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Binary and Malware Analysis (x64, ida pro)

Hardware security (implementing rowhammer in JS powered by WebGL)

At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

These were by far my hardest courses. One course that comes somewhat close is a course in Buddhism (meditatie en paychologie - meditation and psychology). The issue is that I didn’t have prerequisite knowledge. The psych part was easy. Reading a 1000 year old Burmese text on Buddhism/meditation at that time had so many crazy traps that it was just fascinating how wrong I interpreted that text.

Easiest course that I took: social psychology

Best course that I took: a teacher that said “I am too lazy to teach. Just make a cool project.” I taught myself iOS development and made an iPhone app that led to a job for a year creating an iPad app
It's hard to pick any singular company that started to make tech suck because it's a result of the economical structure in which these companies are trying to exist. The neverending search for more profit, more growth every quarter has made it impossible for companies to adopt a strategy that is not focussed on consumer exploitation, at least in the long run.
hacking around the limitations of proprietary soft-/hardware has been very interesting for me through project such as this one.

personally though, i am awaiting the new generations of eink displays on android tablets to become more accessible to avoid this level of complexity or reliance.
Thanks for sharing. I did make some changes that seems to have improved things, although I do still see the occasional misfire. Perhaps good enough to remove that ugly red banner though!
If you mean by the pizzeria, I don't see a problem.

If you mean DoorDash, I suspect it depends on whether there's something in their presentation that fraudulently impersonates the pizzeria.
The way to read it is “I want AI to automate the drudgery of life, not remove the joy from it”. The specifics are inserted because it makes it more pithy and relatable.
Tactical Lessons: Ukraine War Feat. Col. Reisner
In this case it is who is being criticized, or even more to the point, outright ignored.

I stand by my comment. It is incredibly, incredibly hard to make a living as a creative and even more challenging to do something as memorable as the Little Mermaid in all the many challenges of the entertainment industry.

Guess I’m just stuck on the “man in the arena” moment. Criticism is not virtuous by default.
What sort of crystallization behaviour can one expect from this process? Can one controll the crystallization formation?
But, you see, this just makes it more interesting to them. Now they get to camp.
Rabbit hole full of hardcoded credentials: Rabbitude expose Rabbit data breach
Rabbit Inc.'s recent data breach exposed critical API keys and user data due to hardcoded credentials in their code. Despite awareness of the breach, key security measures were overlooked, risking user privacy and email data. This incident highlights the importance of secure coding practices and proper credential management.
You're right that when it comes to audio, there can be hardware + OS specific issues. But we're talking systems as different as aarch64 MacBook Pro running macOS with built-in mic and speakers on one hand a amd64 desktop running Ubuntu with a USB headset on the other hand both consistently exhibiting the exact same issue, but only in Firefox (not Chrome, not Discord, not TeamSpeak). My money's on that being a Firefox issue.

And the issue in Firefox across both those wildly different systems is present in Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and (I believe) Slack's Huddle.

Microsoft has the resources to make it work, sure, but I'm betting "making it work" here means fixing the issue in Firefox.
Compare to the key signing behind the dnnsec root.

Personally, I dislike the opacity of webpki roots. I think we should have made browsers ship with far fewer. Like two, Max.
Binary and Malware Analysis (x64, ida pro)

Hardware security (implementing rowhammer in JS powered by WebGL)

These were by far my hardest courses. One course that comes somewhat close is a course in Buddhism (meditatie en paychologie - meditation and psychology). The issue is that I didn’t have prerequisite knowledge. The psych part was easy. Reading a 1000 year old Burmese text on Buddhism/meditation at that time had so many crazy traps that it was just fascinating how wrong I interpreted that text.

