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Comment Re:All-In-One color laser printer? (Score 1) 138

What about all-in-one color laser printers? They're all big, heavy, and expensive from what I saw.

We also have a HL-L8360CDW colour laser printer.

It is indeed bigger and heaver and is now suffering from some ink marking on the paper which needs resolving. It is not as old as the black and white printer, so the reliability is clearly lower. Currently $409 on Amazon, so it's not cheap, but that's not bad for a colour laser printer.

Comment Re:HP will price this to be less then buying an pr (Score 4, Informative) 138

>people who buy 'smart' TV's, net-connected appliances, etc.

We just ordered two fridge freezers, the sort that does one thing only but can switch between being a fridge or a freezer. The first is being delivered today (hooray for WFH).

The ocean of shit that passes for refrigeration these days is alarming. Finding models that do one thing, don't call home and don't come with 'commercial' pricing is not completely trivial.

Comment Re:If you park outside.. (Score 1) 177

IKR.
My job is cryptography related. All that blabbing about unrelated things. Asymmetric keys, MITM, TOF.
Keyfob+Pin to drive is 2FA and the second factor is in your head, not the key fob.

I want the keyfob to let me open the car without pressing a button. I'm often carrying stuff and don't have hands free to pull a keyfob from a pocket. But once inside the car, my hands are free to tap in the number that the relay attack user doesn't know.

Comment Re:A bit silly (Score 1) 36

Need to access a service over the network? Talk the 9P protocol. Need to talk locally to one of those services? Talk the 9P protocol. How do you talk the 9P protocol? Either use the 9p system calls directly, or use file operations that result in 9P.

I need to hijack 40,000 computers, or just borrow huge quantities of CPU time, for use by myself and my nefarious porpoises. It sounds like Plan9 will make that easy. Am I misreading something?

If you can find 40,000 computers running open plan9 services, go right ahead.

Comment Re:A bit silly (Score 2) 36

Plan 9 is a pleasure to program in. You need to make a service available transparently over the network? Talk the 9P protocol. Need to access a service over the network? Talk the 9P protocol. Need to talk locally to one of those services? Talk the 9P protocol. How do you talk the 9P protocol? Either use the 9p system calls directly, or use file operations that result in 9P.

The variant of C is a well considered update to the standard, unlike C++.

Namespaces are constructed on the fly. You bin is in one place and is a union of all the executables your process needs to see. So no path environment variables. Stuff really is simpler in Plan 9. It's very productive if you write programs to use yourself. I do.

Comment Re:Yeah, that'll fix it (Score 1) 52

>with inadequate redundancy

I've been in the position of saying more sensors or I quit. It's not complicated. If the safety relies on the sensor being known to be correct or known to be broken, you need at least three sensors to be able to majority vote out the bad one. If you're the engineer signing off on the design, you're on the hook when someone dies (In EU law).

This sensor penny pinching appears to have happened on both the A380 and the 737 MAX.

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