[–] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Perhaps worth pointing out that the attacks require the attacker to position a piece of hardware between the Qi charger and the power source.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This has been common in Sweden for decades, I had it in my previous house almost 20 years ago. If I remember correctly it was a 100m borehole. The only limitation is that certain soil/rock environments work better than others, so it's not suitable for all locations.

    Heated our house in northen Sweden just fine in -20/30C winters.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    It's a little unfair to criticise a CS course for not being a SWE course. But I agree that graduating students in CS without having covered the basic requirements in the SWE day job most of them will move into is a disservice.

    I did CS (30 years ago) and things entirely missing in the syllabus back then:

    • any and all soft skills
    • version control
    • refactoring
    • testing and the value of testing
    • staging and replicated environments for raw dev, QA, live, etc
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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    My experience with my yubikey is that it just works. I know that's not terribly useful info, but it's really all I have after several years of occasionally using it. Oh, it's been on my keychain all that time so isn't terribly flimsy.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The only thing worse than people using WD-40 instead of a better product, are the mental gymnastics performed by people pretending a product which is 35% oil and sold as a lubricant, actually isn't.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Python was always strongly typed. For years there has been optional static typing and - you know - unit tests.

    If you're having significant issues due to not knowing what types you're using, the type system may not be your greatest problem...

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