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A bit unrelated, but made me remember this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995774/

The effects of fasting on the human body are... fastinating! (Sorry!)

IIRC some CPUs of the Intel Atom series already have an embedded FPGA.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidact

My car clock went back from 2:00AM to 12:00. I was really wondering what happened.

I think it's more of a "security by obscurity" thing than anything, but if the number is really unknown except for you and the 2fa provider, that would probably be "good enough".

Maybe you could use VOIP numbers for 2FA? Many VOIP providers (i.e. voip.ms) can forward SMS to e-mail, SIP client, callback URL or an other phone number. There's a cost, but I guess it's minimal, all considerations done.

Your second scenario is like a dead man's switch. It's interesting, as it could prompt you with a daily challenge that only you can answer. But I don't see how it could be implemented in a normal person's life?

The specification pattern can also be used to replace multiple IFs. If you look at Wikipedia, they propose a quite full-fledged and complex specification pattern, but it is possible to make a more lightweight one for your needs.

We did learn POV-Ray in high school computer class. We rendered on our faithful Sun Microsystems workstations. Good times.

Yeah, I feel the same way.

What hurts is when you decide to switch to another company, which has good rep, and finally find out: it's the same. Everywhere. After the big bosses do stupid shit, they get promoted elsewhere, leaves you fix the broken plates, rince and repeat until a merger, bankruptcy, or major reorg. Meanwhile middle management gets bigger and everything gets slower. Good employees leave, bad one get promoted to middle management, and you wonder why you're stupid enough to stay there.

Once we had a problem with Microsoft' LDAP library not handling referrals correctly on a Big Corp AD forest with domains on each sites. Real headache as we were already late for meeting our deadline...

Backstory: we produced a custom software that used Windows Embedded' LDAP library to handle the LDAP part (Winldap32 library with the Winldap.h headers). The machine running our software didn't join the domain, so it only authenticated the users with the ldap_bind function.

If I recall correctly, we found the ldap32 library referral problem when we used AdInsight (by Mark Russinovich) and saw the library was poking all around the place (the other forest DCs) and never completed any of the requests. I think we confirmed with Wireshark.

The hack was in 2 parts:

1) We made a DLL that offered the same ldap_* functions as those we used in our software. The library then redirected the LDAP calls to a python script that used a native ASN1/LDAP implementation which relied on nothing but pure python code.

2) Then we made a injection software that injected the DLL in our software at startup and replaced the Winldap32 functions with our DLL functions.

We then were able to bypass the MSFT' LDAP library problem, and I think we pretty close to our initial deadline in the end. Apart from the (very small) added latency on LDAP code, everything was fine in the end.

The challenge I'm spending my life on is figuring out how to achieve these consistently.

YMMV but for me some of these came naturally with time.

It's a similar debate as when we north americans decided to switch to DTTV [1]. Many people disliked that; they had to buy a box for their old TV and it was more complicated to use, etc...

Digital radio [2] has it's advantages. For once, it's more efficient in it's use of the spectrum. In many densely populated towns, there is no (or not many) more spectrum left for new broadcasters.

It's a matter of time, and people will adapt and forget they "hated it and doesn't want to change".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio

This definition seems a bit strong for the word. If it's meant as borrowed from the french "louche", then would rather define as:

discutable, weird, questionable, shady

It seems like many substance alter empathy towards others. I remember that acetaminophen was found to reduce empathy. What other common substance would affect the jury that we don't know of yet?

Ah! Maybe that would encourage people not to make 15mb pages doing dozens of requests!

You can't possibly mad for people gaining access to knowledge. For me personally, it's the single most important thing Internet gives.

But as for net neutrality? Of course I'm sad. How are they going to check the sources of the articles? Wikipedia is still pretty limited in some areas of knowledge.

Nothing is perfect. I'm very happy they get to browse wikipedia. It is magnitude of order better than not having access to it.

Was talking with colleagues about cloudbleed and S3 problems yesterday.

I don't feel like many people are actually concerned of the implication of having an internet that isn't an internet anymore, but merely a handful of big companies hosting everyone.

Or maybe it's me who don't understand.

For this reason, I wouldn't be surprised if AI actually generate more work, at least for most of our lifetime. People that will supervise and correct AI errors while/after they process data, while current jobs mostly stays "until the AI is ready to actually take over".

If this makes you laugh, you have probably never worked in the public sector or big corps.

Sad thing is that most of the web sucks on rather fast connections too. Pages being almost 5mb of data, making multiple dozens of requests for librairies and ads. Ads updating in the background, consuming evermore data.

I don't notice it much on my PC, since I've got a FTTH connection, but on LTE and 3G, it's very noticeable. Enough that I avoid certain websites. And that's nowhere near slow by his standards.

I do agree that everyone would benefit from slimmer websites.

They do statistics a few times a year:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2...

Depends. Some routers have multiple antennas because there are multiple transceivers inside it, and some technologies (i.e. MU-MIMO in 802.11AC) will most likely react strangely having one of their antenna modified. In the end, it would probably make your performance even worse.