Easiest course that I took: social psychology

Best course that I took: a teacher that said “I am too lazy to teach. Just make a cool project.” I taught myself iOS development and made an iPhone app that led to a job for a year creating an iPad app

All at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Most fun course: technology & games. Creating a game with unity3d and publishing a paper, that was fun. This was at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. The course doesn’t exist anymore sadly
Copper thieves cut 16,000 wires, knock out 911 service for three Bay Area cities
Most of the so called middle class are just well paid members of the working class.

Small business owners and others who get much of their income via ownership rather than wages/salaries are often indirectly but strongly dependent on the salaries of the working class to stay competitive.

So really most people are in the same boat when it comes to these things. It just manifests differently.
My honest answer is Big Tech. I’ve known far too many benevolent dictators of non-profits.
from seo/visibility perspective, i feel like there will be a race to be on the first page yet again. i am sure it got switched to "first n" result or something but fun to be back i suppose.
There should be a site to remember all those:

- list the problems

- link to sources

- backup the source instead they happen

We forget too easily, and PR works wonders. I used to have such a list for Microsoft, but:

- I have to pull it of every time we talk about the new MS, because people think they are good guys now. They already forgot.

- People don't think it could have been that bad.

- I have to rewrite the list, I can't link to it. Or expand it. And I have to justify its existence and credibility because MS PR is so strong now.

- The links are disappearing from the web, so my previous proofs are fading away, slowly being replaced by references everywhere singing MS praises and stating how a saint Gates is.

The powerful are rewriting history, literally.

karmicarchive.com is available, just saying.
I prefer a slighty robotic voice. This was way I know I am talking to a bot, and this sets expectations.
Glad you didn't!
But fishing still burns a lot of diesel. If this statistics don't take in account Denmark emissions from activities in the sea or from commerce fleet out of Denmark, they are probably misleading to wrong results.

And if we take in account that Greenland acts as a buffer in this sense (they don't have probably a lot of cows, so the emissions effect should be diluted). This perfect "one third" statistical value seems just a raw assumption, or just invented for filling a report hiding the lack of data.

If we want to bet for a future, we have to be extra careful to not just repeat slogans, dogmas or cite incomplete studies, even if they say what we want to hear. This only will delay the necessary measures
Alright, not anecdotal now -- 10 thousand has been mobilized.[0]

[0] https://ria.ru/20240627/bastrykin-1955779159.html
Yeah, demand from family members...

Well done to MS marketing I suppose.
TiDB starts supporting vector type
Those are solved issues.

> oxidation at high temperatures

SLM machines typically use an Argon gas chamber. DED machines use an Argon gas shield.

> It’s more typical to print copper alloys than pure copper.

In the context of modern SLM, it depends on your definition of "pure" and "alloy". During the process, a bit of resin to is mixed into the powder and heat treated in a final step to get to 99.9% pure copper.

edit: Just fixed up my knowledge. Indeed alloys are typically used (99% copper with things like Chrome added on depending on use-case), tough the pure copper can be used with higher laser power.
My mental model would be to decompose it into 3 dimensions and try to find some kind of superposition.

Dimension 1 - are you enjoying your work? Is your work meaninful? How does it affect your mental and physical health (either way)?

Dimension 2 - what are potential career opportunities if you continue with this company? Will you have a multi-digit exit? What are the chances? Again, how does it affect your mental and physical health (either way)?

Dimension 3 - can you continue and mend relationship with your cofounder? Is it a personal conflict or different world views? Can you change to accommodate their view? And, again how does it affect your mental and physical health (either way)?

Make an Euclidean sum of these vectors and see where it leaves you. Nothing is more important than health, but startups (and relationships) are often hard and grueling work, perhaps you enjoy it but need to put in the effort? Or you hate it and stay there out of guilt? Quantify and figure it out. Best of luck!
Do you know why there's a difference in the performance of the algorithm in another browser? I would expect that all browsers run the code exactly the same way.
You could extrapolate that into "software engineers should write code in MS Word because otherwise the finance department can't collaborate with them". Just use the right tool for the job.
Hercules completes rare midwinter flight to Antarctica to retrieve US patient
Confidentiality is for the privileged. For normal people, it's not as if the math to do encryption yourself will be outlawed, but it's not practical to stay connected to the world at large and to maintain meaningful privacy.

