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Off topic but what tool did you use to create those cache hierarchy diagrams?

Ask HN: How to be careful with phishing and domain redirects?

I came across this article today [1] where a popular journalist in India was tricked to think they had a job offer at a prominent University by an elaborate phishing scam.After this I started thinking about the security of modern day domain redirects in the context of phishing. One could register thexyz.edu or something similar that's close enough to xyz.edu for phishing and then directly...

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Re:ECC matters on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:36PM (#25624431)
Thanks for pointing that out!
Re:ECC matters on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:22PM (#25624302)
Right! Section 1.3 of this publication discusses possible mitigations for the row hammer problem and where ECC fits in

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/rowhammer-summary.pdf

Re:ECC matters on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:17PM (#25624240)
Good point on the need for awareness!

The industry has convinced the average user of consumer hardware that PPA (Power,Performance,Area) is all that needs to get better with generational improvements. Hoping that the concerning aspects of security and reliability that have come to light in the recent past changes this.

Re:ECC matters on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:04PM (#25624104)
A whitepaper on DDR4 ECC by Micron that goes over some of the implementation challenges

https://media-www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents...

Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:13PM (#25360907)
I thought ASML manufacturing was in Connecticut, USA? I heard this from Ian Cutress on his channel https://youtu.be/JyocuFlQmTc

Ask HN: What are your thoughts on link-based private GitHub/Gitlab repo sharing?

I submitted a feature request to GitHub recently and was wondering if this really made sense.Two situations: 1. Academic courses (MOOCs included) require students not to publish progress/code publicly during a course 2. You worked on a personal project, which you don't want to make public because you believe you have other plans with it. But you still want to be able to show it to selected...

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Ask HN: What would happen if a tech giant like Alphabet Inc decided to shutdown?

Have consolidated tech companies created a risk of single point of failure OR are they safe to be considered too big to fail?What would be the consequence of it on the internet as we know it? Are we prepared?When it's a company like Google you're talking about, it's just hard to imagine a day when platforms like YouTube or Gmail might be killed off.Are there legal clauses that would prevent...

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Re:Tired of note-taking apps on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:40PM (#23890497)
I see you didn't mention Markdown. My solution for the last couple of years to this problem is to have all my notes organized into folder and .md files. A couple of advantages: - I can move around different IDEs/apps since there are a lot of different solutions for every platform there. - Same goes for search and links between folders. Rely on git for version control of the files themselves. - It gives you the flexibility of using plugins to turn into PDF or host as a gitbook private site for example.

Knowledge base organization gets discussed frequently on HN. I understand your frustration though, I've always longed to see a one fit for all platforms though. Onenote sure shows a lot of potential but is probably limited by the fact that MS wants to keep it as close to their office suite as possible.

Do you know an example of this?
Re:Humans Not Invited on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:51PM (#23084140)
Humans have persistence. I guess that'll help them eventually get through using brute force.
Another thing to note is that sparsity is being leveraged even to build a more efficient version of hardware. A good example of this is the Cerebras Waferscale chip that was announced recently. I'm assuming the author was unaware of developments on the hardware side of things.

Ask HN: Computer Engineers, what would you advise new grads to learn?

Given that this is a really vast domain (and also influenced by the development in other domains such as deep learning), I'm trying to understand what are the skills that would really help to have for students entering the industry.As a side note, I recently listened to the "On the metal" podcast with Jon Masters and it had good information on what are the current trends in this field.

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I did not find this mentioned anywhere but Onenote makes snips text searchable too

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