Paul-ish

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by Paul-ish 6y ago
It looks like there is a significant miss penalty for aliasing. Does anyone know if Rust's ownership rules would help avoid these penalties.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
There is not guarantee that Apples search engine will succeed. It would be suck if it stuck around just long enough for Google to use it as a fig leaf.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
It probably has split too.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
I'm ready for a remake of that 2005 film "Stealth" that features an AI pilot.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Inside both Rust and C++ there are very well developed tools (eg smart pointers) for dealing with memory allocations. These tools were never written to be compatible with each other, so you lose them at the language boundary.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Back when I was an intern at Mozilla it was a real pain (in my opinion) to call between C++ and Rust. This was before bindgen and cbindgen, and certainly CXX. Eg if you have a heap allocated thing that is passed between Rust and C++, who fr
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Eg what if the phone isn't encrypted but just random bits. What do you do when you are compelled to unlock it?
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Calling it foolish implies choice. Your genome may be in the database if you have family that participates.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
What understanding is that?
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
So why not a revenue neutral carbon tax rather than UBI + carbon tax?
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
If you like KeePassXC you should consider donating. I donate $5 a month because it's worth paying for good software. https://keepassxc.org/donate/
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Couldn't they ask the librarian of Congress for an exemption?
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
I've had services ask me to create a username and password after I "log in with Google". I usually give up at that point.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
If Comcast sells DNS data now, they open themselves up to penalties from the both FTC and Mozilla. FTC because they enforce privacy policies, and Mozilla because of the contract they have. I would say this Mozilla changing the overall ecosy
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
I've sometimes wondered if rather than recycling paper and cardboard we could sequester it, trapping the carbon.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Doxxing is new term reflecting new online norms. This strikes me as a clash of internet culture and traditional newspaper culture.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
By using his real name, readers who know that name can get more out of the article. Imagine if he is actually a state senator, or a minor celebrity. The reporter here isn't doing the difficult calculus of "does revealing his name
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
What strikes me is that the e-ink screen could update during shipping. Seems like shippers would want to avoid that possibility.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
It isn't clear if graceful degradation is possible in a security app.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
So many believe remote work will cause rent to drop. But if we end up in a situation where you work from home only part of the week, that could actually spike demand for larger properties.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
I always love the Backblaze hard drive stats, even if I'm not in the market. > During this quarter 4 (four) drive models, from 3 (three) manufacturers, had 0 (zero) drive failures. None of the Toshiba 4TB and Seagate 16TB drives fai
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
You raise good points. I wonder what a copyright lawyer would have to say.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
There are exemptions to DMCA for certain content. > Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considere
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
> You're moving the goal posts on me. I'm talking about debt collection enforcement not the morality or circumstances of why people take on debt. Not all people chose to take on debt. From the linked article: > Medical debt
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Interesting, I don't see an ethernet port. Do you use a USB adapter?
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Focusing on concrete harms is important. In front of the supreme court you want to be able to say "This law is devastating to journalism, a fundamental institution in our democracy." Rather than sounding like a screeching privacy
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
Your narrow focus on PL may have scared off some schools. Some schools want to produce "well rounded students" who will seek a wide variety of classes. They want to shape a young student.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
I think colleges have been getting more competitive.
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by Paul-ish 6y ago
I have been unable to sign up for an account without a phone number. That is what keeps me off the platform.
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by Paul-ish 7y ago
The FTC should get involved if WD refuses to remedy. To falsely label your products can't be legal. That or class action.

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