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by SCHiM 12y ago
You and I know there are web clients. But what if you're, as the article says, used to skype? would it occur to you that there might be web based irc? Skype doesn't support that, and certainly the only things you see when you goog
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Of course not, the breath of technology these days is huge. Knowledge of irc, a chat protocol that's been in decline since 2003 and perhaps used by about 400k people daily, is by no means indicative of technical skill. Can you imagine
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by SCHiM 12y ago
I'm very technical, I've written hacks for online games, boot loaders, my own micro-operating system, accounting software, http servers. I've written patches for snort (the ids, not public) and a ton of other stuff. Yet I&#x2
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by SCHiM 12y ago
One line in the article piqued my interest, as it echoes something I read somewhere else. Seeing as it comes from someone who is an absolute expert on the subject makes it even more interesting. > "In both books, dense narrative ten
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by SCHiM 12y ago
> "can only replace humans up to a certain point" But with advances in both hardware (3d memory, memresistors, neural network chips, graphite), and software(recent advances in CV, statistics, deep neural networks) that point is
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by SCHiM 12y ago
There are people who do see this happen. I vaguely remember bill gates saying things about automation encroaching on low-skill jobs, and that many white-collar jobs would not be far behind. [0] I don't think his solution is viable howe
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by SCHiM 12y ago
What exactly is polite about lying? It seems like an easy way out instead of the right way out: just telling somebody you're not interested.
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by SCHiM 12y ago
While I've experienced something similar too, I think it may have more to do with the fact that tech has diversified in the absolute sense. An obsecure question about your processor was easily answered in the past because everyone had
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Seeing your example does make me wonder if the an AI of that level is truly out of reach. It's well known that human reasoning is flawed by cheap heuristics thrown in by nature and/or selection. Looking at your examples you'd
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by SCHiM 12y ago
One thing to be said about the offence vs defence side of this story is that the adage the best defence is a good offence definitively applies here. It's so much easier to attack another system than defend your own. It's inherent
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by SCHiM 12y ago
The phone function of your telePHONE is pretty damn important and not something that is _stupid_ to complain about.
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Even if it's just a 'day on the job' for the prosecutors it's not for the people they accuse and prosecute. Although I understand that that the prosecution in America seems more like bargaining than real justice and that
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by SCHiM 12y ago
What always strikes me (I also wrote a bf parser a while back) is the pay-off in how simple it is to implement vs how hard it is to write in it. This seems a very obvious and simple thing to notice: the less tokens/rules your language
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by SCHiM 12y ago
While I do agree in the general sense with what is being said, I very much dislike it when numbers are abused to strengthen a subjective argument. It feels like you're abusing facts and lying. >"Which means if the qualities tha
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by SCHiM 12y ago
I don't see how you can ever pin problems with mutexes to callbacks. The author seems to confuse multi threading with callbacks. His example seems more like a mistake in recursion and improper structuring than something that went wrong
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by SCHiM 12y ago
On windows you use DuplicateHandle() on pipes made by CreatePipe(). You can then pass these handles to, for example, CreateProcess() (which does what the name implies). Now when the child process writes to a handle (stdout), the parent proc
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by SCHiM 12y ago
I'd draw the line at actually making the code, or sharing real theory with someone else. I don't think that it's fair to condemn oneself because his/her ideas could potentially end-up sparking an idea about killer drones
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by SCHiM 12y ago
I don't think that the scenario you're sketching here is far fetched at all. Code re-use and recycling inside technical companies is very common. If any code you wrote there turned out to be great/good at something you'd
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by SCHiM 12y ago
The second thing you mention already sort-of exists in the form of qubes os: https://qubes-os.org/
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by SCHiM 12y ago
I've been putting some thought in some deeper solutions, and while I don't have a solution I do think I have some inkling as tho were the problems come from. The real problems with security are obviously not inherently tied to com
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by SCHiM 12y ago
I'm from infosec, and I understand your point. However let me provide the infosec side of the story. Any infosec veteran can tell you that defense is so much harder than offense. If you defend a system you need to be perfectly vigilant
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Yeah I was just about to check it for my daily tech update, guess I'll have to wait a couple more hours :/
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Arstechnica defaced(arstechnica.com)
10 points by SCHiM 12y ago|4 comments
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by SCHiM 12y ago
I think you're wrong. All my non-technical friends are very fed-up with how apps, apple, android, <walled-garden-buzzword> work. I constantly hear them chattering about how they would like to do <action> but stupid <appl
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by SCHiM 12y ago
You've got to love it when a library is at that point where ease-of-use and features perfectly intercept. This library is great: On the simplicity side: Only include two files, no linking, no shared objects, no cruft. On the feature si
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Not-an-expert-disclaimer here. First of, believe in yourself. This sounds clinched, but what I mean that you should do is dare to take on more responsibility. Presumably you don't advertise yourself as 'experienced' when appl
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The Antikythera mechanism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by SCHiM 12y ago|0 comments
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Just like all such problems the 'TV and the Radio' problem shares its root with the liars paradox. The root cause, of course, are self referention, determinism and recursion. The problem is the 'prediction loop', which h
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Sometimes things change, Google search is so big in Europe (the article sites 90%) that perhaps we should no longer view it as a private company. A good Internet search engine has a huge impact on less tech-savvy people. My parents have nev
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by SCHiM 12y ago
Heuristics look at what a process is doing. For example, a very simple heuristic rule may look like this: if a process does the following: Open another .exe file then Writes to that .exe file Close that .exe file Th

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