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by ngneer 2y ago
I see a lot more speculation on this thread than data.
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by ngneer 2y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted. First, it could have been written tongue in cheek. Second, this is a perfectly legitimate and admissible explanation, that must be ruled out. Maybe it is very easy or trivial to rule out, as attempted in ano
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by ngneer 2y ago
I suppose we need a one-way valve, such that information about the sample can flow to us while nothing can affect the sample. Conceptually like a Heimlich valve. Or, as a wild alternative, we could amplify the signal in some way, perhaps us
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by ngneer 2y ago
That's really too bad. I liked the notion that RNA found on Ryugu was brought back by Hayabusa. It feels a smidge lonelier down here on planet Earth. I imagine contamination prevention protocols will be revised.
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by ngneer 2y ago
This can easily be solved by calling left right and right left. Voila. Mystery solved :).
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by ngneer 2y ago
Can someone please explain the big mystery in simple terms? The article sure doesn't. Why does RNA being ambi-valent deepen the mystery? As others have noted, it could have been a toss up early on that persisted. If a coin comes up hea
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by ngneer 2y ago
I came to ask this very question. Could be an Intel hardware bug, but then we would see an advisory from Intel. So, it must be a different issue. Apple probably did not realize that their advisory implicates Intel components rather than App
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by ngneer 2y ago
Well, they already lost me as a user when they transitioned to an MDI interface. My only use for notepad.exe these days is to demonstrate exploits.
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by ngneer 2y ago
I do have both and still prefer the rice cooker for rice cooking. The lighter weight helps me move it around the kitchen as needed. I also like that it is easier to put in the dishwasher and that I never have to futz with the rubber seal or
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by ngneer 2y ago
This reads like an ad.
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by ngneer 2y ago
Being a single use device has its benefits. Rice cookers are lighter weight than an instant pot and have a single button, making them extremely easy to operate. I find this is very helpful to me when cooking.
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by ngneer 2y ago
This is known as bang-bang control, a very basic form of negative feedback. The key insight, which may not be emphasized enough in the article, is that the vessel can only rise to above 100C once all the water has changed phase (boiled). I
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by ngneer 2y ago
I agree it is a pessimistic view. I did not mean to make a disparaging comment, though. I agree that all research starts out small. And, naturally, for any influential idea, you can point back to when it was small. I did not intend to confl
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by ngneer 2y ago
Thanks for highlighting a key aspect. It may be informative to see all the ways in which the LLM got it wrong along the way, before arriving at the cherrypicked example. For instance, was this the only pattern flagged as a potential bug in
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by ngneer 2y ago
Sounds like they had some fun, but what is missing from the analysis is the effort spent, or even a rough indication of said effort. The epilog lists about sixteen non-security contributors that were needed to achieve the feat, and probably
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by ngneer 2y ago
How is this different than a bug bounty?
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by ngneer 2y ago
With you there. The marketing term makes Zero Sense to me.
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by ngneer 2y ago
Great analysis. This must be the crux of it, meaning the engineering tradeoff between good EMI mitigation and lower cost. Shielding is one way to go. I do not know the details here for cars, but in digital systems people tend to use spread
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by ngneer 2y ago
This brings back memories. I built LFS on a Pentium based machine a few times and it was quite fun. I took a similar approach to building a custom bare metal system for a client that needed extra security. I sometimes wish that there was a
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by ngneer 2y ago
Is this the same Bloomberg that alerted the world to the existence of hardware trojans in server platforms (e.g., Supermicro), only then it turned out that none of it could be evidenced? This is looking like a rumor mill...
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by ngneer 2y ago
There is a natural tension between these equally important roles, especially when folks choose to view competing objectives as a zero sum game. I think your point of view is one-sided.
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by ngneer 2y ago
I do not view these as counterpoints. You are making the same point, which is that the metric one optimizes for is extremely important. MrBeast is solely focused on maximizing revenue on the YouTube platform. The examples you cite also demo
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by ngneer 2y ago
Likewise. Engineers do not idle well.
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by ngneer 2y ago
Just terminology. Whenever a new higher-privileged entity is created, it is sometimes described as a negative ring. There was a time when people thought if we could put the secure code in a lower ring, then with it we could protect the rest
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by ngneer 2y ago
Too bad they do not go deeper into impacts on binary image size.
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by ngneer 2y ago
In God we trust. All others must bring data.
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by ngneer 2y ago
Not remotely. I am aware of the state space explosion and the difficulty with brute forcing the testing. I am suggesting that the damage a broken antivirus update can do should be restricted.
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by ngneer 2y ago
Allow me to give a different, information-theoretic, perspective. How much damage can flipping a single bit cause? How much damage can altering two bits cause? The fanout is a robustness measure on systems. If we can control the fanout we i
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by ngneer 2y ago
This. The 1970s design of the operating system and the few companies that deliver us the monoculture are simply not adequate or robust given the world of today.
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by ngneer 2y ago
Have we failed as an industry?

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