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New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold"

tuwtuwtuw — Tue, 30 May 2017 17:01:22 +0000

Lexmark did attempt to move to new markets some years ago due to this. They sold off their consumer/inkjet business and have been buying a bunch of software companies. This attempt to "softpivot" failed miserably. Lexmark was sold to a Chinese business some time ago. Now the software business is being split up and sold.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack"

tuwtuwtuw — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:22:08 +0000

Did you read the page linked to?

Or: Because it's not a "private cloud".

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off"

tuwtuwtuw — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 07:14:30 +0000

Which advertising preferences in Windows have you seen with this?

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are"

tuwtuwtuw — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:12:21 +0000

Some people claim similar things about rape and try to use that as evidence showing that the accusation is false ("she could just have kept her legs together"). It's a bit disgusting.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

tuwtuwtuw — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 06:30:12 +0000

That's still pretty much as silly as a tshirt. When a vulnerability was found in my hobby project I paid 200 to the reporter as a thanks. From my own pocket for my own open source program.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "Common Multithreading Mistakes in C# – Unsafe Assumptions"

tuwtuwtuw — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:31:45 +0000

No, the request wont consume 2000ms of CPU time if it's blocking. It will prevent the thread from doing other work which may be bad, but the CPU itself does not have to spend all 1700ms on that thread. At least my CPU doesn't use 100% of a core while waiting for a network package from the database server.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX"

tuwtuwtuw — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:41:53 +0000

How does that work with stuff such as odd password complexity rules (such as only digits allowed), enforced rotation, leaked password etc? It sounds like it would need to store more state than a master password.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week"

tuwtuwtuw — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 08:05:25 +0000

I'm being at-home-dad one day a week, so I have also reduced my working hours with 20%.

In Sweden, salary over a certain amount is taxed with somewhere around 60% (not the full salary, only the part over a certain threshold). I haven't bothered looking up the exact figures but a reduction of working hours with 20% had led to an actual salary decrease around 10% due to these taxing rules.

In my view this is a damn good deal. I get a full day of and only pay 10% of my salary for it.

(I too enjoy my job a lot and work after hours but the extra day of still means I get much more relaxing weekends).

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path, or the lack thereof"

tuwtuwtuw — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:45:41 +0000

Because it might save time in the short term.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "Making SQL Server run on Linux"

tuwtuwtuw — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 17:37:04 +0000

PostgreSQL has features MSSQL does not have, and vice versa.

PG is still very lacking when it comes to multi-node clusters for high availability for example.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "Trump Names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to Advisory Team – TheHill"

tuwtuwtuw — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:43:43 +0000

I agree, Twitter is more important right now.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation"

tuwtuwtuw — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:39:51 +0000

If you only have the password to your password manager, how do you log on to your computer?

Honest question since I want a solution to that problem. I want separate credentials for my home and office computer so even though I use a password manager I have like 3-4 sensitive passwords I have to keep in my head.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation"

tuwtuwtuw — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 06:35:58 +0000

A somewhat similar issue appears with Bitlocker in Windows. When you set your password you are using your custom Windows keyboard layout, such as sv-SE (Swedish). But then when you are prompted to enter your password during boot to decrypt your computer the keyboard is always en-US.

It's fun figuring out how to type Swedish and special characters on a foreign keyboard layout. Of course no part of the UI indicates this layout issue.

I think Unicode is good. I think companies should fix their broken input instead.

New comment by tuwtuwtuw in "'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience"

tuwtuwtuw — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:58:45 +0000

Maybe you can spin up an EC2 instance and run the test from there.