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by magnat 7y ago
Switching back to dumbphone. It turns out whole economy didn't crash when I read and replied to emails next day and I didn't die of boredom during 30 min commute.
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by magnat 7y ago
Here's the transaction: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/6b7308c0ce185810a...
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by magnat 7y ago
They did release Windows 2003 SP1 kernel source (named as "Windows Research Kernel") long time ago, along with re-licensing it for research use only. Not the whole OS and still not an open source, though.
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by magnat 7y ago
Temporary link to associated CCC talk: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/36c3/relive/10694 (starts around 15:45 mark) Proper recording will be available at https://media.ccc.de/c/36c3
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TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers(righto.com)
189 points by magnat 7y ago|36 comments
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by magnat 7y ago
What's the likelyhood that Intel, TSMC or some other fab company already stumbled upon the process in r&d and binned (hehe) it due to some unforeseen difficulties making it not worth investing?
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by magnat 7y ago
There was this spoofed page that looked just like plain, unordered text file of passwords, that intercepted ctrl-f, displayed searchbox look-alike based on your user-agent and generated entries to match the password you are typing, so it lo
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“Stubs” in the .NET Runtime(mattwarren.org)
57 points by magnat 7y ago|5 comments
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by magnat 7y ago
So, would a vulnerability in WebGL/WebGPU mean a shader on 3D web app can read all my disks? Neat.
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by magnat 7y ago
> I don't understand why they decided to make two models out of the same engine. Increasing performance puts greater stress on the engine, increasing maintenance cost and/or failure rate. If engine breaks down before end of war
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by magnat 7y ago
Now, if only we had algorithm to decide whether for provided game table state, the chain of triggers ever stops or continues indefinitely.
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by magnat 7y ago
Since planned release date is well after Windows 7 EOL date (2020-01-14), I wonder if .NET 5 will be released only for Windows 10.
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by magnat 8y ago
>OK I'll just buy an LLC When I bought code signing certificate for my LLC, in their infinite wisdom CA put "Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością" as CN, because that's what they saw on proof of ownership. "Sp
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by magnat 8y ago
It's not about the price, but about name on the certificate: > However I cannot use "Notepad++" as CN to sign because Notepad++ doesn’t exist as company or organization CAs would put author's name as CN, which isn&#x2
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by magnat 8y ago
> The entry with the name consisting of exactly one dot is the pointer to the root directory Is it? Wasn't single-dot entry pointer to current directory since DOS 1.40?
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by magnat 8y ago
For .NET, there is SecureString class [1] which provides reasonable protection against stealing secrets from memory. Not many password managers (if any) use .NET, though. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet&#x2F
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by magnat 8y ago
Without any changes, you have SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR [1] schedulers, but despite the name, they are not really suitable for proper real-time tasks. Closest to real time on vanilla Linux is SCHED_FIFO task - as long as there is no other tas
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by magnat 8y ago
Here's one with 8 keywords: abstract class A { internal protected abstract ref int X(); } class B : A { unsafe extern internal protected override sealed ref int X(); }
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by magnat 8y ago
Not really. I can buy the kit from a reseller or even OTC by cash and send it back without providing a return address. Apart from that, I shouldn't need to register on their website to access my results. There could be unique, randomly
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by magnat 8y ago
I'm still not sure about privacy side of the 23andMe. Whole testing procedure could be designed to be completely anonymous, yet upfront I have to provide name, address, birthday and e-mail. Why do people willingly provide DNA samples t
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by magnat 8y ago
Windows 7
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by magnat 8y ago
You mean ions/electrons between electrodes are deflected by voltage applied at the gate, as in vacuum tube?
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by magnat 8y ago
> It uses two in-plane symmetric metal electrodes separated by an air gap of less than 35 nanometers With air dielectric strength of 3kV/mm, why wouldn't such electrodes continously arc over when applied voltage is over 0.1V?
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by magnat 8y ago
It's CSS-only, so works just fine with NoScript. That's kind of unexpected, compared to other modern web frameworks. Though using <i> tag for icons feels weird.
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by magnat 8y ago
Both images for lazy: https://i.imgur.com/ROhfMXb.jpg
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by magnat 8y ago
Here is a paper and demo describing creation of such codes: http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/halftone_QR/... Sadly, original online demo doesn't work anymore, but by looking for "half
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by magnat 8y ago
> Adding insult to injury, there are ways in which Windows users could have enabled KFR without really knowing that they did so or meaning to do so. The OneDrive client, for example, can set up KFR for the Documents and Pictures folders,
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by magnat 8y ago
Note this gem in the footnotes: > Ion implantation was also used in the Z-80 microprocessor to create some transistor "traps", circuits that looked like regular transistors under a microscope but received doping implants that m
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Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel's 8087 floating point chip(righto.com)
93 points by magnat 8y ago|13 comments
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by magnat 8y ago
> Photo-realistic games. Create a rough 3D model of an scenario and train the AI for it. Instead of photo-realistic rendering with math, render it with the AI based on a rough render, in real-time. According to last month's nvidia r

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