whydoyoucare

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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
Popular need not imply secure. :-)
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
Run as root to avoid typing sudo or su? That is like having a handgun without the safety! No thank you!
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
A useful approach is to learn 95% of the language from K&R, and then refer to the newer standards for the incremental changes. If there is a book as good as K&R and covers the new ideas, I'm interested to learn about it! :-)
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
The C language can be best learned from "The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed" [1], also known as "K&R book". Pair it with excellent notes by Steve Summit [2], and you don't need any other book to master C. [1] h
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
For a start, teach kids to think critically and reject anything that is shoved down their throats as "the truth". Science and religion included. ;-)
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
Per my understanding, climate-science is not yet settled, with varying and wide-ranging opinions among scientists. I certainly do not want politicians to take "urgent" actions based on incomplete data and evidence, since any such
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
She is parroting ideas that the scientifically-inclined minds fed her. I am not sure if she understands everything she talked about (given her age). Using kids to sell ideas is "being used".
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
Rent control benefits no one, nor the landlord and certainly not the tenant. However, it is a classic "virtue signaling" used by politicians to advance their career. This is no exception.
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
"Technical facts and data overrule opinions and personal preferences." So true, so true! Now if teams pay careful attention to this statement, the Code Review Guidelines can be shortened by an order of a magnitude! ;-)
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
The whole article seems childish and a pointless rant, to be honest! All software in cars that is not mission critical will take a long time to mature... calling a car crap because its website is non-functional... seriously? :-)
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
"Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" is a more modern book to OS concepts, explained with real source code as opposed to algorithms, and is regularly updated. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ (On
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
It is also important to teach newbies on the pitfalls of certain libc functions. Too much spoon feeding creates a bigger mess in the long run.
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
To the moon and back! :-)
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
I believe it is equally important to determine the level of abstraction for the documentation, such that updating it is an infrequent task (essentially, every line of code change should not trigger a document change). It is easier said than
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
Unfortunately, the issue requires a significant historical context, which is carefully stripped from most of these media articles to control the narrative. :-/
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
I do not know if it would be different had it been a US launch, but know for sure NYT has a history of trying to undermine any/all progress made by India, especially during the last term and the existing term of Narendra Modi Governmen
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by whydoyoucare 7y ago
Any service that favors self-designed moral and ethical values over business sense should be ditched quick and now. Yes, this is PayPal.
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
Paywalled!
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html is a good read on this topic.
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
Yes, this works. In theory. In practice, a simple model is needed that everyone can follow and implement consistently. That, does not exist. Lookup "threat modeling" and you will see how abstract a notion it is (even your comment
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
The Ubuntu verification tutorial (see my previous post) points to keyserver.ubuntu.com.
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
CA-model requires "extra" investment, that not many are willing to make. Plus there is a secure way to distribute an OS, which does not require https [download over http, obtain signed check-sums from a trusted source, verify, and
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
I believe several terms here need a context, without which they are meaningless. For example, what is an acceptable security model to download and install an OS, how do you exactly define "defense in depth" for the act of download
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
How do you know they obtain it from a trusted source? ;-)
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
As long as verification happens independently, and the keys are obtained from trusted sources, there is nothing wrong in downloading Ubuntu over http. It appears this to be the case, see "How to verify Ubuntu download" tutorial th
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by whydoyoucare 8y ago
I believe cost-cutting was the real-driver and everything else was bravo sierra. Pretty much everyone in an open office wears a headphone to shut-out distraction, and prefers emails/chats to face-to-face.