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by thr0w__4w4y 8y ago
I've seen the same thing. I'm a middle aged guy, endurance athlete, was competitive nationally at the NCAA level way-back-when. I learned a lot about nutrition and physiology as part of my sport. Back then the conventional wisdo
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by thr0w__4w4y 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning vbindiff. I examine/compare binary files a lot (reverse engineering for security) and I've used a bunch of tools, but somehow I've never come across vbindiff.
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by thr0w__4w4y 8y ago
If I read the list correctly, 6 of the 8 top reasons pertain to money / finances. 3 of the 5 people here with me attributed this to essentially selfishness / unwillingness to sacrifice for others (future generations) 2 of the 5 sa
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by thr0w__4w4y 8y ago
I have another TIL for you... maybe you're a desktop/server developer... there are many embedded processor platforms where a byte is not 8 bits. TI's C2000 microcontrollers - a byte is 16 bits. Other TI DSPs also have 16 bit
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by thr0w__4w4y 8y ago
Rittenhouse was a delightful find for me a few years ago. A friend and I ordered Manhattans, he asked for his to be made with Rittenhouse. Funny thing is, it's the only bourbon or rye that I drink straight... it is smooth and delicio
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by thr0w__4w4y 8y ago
Yes, exactly this. As someone who has written startup code in many flavors of assembly (PIC, ARMv4, MIPS, PowerPC, AVR...), I appreciated what ARM did with the design of the Cortex-M architecture -- they designed it so that you could write
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
A lot of this depends on what point in your career you're at. I've been freelancing for ~20 years, and the problems I have now are different than when I started out. If you're starting out, really the 2 main problems are (1)
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
Might be coincidental -- but you also post a similar request very recently on the FreeRTOS forum?
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
I'm delighted to hear that after taking on all that risk and "doubling down" by believing in yourself(ves), that you're doing great now. Totally inspirational success story!
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
Guess I'm lucky then... I've lived in LA for about 28 years and I don't think I've ever seen a black widow. Actually I remember when I was ~3, I was sitting (legs crossed) on the patio, my neighbor came over and smashed
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
I teach security, and that story (about EAY using OpenSSL as a project to learn C, because what could go wrong?) comes up every time. For those who don't know the backstory (many here will) -- crypto is hard to implement correctly; pro
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
This isn't unique to Google; in fact, every serious tech company I've ever worked at or consulted with has this same policy. It's obvious and makes sense. Does it always work? Unfortunately, no...
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
I think excalibur meant "when the software version is two versions back", not the hardware. I suspect the family is still getting security updates because you are running iOS 11 on the 5S. I bought a 5S too back in 2013, it came
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
I 100% believe you, but just for entertainment value, assuming the posting was public and recent -- any chance you have a link to the posting that you can share with us? I need a good laugh today.
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
Yep, I'm on VPN right now, and I'm blocked. But thank goodness for the Internet Archive! (FWIW, I've donated several times, it has helped me out so many times) The article of interest is here: https://web.archive.
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
"The dependent version of the problem would be where we cards are discarded after being drawn. So on the first draw, the deck has 52 cards and 4 aces, and thus there’s a 1/13 chance of drawing an ace. On the second draw there are
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
Yes exactly. Costco often does the same thing... for example, they'll have a WD Passport 2TB USB 3.0 Passport drive, same specs as you'd find at Amazon, Best Buy, etc. except the packaging is different (one of those "stand u
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
Came here to quote the same sentence and post a similar reply. I've been using Firefox forever, esp. b/c of some of the extensions, but it just isn't stable, reliable, or performance-oriented anymore. Chrome is more stable
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
Ivan - I have your book, I've read it (at least a year ago, if not more) - so sorry if this is covered and/or I should know the answers, but: (1) Seems like the argument against RSA is "what happens when the server's pri
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by thr0w__4w4y 9y ago
Yup. Was there 2 weeks ago working with a group of Turkish engineers - I went online to get some technical information about a particular stream cipher, and WHOOPS! - Wikipedia is blocked, completely. Fired up my VPN, accessed the page, th
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by thr0w__4w4y 10y ago
Serious question (I've been exactly the guy that planteen described -- wrangling code into submission for multiple static analysis tools and compilers, for warnings, MISRA compliance, etc.) So my question: do you remember what tool wou
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by thr0w__4w4y 10y ago
I live in Los Angeles, specifically the west side; hardly a day goes by that I don't see a Ferrari pull out of the Sony Studios facility, a 50-person crew filming 2 actors talking next to a cafe, or an action scene that closes down par
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by thr0w__4w4y 10y ago
For example, if your program calls rand(3) as part of the work it's intended to do—as in a cryptographic key generator... Bangs head into desk repeatedly :-( (Yes, I know that security wasn't the main point of the post, but sti
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by thr0w__4w4y 10y ago
While I totally understand what you're saying and agree with you, I've had 2 of the 85W Mac power adapters replaced out of warranty (2012 rMBP). I'm a "road warrior", travel around 250k miles / year, probably
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by thr0w__4w4y 10y ago
Serious question: what is a reverse company? Flat organization / no hierarchy or something? Sorry, I just don't know the term.
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by thr0w__4w4y 10y ago
Or, in the case of my wife, a fresh change of clothes for every possible weather condition for every day. "What if it rains? What if it's really humid? It might get chilly at night." Actually that's unfair and a bit o