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About beng-nl

Ben Gras.

My day job is security researcher at Intel Corporation. I'm interested in EDA tools and RTL analysis, systems programming, embedded programming, and the many challenges that intersect with that world.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bengnl; my proof: https://keybase.io/bengnl/sigs/cYVoDysjOMs0TJKfmofAZPhd0BFqtV5jZNCOynkHBUs ]

email: beng@shrike-systems.com

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    Comment #49168362

    The Kobayashi Maru (Though personally I don’t think giving a truly unsolvable problem in an interview without warning that this may be unsolvable is a reasonable test of anything, …

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    Comment #49153637

    Beyond reverse centaur

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    Comment #49111896

    Absolutely.

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    Comment #49107132

    Pardon my nitpick, but producing solar panels isn’t emission free.

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    Comment #49094674

    https://archive.is/YcrLG

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    Comment #49018806

    I’m not trying to be snarky, but.. I wouldn’t try to upgrade an answer from a stranger you can’t fully trust to an expert answer you can trust by asking more strangers who have all…

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    Comment #49012981

    Forward deployed engineers too

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    Comment #49003783

    Not op, but I do sometimes indulge in such anthropomorphic conversation. Confiding in it that a certain (bad) result in the research project we’re working on ‘feels bad’ and readin…

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    Comment #49003585

    I agree: it feels to me that judging this implies knowing whether there is a solution at all (or a solution available per model, example: whether either model will answer it given …

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    Comment #48967429

    Patiënt zero, that’s what :-)

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    Comment #48936989

    Say what you want about Frank abagnale.. but damn can he tell a compelling story.

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    Comment #48909028

    Common in NL too; I know a company that specializes in installing these on apartment buildings and sharing the benefits per apartment. Although they’ve started favoring larger inst…

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    Comment #48907691

    Supposedly yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

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    Comment #48836186

    The scourge of nouning.

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    Comment #48822456

    I see how jarring it is for you, but I want to comment-vouch against your flag. If you slow down a little, you can spot some meaning there. Its oddly phrased, but it does make sens…

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    Comment #48820978

    Not if the thing is actually worth $3000

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    Comment #48819779

    You are motivating me to get enough reputation points to be allowed to downvote.

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    Comment #48804303

    I also think the friction is a higher obstacle than the cost.

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    Comment #48794330

    Wow, that is honestly a bit freaky - first I’ve heard of anything like that. I will assume it was a client side action, but still horribly invasive if that’s how it went. I’ll try …

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    Comment #48792688

    Can you be sure WhatsApp retroactively censored a message? Implying someone else but the direct recipient could read and delete/change it? (I believe group chats are different, for…

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    Comment #48784742

    And we’re not sure about the cosmos.

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    Comment #48776785

    The water isn’t destroyed, though, is it? It evaporates, right? So it isn’t lost?

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    Comment #48731919

    I don’t get what you’re implying. What is repatriating; You think they will move their workloads to on-prem? Is there something different about the world that changed the trade-off…

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    Comment #48707169

    Ouch, did not expect to get triggered by this on HN - Peugeot 2008 owner but not much longer