AlexAltea

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by AlexAltea 4y ago
I didn't miss anybody's point. Your comment made me realize something that I wanted to share.
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
Instead of blocking technology, what about addressing the root problem: People need to understand concepts such as "chain of trust". Do you trust videocall participants because you recognize their faces and voices? ...Or because a
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
Every local action has global consequences. Throwing a dead battery into a dump -> Battery acid gets dragged by the rain -> Polluting a river -> Flows polluting a sea -> Currents polluting all oceans. Of course effects become sm
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
This is fairly common in many console emulators, see: - PS3 (Nvidia RSX): https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/blob/master/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/rsx... - PS4 (AMD GCN): https://github.com&#x2
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
Cool. You and your friends go your way! My friends and I will go ours, sounds good?
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
I was not implying that you'll slip into such extreme policies, it's just that people with strong moral compasses are often unable to reevaluate their positions: "this is good , so it cannot be wrong". Which leaves me n
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
With all due respect, I do not care about your moral compass. I want the predictability that as long as I am not breaking the law, my data can be safely hosted. Am I supposed to now pay attention to law and the countless individual moral
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
No, and I am willing to stake everything I have to fight anyone pushing this experiment. People that engineer the future of countries they will never live at, happy to displace cultures for a fucking basis point, make me deeply sick. Who in
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by AlexAltea 4y ago
> What is really happening is that nobody is using it for payments at all [Citation needed] Over the past years I've been able to book flights, shop hardware, get hotels and rental cars, renew my domain, pay for my server with crypt
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
Yes, making accidental non-compliance easy and thus commonplace is IMHO a shortcoming of spec as per Nextgrid's comment. Also, you can express disagreement without throwing Reddit-style sarcastic snarks.
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
> The fact that I can successfully plug in a USB-C cable on the first try Depends on the device, I've had low-quality USB-C devices whose transfer speed inexplicably decreased when connected "the wrong way". Not knowing wh
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
> it seems that Hotz hasn't grown up much What do you mean by "growing up"? Hopefully not embracing the pervasive mediocrity of institutions and defending the current status quo.
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
> someone you likely don't even know You are replying to marcan from fail0verflow; he likely does. Many people from the early PS3 hacking days did.
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
> would cripple the ability to (re-)train Ai systems which might be used in military defense systems. Crippling use-cases is quite difficult: how could you distinguish at hardware/firmware-level object detection for fighter jets vs
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
Neither. I just thought it opens an interesting question: What happens in the long run if some parts of the world embrace eugenics and gene therapy (in whatever form), while others do not, e.g. under ethical grounds or simply different prio
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
> eugenics has got a bad rap Mostly in Europe and North America, and territories culturally-influenced by them, largely as a side-effect of historical events 80 years ago. Other parts of the world have different opinions on the matter.
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
This is possible by interfacing directly with the sensor MMIO registers. I've always found fascinating how much flexibility hardware provides, compared with the typically rigid functionality the drivers expose to userland. I wonder wha
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
There's many other companies abroad capable of offering compensations that can compete with the US. Anecdotal, but plenty of contacts who would have never accepted an on-site position in UAE, Hong Kong, Germany (for reasons ranging fro
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
I disagree, I don't see how the supply/demand ratio of talent will significantly change by remote work. Companies will pick from a larger pool of people. People will pick from a larger pool of companies.
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
I can't blame them either... but isn't high bandwidth usage a solvable problem? Why can't they switch to P2P audio/video transmission instead of funneling everything through their servers?
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
As long as paying customers are advertisers instead of users, why would they care? Why is this even news?
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
> Netflix's data traffic handled by SK jumped 24 times from May 2018 to 1.2 trillion bits of data processed per second What an odd way of representing data transfer bandwidth: Was it so hard to just say 1.2 Tbps (or better 150 GB&#x
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
Then why wouldn't the owner change after verification? Maybe they should verify every day, just to be safe? Such nonsense just ruins the Internet, maybe we should find better approaches than "yet another banner": accepting co
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
Dismissing Apple's <model> HTML element proposal because WebGL/WebGPU on <canvas> already "solve" the problem feels short-sighted... Under that logic, shouldn't we replace <img> and <video> e
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
Years ago, while applying to some security engineer position at Google, they were testing low-level skills focusing on vulnerability research, C/C++ and x86. At that point having spent 10+ intense years on that arch: having written bin
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
> Vulnerabilities once you have access to the machine are not really worth spending time on That's absolute nonsense. There's so many platforms, Android/iOS, where applications are compartmentalized: local privilege escala
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
Available at https://examples.3dasd.com/
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
This is explained in the article: > The new CPU family marks one of the largest architectural jumps we’ve had in years, as the company is now baselining all three new CPU IPs on Armv9.0. I believe the deprecation of AArch32 is quite an i
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
I have actively worked on Intel HAXM as part of emulator project [1]. I think there's a fragmentation problem in hypervisor scene: KVM is Linux-only, Hyper-V is Windows-only, HVF is macOS-only. Some toy hypervisors support a small subs
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by AlexAltea 5y ago
Might not be the reason, but six registers make it trivial to write a backend for 32-bit x86 CPUs, since they offer 8 general-purpose registers minus 2 typically used for stack pointer and base (ESP, EBP respectively). That leaves 6 registe

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