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by szc 1y ago
I've co-authored a book that a lot of the models seem to know about. The models consistently get the names of the authors incorrect and quote the material with errors. If the canonical representation of our work is now embedded within
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by szc 5y ago
I've come to the realization that getting multiple external monitors and then more than one set of them to work right is not a "trivial" problem. Any decision is going to be wrong or might result in a compromise or bad outcom
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by szc 5y ago
I highly recommend using Dean Camera's LUFA stack if you are going to use the Atmel AVRs that have on-board USB hardware. < https://fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php >
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by szc 5y ago
I appreciate your response. I retract everything I said. It was a very poorly thought out comment.
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by szc 5y ago
I didn't see that. I retract everything I said. It was not a well thought out comment.
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by szc 5y ago
I agree. What I wrote is incorrect.
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by szc 5y ago
I appreciate your response and agree with what you have said. I cannot undo what I've said - it is clearly very incorrect. I would like to retract it. Do you have any recommendations for getting better at critical thinking? How can it
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by szc 5y ago
I think this is a poorly sourced and not a reliably fact checked article. This is at least the 2nd time on HN that a report has suggested Ashley Gjovik was complaining about "toxic chemicals at work". The previous article referred
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by szc 5y ago
I am neither. A similar exchange with sneak has happened previously. It is a frustrating exchange. The words that have been used attempt to tie two controversial topics together PRISM and FISA. The logic then seems to be that because compan
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by szc 5y ago
Thanks. This can be entirely explained if the NSA had already performed a "solar winds" supply chain attack on the vendor that supplied the TLS encrypt / decrypt endpoints. Is the vendor of that hardware known or discoverable
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by szc 5y ago
This thinking is based on trusting "encrypted" links. Did you build the hardware that drives these links? Did you audit the Verilog or code that operates this hardware? I know of at least one way a to implement a "secure&quo
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by szc 5y ago
FISA orders are written by a Judge. Only judges can write these, this is the literal definition of a warrant. Warrants require specifics - Person X, person Y. These are enumerable. There is paperwork. PRISM, based on the data available, is
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by szc 5y ago
I do not. It would be helpful to enumerate the specifics of this rather than to play the role of a cheshire cat and say nothing. (I am independently looking for this, but cannot currently confirm)
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by szc 5y ago
Sorry, but I do not believe that is what the leak revealed. There was a slide that indicated that data from Apple and other companies was now part of the PRISM program. I am not trying to deny or refute Snowden's whistleblowing. I thin
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by szc 5y ago
A 13 gallon "garbage" bag, commonly used to dispose of waste in the USA weighs 22grams. Each Airpod, according to Apple, weights 4grams. (yeah, I'm just talking about plastic, but plastic really is part of this). The actua
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by szc 5y ago
I remember capturing a copy of "snake" for analysis and figuring out the exploit. It wasn't just world exposed NFS shares - it was any share that was exported to itself. You could use portmap as a proxy and get the root file
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by szc 5y ago
This answer is both a great answer, but also a terrible one. This answer implies all "python" binaries across all operating systems and distributions for all time, are backwards and forwards compatible, no work needed. Guaranteed
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by szc 5y ago
It isn't an allergy. At the time the GPLv3 was written, the GPLv3 was deliberately crafted to put commercial companies into a conflict situation. (A) Give up selling audio with DRM (DRM did go away) (A) Give up selling video with DRM (
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by szc 5y ago
#!/usr/bin/python How exactly is the above supposed to work when /usr/bin/python doesn't exist. If Apple chose to break the #! contract by doing something else, how would you feel about that?
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by szc 5y ago
In a 100% honest world I agree with everything you say. But, the world isn't 100% honest. Let's say company A asks manufacturer F to make 100,000,000 units of a product. One element of this product costs $10. An enterprising perso
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by szc 5y ago
I do own a much older generation Thermapen - the automatic switch is failing, so I need to open it up and fix it... but I do find it a useful tool. For the HN angle, my understanding on how these devices get such a fast reading is to have
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by szc 5y ago
Even better would be to classify / specify based on the mammalian species. Which I think would account for the large variation the article author was noting.
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by szc 5y ago
No, but there are other tricks, such as prepending enough zeros and then taking the rightmost 4 characters from the string... FOR I = 0 TO 9999 : A$ = RIGHT$("000"+STR$(I),4) : ... rest of the code : NEXT I
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by szc 5y ago
I've read the full report. Quoting just this is disturbingly misleading. There is a family relationship between JS and BH. Even in 1987 (the time of the murder) it appears to be hostile. At the time this snippet was recorded it was 13
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by szc 5y ago
Um, what? The requirement for probable cause or unreasonable suspicion is entirely on the judicial entity authorizing the action -- not the recipient of a warrant, however unfair or unreasonable it might be. If you look at the history, and
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by szc 5y ago
You keep repeating this data is shared without a warrant message. I don't believe you are correct in this assessment. The legal definition of a warrant is a written order issued by a judicial officer or other authorized person for the
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by szc 6y ago
This would all be fine until you start passing and returning these arrays and indexes between independently implemented functions and modules. Then you'd have to start declaring an index type tied to a specific array or a way to look u
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by szc 6y ago
Comparing these two sets of O() estimates is a bit dubious. SHA256 uses almost no memory and hashing can effectively be distributed across machines at no cost. All of the current factorization mechanisms build vast sparse matrices and then
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by szc 6y ago
The Sun JVM, as originally implemented, can express operations that are not valid for Java objects. There are parts of the JVM that attempt to constrain opcode sequences to only be from "valid java compilers operating on java objects&q
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by szc 6y ago
You are right, it is rude, sorry. Will do better.

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