> If the airline knows your name, and their attendants see and verify your face when boarding anyway, then are we losing anything through the use of face scans? Your face scan is now online waiting for the next data…
You would greatly benefit from watching https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcfqP0PtWDcGKIHGTTbVl...
The fanaticism of Rust programmers are well known and off putting. Why, one of them just posted about it into a Lua thread. It couldn't be less relevant. Much as I don't have a hard choice between picking assembly and…
The counterweight elevator is -- by far -- the most energy efficient way for people to live and be supplied. As in, if you need to supply a few thousand people with food and services then cramming them in high rises and…
The PDP-11 was unusually well suited for that. They designed it so you needed less skilled workers to assemble it which meant a lot of tolerance in components which leads to much easier maintenance. For example, the…
Nearing the finish line? https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12525 > One of the plan’s priorities is the retirement of the Business Master File by FY2027 and the Individual Master File by FY2028 But it's…
Oh Win 3.11 is a modern system compared to support PDP-11 until 2050. https://web.archive.org/web/20161022133810/https://vcfed.org... (GE Canada tried to headhunt me for that but I don't want a job where a typo turns…
There are fundamentally two kinds of attacks, preimage which splits into two: In a first-preimage attack, you know a hash value but not the message that created it, and you want to discover any message with the known…
I know at least one patent author for whom the system worked exactly as designed. That being my uncle. Imagine the literal bearded tinkerer in his garage inventing a (much) better sprinkler head. What's the next step?…
Wise has recently made a big batch of account verifications which overwhelmed their verifications staff and support both and left a company we do in Austria unable to do payroll. That was fun. Of course we moved that…
Those who are more vulnerable are watching as the world left us hanging dry. There was no reason to end mask mandates. None. Except a few loudmouths the entire world have caved to. We have seen how cheap DIY filter…
Mmmmmm a kernel call translator. Microsoft attempted to do it with WSL. Then abandoned the idea and went with a VM called WSL v2. I have no solid proof but I believe at least one of the factors were…
Let's make bets on how long it takes before the C&D hammer comes down hard on them. > Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark on or in connection with goods and/or services in a…
You really don't need anything fancy to implement a queue using SQL. You need a table with a primary id and a "status" field. An "expired" field can be used instead of the "status". We used the latter because it allows…
Ah yes, the famous stilldrinking.org where http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks comes from :D It's the best essay written about programming, ever. Just one quote: > This file is Good Code. It has sensible and…
The Commodore 64 (and I suspect the Spectrum 48K too) got off the COCOM list in 1985 -- but the legally available C64 in Hungary was beyond the means of individuals at the time. It was more used by corporations (well,…
> If the airline knows your name, and their attendants see and verify your face when boarding anyway, then are we losing anything through the use of face scans? Your face scan is now online waiting for the next data…
You would greatly benefit from watching https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcfqP0PtWDcGKIHGTTbVl...
The fanaticism of Rust programmers are well known and off putting. Why, one of them just posted about it into a Lua thread. It couldn't be less relevant. Much as I don't have a hard choice between picking assembly and…
The counterweight elevator is -- by far -- the most energy efficient way for people to live and be supplied. As in, if you need to supply a few thousand people with food and services then cramming them in high rises and…
The PDP-11 was unusually well suited for that. They designed it so you needed less skilled workers to assemble it which meant a lot of tolerance in components which leads to much easier maintenance. For example, the…
Nearing the finish line? https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12525 > One of the plan’s priorities is the retirement of the Business Master File by FY2027 and the Individual Master File by FY2028 But it's…
Oh Win 3.11 is a modern system compared to support PDP-11 until 2050. https://web.archive.org/web/20161022133810/https://vcfed.org... (GE Canada tried to headhunt me for that but I don't want a job where a typo turns…
There are fundamentally two kinds of attacks, preimage which splits into two: In a first-preimage attack, you know a hash value but not the message that created it, and you want to discover any message with the known…
I know at least one patent author for whom the system worked exactly as designed. That being my uncle. Imagine the literal bearded tinkerer in his garage inventing a (much) better sprinkler head. What's the next step?…
Wise has recently made a big batch of account verifications which overwhelmed their verifications staff and support both and left a company we do in Austria unable to do payroll. That was fun. Of course we moved that…
Those who are more vulnerable are watching as the world left us hanging dry. There was no reason to end mask mandates. None. Except a few loudmouths the entire world have caved to. We have seen how cheap DIY filter…
Mmmmmm a kernel call translator. Microsoft attempted to do it with WSL. Then abandoned the idea and went with a VM called WSL v2. I have no solid proof but I believe at least one of the factors were…
Let's make bets on how long it takes before the C&D hammer comes down hard on them. > Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark on or in connection with goods and/or services in a…
You really don't need anything fancy to implement a queue using SQL. You need a table with a primary id and a "status" field. An "expired" field can be used instead of the "status". We used the latter because it allows…
Ah yes, the famous stilldrinking.org where http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks comes from :D It's the best essay written about programming, ever. Just one quote: > This file is Good Code. It has sensible and…
The Commodore 64 (and I suspect the Spectrum 48K too) got off the COCOM list in 1985 -- but the legally available C64 in Hungary was beyond the means of individuals at the time. It was more used by corporations (well,…