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by minipci1321 8y ago
> You're presuming this is the only and the correct way of handling this. That is, you're arguing it is the manufacturer's affair and right to restrict one's basic rights to enforce lawful handling of their product. T
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by minipci1321 8y ago
It is not like precedents are not known: https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/set-your-wi-fi-card... > Let's be honest and accept it's just about money and control to the makers of these devices. Agree
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by minipci1321 8y ago
Unclear what you had in mind. I'll assume you were speaking about your own secure-booting mobile phone that you paid full price and now would like to be able to reflash? I am not sure what to tell you. The situation pre-dates the secur
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> These secure boot systems exist because of DRM protection to media that is mandated by the content companies. That statement sounds too simplified. How about non-approved images pumping power upstream above regulatory limit on RF? Or o
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> the engineers are free to choose a core with functionality that suits their particular needs Doesn't Intel pay license fees on every ARM core sold?
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by minipci1321 8y ago
"Empirical Study of Power Consumption of x86-64 Instruction Decoder" https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/cooldc16/cool... From the conclusion: "The result demonstrates that the
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> I'm an embedded systems engineer who programs on bare-metal micros. I feel my domain will be obsolete in coming decades What makes you think so? These days embedded Linux programming is mostly done for SoCs (unless you embed a PC
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by minipci1321 8y ago
LOL. For an anecdote -- I was working once on an TV-related product, and our product manager was persuaded it would fail in these countries you mention (well he was speaking about the country he was native of). He was saying: "no chanc
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> It can take a long time to accurately determine if an activity is essential in complex organizations. Seems this time you mentioned is N * management-turnover-period. It could be N==1 if the company is run by lucid people, or longer.
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> I haven't been convinced that it's unreasonable, either. Until the company loses the business with a product more expensive than the competition's, because it requires a bigger flash part to house all this accretion. Li
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> I know multiple people that have changed employers every couple years throughout their thirties. Each time it was a better deal. I actually myself did exactly that -- my _average_ stay at one place is under 4-5 years, all over 35+ year
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by minipci1321 8y ago
Many have correctly commented on the possibly depressive state, so I won't. But I'd like to react to some keywords in your message. I don't know either how this life thing works, it would be more my frustration speaking, I de
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by minipci1321 8y ago
From personal experience: in engineering, people are roughly split into two groups, ones who figure out by themselves, and others who ask. So when I worked in the office (in that particular geo), I put a thick cross on my developer career a
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by minipci1321 8y ago
Possible, just costly. Seems for the moment people are not ready to agree to pay the expenses. Funny how everybody seem to ignore your second point -- about bombing.
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by minipci1321 8y ago
Just how on Earth have you inferred this statement from the OP or from the parent's comment? Have you read either?
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> Raw null terminated strings are just a bad idea. Absolutely agree. Scanning the memory until "we find it", potentially crossing boundaries between segments of memory with different characteristics (caching etc.) just doesn&#
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> 5. 'strcpy' should usually be replaced by 'strncpy'... That prevents a class of exploitable errors known as "buffer overruns". To be honest, strncpy is barely better in this respect (as a security improvem
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> of course, this means that i'm totally unsuited for any kind of non-technical, customer-facing work. I would say it is exactly the opposite -- you have got the pre-requisite #1. Source: am doing customer-facing work myself.
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by minipci1321 8y ago
I certainly agree with what you said as you said it. However, as usual, it is the implementation that kills it. a) I believe sizeof (double) * 8 == 64 is not enforced by the standard either. One could argue that it is hard to find anythin
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by minipci1321 8y ago
I never take these "what Linus just said" posts for their face value. To me, it sounds as a half-staged, half-talking-to-buddies, mostly good-natured grudges, for some reason I cannot explain. (That said, I am not contributing to
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> When I talk to JEE servers via JMX I don't care if they run on as OS process, on a container, hypervisor or even a bare-metal JVM. But I think the whole point on the thread was that, making all this possible on unikernels, would r
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> is perfectly kosher Aren't exact-bitwidth integer types optional even with C99 (let alone preceding versions of standard)?
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> It is just a matter of tool maturity. Err.. today's remote debugging is strongly based on the premises of the issues being isolated to some degree: broken app will not hit the network stack over which you run you remote session, m
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> it boils down to the ability to be an effective writer. effective reader too. One should be able to quickly make sense out of several hunbdreds of email messages, otherwise it will end up in "synchronous mode" -- dozen of mes
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> she feels inspired and energized, thanks to a weekend spent strolling with her family through their secluded, leafy neighborhood. Laughing sadly. Yes, it does that ... for, what, first 6 months? After that, full saturday and half sunda
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> Problem solved. This "solution" also prevents code analysis tools from detecting reads from padding bytes as "non-initialized memory reads". When a routine leaves sensitive data on the stack, the entire area used u
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by minipci1321 8y ago
yes, I somehow expected to see something like Kvasir: https://github.com/kvasir-io/Kvasir
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> Here's a hint - the better vendors auto-generate these headers from the VHDL. Yes! And the hateful naming might come straight from the RTL where digital designers have their own notions about what is a pretty name ;-) > They ar
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by minipci1321 8y ago
> As a manager: some people can work from home, and some just can’t. The problem is, you don’t know which is which when recruiting, ... Interesting! So, has it ever happened to you to hire a remote worker with a proven track record (say,
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by minipci1321 9y ago
> The list goes on for all the extras you get for free when working with standardized tools. I guess this is the balance between how much less you pay for standardized tools and tech (and R&D), and how much more for all the BOM exten

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