SolarNet

27 ms·

661.
by SolarNet 10y ago
I think the point is that while it's a minor change for classic aircraft (replace some flaps with a plasma actuator system because it's more energy efficient). In helicopters it is a radical simplification and will drop the price
662.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Is it possible that an alien race has simply covered that galaxy with dyson spheres? That life is more common than we thought - or perhaps more rapidly advancing once intelligence is hit - and most galaxies are "dark" from their i
663.
by SolarNet 10y ago
I think the problem is that it's an entire industry. And they don't even see to see the problem.
664.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Because it was the latest trend 10+ years ago, and now people have made it just work because their applications are all built on it and people need actually good tools to use these architectures. It's always about tools, it's no
665.
by SolarNet 10y ago
The core idea here was good. Re-purposing these villages after use. Now if only we could do that in the modern day, with support from the IOC, and turn them into something positive. For example turn them into schools, homeless shelters, lib
666.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Because this isn't just about that. It's about an independently implemented web of trust. PGP has buy in from people like Linus, it has independent implementations, it is distributed, and has a strong web of trust.
667.
by SolarNet 10y ago
It reads like a serial killer's confession.
668.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Hence why WINE is better for emulating older programs. Whereas the linux subsystem is usually up to date.
669.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Not just humans, all life. Life is taking the chaos of the universe and imposing order on it. Holding that sort of structure causes entropy; the chaos of the universe causes entropy. The universe is going to fill up with entropy no matter w
670.
by SolarNet 10y ago
To be fair I'm more of a hobbyist - who writes game-engine-esque code (I never said what kind of engine programmer I am did I) for my day job (pays better) - that just builds game engines for fun (like the last 10 years now... but no g
671.
by SolarNet 10y ago
I mean true, I'm playing devil's advocate here. I respect the Rust community (heck of all the nu-c languages I respect it the most, I even did a poster on 0.1 of it for my programming languages class), I will be quite impressed if
672.
by SolarNet 10y ago
I disagree. As a gamedev writing game logic you are right. But as an engine programmer, I agree with the linked author. I'll take your points one at a time. Most engines are multi-core, but we do different things on each core (and this
673.
by SolarNet 10y ago
My point is more like this chart [0]. C has so much lead time, Rust will probably never be able to catch up, be close? Sure. But C has decades of lead time. [0] http://www.viva64.com/media/images/content/b&#x2
674.
by SolarNet 10y ago
> While Moore's law helps, languages are more expressive, safer, more performant and have more batteries included yielding a whole bunch of improvements. I have to disagree, compilers may have gotten a bit better at making faster bi
675.
by SolarNet 10y ago
A quick test I did just now. Response from google via Tor: 208 ms. Response from google without: 32 ms. To be fair I am basically on a trunk line via my university. I mean you are right though, a domestic WiFi connection is likely to be in
676.
by SolarNet 10y ago
The math is wrong but not quite in the way you figure it. His point was that if the spaceship launched at the same time as the light left and the spaceship was traveling at 0.5c. So it would be 1480 years again (1/0.5 * 1480 - 1/1
677.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Speed for starters (Tor is an order of magnitude slower) and many things, like advanced JavaScript (websockets for example), flash and Java, simply can't traverse it reliably. Also it's not what people expect. Many people expect p
678.
by SolarNet 10y ago
I mostly agree. But I don't think that JS and HTML (and CSS) are terrible for what they were meant to do, the problem is that what they were meant to do was lunacy in context. The core architecture of webpages got corrupted somewhere
679.
by SolarNet 10y ago
You are forgetting some externalities re: value of being legitimate vs. criminal (e.g. contracts vs. ransom, legit money vs. tainted money, morality, fame, etc).
680.
by SolarNet 10y ago
InfoSec is the goal, and DRM is the process by which the goal is reached. DRM refers to digital data that some people can't copy, or view, etc. often at a hardware level. That's a tool in doing InfoSec.
681.
by SolarNet 10y ago
A giant fluff piece really. The HTC Vive / Valve is beating them, and they want some decent PR before the launch of their consumer motion controls. Also justifying the purchase alongside their earnings report.
682.
by SolarNet 10y ago
The problem with DRM like Intel's is that you have to trust Intel. And the DRM is meant to protect other people's code running on consumer machines. The pitch here is that you can run your own custom DRM, that only you control. To
683.
by SolarNet 10y ago
This case is civil, so I believe that Law Enforcement would have some sort of indemnity. As for discrimination, I believe certain civil rights laws prevent U.S. businesses from enforcing a suite like that.
684.
by SolarNet 10y ago
The problem is that Vulkan isn't so much a replacement for OpenGL as it is a library that you can use to write OpenGL in the first place, it's another layer removed, and hence requires quite a lot of work to integrate.
685.
by SolarNet 10y ago
I actually chose it to target vulkan on it.
686.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Yea among the first things I replace in a new install * Internet Explorer (because it can't explore the modern internet) * File Explorer (because it can't explore files on my system)
687.
by SolarNet 10y ago
My Android [0] has hardware with Vulkan support. [0] https://oneplus.net/3
688.
by SolarNet 10y ago
It's the difference between the C standard runtime library (OpenGL), where you can call `read` and calling the kernel directly via custom system calls to implement the functionality of read (Vulkan). And like many modern applications,
689.
by SolarNet 10y ago
Some internet/local network server on the network should provide software to do that. This software should be competed on separate from the network of thing devices individually (and should probably have open source interfaces and impl
690.
by SolarNet 10y ago
A lot of ATMs are on the outside face of a bank branch.

More ›