rev_null (u/rev_null)

rev_null commented on Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve

rev_null · 3 years ago

I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates.

The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to read back through all of them to figure out which ones to install.

rev_null commented on Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge github.com/revnull/noisef... · Posted by u/qdot76367

pabs3 · 5 years ago

Could you say something about the switch from Haskell to Rust? Was it motivated by performance? or type system complexity? or something else?

rev_null · 5 years ago

Honestly, I was just looking to learn Rust and this seemed like a reasonable project for it. It's small enough that I could conceivably rewrite it in a couple of months and the stakes were low if it didn't work out.

Mostly, I'm just sticking with the Rust implementation now because it has a couple of new features that I wanted. Also, it should theoretically (I have not tested) be able to run on other OSes, since it is built around JACK instead of ALSA.

rev_null commented on Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge github.com/revnull/noisef... · Posted by u/qdot76367

Rochus · 5 years ago

What exactly is it? Is it an algorithmic composition tool? Is there a description?

rev_null · 5 years ago

It's a music live-coding environment that is part of the befunge family of (obfuscated) languages.

rev_null commented on Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge github.com/revnull/noisef... · Posted by u/qdot76367

rev_null · 5 years ago

Creator here. I just updated the README and name for this project since it is the legacy implementation. I started the new implementation in Rust earlier this year.

If you're interested in seeing it in action, here's a recent video (there are more on my youtube page): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeseWGmcIbY

rev_null commented on Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? jefftk.com/p/programmers-... · Posted by u/luu

NeverFade · 6 years ago

Yes, it's the same for FAANG as well. If you just divide total revenue by total headcount, you already get seven figure numbers. But if you divide revenue by the engineers who generate it, you get a big multiple of that.

rev_null · 6 years ago

If you divide the total revenue by the number of HR employees, you will also get a much larger number. (Total revenue / total number of employees) will always be less than (total revenue / subset of employees).

This is not a very good metric.

rev_null commented on Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay krebsonsecurity.com/2019/... · Posted by u/miles

sparrish · 6 years ago

They're not just outing them, they're dumping their data. That changes the risk dynamic significantly. Before, if you didn't pay, you didn't get your data back. Now, you don't pay, they expose all your data to the world. For some companies, that will be a significantly more compelling reason to pay the ransom.

rev_null · 6 years ago

If you don't pay and they expose your data to the world, doesn't that mean you can effectively get it back without paying?

rev_null commented on The Anti-College Is on the Rise nytimes.com/2019/06/08/op... · Posted by u/mitchbob

agrenader · 7 years ago

Agree, this is exactly the reason why M. Zuckerberg is not a VP.

rev_null · 7 years ago

Zuckerberg never had to interview at Facebook.

rev_null commented on Astronomers unravel a blast that sent ripples in space-time delta.tudelft.nl/article/... · Posted by u/kartikkumar

Tehchops · 7 years ago

>"During such events, massive amounts of heavy metals are formed. This collision, for instance, produced a lump of gold with the mass of our planet in just a split second."

We need to find a localized wormhole and go mine that.

rev_null · 7 years ago

How is gold created out of the collision of stars composed of neutrons?

rev_null commented on ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02... · Posted by u/j4cob

propter_hoc · 7 years ago

This is a remarkable story. Fortunately, this ETSI-backed "ETS" standard appears to have just about zero uptake or internet presence, let alone vendor acceptance. So although this is fairly outrageous based on the EFF article, it doesn't look like something that's a big threat to TLS at this point.

PS. I can't even get ETSI's website to load! https://www.etsi.org/

rev_null · 7 years ago

If you're having trouble getting etsi.org to load, try using their static key for diffie-hellman: 0x00000000.

rev_null commented on Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt cbc.ca/news/technology/ma... · Posted by u/vaughnegut

lisper · 7 years ago

One indication that no one is even remotely ready to think seriously about colonizing Mars (including Space X): There are vast tracts of uninhabited land on earth, notably in the American West. Colonizing those would be vastly easier than colonizing Mars, and yet no one is even talking about that. A self-sustaining colony in the middle of the Nevada desert that was able to get by with no outside help for a few years would be about 1% as hard as colonizing Mars, and yet no one has done it, and no one AFAIK is planning to do it. This to me is the smoking gun that no one is really taking Mars colonization seriously. Everyone is caught up in the sexiness and glamour and no one wants to get down in the dirt and solve the really hard problems of how humans are actually going to survive when they are totally isolated from civilization for years.

Yes, I know about the HI-SEAS project. That was not isolated nor self-sustaining, and it only lasted 8 months.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/mars-sim...

That's actually not even the sort of thing I'm talking about. Forget simulating Mars. I want to see someone just colonize an uninhabited part of Earth without relying on help from the outside without any other constraints. Until we can do that, Mars is hopeless.

rev_null · 7 years ago

Biosphere 2 was meant as a self-sustaining ecosystem capable of supporting human life. It wasn't entirely successful, but was along the lines of what you described.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2