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by heads 3y ago
It’s great to see a hardware report like this — thank you! — but I would love it even more if this was calibrated against other laptops. That feels like a stretch for an individual to pull off. Linux OS vendors often have wikis saying what
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by heads 3y ago
Engineers in the 19th century would be amazed that we can build mechanisms with thousands of moving parts — functions, classes, packages — just by typing on a keyboard. Not only that but they also spin around in the order of millions to bi
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Understanding Persian(speechmatics.com)
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by heads 3y ago
The thing that really got me into this subject was building my own virtual machine and then a compiler to turn a high level language into machine code. It sounds complicated but the VM, in Python, is basically: r = {} mem = [] boot(
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by heads 3y ago
Imagine you are planning a wedding and you use party.com as an easy way to manage the guest list. Maybe you give your friend two seats — him and a plus one — the Smith family four seats, and your diving club pals a whole table. Also, you’
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by heads 3y ago
When I used to use macOS on Intel laptops I would be hit, every so often, by gpg’s smartcard pinentry getting stuck in a 100% loop. The only thing that ever notified me of it was the fan turning on!
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by heads 3y ago
I can see the lawyers’ point. Any old checksum is good enough for spotting random data corruption. If you do happen to have a crooked lawyer who is submitting tampered evidence then you would hope that there are better systems in place
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by heads 3y ago
Maliciously changing a RIPE allocation would be like going into a pub and moving Geoff’s drink to one side so you and your mate can take his and Frank’s spot at the bar. While you may physically succeed at this, you will also find you don’
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by heads 3y ago
I’m very naive about the upcoming quantum cryptography switchover. Can anyone here recommend a good podcast to learn about it more?
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by heads 3y ago
The world of low spec hardware really does need faster, lighter browsers. Too many times now have I configured an SBC, RPi, or even a laptop that’s just a few years old and been disappointed that, while everything else is wonderful and fas
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by heads 3y ago
The officers are busy. Last year nearly 800 cyber tips filtered through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Officers are carrying out search warrants on a weekly basis and some electronic files have been spread so w
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by heads 3y ago
Colour me old fashioned, but these tickets are usually web documents that can be located by a URL. It’s ok to use URLs for links! They are too long to fit into a title but fit nicely into the body text… See https://bugs.com&#
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by heads 3y ago
When I want to see inside a piece of software I look for (1) the source code; (2) the git-blame; (3) the code review for significant commits. I have never wanted to see into the history before that point, namely how the developer drafted a
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by heads 3y ago
Both zsh and fish offer the same kinds of improvements over bash. The headline feature of these two is the auto completion user experience. They complete as you type, with fish for example showing suggestions in a muted colour ahead of yo
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by heads 3y ago
There are plenty of good reasons for short line lengths. Two factors constrain the max line length down to something not much more than 80 columns: side-by-side diffs and waning eyesight. In-line diffs mix the flow of change in with the fl
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by heads 3y ago
Visiting and transforming trees is indeed a well trodden pattern. Here’s another kind of tree walking which I’ve enjoyed working with, this year: https://libcst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#Build-... It
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by heads 3y ago
I was surprised to see that the real world example really does go up and up as the resolution of measurement increases: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great-britain-coastline... If stops at ~50m resolution. I im
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by heads 3y ago
The usual definition of “linear history” is equivalent to what you see with “git log --first-parent”. Linear history doesn’t mean that people share every “wip” commit from their private feature branch with everyone else. With linear histor
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by heads 3y ago
This headline is slightly dramatic*. The far worse thing with semantic versioning is that it became part of our company’s culture of collaboration. Semver sat too easily alongside multiple repositories, small uncouple components, and tea
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by heads 3y ago
It was directed at you as you seem to know what you are talking about!
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by heads 3y ago
(Not the author.) I’ve only really encountered CVEs when they have been mentioned on patches, usually Debian security updates. Do vulnerabilities normally get a patch and are we expecting upcoming regulation to require the patches are inst
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by heads 3y ago
Thank you CCC for giving us downloadable video and audio. I’ve just downloaded this for my flight today. (I’m a passenger, not the pilot.)
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by heads 3y ago
Here is my entry, on the way to Cwmyoy in Llanthony: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Q4verMiEmXk4ZZVs9?g_st=ic There are “not suitable for motor vehicles” signs at each end but I completely missed them. I approached from the other
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by heads 3y ago
Alas even Rotring make crap these days, specifically their Rapid Pro lead holder: https://www.jetpens.com/Rotring-Rapid-Pro-Lead-Holder-2-mm-B... It cost me $40 and the red ring is part of a larger plastic component that co
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by heads 3y ago
Anderson, Security Engineering (Wiley) would make an excellent addition to this list. (The blog post omitted anything infosec saying the field is “part of QA” but it’s not like this list is pure CS — a lot of engineering topics aka “applied
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by heads 3y ago
Not forgetting of course that Debian is available commercially: Vendors of Debian Installation Media https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ They are hardly Adobe, but all it takes is one zealous lawyer on a crusade
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by heads 3y ago
Thanks for checking my math and for doing a second run at it. I’ve edited to point out my mistake. It feels like there’s a mismatch but my numbers are pretty hand wavey so I can imagine it could be a lot closer than that.
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by heads 3y ago
How comparable is $3 a month to the ad revenue they might make from the shows? Apparently Amazon Prime accounts get a median of 300 minutes per week of view time. That’s 20 hours of TV a month with (in the order of) a few hundred ad slots
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by heads 3y ago
Make is the grilling of the hacker world. You just want to light up some quality lumpwood charcoal and get a nice smokey crust on some steaks, cook up some hamburgers, and crisp up some chicken for your guests over the course of an afterno
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by heads 3y ago
The thing I worry about with expert witness testimony is that if you assume a spherical cow then you can make all sorts of logical deduction work in your favour. Something feels fundamentally uneasy about an expert bringing of supposedly ri

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