The skills of buying, maintaining and disposing of used vehicles are various and judging when to let go is critical. Sent my much cherished Volvo V40 to the crusher in running condition because it needed a cam chain and a catalyst that would have doubled the value of the vehicle 😅 Still unsure it was the correct call.
The successful candidate
Well said. Anarchism has received horrible press at the hands of Big Democracy but many of our current problems are rooted in the concentration of power, money and influence that capitalist societies seem to produce. On the other hand, can we live without the many products and technology that require large scale effort? It feels like that would be a major challenge for any fledgling anarchic society.
Make the eggs bigger
Jokes on you, I already have crabs
You could also argue that this was a very old man. Is god asleep at the wheel?
I wonder if there are cases where the system malfunctioned and went read only early? Presumably there would be some means of reversing it that you could exploit. Their customer service dept might have the answer.
I think you’re correct, more likely to be a leaky joint or sensor out of calibration. The post was triggering because of my experience with a 99. I spent months tracking down a water leak into the passenger footwell and then the engine blew 😂
Very cool. That makes sense, the outer surface may be some mixture of particles from many places but the interior would give a better indication of what the composition is deeper into the crust. Are there instruments capable of determine the age of the samples?
Almost all of them.
Holy crap that’s a lot of people and gear to lose generally, never mind throwing it away on such a pointless mission.
What are the purposes of this experiment?
If it were true that a password is required to write to the storage medium in the event of corruption, that would imply that it’s required for every write event. Wouldn’t that entail a performance hit for any reasonably secure password mechanism? Either the password is trivial or write speed is impacted by this process.
Is there an interface for examining the firmware?
My 99 Corolla ran fine until 100k when I noticed excessive oil consumption. Over a period of months it became slightly underpowered and then dramatically lost power at high speed when cylinder three was permanently misfiring. Huge cloud of smoke indicated failed piston rings which explained the oil consumption during previous months. Apparently a relatively common problem. I wonder if this would foul the O2 sensor and cause the MIL to trigger eventually?
Let’s make an algorithm army, get it drunk and it will start a fight with American tech.
I’m probably in the same boat as you, I have zero formal CS education. The way I originally learned was various: by embarking on small projects, fixing broken computers so I could play games, reading books, watching videos. The key thing in learning any subject is to recognise that when you don’t understand something it’s usually because some foundational knowledge is missing. You cannot properly understand a computer file system before you grasp the concept of binary numbers, bits and bytes, for instance.
Lately I’ve been using Chatgpt. You can ask it to write code in any language. Ask it to solve a particular problem and then start dismantling the answer, step by step. When you don’t understand the answer, ask it to elaborate. For your purposes, you could ask it to script a port scanner on your home network. This is key skill for any aspiring hacker and if you can get that working on your LAN, those principles can be adapted to WAN. Get a copy of the CIA vault 7 library, ask chatgpt to explain snippets of the code. I would imagine you have to preface your questions as coming from a ‘white hat’ perspective or it may balk.
A basic grounding in computer science would be a good starting place.
Do you know the difference between the various processor architectures and operating systems? Do you know the difference between real time computers and interrupt based systems? Are you familiar with the seven layer network model and which layers the different services interact with the hardware and application software? Are you grounded in cryptography and the system of public and private keys, modulo operations, prime number factorisation?
This is assuming that you already understand coding and are proficient in at least one language. None of these skills and knowledge on their own are indispensable or completely necessary but these things are what computers are made of, how they communicate and how they are secured.
The English are slowly fading into obscurity. They became hugely powerful during the hegemonic colonial era and that shine diminishes relentlessly year on year. These people cannot change and have consistently failed to take the necessary action to reform. Ironic that they took the word ‘reform’ to create a party that attracts reactionaries and racists to lead them backwards into obscurity. Good luck English people, you will need it.
Someone please go spike his coffee with whatever dosage is needed to trigger death
It sucks that we can’t maintain much of our machinery. This problem is most acute with anything that has embedded code. Good luck with your search.