torginus

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721.
by torginus 7mo ago
I own both a car and an apartment. The former is not an investment and most money people say you shouldn't consider the one you live in an investment.
722.
by torginus 7mo ago
I mean it has already happened. The F-35 relies on very thick (10cm+) layer of radar absorbing structures with special internal geometries (don't wanna go into detail regarding this). Unfortunately if the precise construction of said
723.
by torginus 7mo ago
Why should housing be an investment?
724.
by torginus 7mo ago
There are a bunch of successful models, people usually mention Vienna as having a particularly effective housing policy - what they did is the city bought up a bunch of land, and built housing on top of it in various government subsidy prog
725.
by torginus 7mo ago
The F-35 is mentioned in the article as being readied for the defense of Greenland. I wonder what the 'easter-eggs' Danes would've found out about it if they went up against the US. (I think I know, it has to do with how its
726.
by torginus 7mo ago
How can real estate have zero margin when housing rises exponentially in price? No other good behaves like this. A midsize sedan didn't increase in price (in real term) over time, while new cars improved. New houses don't really i
727.
by torginus 7mo ago
But people who only own 1 house at most are still disadvantaged by this - sure, the value of their apt goes up, but if they want to switch to a larger house, the difference they're paying also increases, so do the property and wealth t
728.
by torginus 7mo ago
I dunno, but for me ensuring security means reducing the number of problematic parts, and making sure the ones that have control over the ones that exist. The most secure thing I could think of is a cluster of servers running in my baseme
729.
by torginus 7mo ago
I don't understand how they can get away with this even. Imagine if they discover a root exploit in whatever old version of Android they're running. Now if there's no update, people can just hack your car via the internet or
730.
by torginus 7mo ago
Why do people keep reinventing OS features? There's Docker, OverlayFS, FUSE, ZFS or Btrfs snapshots? Do you not trust your OS to do this correctly, or do you think you can do better? A lot of this stuff existed 5, 10, 15 years ago... S
731.
by torginus 7mo ago
I've never seen that information actually being used in any merge tool, with the notable exception of Visual Studio/C# (where you get symbol resolution for the merged doc, but even there the autogenerated result is a bit hit and m
732.
by torginus 7mo ago
Mimalloc my beloved. The fact that jemalloc is this fiendishly complex allocator with a gazillion algorithms and approaches ( and a huge binary), yet mimalloc (a simple allocator with one bitmap-tracked pool per allocation size, and one poo
733.
by torginus 7mo ago
They always have. I would guess the majority of people employed and salaries paid on a given project basically goes to waste. Just today I had an hour-long meeting about an impact of a bug, which was clear as day with a simple fix, but woul
734.
by torginus 7mo ago
The biggest evidence against collaborative editing working and being useful is that programmers don't use it. We go through the pain of having git branches and manual merges. We're the nerdiest bunch in the world, absolutely willi
735.
by torginus 7mo ago
It's interesting that you contrast Sweden and Russia, considering while I have not lived and worked in Russia, I've worked with Swedes quite a bit and my experience with them is that they don't really emphasize red tape that
736.
by torginus 7mo ago
You need about 2 MJ (or 2000 Watt seconds) to boil away 1L of water. The Dragonfire ship class laser puts out 50 KW, so it would take 40 seconds to do that, assuming it can fire without pause, all of the enrgy makes it into the target, and
737.
by torginus 7mo ago
How have you made this logical leap - that root of trust implies only being able to run vendor-approved software?
738.
by torginus 7mo ago
Its not just for multiplayer games, considering one of my employers has been a victim of a supply chain attack, I would say it's super important that you can check and verify the authenticity of every piece of code that runs on your in
739.
by torginus 7mo ago
Just like with HTTPS, you can enrol your own keys in the TPM module, or sign your binaries with a key thats already trusted by your system. This is just establishing chain of trust, and does not prevent you from doing anything on your syste
740.
by torginus 7mo ago
I did a bit of googling and this was the first result: https://www.h4-lab.com/store/p/qmu102 This sensor has a 16G limit, which is well above what an amateur rocket cold and the compounding velocity error at 10G
741.
by torginus 7mo ago
You can calibrate any sensor, its just a manufacturing step, and while cheap ones may be inaccurate and drift over time, I'm pretty sure the good enough ones (which cost tens of dollars, not fractions of a dollar) are accurate enough t
742.
by torginus 7mo ago
Lasers imo don't really have IRL advantages over machine guns and rockets, and their line of sight nature is a huge limitation.
743.
by torginus 7mo ago
From what I can tell, Ukrainians are having some success with converting guns into automatic turrets that can track and shoot down drones via sensors, and the rifle-equivalent of birdshot.
744.
by torginus 7mo ago
I think MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers used in consumer drones should be just about good enough to measure orientation and acceleration, and those are cheap and easy to get. You could integrate acceleration to get speed - the flight is
745.
by torginus 7mo ago
I don't understand why do you think that having the option to have secure boot and a good, trustworthy sandbox for processes implies you cant run Linux on a VM or Linux beside Windows etc. People always freak out when I mention secure
746.
by torginus 7mo ago
This. Also the client knows more than its allowed to show the user, like the positions of enemy players. You can make aimbots and wallhacks without needing to tamper with the game state.
747.
by torginus 7mo ago
No. I'm saying we should all drink the blood of babies to stay eternally youthful. You didn't read between the lines deeply enough.
748.
by torginus 7mo ago
Sure, but the exploit presented doesn't really look practical for the everyman. And I'm not sure if it can be patched in HW/SW, and in any case this is just the first step to a fully fake secure boot.
749.
by torginus 7mo ago
All of this is beyond horrific. Mucking about in the kernel basically bypasses the entire security and stability model of the OS. And this is not theoretical, people have been rooted through buggy anticheats software, where the game sent ma
750.
by torginus 7mo ago
I thought Starlink doesn't allow you to move your terminal at all with the basic plan, and there's a premium plan where you can move it, but still can't use it, unless you stop?

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