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by AgentME 7y ago
Th cloud provider would be able to provide a message signed by Intel that says "this computer is running only code with hash XYZ at the top privilege level, and the code with that hash has produced public key ABC". The cloud provi
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by AgentME 7y ago
Trusted computing enables you to prove to a remote party what your machine is executing. This would be useful to cloud providers so they could prove to their users that their servers are only running their users' code without snooping
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by AgentME 7y ago
>Personally, the one real gain I've read about previously is no tearing when watching videos or scrolling fast and security improvements. Finally, my Ubuntu box has screen tearing all the time. I'm on good hardware with pretty
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by AgentME 7y ago
Besides the overlooked possibility that people are just better at waking up at specific times than is generally expected (which I think is true and probably explains most cases, but maybe not all), there's another explanation the autho
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by AgentME 7y ago
If there was some kind of backwards-time effect going on, then you would expect the experience of waking up just before unexpected interruptions to be just as common as waking up before scheduled interruptions (alarms). Personally I have a
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by AgentME 7y ago
Does anyone use IPNS for anything real? It performs terribly whenever I've tried it. It almost turned me off entirely from using IPFS until I realized that it's just an optional extra and the rest of IPFS is still useful without i
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by AgentME 7y ago
>Its not like I'm saying "if screen width is above 750px, render X" (cough css). CSS "px" units are only raw pixels on 96dpi displays. It's normalized with respect to the dpi. On higher-dpi displays, CSS &qu
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by AgentME 7y ago
>New browser brands or version often "break" a lot of libraries and code. When has it happened that browsers have broken standardized features? Browsers have gone through large lengths to stay backwards compatible. It's ha
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by AgentME 7y ago
The Many-Worlds Interpretation is a local (no FTL) and deterministic theory, though it works differently than what most people think of when they hear "deterministic theory of physics". Every possible outcome of a random quantum e
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by AgentME 7y ago
I read it all again with your interpretation in mind and it looks like that one was intended. I think I missed or skipped past that interpretation to another because I think luord's original framing was a very misleading/unuseful
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by AgentME 7y ago
The pattern of some code calling a function (amb) causing the original code to get called again later with the function returning different values makes me think of React hooks. It's a very convenient pattern for some use-cases.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Well, Discord specifically works in a regular web browser too, which will sandbox it from the rest of your system. There's a couple minor features that will be missing, like the ability to show your friends what game you're playin
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by AgentME 7y ago
Am I really going wrong in interpreting this text as saying "it's wrong to criticize impoliteness if the author happens to be right"? >Someone was telling the author that he would achieve more if he phrased his point in a
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by AgentME 7y ago
Your original comment is talking about how the politeness of some post didn't matter at all because it was right, and that critics were wrong to consider the politeness level because it was right. That's what I was arguing against
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by AgentME 7y ago
It's one thing to argue exactly how much politeness is necessary and whether a specific article meets the standard or not, but it seems ridiculous to write off the entire concept of politeness. If someone wrote an article arguing a poi
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by AgentME 7y ago
+1, this series of posts is my favorite explanation of it. I love the focus on it from the philosophy of science angle.
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by AgentME 7y ago
I would consider the normalization (or lack) of what you mentioned as part of company culture.
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by AgentME 7y ago
That's not about JS Map objects, that's about regular objects which don't keep their properties in insertion order.
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by AgentME 7y ago
>Having a master with a read replica and then making the read replica the master in case the master goes down seems to be a very well known methodology. You can use a virtual ip with both servers behind it (keepalived) or a 0 ttl DNS sol
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by AgentME 7y ago
I often used to leave the Netflix app open when I left my TV idle, because it was interesting, not too distracting, and I could start something from it quickly later. But with autoplay, I quickly stopped doing that because it was too distra
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by AgentME 7y ago
The article has some neat points but I feel like it's confusingly tugging in opposite directions. It's weird to assert that AIs couldn't possibly be accidentally made to be singularly-focused on a task that's harmful in
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by AgentME 7y ago
Sure, but good luck convincing an AI that after it has power. It's important to build the AI to think that way from the start if it is capable of getting power over us.
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by AgentME 7y ago
The fact that pointers and memory management may be so simple on paper, but programmers still routinely mess them up in the same way after decades implies that hoping programmers will finally just start getting it right all the time isn&#
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by AgentME 7y ago
Pjmlp's post was directly responding to this part: >People who understand these essential basics, e.g. by starting with Asm, are going to be far less likely to make these sorts of mistakes and write less buggy code in general. Userb
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by AgentME 7y ago
The existence or non-existence of exploits isn't very interesting. The rate that users make vulnerable code is more interesting. The fact that remote-code execution vulnerabilities are still very common in C codebases even after people
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by AgentME 7y ago
I guess in some sense bigotry is legally allowed, but it is pretty relevant for someone looking for a place where they'd be accepted and fit in.
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by AgentME 7y ago
I find such blanket statements against censorship perplexing on a heavily moderated site like this. If someone replied to this post in a very toxic way -- say they got mad at an argument of yours, and posted embarrassing personal info about
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by AgentME 7y ago
If you had 1/4 the hash power, it's true that you have 1/4 chance of creating a block before anyone else, but to be clear, doing that once isn't enough to do a double-spend attack of a transaction with some N confirmatio
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by AgentME 7y ago
Right, but another option is to eschew pointer arithmetic. Iterators in many languages address many usages of pointer arithmetic, and can be designed to compile to the same sort of code as pointer arithmetic-using C compiles to. C wouldn&#x
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by AgentME 7y ago
You could say that a trained neural net contains a model of how language works, and it reasons about sentences based on this model. I think people are really hung up on that it has trouble reasoning about what its sentences are reasoning ab

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