It Depends, episode 1 : In which our intrepid hero goes down the rabbit hole looking at searching an array. superfell.com/weblog/2021/01…

reminder that the bcrypt hash function ignores input above a certain length! so if you do bcrypt(username || password) for some reason, a sufficiently long username will make it accept any password. to fix this you can sha256 the input first.

The one key rule for using TreasuryDirect is not to use it unless you have no choice. Buy regular Treasuries and TIPS in your brokerage account. Fidelity's auto-roll works well. > The one key rule for using TreasuryDirect … by @tipswatch tipswatch.com/2024/10/13/the…

Phrases that mean nothing will happen: Leave it with me I’ll have a word I’ll see what I can find I’ll see what I can do Consider it done! I’ll make some calls I’ll think about it Certainly a possibility Let’s come back to that Good idea I’ll let you know! We’ll see I’ll check it out Noted Maybe I’ll get back to you on that Could do, could do… I’ll take that on board Let’s park that for now It’s on my list I’ll definitely keep it in mind Watch this space! Hold that thought I’m doing it as we speak Might see you down there Text me the details I’ll look into it I’ll have an ask around I’ll send you some dates

New GitHub feature just dropped... 😍

Told a youngster about this recently and they just said “what?” 😂 (Taken from the new Very British Problems book - an A-Z guide to Britain - available to preorder now: geni.us/VBPBritain)

Intel HW is too complex to be absolutely secure! After years of research we finally extracted Intel SGX Fuse Key0, AKA Root Provisioning Key. Together with FK1 or Root Sealing Key (also compromised), it represents Root of Trust for SGX. Here's the key from a genuine Intel CPU😀

Diving into how to run a @juicebox_xyz hardware realm (by @superfell) juicebox.xyz/blog/running-a-…

LOL of course PG&E didn’t get the power back on before the end of planned maintenance window. (Which was 8 hours long)

USA next Sunday has IMSA-NASCAR-IndyCar back to back to back Sunday from 11am-9pm ET with no break. As a bonus Formula 1 on ESPN scheduled from 7:30am-11am. You can feasibly watch 14 hours straight of racing Sunday with 0 downtime College Football Saturday style.

An electric car’s advertised peak charge rate does not necessarily indicate its charging performance. Here are two charging curves of 150kW-rated EVs from @evkxnet: the Toyota bZ4X and Audi e-tron (legacy).

Topics that make British people argue to the death: Scones - jam or cream first Pronunciation of scone What baked beans belong on Fry up rules Roast dinner rules What goes on chips Milk first or last / how to make tea Traffic rules (particularly merging) Ketchup - fridge or cupboard What to feed ducks Where the north starts Best and worst biscuits Grammar - particularly commas Dinner or tea Shoes on or off in the house Name of bread rolls Self-checkouts - good or bad Cyclists Football Anything to do with politics

get you someone who looks at you like like a distributed systems engineer looks at monotonically increasing integers

I just asked someone how they were and they said, “I’ve had better days”. Seeing as they’re British, this tells me they’re probably having the worst day of their life. Seeing as I’m also British, I replied, “oh dear, sorry to hear that” and we left it there.

Me: I love learning new things Me when it’s time to learn new things I’m not instantly good at:

I love how in Britain we have a sauce simply called “brown sauce”. And most people couldn’t tell you what’s in it. We hardly ever even describe the taste, it just tastes “like brown sauce”. Such a mundane name for a quietly joyous thing. Very British indeed.