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nikau··on BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time
What's real world side by side testing show?
nikau··on Cyrix 6x86
I had one in that era, they sucked for whatever opcodes mp3 decoding required
nikau··on Are rotary mixers better?
Is that volume behaviour intentional, or just crappy sampling rate of the encoder?
nikau··on A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions
I recall a custom rom I had years ago supported fake data for contacts, camera, calendar etc.

It used to give a bit of satisfaction knowing I was polluting their data mining.

nikau··on Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus
its steam from the japanese onsen
nikau··on How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works
Damn you just gave someone at the apple marketing team an end of year bonus:

"Inspired by the starter key of the legendary Porsche 917..."

nikau··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
except the electron app running the powerplant cant respond fast enough to the nodding duck
nikau··on We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours
> there is often a good value proposition to the customer in these cases i.e spend $7 a month on a paid VPN service or get a free one in return for exchanging a small amount of bandwidth which has zero marginal cost.

Until someone sends bomb threats or downloads child porn via your IP....

nikau··on A Tesla Semi has already traveled 250k miles in 1.5 years
Tesla also said the cybertruck can win a 1/4 mile drag race that turned out to be a 1/8 mile drag race and even dubious at that.
nikau··on The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beginning (2015)
There's a reason why construction and other projects that require coordinating with external parties rely on Microsoft project so much.

I'm on a project now trying to manage external customer cutovers and integrations using JIRA and its a dumpster fire.

A proper project plan with deadlines, lead times, resources etc would solve 99% of the problems.

Its just non stop crisis "oh we forgot to get get change submitted on time" - "oh this customer can't migrate until date x" - "oh this test environment is down for scheduled rebuild on days xyz" - all can easily be tracked to automatically calculate timelines.

Agile is fine at a macro level, but it needs to feed into a better system for real world dependencies and deadlines.

nikau··on Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
Gitbash is handy for simple things, but it's a slug compared to wsl2.
nikau··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
I had a gravis ultrasound at the time and remember having to cut the reset signal line on the card.

I could then initialise the card in DOS and reboot into NT without it being reset and losing settings. Then some sketchy modified driver was able to use it.

nikau··on Pour over Coffee Got Good
My $400 grinder will be working just as well in 50 years time, can you say the same for your computer and phone?

Grinders make the biggest difference for espresso quality and consistency, it's the espresso machines that people generally over spend on.

nikau··on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
I'd guess they just didn't think of flash wear, like Tesla did in the early model s , and they got lucky they failed outside the warranty period.
nikau··on DEFCON found vulnerabilities in voting machines–but there's no time to fix them
Do you really want the nuttiest of the Trump nutjobs "developing" your voting machine code?
nikau··on DEFCON found vulnerabilities in voting machines–but there's no time to fix them
Like most countries scale up with lots of people to count them ?
nikau··on Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years
Well that will surely stop the scammers that use hacked VoIP systems
nikau··on How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
Have you ever used an old ticketing system like remedy? Ugly as sin, but screens appear instantly.

I think Web apps have been around so long now people have forgotten how unresponsive things are vs old 2 tier stuff.

nikau··on You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
Crowdstrike will
nikau··on The Elegance of the ASCII Table
Logically space maps to a character people use with pen and paper unlike tab
nikau··on Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
Doesn't match to my experience - its either open slather or properly restricted VDI/Citrix envs.
nikau··on Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
Crazy idea, for critical systems dont give them blanket internet access, USB, email attachments...
nikau··on Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
Welcome to new generation "cybersecurity" experts that just regurgitate buzzwords like "compliance" and "guardrails" in addition to filling out risk matrix spreadsheets.

Its all PaaS/SaaS now, old-school properly engineered isolated solutions require too much expensive staffing.

I'm waiting for a vendor like zscaler to be hacked - what could go wrong with having thousands of companies do MITM SSL interception via a single vendor.

That's a nice juicy target for hackers if I ever saw one...

nikau··on Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
The proper solution is a hardened machine build for critical systems that doesn't have internet access, disabled USB, attachments blocked in email, etc.

However that isn't popular and most orgs would prefer a day of downtime from this type of outage vs the hassle and cost of doing it right.

nikau··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
you would think that...
nikau··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
I mean this isn't some bizarre edge case bug, its a file full of nulls and a broken parser that blindly imported it.

Its negligence.

nikau··on Modchipping a Fridge
cool hack and all, but id question what requirement there is to intentionally leave your fridge open for more than a minute and waste copious amounts of energy to get back to original temp.
nikau··on CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars
i thought that was wayland
nikau··on Gitlab Explores Sale
I think its likely too late for gitlab, their code seems to suffer from poor outset design and has been hacked at too much.

The fact there are 4 generations of job dependency tags alone must be a quagmire to modify.

nikau··on Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change
I've found disabling/enabling the virtual network bridge fixes VPN issues.

Of course in win11 Microsoft decided to make the bridge hidden for some unknown reason, so good luck figuring it out...

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