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   by glii 1y ago

   Many Supermicro server motherboards I've seen place both the BIOS flash chip and the BMC firmware flash chip in a SOIC socket, so that the flash chip can absolutely be removed without desoldering.
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   by glii 2y ago

   Many SSDs transform all-zero sector writes into a simple TRIM/DISCARD to reduce flash wear, so overwriting with pseudorandom data from /dev/urandom is likely more secure.
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   by glii 2y ago

   Base-4 (in the form of PAM-4) is already used for high speed data transmission. But IMO given how "analog" digital signals become at high speed, using anything but binary for compute logic seems like a fruitless battle. https:&#x
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   by glii 2y ago

   Don't forget the context string so you can "unwind the stack" from the error message: return nil, fmt.Errorf("expressing gratitude: %w", err)
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   by glii 2y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_suppression_and_cancellat...
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   by glii 2y ago

   If cost basis was reported to the IRS by your brokerage, you can typically just report the summary total, since the IRS already knows about the individual trades.
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   by glii 3y ago

   An abomination I made that I've been wanting to show the world for a while. Works well enough to fetch https://www.google.com/robots.txt !
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   Show HN: A minimal TLS 1.2 client implementation in a pure Bash script(github.com)

   2 points by glii 3y ago|1 comments