The kind of capital-F Freedom that is supposed to exist in the Free World is in practice just the gap between what's practical to control hierarchically and the level of desired power to control (effectively limitless). Technology continues to narrow the gap.

Some of the themes of societal change in my lifetime are: reduced trust, reduced privacy, centralization of power, increased economic efficiency at the expense of robustness, and increased profit extraction at the expense of nearly everything else.
Lester Holt Interviews Open AI's Sam Altman and Airbnb's Brian Chesky
Yamaha AMT Announced: Automatic-Gearbox Motorcycles to Follow
It would be a marketable skill to write a spec with the required levels of (a) detail, (b) lack of ambiguity, and (c) lack of stupid assumptions.
What Is a Monad?
"...Some cell biologists and biochemists who used to work with structural biologists have replaced them with AlphaFold2 — and take its predictions as truth. Sometimes scientists publish papers featuring protein structures that, to any structural biologist, are obviously incorrect, Perrakis said. “And they say: ‘Well, that’s the AlphaFold structure.’”"

It is amazing that this happens. I am not naive about academic standards, but if something is clearly wrong and used in a paper (especially one with consequences on medical health) then it should be quite easy to name-and-shame until the editors of the journal force the authors to make a redaction or correction if the authors don't do it themselves. Otherwise people should start name-and-shame the journal and its reputation should sink.

Also I am curious if there are already lists of known incorrect predictions by Alphafold, shouldn't this be published and alphafold's database tag such predictions accordingly to notify users that these particular predictions are proven to be wrong.
That's called marketing
and who would actually verify the output of llm works as expected? Unit tests? Who would verify unit tests are testing what needs to be tested instead of just a branch/output coverage? I've used these tools personally and I've used gh copilot at company I work in and at no point in time I was under impression llm's can do all of my work. Each step needs verification if it actually gives what you need, some steps do need good description by someone who knows what the system is doing to perform the changes where these are needed. Continuous extension of features without good design patterns in place, usually checked by devs, can also create a lot of problems. So what makes you think in one year swe will be considered a dying field? What I see is the need for better devs that can see beyond boilerplate that can be empowered by llm's, but it doesn't mean a dying field, it means rising the standards to break into the field.
This sounds like regulatory failure creating a deadweight loss. IP rights were invented to further the creation and distribution of works in the arts and sciences; if they're making it prohibitively difficult we're doing it wrong.
Agreed, I'm not a designer but I do need to be able to edit images from time to time. I tried gimp but it just feels ... clunky?

Nowadays I just open up Photopea in the browser. No installs and it just works very well
> As a working hypothesis, protein folding assumes that a protein folds into the globally lowest energy configuration. [...] If there's a region in configuration space with a local minimum and high enough energy 'walls', this might be stable enough for the protein to be stable.

Sounds like gradient descent :)
Very nice, but often minimum overhang is not the only constraint. Sometimes you want to take (directional) strength into account. And sometimes it simply looks better if an object is sliced in a certain way.
First time hearing about the technique, sounds exciting.

