mkipper

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by mkipper 6mo ago
I'm not at all familiar with the Xbox One, but this is a feature that's generally available if you're designing "closed" hardware like a console. Most SoC these days have some sort of security processor that runs in
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by mkipper 6mo ago
Your chances of running into trouble are pretty close to zero unless you're wearing a 51st State t-shirt or something. I work with a a decent number of Americans who either moved here or are here temporarily, and I can't say there
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by mkipper 8mo ago
There's a pretty stark contrast between an MLB player making $50M per year and a bobsledder who's promised $100K 20 years after reaching the pinnacle of their sport. Given the total amount of training that an Olympian puts in over
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by mkipper 8mo ago
I'm not an expert here, but I this is pretty unlikely at this point. Google has been working on Fuschia for a decade, and far as I can tell, the only place it was ever deployed was to a Google smart home hub 5 years ago. The only Fusch
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by mkipper 8mo ago
Yeah, this immediately made me think of DAF. My wife is a speech pathologist and hooked me up to a DAF machine for some research, and the effect was totally shocking to me as a layperson. I think I did worse than average, but I was basicall
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by mkipper 9mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding their point. Your API is constrained by the actual TCP protocol. Even if the sender uses this message-oriented TCP API, the receiver can't make any guarantees that a packet they receive lines up wit
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by mkipper 10mo ago
> but with the expectation that only openai has access to it You can argue about "the expectation" of privacy all you want, but this is completely detached from reality. My assumption is that almost no third parties I share inf
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by mkipper 11mo ago
I haven't used it in a few years, but I always found it to be very flexible and useful for non-Qt projects. I last used it for an embedded project, which are sometimes a pain to set up in an IDE (cross-compiler, sysroot, debug server,
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by mkipper 11mo ago
This also stuck out to me, but in defense of Amazon (yuck), I don't see that language directly from anyone at Amazon. They use the regular "reduction in corporate workforce" BS that every big company on earth uses. It just se
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by mkipper 11mo ago
I work in software now, but I have an electrical engineering degree and started my career on a project developing a radio. Our project probably had ten or more electrical engineers on it, and only one or two of them really understood the
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by mkipper 11mo ago
This is veering into pedantry, but from what I can understand of that setting (I'm not a sysadmin guy but have used MACsec on embedded stuff), that's just as much of an 802.1X feature as a MACsec feature. Sure the switch will only
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by mkipper 11mo ago
Even if it's not some staggering triumph of human achievement, I'd argue that Ozempic (etc.) is similar. A magic weight loss drug has always captured the public's imagination, and it feels like I've been hearing about ne
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by mkipper 1y ago
I think this is more relevant. Like everything, most games today are optimized to maximize engagement and keep people with low attention spans hooked. There are plenty of intelligent people who could invest a bunch of time into solving a
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by mkipper 1y ago
I never looked into the guts of how this was implemented, but I worked on a product which had an SNMPv3 agent that was only restricted by a username and password. I could flash a PC with a fresh Ubuntu image, apt install Net-SNMP and start
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by mkipper 1y ago
This isn't totally dead. I missed a flight last year and got bumped to a flight the next morning on some weird ticket class where I didn't get a seat assignment until the gate. The gate agent was able to give me a bulkhead seat wi
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by mkipper 1y ago
I'm 6'6" and I basically treat an exit row upgrade as non-negotiable. It's just a fundamental cost of long haul travel for me if I can't swing premium economy or business class. To get some extra legroom, I paid (ro
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by mkipper 1y ago
I don’t have any data to back this up, but I think window and aisle seats being more valuable doesn’t necessarily mean they can be sold for more. I am very tall and I always pay for a seat with extra legroom in economy. Whenever I’m picking
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by mkipper 1y ago
I applied for a management-consulting-ish job a decade ago (I was desperate!) at a big firm and had to take what was basically an IQ test. I have no idea if the test literally calculated my IQ, but the questions were exactly the questions y
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by mkipper 1y ago
Was this professionally or in school? I still did this in an EE program 15 years ago and I can't imagine things have changed since then. I think kids still have to do lots of ugly math in EE classes.
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by mkipper 1y ago
If you're pulling the datasheet from the vendor website, you can also skim the list of documentation and see if there are any application notes available for the part. For more "complicated" parts (e.g. lots of signals, high
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by mkipper 1y ago
This question is sorta similar to "Why don't distros enable restrictive MAC policies by default" Maintainers _could_ take the time to lock down sshd and limit the damage it can do if exploited, but there are costs associated
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by mkipper 1y ago
I’m incredibly confident that any professor of aerospace engineering would give a better response. Is it common for people with PhDs to fall for basic misconceptions in their field? This seems like a reasonable standard to hold GPT-5 to giv
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by mkipper 1y ago
That's what gets attention in the media, but the Trump administration has also been axing a lot of "traditional" programs. I used to work a defense contractor and still have some friends in that industry. One of them told me
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by mkipper 1y ago
I guess "often" is relative, but this happens to me pretty regularly. I live in Canada, and it's not always obvious if an American company ships here or not. If the answer isn't trivial to find, I'll do this: 1.
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by mkipper 1y ago
Is it so hard to believe that someone can be a great candidate in an interview when you're getting 100% of their attention and then be horrible at their job when you're getting 20% of it because they're juggling 5 jobs?
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by mkipper 1y ago
Generally speaking, provincial parties are either loosely affiliated or unaffiliated with federal parties which share a name. e.g. Alberta recently had an NDP government that skews much further right than the federal NDP. If someone says &q
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by mkipper 1y ago
There are _some_ differences in quality, but I think they're pretty minor. I recently visited the Philippines and a friend bought some knockoff Crocs at a market. The little rivet thing holding the strap to the shoe had the logo printe
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by mkipper 2y ago
This can be a pretty blurry line. If the engineer took some existing product and did nothing for 2 years other than design in additional failures that show up after the warranty has expired, I agree that's awful. However, I'm ve
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by mkipper 2y ago
Conveniently, there's no mention of the 0.1% in there, and the historical data comparing the tax contribution of the top 1% to the total tax base doesn't include any information on income and wealth growth of the 1% over that same
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by mkipper 2y ago
And if you wrote this comment in December 2022, Bitcoin would be sitting at -70%. I sincerely don't know anything about monetary policy, but I can't imagine that sort of volatility in the value of your currency is considered a goo

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