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by DCKing 10y ago
To be fair to Apple, I think they have a good point. Digital connectors are superior in almost every way (space use, port flexibility, sound quality, even cable integrity). I admire them for ripping off the bandaid, like they did previously
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by DCKing 10y ago
'Clearing your orbit' is not a qualitative term. It is actually something that is quantifiable: a value that expresses the relation of the mass in the planet's orbit compared to the mass of the planet itself. A tiny asteroid
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by DCKing 10y ago
> Google has added pop-up permissions for particularly sensitive information, but this feature allows a malicious developer to run arbitrary app code on a device without prior user consent so we have to think about security differently.
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by DCKing 10y ago
> If you need to give Epic Games special treatment just because they have a huge amount of outside collaborators, then your pricing model is broken. This is an unfair thing to say. Exceptions to otherwise simple rules does not at all m
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by DCKing 11y ago
Android apps still run quite slow on the x86 Android emulator. I suspect that this is because CPU emulation is only one part of full emulation of an Android system. When running Android apps using the Chrome runtime, apps run blazingly fa
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by DCKing 11y ago
It's great that they improved Android emulator performance. Major frustration when developing Android apps is all the time spent waiting for the emulator or device deployment. What always mystifies me about Android development is that
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by DCKing 11y ago
I hold the Facebook engineers to a higher standard than the developers of those 90%. In fact I hold them to a higher standard than most engineers.
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by DCKing 11y ago
On Android 6.0, Facebook must ask you for accessing your contacts, location and doing most sensitive stuff. You can deny it those things and the app will keep on function normally. To their credit, Facebook is a lot quicker to update their
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by DCKing 11y ago
OK, fair enough. So distributions that ship the Nvidia drivers in their distro install image (AFAICT OpenELEC does this, not Canonical though) should be in trouble then? And Canonical would find a way around this by autodownloading the ZFS
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by DCKing 11y ago
Last I joined in on the discussion I got quite convinced by the argument "if Nvidia can use a propietary license for their Linux graphics driver, then Canonical can use the CDDL for their ZFS driver". Substitute for any other prop
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by DCKing 11y ago
> The problem is, the ONLY curves that are supported in practice are NIST P-256 (prime256v1) and P-384 (secp384r1), which aren't considered safe. I don't believe this is accurate. It is true that there are complaints about the
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by DCKing 11y ago
There's an interesting property of fully untraceable currency, and that's that it's possible to perform 'perfect crimes' [1]. Often the weakness in committing, say, a kidnapping or a drug sale is handling the associ
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Boringcc: Proposal for a C compiler for secure software(groups.google.com)
274 points by DCKing 11y ago|241 comments
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by DCKing 11y ago
Nice. I wonder what it is about nutrition science that makes it so rife with these examples.
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by DCKing 11y ago
The things you mention are either not 'completely wrong' (i.e. Newton's Laws, Kepler's Laws, the heliocentric model) or not based on multiple sources of evidence (the geocentric model, luminiferous aether). I will absolu
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by DCKing 11y ago
That is an attractive position to take. It seems there are two extremes, and the truth should be in the middle somewhere. However, it seems to me you don't quite appreciate how strong the case for the general picture of climate change
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by DCKing 11y ago
Sending and returning people to Mars is a problem that has far fewer question marks than having people stay there. A return mission is essentially an engineering problem: likely one of the most difficult ones humanity has had, but at least
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by DCKing 11y ago
To be fair, the workplace quality of these consultancies is really dependant on which country you work in. There are barely any good stories about the U.S. member firms, but I know from experience that they can be a great and rewarding plac
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by DCKing 11y ago
Jerry Coyne had written a nice blogpost that discusses the exaggerated media response and the actual academic novelty of this discovery and its description. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/
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by DCKing 11y ago
> The territory is never observed other than through maps, and the maps are all math. Be careful with words here. The universe is observed through other means than maps all the time. In fact, it is what everyone is doing all the time. Th
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by DCKing 11y ago
Talking about "side effects", "transformation" or "emergence" seems to assign properties to mathematics that I can't really wrap my head around. I thought that all we could be certain of when it comes to m
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by DCKing 11y ago
> The thing is, the definition of a concept, is the axiom that it exists outside of human understanding. I don't agree with that definition of a concept. Idea = mental representation of an object, or a set of objects and their inter
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by DCKing 11y ago
> I don't think the author is arguing that mathematics allows for creating reality from nothing but that anything that resembles reality behaves mathematically and thus can transform into new situations with new mechanics (or realit
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by DCKing 11y ago
I'd love to have some evidence that such things as 'concepts' and 'ideas' can exist independent of brains. You can't just assert it and make it so. All concepts and ideas I've ever heard of were the result
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by DCKing 11y ago
The reasons presented in favor of a mathematical universe read somewhat like rehashed arguments used by deists/theists. > For something to be physical it must be present at some time and place within the universe, and for something
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by DCKing 11y ago
You're just describing the fact that we can make up descriptions of physics all the way down. If current mathematics is unable to describe physics, then new mathematics is invented [1]. Just because the descriptions work rather well
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by DCKing 11y ago
I don't understand this type of reaction every time the problems of C/C++ are highlighted. Yes, of course the problems can be migitated using tools, but clearly this is not being done or is not as thorough or practical a solutio
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by DCKing 11y ago
The article mentions that KVM/Qemu has an option you pass in to work around the GPU detection. Might be worth checking out before you spend that money.
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by DCKing 11y ago
Indeed. The suggestion that risk quantification is absent from information security is completely alien to me. I work in information security and I work on risk quantification almost every day. It is true that there is no objectively agreed
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by DCKing 11y ago
Come on. This is the same Mozilla that promoted installing Adobe Flash for internet video since its very inception. If you're really such a purist, they should have been your enemy all along. Nothing has changed, and the conclusion is

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