l'm curious if Bartosz will actually contact him for that final casting, i know i would definitely love to own one. And mainly because I love mechanical watches, especially what's inside, but I don't like to wear or really use them, this is a great solution for this "problem".
How does bitwarden’s backend being build in a gc language matter? There is also an api compatible project in rust called Vaultwarden if gc matters.
Is 1password and lastpass’s backend better in that regard? would be nice if he could elaborate on that point.
I think it’s that he also complains about LastPass storing things in memory, so perhaps the GC thing just makes it more difficult to analyze what it’s doing in memory? In a non-GC language you’d be able to see explicitly what is going in and out of memory, but with GC the runtime is doing that for you.
> In a non-GC language you’d be able to see explicitly what is going in and out of memory, but with GC the runtime is doing that for you.
I hear you about the GC's calls to free, but if one is concerned about leaking key material, there's an existing pattern for that, no GC nonsense required: use a (byte|char) array and then zero it after use: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base...
It runs the same risk as does any general purpose computing in that your process can crash or some attacker can be on the machine sniffing all the things, but it's certainly better than `password = new String("hunter22") // good luck`
I also grant you that managing the key material must be disciplined across the whole lifecycle of that material, so `char[] password = readString().toCharArray()` doesn't help
And to add to this, i learned to not use the 'bluetooth' icon to manage the AirPods, instead use the 'triangle with broadcast signal'-icon found next to the volume in the control centre or on many other different locations on your ipad, iphone or apple tv.
Just turn off the auto-connect feature and start using that icon, all the mentioned 'annoyances' will go away :)
- Backend: NodeJS with Hapi and Mongoose / Mongodb
- Auth module in Hapi (JWT)
- All in Typescript and VSCode
These libraries have been stable for a while now.
Tried GraphQL / Apollo for a while but the amount of breaking updates made me go back to the stack mentioned above.
Currently i'm exploring dotnet core (in C#) and blazor.
This is exactly what I was looking for.
After searching on ebay for the HP 7550/7475a i noticed they are generally only available in the US. Since the shipping costs and import duties to the EU are really high for US-ebay products and most of them did not guarantee it would work I started looking into alternatives.
So I tried my luck on the 'Drawing Machines'...
But they are (in my opinion) very slow, suffer from the same 'do your own maintenance/support' like current 3D printers and brands like AxiDraw, Eleksmaker or Mackerblocks are crazy expensive compared to the 3D printers which contain much more electronics and material.
Also looking into their 'boards' I noticed they use different firmwares and mostly leaned on SVG/Inkscape/Python and i'd rather have the HP-GL to mess around instead of getting lost into this firmware/library rabbit hole.
Then I stumbled on the Silhouet Curio while looking through youtube videos. It has so many options.. whole 'home' businesses are build around this device.
Looking closer into the electronics I noticed it uses a proprietary language/driver.
However it does have a small active tech community that was able to reverse engineer the protocol and created an Inkscape plugin.. but that will make it on par with the drawing machines, and I'd rather have a documented protocol from the get go (like HP-GL).
I almost gave up on my dream of owning a plotter and tinkering with fractals and the HP-GL on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Until I decided to read this thread that started it all once again and read your comment about the USCutter, this thing is exactly the right price and seems to actually use HP-GL, awesome, my search continues.
I've lived there for five years, and like you, I'm always very surprised by all the articles and comments made by people about the Bijlmer (about it being the worst place ever..) But all these people tend to have one thing in common, they have never lived or even visited the Bijlmer, or indeed tend to be a bit racist. It's sad, because it is not a failure at all. In retrospect I even believe it's one of the most unique places The Netherlands has to offer.
Hilarious. I've known the Bijlmer intimately since roughly 1980, my mom lived there for quite a while, and extended family has lived there since the early 1970's and continue to live there today. I've seen parts of it being built (the later sections), school mates in 1977 lived there and I used to bike there regularly.
Gliphoeve, Kelbergen and other areas of the Bijlmer were so bad at some point that the police did not want to go there unless they went as a team. Robberies were on the order of the day, drug use in the subway stations and on the trains was so common nobody even noticed any more. The parking garages were essentially chopshops by night.
At a guess you have only seen the Bijlmer since long after the attempts to clean it all up have started. Maybe you'd believe my mom who had to get a large dog just to be able to make it from the shopping center to her house without being molested or robbed?
If you feel the Bijlmer is one of the most unique places NL has to offer then you are definitely part of some exquisite group of people with acquired tastes, the vast majority of the people that I know that have lived there and have moved out were happy to finally leave it all behind them.
How common? I just ask because I moved from a country where many people I know, including myself, have been violently robbed or attacked at one point in their lives (england), to Germany - where I've never even heard of somebody getting mugged.
The Germans are pretty unaware of how safe it is here, on the whole - they'll often explain to me a particular street is dangerous, or an area is bad - but honestly, if you're from any other country, it's a bit ridiculous.
I mean, feeling unsafe is bad - but to put it in perspective, one of my german friends lived in Coventry for a short while. On his second day there, he was beaten up at a bus stop for having long hair. That's what an unsafe area is like in england, which I'm sure is far more mild than most places in the world.