I see a close comparison in features to SLM [1], which is already established as a core 3D Metal printing technique for a long time. SLM has precision down to the size of a mechanical pencil's lead. In what way is ECAM better? Is it more precision + no need to handle powder or shield gas + no need for laser source and containment, minus ECAM being slower. Am I missing some crucial feature?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_melting
These poorly prompted AI comments are lame
Unfortunately most of their properties aren't on Paramount+
Folks where I come from get up to 80% of their last salary for max 30 months and yet it's one of the safest country in the world.
This firms up a moral case for torrents as a distributed archival method.
OP isn't training though. They're just paying for query. Much cheaper (and insanely faster) than fiverr
iPhones Will Better Support Third-Party Displays and Batteries Later This Year
Not clearly defining the benefit is to the advantage of the employer. A defined vacation policy means that if you're fired, the company needs to pay out your unused vacation. It means that if your boss isn't letting you take it, there's a problem between the written policy and your boss's preference, and that might mean a resolution mechanism. It means additional ammunition when asking because it's your due, not a favor. It means that the person who is not socially adroit understands how much vacation they're allowed and isn't leaving available vacation unused.
Honestly sounds like it would do better than a horizontal one. It is always a struggle to plug usb to boards on breadboard
For those of us who missed the party, can we have a video and screenies please please please? :D

Also, a very long time ago I remember seeing the early genesis of minecraft emerging on iirc https://forums.tigsource.com/. The community there is still vibrant, so if not already there then that is a good place to show your game and get solid feedback and encouragement :)
> the great American past time is complaining about the government. But in SK there's a lot more trust of the government

Are they really more trusting of the government in south korea or is that just what people will say if you ask them?

If my government aggressively went after every youtuber and literal child who dared to say bad things about the government I'd probably lie and say I trusted my government too whenever asked.
> has been clearly identified as Russian

Identified by the same people that have lied about pretty much everything else?
I don't know what AI can or can not do, but it's getting good enough that I can't tell if this is written by ChatGPT.

If you can't pass the Turing test, setting higher bars for AI doesn't make sense.
> It won't be erroneously optimizing entire loops to some random constant anymore. One would think they'd emit a warning instead in these cases but no.

It also won't be optimizing other loops that you want it to optimize. Turns out it's a tradeoff and lots of people choose C and C++ exactly because of this focus on speed..

> This is C. We do things like write memory allocators. Of course we're going to alias stuff. I have a structure type, I have a byte buffer with the data, of course I want to overlay the type on the byte buffer and just access it directly. Why is it that the compiler just doesn't let me reinterpret memory however I want? Compiler has no business making my life hell because of this.

char is allowed to alias other types. Other types of aliasing are rarely needed and you can always memcpy the contents if you really do need to.

> Turns out the C standard prescribes some "strict aliasing" nonsense because Fortran has it or some other reason nobody really cares about. If you're doing anything at all in C you're probably violating this.

No prescribes it because otherwise it would need to load from memory on every pointer dereference after something completely different has been written to. This is obviously undesirable if you care even one bit about performance.

None of these things are the compiler fighting you. In fact it is trying to help you. But you seem to want something closer to high-level assmebler and you can have that: don't use and optimizing compiler or use flags to change the language semantics to your taste. That doesn't make the default semantics bad though.

> I have no idea what the performance impact is and honestly I don't care.

Then C and C++ are simply not made for you. There are plenty of "safe" languages for people who don't care about the perfomance impact.

> If anyone here knows of any other useful flags that define the undefined, please reply to this comment. I'll add them to my makefiles without thinking twice.

Try -O0.
The healing brush actually came out in 2002 with Photoshop 7. It was a compelling new feature in the pre-subscription days when version upgrades were expensive! https://www.imaging-resource.com/SOFT/PS7/PS7.HTM
Semi autonomously is the key. Aider and Plandex are both pretty good.
Remember...If you read this and understand it...You will lose the ability to explain it.
MyVector Plugin – Vector Storage and Similarity Search in MySQL
DeepComputing Partners with Canonical to Boost DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop
So then make the rule just for cheaply copiable media. Copyright already has lots of specific rights that only appear to certain forms of media, e.g. the right to broadcast exists for movies, but not for statues.
Note that gojq also fixes and improves on some things compared to jq, like arbitrary-precision arithmetic (jq only preserves), some semantic and parsing improvement and fixes that will likely happen in jq at some point also, time zone/formatting/parsing fixes, etc
The optimizations can easily be gained back by "manual" loading and storing to temporary local variables.

