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by ArchD 6y ago
Yeah, don't get me started on the fragile glass test tube called systemd-resolved that fails in mysterious ways when I use wicd on Ubuntu and the WiFi gets momentarily disconnected. I don't see the sense behind treating name resol
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by ArchD 7y ago
Big blocks are probably easier to censor and harder to use for people who only have low-spec equipment/networks. Vulnerability to censorship vs limited on-chain scaling -- pick your poison. Censorship-resistance and on-chain scaling ar
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by ArchD 7y ago
Which law, exactly?
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by ArchD 7y ago
"I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected." - CEO He worded it carefully. He's not apologizing for the actual and potential harm of the breach so as to not take responsib
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by ArchD 7y ago
For a paralyzed person trying to use Neuralink to control an external device, how does the neural signal decoding distinguish between just thinking of a movement and the actual volition of that movement? You would not want to actuate the ex
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by ArchD 7y ago
secure system != security system There is such a thing as an insecure security system.
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by ArchD 7y ago
I hope you are not a wumao. The salient thing about github and other similar resources is not that they are developed by people in the US and owned by a US company. People from all over the world use it. There is nothing intrinsically &#x27
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by ArchD 7y ago
OpenVPN, like many other VPN protocols, does not have censorship resistance as part of its design goals. So, I'm guessing that its traffic patterns are quite easy to detect. You should have better luck with something like Shadowsocks,
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by ArchD 8y ago
Black-and-white thinking and argument is your enemy. Your use case may call for a lot of safety at the expense of performance, so you do run-time checks like this and sacrifice performance, or it may require extreme performance and you do s
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by ArchD 8y ago
They said: "There were over 1400 direct invocations of 22 different safe strcpy()-like functions and over 400 direct invocations of 9 different unsafe strcpy()-like functions. Approximately 22% of the direct invocations of strcpy()-li
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by ArchD 8y ago
Says the person who is probably not among the following Chinese people who would probably disagree: - 10000 who were killed in 1989 - parents whose baby who were poisoned by melanine-tainted milk - people who were forced out of their homes
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by ArchD 8y ago
I never understood the point of having a 'high-value' home that you can't sell anyway because you need a place to live. Sure, you can say you can move somewhere cheaper and pocket the difference. The problem is that until you
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by ArchD 8y ago
Maybe that will create different classes of vehicles traveling at vastly different speeds sharing the same road. The benefit to the electric car driver may not outweigh the additional cognitive load and risk of collision from the presence o
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by ArchD 8y ago
“China firmly opposes all forms of cyberattack and cracks down on it in accordance with the law” "In accordance with the law” is the sneaky part that lets them add all kinds of 'Chinese characteristics' to whatever topic is b
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by ArchD 8y ago
It's not simply about the first-order effects. Making a large investment in the Chinese market controlled by the CPC means putting up great value at risk that the CPC can leverage to assert influence. Evil influence spreads into the co
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by ArchD 9y ago
Paper seems to have greater weight in court than electronic records, so people keep everything on paper in case they need to show documents in court one day.
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by ArchD 9y ago
But if a lot of traders think this way, they may have high execution cost when the contract expires and they try to sell the spot. Specifically, a lot of selling pressure by this kind of trade will push down the spot price and the traders m
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by ArchD 9y ago
That's what bitcoin futures can be used for, to hedge your BTC position, and you don't have to wait for 10 minutes for your trade to complete. For example, if you own 5 BTC and want to hedge the USD value of your portfolio against
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by ArchD 9y ago
If an employer is willing to pay the employee bitcoin in layer 1, how much less willing would the employer be to pay in layer 2? Not much, I think. It doesn't seem that it should be much harder to use layer 2 instead of layer 1. If it
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by ArchD 9y ago
The way blame gets assigned and risk gets assessed by human society is often quite pathological. In a typical setting, there are options A & B. As an example, let A be the option to allow young kids to ride independently on a bus and B
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by ArchD 9y ago
Is there a way to distinguish permission to use the microphone in the foreground vs in the background? AFAIK on Android, no such distinction is made. Many apps have legitimate reasons for using the microphone while in the foreground, but ve
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by ArchD 10y ago
Political and social problems are harder for engineers and scientists to solve than technological and scientific problems. Though they get to lobby politicians using their financial resources, they don't get to directly make laws and p
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by ArchD 10y ago
There's no observable difference between inability to produce a result and refusing to produce a result. How do they know he didn't just forget the password? Or that the password was recorded somewhere that he no longer has access
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by ArchD 10y ago
FATCA is a mess. For example, some non-US (e.g. Hong Kong) bank will assume you are a US person (and presumably share your account info with the IRS) if you opened the account with a US phone number unless you prove that you are not a US pe
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by ArchD 10y ago
If "unauthorized access" to computer systems without actual damage to said systems were not outlawed, there might be people who would make harmless exploits against such irresponsible vendors and publicly shame them (in the eyes o
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by ArchD 10y ago
Can one write and have the court enforce a free software licence that discriminates against companies that impose API copyright on others like what Oracle is doing? Something along the lines of: You can use this software, freely distribute
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by ArchD 10y ago
I think they need to monitor vehicles to charge for road usage. There's already an ERP system but these sensors will probably allow finer granularity. So, it's a valid use case. However, I'm not saying it's all good or a
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by ArchD 11y ago
Don't you get annoying hardware incompatibility when running Linux on Apple hardware? The Arch Linux wiki on Macbook Pro, for example, doesn't suggest running Linux on it is simple.
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by ArchD 11y ago
I'm using C++. How does Yepp compare to libeigen in terms of performance and functionality? Can it do things that libeigen cannot do?
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by ArchD 11y ago
You may not know beforehand that the smallest unit is $0.01. What if it becomes $0.001 or $0.0001 later? You'll have to migrate your data to use the new smallest unit. If you use decimal floating point, you don't need to deal with

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