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In this context, SLA = Stereolithography

mheion Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines

I wonder if they actually trained Cheetah on a different or the same dataset they are benchmarking on.

mheion The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects

Try "make foo" instead of "make"

(Rot13 as not to spoil the riddle)

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mheion Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, and other attacks [pdf]

Correct links are http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/2018/Janson/closing_keyno... and http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/2018/Janson/closing_keyno...

mheion Micro Soldering Microscopes

Could it help to have a point-like light source from a good angle that gives you a sharp shadow? Then it may be possible to judge distance based on the distance between the tip and its shadow.

mheion Filesystem error handling

second to last paragraph:

> All tests were run on both ubuntu 17.04, 4.10.0-37, as well as on arch, 4.12.8-2. We got the same results on both machines.

mheion Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says

I feel the pagination method demonstrated here is advantageous in that regard, eliminating vertical motion while allowing to see parts of two "pages" at the same time:

http://www.magicscroll.net/

I would love to have that on my ebook reader, may need to hack that together some time to try. I dislike switching back and forth between two pages as is sometimes necessary; in this regard, this even seems better to me than a regular book.

mheion Binary Puzzle

Or possibly the other way round? 0hh1.com was registered in 2014 according to whois info, the puzzles on this site go back to 2011. (I'm not claiming this is proof, of course)

mheion Udp.c in Linux kernel pre-4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code

The problematic patch only seems to be introduced in mainline 4.2, not 3.19, compare:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/core/datagram.c?v=3...

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/core/datagram.c?v=4...

I am just trying to completely understand the bug, I wonder if it really was unexploitable before the patch. Got any source for that?

EDIT: sorry, misunderstood your message / mixed up commits, I was looking into when 89c22d8c3b27 hit mainline, which causes the vulnerable code path.

mheion AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics

LyX actually has support for math macros, or is that support just not ergonomic for you? Not certain what the best way would be to support macros in a graphical math editor.

mheion Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'

EDIT: Nevermind, found the proper name: Kuleshov effect.

Could you elaborate on the Kuliekov effect? Couldn't find anything related with a quick google search.

mheion FAA Urges Passengers to Not Use Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on Planes

If this is not caused by the Windows issue mentioned by TeMPOraL, I might have another explanation:

My former notebook (Acer Timeline 1810TZ) used to wake up from a press on any keyboard button, which I was unable to change. The issue here is that with sufficient pressure (e.g. when I was running with the device in a messenger bag), the lid would bend enough to actually press a key and wake up the machine.

My hackish solution was a script that would automatically put the laptop back to sleep a few seconds after waking up, which I then manually killed after intentionally waking the device.

mheion Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

I'm using xming as well.

glxinfo reports

  OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
  OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256  bits)
  OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3
  OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

glxgears works for about a second, then crashes:

  XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X  server "localhost:0.0"
         after 732 requests (732 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

When i run it from strace, it keeps running.

mheion System Bus Radio

Usenix paper this code mentions in the README, includes presentation video: https://www.usenix.org/node/190937

I'll try to find time to try to transmit some data this way and receive it with my rad1o.

mheion Agar.io

At the moment you can use a trick to play with your friends (that's what I'm doing): For each player, redirect m.agar.io to your own server (/etc/hosts), which serves a static file with the gameserver location (which you get from the original m.agar.io). Then reload the game until you're in the same realm. Don't forget to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.

mheion Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan

If the operating system is compromised, your application stands no chance hiding its data (including keystrokes) from it. The keystrokes could simply be intercepted after decryption, or even before - if you keyboard controller is that capable, it probably has more than enough space for malware of its own.

mheion Timelock: time-release encryption incentivised by Bitcoins

I believe this is what Peter Todd did. At least his mail contains 32 bitcoin addresses, each with a balance of 10mBTC.