The classical:

int foo(float *f, int *x) {
*x = 2;
*f = 3.0f;
return *x; // oh no, without typed based aliasing I have to load x again!
}

Can obviously be rewritten to:

int foo(float *f, int *x) {
int z = 2;
*x = z;
*f = 3.0f;
return z; // ah, thank you programmer, z has not had its address taken, it's obviously 2.
}
Sourcegraph Cody uses Claude
"Play around with Rubbrband for free. No credit card required." yes but WHAT is the pricing if I like it? I need it upfront. Is it credits? Subscription? Pay-per-image? How does it work?
Because they published it; they were free not to do so if they didn't want anybody to reproduce or distribute it (in fact that seems like the easiest way to do so).

In order to encourage more people to make these works, however, our government grants them a temporary, limited monopoly on the work's reproduction and distribution, but this is a means to an end that we agree to for utilitarian reasons, not some kind of actual inherent right on their part or responsibility on mine.
On an attiny14a, with 128B of RAM, I had no problem implementing a 433MHz radio remote decoder, controlling 13 LEDs (via a shift register), a digital pot, a rotary encoder, and one button. With the ability to clear and record new remotes in EPROM.

I definitely didn't use near the whole 128B of RAM. I don't remember how much, because it wasn't ever an issue.

The difficult part was actually the 1024 instructions limit on the FLASH storage.
It was written in Rust, which wasn't good with AVR at the time (it got better since then).
I'm a lifelong collector of a variety of (very) niche things, and have at times sold or tried to sell items from my collections, or whole collections at once. You're right about everything, I would only add that each category of thing is its own world in terms of liquidity and how certain you can be of obtaining a guide price. It also pays off to learn about the collector cultures and communities surrounding each type of thing, so you know what obscure periodical or special interest show, etc. to target when you are trying to sell. Never be in a rush, and the other thing that can make a difference is developing good product photography/videography skills.
>You can’t be a techno-optimist anymore.

You can be, we're just getting old. LLMs are very exciting! WASI (and a bit older WebAssembly) is a bold idea! Rust is a breath of fresh air and ancient tools are finally being rewritten! Edge computing may change the way we write programs! Hardware is finally ready for VR!

Now, I'm quite sceptical and pessimistic about all of the above. But I think this says more about me than about the world. Younger me would be prototyping a LLM in Rust and compiling it to webassembly to use in his VR game right now. Current me thinks similarly to you.
This discussion is obviously about what the law should be rather than what it is.
Why do you work? Can't you get a sick leave?
"The customer responded "thank you so much" and gave us a perfect score in CSAT rating. Speed trumps everything, even when you make such a horrible mistake."

I think not everyone would react the same way. For some calling each other bitch is normal talk (which is likely, why I it got into the training data in the first place). For others, not so much.
Marketers necessarily sell something that doesn't exist because part of their job is creating that thing.

Theranos is an example of a failed project through and through, but even something unarguably successful like the iPhone was built through market strategizing-- not just technical engineering. Identifying what consumers wanted, conveying that vision, shaping a compelling brand, these are all things that can easily be written off as "fake" by people who cannot buy into the vision, but when done well they are just as important as the technical innovations.
Getting it to enforce JSON is still a pain and not guaranteed. GPT-4o does this better.

Also it’s vision capabilities are much less evolved.
How do you add an RSS feed to your own blog? Maybe my google-fu is failing me these days but all I'm getting is how to create one for your podcast. I'd just like people with an rss reader to be able to access my blog as a feed
Remember that guy who had made a giant website with the word counts of a whole ton of books and authors lost their collective minds over it? I think a lot of writers sincerely believe he needed their "permission" to count the words in their books.
The fuck it is, shit, what kinda cunt makes a rule like that!?

(With apologies should anyone be offended).
> These platforms [Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats] are all losing money.

Has this changed? Do all these companies still losing money?