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quickben··on Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer
And that too, won't be a password killer.

Heck almost 20 years ago Nortel had something better than what you described, and still we have passwords around.

Everything old is new again, today we are solving passwords with X, tomorrow with Y, etc.

quickben··on Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038
As a most extreme counterargument I raise you the NBA players. They got it, we don't. No amount of training can make up for it if you don't have it.
quickben··on OpenBSD on a Laptop
Thanks, I'll check that out.
quickben··on OpenBSD on a Laptop
"You won't find nearly as many online resources about setting up OpenBSD, because honestly, you really don't need any. "

That was the the last thing I wanted to read when wondering if openbsd will fit on my Ryzen machine.

quickben··on The hidden cost of QUIC and TOU (2016)
When advertisement companies push for L4 redesign... This is going to be a fun one to watch how it plays out.
quickben··on C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017)
Then I misunderstood the original comment, apologies.

I agree with the utility of the approach. Given the narrow space the language can move, they actually placed the feature really well.

quickben··on C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017)
Can you show us some examples of this efficient lisp that's faster than anything already constexpr-ed? :P
quickben··on Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
But users sue.
quickben··on Systemd is bad parsing
This approach increases the attack surface because it is included in the most popular distros by default.
quickben··on Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories
"Based on my experience in the industry, I'd say this isn't quite accurate."

I am genuinely curious, development or non development?

quickben··on C++: Associative map containers with compile-time lookup
Anything from Chandlery on C++ performance is worth gold.
quickben··on High-end house rents in Vancouver plunge up to 20% as inventory spikes: experts
Building more doesn't work. Some areas in Toronto have 30% empty dwellings.

There are much more money available to speculate than available surface area.

Leverage was cheap (through housing) so everyone played that asset class on margin here. Now that the interest rates are going up, it will sort itself out.

quickben··on Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data
You are missing the fact they are taking about privacy.
quickben··on Warp – self-contained, single binary applications
But some are high value targets (crypto ones, etc).
quickben··on Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
Is the security disclosure policy 3 business days?

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/23/4358400/google-engineer-b...

Do you think Google acted in a fair or unfair matter?

quickben··on Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
That didn't stop them so far from making everybody else look bad. The latest in Google's unfair competitive practices:

"Google discloses Microsoft Edge security flaw before a patch is ready" https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17027138/google-microsoft...

quickben··on KDE Neon review
Ok, feedback of one: I don't care about the installation. I can install anything just fine. Should I though? Is this version better than the last one? Is it better than windows? Mac os? True os? How is it better? Should i care about kde neon? What if i am mainstream Ubuntu with that gnome ui that wants to be MacOs (or wherever it is lately), will Neon appeal to me, why?

Stuff like that, otherwise you provided yet another installation process screenshots and we have enough of them lately.

quickben··on Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
It is simple. They are unpaid QA department now.
quickben··on Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
Apparently the rebrand of Windows as a Service started.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...

quickben··on Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
The problem is that companies are allowed to pile downtown to maximize profits, but that people should subsidize them in that as to not harm the environment. So, if a legal framework is being made to look at sustainability, ICUs are not the only thing that should be looked at.

Edit: colder climates will have a lot of problems adopting EVs, if ever on a mass scale.

quickben··on Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
Such as commuting an hour to work, that may turn out to be two, in Toronto's gridlock, during a cold wave of -45c.

"Most trips" doesn't work, the EV proponents want a ban on all ICE cars. Which would force part of the population to buy a truck and commute with it.

quickben··on Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
So, it seems my chance, if I go with them, is 50-50.
quickben··on Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
Depends where the warehouse is.
quickben··on Cisco coughs up baker’s dozen of vulnerabilities and other security nasties
Really? So my cisco home modem messing up DNS and appending Utopia.net, burned in hardware by cisco will get a new firmware if I just ask for it?

Please go on and let me know where I can open this case.

I am not sarcastic, I really need that fixed.

quickben··on Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
Considering Gmail takes seconds to load now (250Mbit link, Ryzen 8core, 32 GB RAM), I don't see myself using Gmail if they upgrade in the same fashion in 6 months.
quickben··on Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying
And thus, we are in the present conundrum:

Some profs are decent human beings, and the system runs. Some profs are sociopaths, and the system gets abused.

Other fields got their rules in place because of above. It is not fair to the profs that are decent human beings, but, ignoring the second point, makes it unfair to a lot more students that go through it.

quickben··on Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying
Similar abuses are happening here in Canada too.

They really have to forbid profs names to appear on student papers. It would remove a lot of the incentive.

quickben··on Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
"based on anecdotes and fake data." ... "Sure FB does some shitty things".

So which one is it? You are contradicting yourself.

quickben··on Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux
Yes of course, here is an example of a well defined, no ub, == overloads.

https://slikts.github.io/js-equality-game/

It is all bound to make JS kernel programing a Pilar of OS Stability.

quickben··on Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux
Do not worry, it will be secure. Signed, with verifiable checksums, and gdrp friendly.

Just, erm, load these binaries provided by FB, Google, Microsoft and Netflix. :P

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