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simikon Vue Native (2018)

Could you give a couple examples of such missing features?

simikon Riding the RISC-V wave

I could totally see a sort of verification@home distributed effort to help test open-source CPUs.

simikon Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation

There you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRjVvccQVM

simikon How dice changed over 2k years to be more fair (2018)

What's "unbalanced" about the 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 arrangement of numbers? And how is "primes" superior?

simikon Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high

US population median age is 39. Fatality rate for people under 40 is <0.2%. Fatality rate of people aged 60+ is >3.6% [1]

So, no, 1.4% and 0.06% sound about right given the age difference.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

simikon The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It

Huh, I knew I saw this Spolsky vs Shkreli Excel mastery comparison. Thought it was just a dejavu, or something.

simikon AMD Reveals Threadripper 2: Up to 32 Cores, 250W, X399 Refresh

Power delivery by a motherboard might be a problem, too.

simikon Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

There are couple projects that try to tackle this problem by providing an alternative CLI (on top of git's own plumbing), like gitless and g2. Haven't used any of them myself, but would be interested in experience of others.

simikon Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets

Now we need a decentralized SEC, or some sort of crypto/ICO-centric auditors.

simikon Blind Signature

bcrypt and scrypt are inherently salted.

simikon Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits

I don't know about scaling, at least technology wise. Their trading web interface maxes out my CPU core at just 4-8 tx/s. And that's usually the time of big movements, exactly when you don't want trading interface to freeze up on you.

simikon Tether Is Breaking Its Peg to the Dollar

Yep, zoom out a bit more and this recent dip is not that bad. https://cryptowat.ch/kraken/usdtusd/1d

But still, I'm a skeptic too.

simikon SpaceX performs static fire test on Falcon Heavy

Ok, I guess "static fires" are not the same as "engine firing". I was expecting something like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=976LHTpnZkY

simikon SpaceX performs static fire test on Falcon Heavy

But why was it so short?

simikon Show HN: Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go

Is there any significant difference between MH-Z19 and MH-Z19B?

simikon Intel Has a Big Problem

> Krzanich showed off a full-size pilotless helicopter Wait... what?

simikon Cryptocurrencies are collapsing

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7npeh6/lightning_n...

This post on reddit would be a good place to get understanding of the current LN status.

simikon Cryptocurrencies are collapsing

I've just made a bet it's dead cat bounce. Let's see how it goes.

simikon Inside Telegram’s ambitious $1.2B ICO to create the next Ethereum

Have I missed the link to the actual leaked 132-pages white paper?

simikon CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games

Do you mean 40 percentage points? In other words, tripling?

simikon AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings

What do you use integrated graphics for on VMs? Genuinely interested, I haven't used VMs beyond web dev and occasionally trying out some new distro of Linux.

simikon Equihax

Instructions for private buy dosn't make sense. Transaction id is public, so anyone can write them and claim a transaction is theirs.

simikon Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

They are constantly "Temporarily sold out", at least in European regions.

simikon A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

Finally, a use for my triple-click mouse button!

simikon Medical guidelines don’t include a diet low in carbohydrates

https://reddit.com/r/zerocarb - plenty of people sustaining zero carb for years.

simikon Security flaw in NXP chips, millions of car remotes are effected

Link to full paper: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3010178/Volkswage...

simikon Introduction to GPU Password Cracking: Owning the LinkedIn Password Dump

SHA-512 would be just 7-8 times slower. Not much of an improvement. Check hashcat's page for performance figures:

https://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/#performance

simikon Hacking the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV hybrid

4 letters + 6 digits PSK, roughly 39 bits of entropy, about 730 hours to exhaust the search space on a single GTX 970/R9 290X.

EDIT: I'm surprised it costs 1,000 GBP to cloud-hack a PSK of this length, considering there are lots of GPUs mining cryptocurrencies at about $0.15 an hour.

simikon KeePass2 v 2.34 to fix update security problem

No, not that ignore-security-until-too-late type of laziness. More of a automate-manual-tasks laziness.