Viewing profile — derekerdmann

No. Bought in person at a Walmart in like, 2005

I once had a cheap Timex watch die from water ingress after running a track workout during a torrential downpour. At the time I joked that it only failed because we ran farther tha…

Not really, even Anker recalled a huge number of power banks last year: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Anker-Power-Banks-Recalled...

If I remember correctly it's up to the client program to set up the session, not something to do with the vendor's implementation. It's conceptually similar to how an HTTPS client …

Correct, unless you're using a self-encrypting drive the FVEK sits in RAM once it's been released by the TPM during boot. The TPM is only a root of trust; for fast crypto operation…

Take a look at Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna - it spends a lot of time on how different scales are constructed and relating different patterns and chord forms back to the underlyi…

It’s self-oscillating

When someone asks you if you're a god, you say, "yes!"

Static analyzers are NOT formal methods. Reporting no issues just means your tool didn’t find anything, not that your program is correct.

> Is rackmount equipment cheaper than regular consumer PC hardware? Never

> 1. Packet captures don’t use the correct channel I've also seen this on a 2020 Intel MacBook Air. I assumed it was a Big Sur issue but had never tried it on Catalina. Sniffing fr…

Greater Appalachia definitely extends through PA in a T shape across the center of the state and the northern border (sometimes called Pennsyltucky) and covers at least the Souther…

Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers

"the FRBs were as blinding as flash grenades in a dark forest" Just that much should be terrifying for anyone who's read The Three-Body Problem and its sequels.

I'm not convinced this analysis is reading the draft fairly: ... if you need to circumvent a DRM for personal use, you are now liable for criminal penalties. Traditionally, for man…

That is not what the linked patent describes. In that patent, the base key in the hierarchy (the one created by the administrator, NOT the storage root of trust or SRK) is created …

This is something Linus addressed quite a while ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/132513/

It also makes for an interesting redistribution of electoral votes.

C# also includes compiler checks to make sure you're explicitly overriding methods correctly: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ebca9ah3.aspx

Just because semantic versioning allows breaking changes doesn't mean Git SHOULD break compatibility.

What? Then what are the new Universal apps? http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/buildingapps/archive/2014...