ColanR

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by ColanR 7y ago
Paywalled.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I've often wondered if the mass shootings count as the violence he predicted in the US.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Agreed. It sounds like this is a very non-partisan bill, with only a small part publicised to make it sound partisan. It's almost disingenuous to add everything else in there.
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by ColanR 7y ago
To an outside reader, you haven't presented any research and are making unfounded claims. I don't see why you're in any sense credible.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Only happens if the importance of privacy becomes as obvious as the style change.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Only reason I upvoted his comment is because he pointed out his helpful intention and the resulting downvotes.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Why should we assume the consent will be well-informed? If what you ask for was accomplished tomorrow, then in 15 years you'd be back on this site lamenting how patients were misled by their doctors into treatments that had horrifying
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by ColanR 7y ago
I hadn't heard about the connection to Agartha before.
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by ColanR 7y ago
If that's the reality, should we whitewash it?
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Its another thing entirely to suggest that major platforms in use today are sponsored by state actors willing and able to introduce vulnerabilities without proof. I think the Crypto AG story is sufficient proof of itself to look with s
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by ColanR 7y ago
I wonder if RISC-V would fall under this category. I saw recently that a decently powerful SOC was built and sold in small quantities. Is that architecture sufficiently open (and simple) that a satisfactory audit would be feasible?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Because the open source community is slowly coming to the uncomfortable realization that many eyes != security. Take heartbleed: SSL had a glaring security vulnerability open for years that none of those eyes ever spotted. I've seen q
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by ColanR 7y ago
And just think what they could have accomplished if that modern tech had existed.
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by ColanR 7y ago
This makes me wonder how many presently existing encryption & security projects / organizations are owned or influenced by government agencies.
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by ColanR 7y ago
So what would the most desirable frequencies be for long range ground based communication?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Typo in the first paragraph: undergrarduate
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by ColanR 7y ago
The more I learn about modern software practices, the more I come to think that software is worse today because programmers are poorly disciplined and badly trained. Of course, that's likely because the barrier to entry is so much lowe
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by ColanR 7y ago
The way I see it, Wayland itself is better in some ways but not great. For one thing, it's so secure that things like menus can't show outside window borders - hence, case-by-case handling of exceptions to the security model. Read
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Less so in the lifespans of particular programming languages. You could probably trace a similar evolution across programming languages, just by systematizing the phrases/words used in each to accomplish the same thing.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I'm using i3 right now instead of sway, but even in that case all you've said is that I won't lose too much by the transition. You haven't mentioned anything (except scaling, which I don't need) that I have to gain
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by ColanR 7y ago
At the low level of C and Unix, text is the language of the API. Something has to be that low-level - either the OS and the language it's written in, or the extra level of abstraction supporting the OS and its implementation language (
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Does knowing C require knowing Linux\Unix? More specificially, if you're going to use C on Unix/Linux, I think you have to know both. > You can learn C syntax and how to compile it with pretty minimal Linux\Unix exposure.
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by ColanR 7y ago
That's a deficiency in the teaching, not the language. How much ignorance is excusable before it's the programmers fault for not knowing the language?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Fork has an extremely standard API, and that's a good thing. What needs to be quantified is how much ignorance a programmer can be expected to have, before errors they make are their own responsibility.
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by ColanR 7y ago
So do people just not read man pages? It's right there. On success, the PID of the child process is returned in the parent, and 0 is returned in the child. On failure, -1 is returned in the parent, no child process is created,
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by ColanR 7y ago
> The drive is not currently merely like an airplane, where it is obviously possible to fly (at least as well as birds), we just didn't know how to bang the rocks together correctly to do it. > People like to cite a lot of cases
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by ColanR 7y ago
> But another valid way of looking at it is that scientists have moved it from "impossible", to "impossible", to "impossible", then, with some more work, upgraded it to "impossible". I think that d
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by ColanR 7y ago
Very cool. It looks like there is a board like what I was imagining, 1.5GHz quad core + 8GB DDR4 RAM, but it's not for sale anymore. Limited run crowdfunding. The design files and schematics are available, though, so I guess it's
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by ColanR 7y ago
So are RISC-V chips already available? Or is it that the chips available are all low power things. I'm curious how much effort is left, before it's possible to build an open source PCB that those who wanted to could send off to be
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by ColanR 7y ago
Obviously that would get wrapped up in a user-friendly UI. My point is that the backend would be straightforward.

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