th
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by exikyut 5y ago
Feel free to email them over, sure. (Full disclosure, I'm sometimes terrible with reply latency.) And FWIW, you actually tripped over a small longer-term cluster of internal grumbling - I like my screen to be completely blank at star
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by exikyut 5y ago
I think I started noticing circa ~2003 (and possibly as far back as ~1999) how cleaners at larger shopping centers (like Westfields) in Sydney would prove they've visited a specific area by tapping a little box they carry with them a
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by exikyut 5y ago
I think I get it now: you want people to be able to point PhotoStructure at a NAS and have it Just Work. That was the context I was missing. I was wondering if maybe the cute hack that was posted recentlyish ( https://news.ycombin
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by exikyut 5y ago
Wait, you can actually do this legitimately??!?!?! TIL how I'm going to be buying Windows from now on. I had no idea this was actually this accessible. Pirating can sometimes be the simplest technical solution to some situations, but a
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by exikyut 5y ago
I must admit I'm very curious as to what real-world thing(s) translate to 35TB of stored data (that presumably isn't large blobs, like video or ML models). (And oh wow I just realized the billing must be amazing...)
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by exikyut 5y ago
I'm idly curious why you need to use replicas in a workaround context, and why arbitrary filesystems are a problem.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Ah, thanks for reply, and for the info. Just noticed now, woops.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Ahhhh, I see what you mean now. First of all, that tiny little detail about the ACPI error is actually incredibly helpful: it's one of the few messages that tend to still leak onto the screen when the system is configured to boot in qu
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by exikyut 5y ago
Hopefully there was a backup...?
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by exikyut 5y ago
Huh, one doesn't hear about mainframes in the context of restaurants much. But I'm honestly not sure how far back to guesstimate - 20 years is probably reasonable, but it could even be 15...
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by exikyut 5y ago
Awesome. Sadly, it seems that the Web Archive didn't happen to grab any pages from Amazon during the (presumably-small) window this was live. Specifically, I ran the CDX query hxxp://web.archive-dot-org/cdx/search
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by exikyut 5y ago
As noted in the License section of the readme, > CompCert is not free software. This non-commercial release can only be used for evaluation, research, educational and personal purposes. A commercial version of CompCert, without this r
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by exikyut 5y ago
Hmmm. I can't help but wonder if maybe the database engine should have caught the queue overflow (even if the event occurred over the network) and failed the transaction.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Yayyy. If you remember, how did this end up getting fixed? Did users have to re-input their connection info (meep) or were you able to re-fill everything in through some heuristic?
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by exikyut 5y ago
My guesstimated translation: some large number of those users were running compile jobs, which were running as background tasks instead of foreground tasks.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Very curious what you mean by "bricked the hard disk"?
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by exikyut 5y ago
This hit the frontpage a few weeks ago, and may be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414443
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by exikyut 5y ago
[Generic hand-waving about how LWN kinda does this, in a high-signal manner unfriendly to statistical summation]
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by exikyut 5y ago
Orthogonal question: where can I learn more about Debian abandoning GPG?
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by exikyut 5y ago
In case you see this, the most interesting question I think I could possibly ask is, what does the current real-world impact of IPv6 appear to be practically speaking? Abstractly and intuitively, IPv6's massiveness would seem to put an
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by exikyut 5y ago
The TL;DR is that IPv4 means there's only 4 billion IP addresses, which modern 1-10Gbps backhaul links can ticker-tape through in a few minutes. IPv6's 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP address limit will sadly make broad scanning u

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