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While the article's a fun exploration, I do wonder if the key point of the XOR cipher was actually to allow the manufacturer to claim that encryption was in use so that the DMCA co…

I grew up with Hypercard etc. and always loved the classic icons, like these: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/designed-with-kare-in... Don't suppose you've ever extended the…

I found this: https://textslashplain.com/2016/03/06/using-https-properly/ Seems like it at least partially corroborates OP's recollection!

Agreed. These technologies are the backbone of a lot (most?) of IoT devices, so unlike the article's description of "devices" in terms of "consumer handheld phones (that are often …

I have worked at such a place as well and would strongly recommend this. If it works out right, you can remain in software and do adjacent jobs to manufacturing. I suspect industri…

This is an interesting article, and the subject of alternate paths to payment seems quite relevant. It listed a strategy or two I hadn't seen before. What other strategies have fol…

Fair point. But putting on my user hat, that Smart Paste sounds pretty handy if it works half decently. I'm thinking CRM entry use cases and the like.

My experience was quite a bit different than SWE. For me, it was as part of a R&D group and was more closely assigned to say, signals processing and my coworker was a physicist. Th…

Yeah, I went looking for debug.exe on the listing as well. There was something just so visceral and direct about its usage that I enjoyed.

If memory serves correctly, I think that's close to how ClickOnce worked/works? - but Windows only. One of the apps I worked on does it, but it was a homegrown framework. Definitel…

As an interesting contrast, I work on a WPF app professionally that has been around for sure since .NET 3.5 (with references to .NET 2.0 DLL's at times) - at least 12 years - and a…

For a side project of image classification, I use a simple folder system where the images and metadata are both files, with a hash of the image acting as a key/filename - e.g. 123.…

Also, Tensorflow.js WebGPU backend has been in the works for quite some time: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/tree/master/tfjs-backend-...

Thanks for the response dynamite-ready. There's a lot in here, but I'll try to comment on a couple items. Some of your suggestions I've actually thought about extensively, so perha…

Jump point search is also pretty nifty for a block-based subset of pathfinding.

For whatever reason, animated Pokemon were a particularly tough case - I remember Charizard in particular being a tough offender for false positives. I cannot find a reference to i…

You're right that stuff is quite difficult. I write a Firefox addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wingman-jr-fi... , https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/wingman_…

Probably the humidity. In the western part of North Dakota, it's generally a bit dry so it doesn't _feel_ quite so cold. That's a big difference from even say, Grand Forks or Fargo…

I'd recommend trying to work a place that has both web dev and the role you want, then try to move within the company itself after some time there. Could be more gradual and you ca…

I have a WD MyBook and unplugged it last night - still fine, fortunately. I ssh'ed in and renamed the factoryRestore.sh and wipeFactoryReset.sh to cripple the attack as well as rem…

I've been watching developments here since FLIF days and I wanted to say thank for you for taking the serious time, effort, and tireless communication to see things through the sta…