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by saulrh 9y ago
I didn't try gradle and my experiences weren't incredibly recent (three-five years in most cases), so maybe that's what I was missing. Dependencies and portability were by far the biggest issues. eclipse, netbeans, idea, et a
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by saulrh 9y ago
I find this is not Java specific and many of those other technologies have similarly painful project config, especially as soon as you do something non-trivial. My experience with Java has indicated that the problem is actually
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by saulrh 9y ago
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure that the exact route matters. The ME can read and write its own firmware storage; that's a necessary capability for writing new firmware with the MEI. So if a compromised ME gets a chance to
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by saulrh 9y ago
Anyway, we're really geting far off topic. I guess I'm replying too :) Heh, I'm here to have interesting conversation, not necessarily on-topic conversation. :P Why is reinstalling an OS a solution to a rooted O
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by saulrh 9y ago
Well, the easy way to flash the firmware goes through the ME, so that's about as good at removing infected ME firmware as Windows Update is at removing viruses. The other way... I mean, you could simultaneously bring down every compu
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by saulrh 9y ago
Filter Linux's list to "scores > 8" to take the sampling bias into account - the only way to observe an AMT vulnerability in the first place is to gain remote super-root on a widely-deployed core system that may be a PITA
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by saulrh 9y ago
Every description I've heard of it has language like this: AMT is a large module with a huge number of different network protocols of various levels integrated into it. This module contains a great deal of legacy code but can
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by saulrh 9y ago
> Backwards-compatibility is a hard requirement for us because of that. And oh boy, it causes a lot of pain. Yeah, it's a bitch. Sorry. :( I've seen one or two "rewrite everything and make it better enough that people swit
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by saulrh 9y ago
Money quote, though this may be slightly old news and this is just a summary of known information: One of the most common questions regards the possibility of remote exploitation. We think that remote exploitation is possible if t
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by saulrh 9y ago
If I were building a terminal from scratch... Hm. Attempts to improve the terminal are not backwards-compatible or do not otherwise provide a clean upgrade path. I would love to use one of those fancy graphical terms that comes up on HN e
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by saulrh 9y ago
Tools are tools. Some people use these techniques to be manipulative. Others use them to protect themselves from those that use them maliciously, or as a social prosthesis the same way they might use a meticulous journal to combat an attent
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by saulrh 9y ago
For the five or six years my daily driver has run windows (gaming) while actual work gets done by forwarding X from a headless linux box. In my experience: * MobaXTerm was usable (on Win7-8, a couple years ago), but IIRC it's surrounde
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by saulrh 9y ago
I wonder if you could do this with similar metal alloys to get an ingot that changes physical properties along its length - for example, a bar that's harder on one end but more elastic on the other.
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by saulrh 9y ago
A lot of this I can't really speak to, and for some things I can see the point - I use stashes to follow almost exactly the no-staging-area workflow - but in other places this suffers at least a little from being a generalization from
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by saulrh 9y ago
This is an obvious exploration/exploitation optimization strategy. The child doesn't have infinite time and has the same distribution for available time in both cases. A larger estimated state space therefore dictates more aggress
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by saulrh 9y ago
Fair enough. Allow me to rephrase, then, since the choice of refutation is enough to support my argument and I don't need to bring the validity of the accusation into it: The refutation alone, that nobody would know who had downloaded
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by saulrh 9y ago
This is exactly how MPs offices have always worked, staff open and respond to letters with little oversight. Now they do the same with email. This isn't just the email password, nor is it just the password to the &quo
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by saulrh 9y ago
> reasonably anticipated Does "We're going to be doing illegal stuff, so don't talk about it where the courts might hear" qualify as "Reasonably anticipated legal action"?
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'm surprised that this isn't turning into a conspiracy charge. That's basically what it amounts to, right? An agreement to commit illegal acts and actions taken to further the commission of those illegal acts? Honestly, this
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by saulrh 9y ago
My tmux does resize automatically...? Is there some other kind of resizing that's necessary? I split side-by-side, I make another terminal emulator tiled side-by-side, original term narrows to take half the display, tmux's panes
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by saulrh 9y ago
I think that that's an issue regardless of the action you're taking. I buy nice kitchen knives on Amazon because I cook. Lots of people buy nice kitchen knives on Amazon because they cook. But if I stab someone with a nice kitchen
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by saulrh 9y ago
If you suffix that sentence with "...so the IRS will have trouble taking me to court for money-laundering", the lawyer wouldn't even have to "pervert" it. Privacy is not suspicious. Privacy with the explicit, stated
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'm doing the same thing for a few of my personal tools, and once you get over the instinctive revulsion it's a remarkably nice data flow. For example, I maintain state for an IRC D&D game using a bot that publishes to a githu
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by saulrh 9y ago
TBF, if it did work, I could almost see Elon going "fuck it" and bumping the next SpaceX launch in favor of boosting a cubesat out there.
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by saulrh 9y ago
According to the DOT [1] it looks like my intuition is a bit out of date. Right now US freight about even, trucking still a little bit ahead by ton-mile. Ten years ago rail carried 2/3 as much freight as trucks. Last-mile delivery on t
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by saulrh 9y ago
> But this is ignoring the whole debate: proponents of net freedom don't consider fast lanes to be a problem. I think that this is the part that I can't comprehend. The railroads misbehaved so badly that the government had to b
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by saulrh 9y ago
Twelve months ago I'd have called that a solved problem - c.f. entities like the EPA, OSHA, or NHTSA that conduct results-based inspections and investigations ("how much crap is actually in the water coming out of your pipes?&quot
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'd expect cameras to be easier to keep clear in extreme circumstances, actually. The key is the "clear view screen" [1], a circular window on bearings that spins rapidly to throw off obstructions. You can also heat them to d
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by saulrh 9y ago
As a counterpoint, I personally have had a few notable sensor failures, culminating in an incident when I was 17 that convinced me that I was not safe to operate motor vehicles. No injuries or damage, but I still don't own a car, and
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by saulrh 9y ago
Hmmm. I didn't actually do the numbers. Let's see... A randomly-googled 2MW diesel generator consumes 50 gallons/hour at quarter load and 160 gallons/hour at full load [1]. So let's say it's 100 gallons/ho

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