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deadso··on Problem solving using Markov chains (2007) [pdf]
What was wrong with the 1 light second wire and the light taking infinite paths videos?
deadso··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
The comment you're responding to mentioned Obama because of the comment they were responding to brought it up.

Here's a link for some numbers that include Biden: https://www.newsweek.com/immigrant-deportations-removals-tru...

tl;dr: Biden seems to have deported more than any other president

deadso··on More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
Is there any sandboxing to prevent access from the SIM card computer to information on your phone? And if so, absent of some (admittedly not very unlikely) 0day allowing sandbox escape, what would a malicious SIM program be able to do?
deadso··on Why I always hit the crosswalk button (2015)
This is also the case in many parts of the US. I've experienced this in WA and MN.
deadso··on Why there is no effort to bring webrings back as search quality has declined?
In a similar vein, kagi's small web: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
deadso··on Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
Which subreddits?
deadso··on Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted
One thing that people miss out on when they complain about guilding/awards is that being guilded or buying premium will credit your account with reddit tokens that you can use to guild other posts. So there's a chance the users are just using tokens that they have in their accounts already. I purchased premium back in the day to sync visited pages, and I have around 10+ platinum awards I can give out, a lot more if I use a cheaper award.

See here: https://www.reddit.com/coins/

deadso··on The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
IYI: Intellectual, yet idiot

NNTaleb: Naseem Nicholas Taleb

deadso··on On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages
"Been moved" strongly implies that it wasn't his choice. Cutler worked on some really cool Virtualization problems in Xbox and is bringing that expertise to Azure as well.
deadso··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
One advantage of it being hardware specific is that I can move my keyboard between machines and not have to worry whether my shortcuts are available. Also, I believe tools can only register themselves so early in the input processing stack in the OS which can prevent you from having your macros/shortcuts available in certain applications. An example of this is for RDP in windows, where if you use fullscreen RDP, it will use the remote instance's keyboard shortcuts instead of triggering the hooks you have on the host. Having the shortcut in firmware makes your shortcuts resolve before even leaving the keyboard.

Of course, there are downsides to having it all in hardware as well.

deadso··on Microsoft has started layoffs today
Purple badges are for business guests from other companies that might be doing a a stint onsite.
deadso··on New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars
> sorry it's loud for a few minutes per day

It's more than a few minutes. Often times it goes up to a full hour, and it's usually super early in the morning, waking up a bunch of people. Each apartment complex will bring them in at different times, and now people who work late just have to have their sleep interrupted.

> This just seems like such an obvious class divide thing to me.

Why? People who are forced to work late, btw, are usually not upper class. And it's not like we won't want clean streets. If anything, this efficiency decrease will create more jobs for landscaping folks. It will also be less of a nuisance for everyone.

deadso··on Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?
I found Circa to be an amazing way to consume news. News was written in the most boring way possible, and it would have bullet points for news stories along with sources for each bullet point. As much as I like reading full articles to get all the nuance, there's just too much information to consume. Circa seemed to be the sweet spot between brevity and information density that I need.

I've been hoping for something like Circa to pop back into existence, but unfortunately I can see why it's not a profitable venture.

deadso··on SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
They specifically said it's _not_ open source. Hence the open source-like. To distinguish, they even have a different name for it - inner source.
deadso··on Measles surging as Covid-19 curbs disrupt vaccinations
What's your suggestion on how to have your child build the immunity these days without risking the child possibly infecting the parents with covid?
deadso··on Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
For 3, you can also middle click the back button to reopen the search engine tab again.
deadso··on No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker
This assumes they could only access DMs of people that sent out the spam (which includes Biden). In reality they could have pulled Trump and friends' DMs also, who have a history of using twitter for official use and seem to have questionable operational security.
deadso··on Against Testing
Their point is that the test case provided would lead the developer to believe that the implementation is a correct identity function, when in fact it isn't.

Just clarifying, I do not take this as a good reason to not write tests.

deadso··on Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I'm not up to speed on the latest in the defense world. Good to know. I just felt like I had to bring it up because (at the time of posting) people were exclusively discussing the merits of an AV on linux (which is debatable) vs the value of EDR in a corporate environment.
deadso··on Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available
I don't think people ITT understand what Defender ATP is supposed to be. It's not just an AV, but rather also has the ability to do threat protection across all your assets in the company.

It can analyze an attackers moves within your network, figuring out what files they accessed, ways they pivoted, and other stuff. So not only would it detect that you got compromised, but the display will show you likely paths, names of users that are also compromised, mitigation steps, deployed persistence measures, etc.

So for Defender ATP to work optimally in a deployment that leverages linux nodes, or has users using linux as their daily driver, you need to support linux.

deadso··on I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
Why do you think it got rewritten? Obviously the UI has changed, but the reddit post indicating that it can run without shell32.dll makes me think it was rewritten with a nicely decoupled UI and that is what got updated in later iterations.

If you work at MS, it would be cool to find the last person to push a change to that code base and ask them. Or maybe we can reply to the reddit post.

deadso··on What is a control system anyway?
Reminds me of this project from MIT students where they built an analog Segway:

https://techtv.mit.edu/videos/687f4627e5c14a52b24c694f7eeecf...

deadso··on Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
This doesn't work for SSL enabled websites, right?