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You can grind some of the raw silicon out of a finished wafer but I don't think it'd be suitable to use in another batch of product. So instead of having the weights on the wafer l…

Using the space of an entire wafer for one chip would result in extremely low manufacturing yields. Even with state of the art silicon cleanrooms, there will still be defects in pa…

The CloudFlare blog discusses that idea when they talk about having an "agent process" to hold cryptographic material, but they list drawbacks like having to develop two processes,…

Interestingly, Microsoft has been trying to get ahead of this for a couple of years now with their National Partner Clouds program [0], which they describe as: > designed for scena…

I've been trying uBO Lite myself for a few months, and anyone who uses YouTube will absolutely notice that it's worse at blocking. Lite tends to delay playback at the start of a vi…

Are you thinking of the Windows 3.00 Working Model? https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_3.00_Working_Model

Not the whole thing: a lot of the Windows org chart is still under Rajesh Jha in Experiences + Devices, or scattered around Azure with Scott Guthrie. But they've already been pushi…

It's not just the kids growing up now. I'm sure plenty of millennials who watched YouTube when AudioSwap was a thing will recognize "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System: https://www.yo…

I think the IPv4 "evil" bit [0] already does this :) [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514

Whether it's proper depends on who you ask but you can use the singular they. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Could you elaborate? AMD spun their fabrication arm off into GlobalFoundries a while back, and they seem to be doing okay. I thought that would be a good precedent for Intel divest…

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501901

>if a Twitter user was logged in with a dongle but the attacker had access via social engeneered remote desktop access a dongle still could mean access to private data It depends o…

This is actually something I've played around with before. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find the free time to finish the project. https://bitbucket.org/nsg-usa/constitution…

What's stopping Apple from selling the parts that they manufacture to third parties, though? If anything this is an argument for right to repair laws, not for manufacturers to furt…

That story sounds similar to Bezos' mandate in Steve Yegge's Google platform rant: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

This doesn't work too well if someone adds Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV or Kendrick Lamar's untitled unmastered to their playlist.

Can you point to an example of telemetry that Windows is collecting that isn't documented and shown?

>they still refuse to publish the complete list of what is collected They give you the option to fully inspect all the telemetry data your computer is sending, categorized by use. …

I'm also a TA for the class mentioned in this article. We teach Git and have a submission system where students submit patches based on skeleton code; students are required to make…

The issue of incentivizing students to guess-and-check when providing the test scripts upfront is, IMO, fixed by making the students write the tests themselves. This paper explains…

The interesting thing is that dd wouldn't even give us an error, but the write speeds were abysmal. Toward the end of the hackathon, we noticed that blocks would be corrupted here …

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