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by a-dub 4y ago
i'd be curious to hear the reasoning that lead to "silently ignore the button press." even basic consumer devices bark at you when a button press is invalid, and the people who work at boeing are obviously not idiots. my gues
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by a-dub 4y ago
i think of it as more of a 'code red' for the distributed and participatory internet. search engines support a whole ecosystem of content creators, question answering systems replace them. i think that this is the most complicated
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by a-dub 4y ago
i wonder how feasible it would be to implement a syntax coloring mode that provides some indication of instruction count from static analysis. so not quite dynamic profiling, but rather something that uncovers (sometimes) surprising impleme
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by a-dub 4y ago
cue science fiction plot: the robots walk among us, but there's a gap in their knowledge that goes back one hundred years from their activation dates, after the great rights wars locked down robot access to nearly any copyrightable hum
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by a-dub 4y ago
some early implementations of mpeg-1 compressors only supported I frames. amusingly, this is still a valid mpeg-1 bitstream.
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by a-dub 4y ago
so I can't really tell from the text. are they using some remote mode in the IDEs that keeps the editor itself local or are they doing NX type stuff? also curious about the terminal access. does it maintain state on the remote (like sc
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by a-dub 4y ago
i've often thought that building a business that specializes in making it easy for SaaS companies to implement e2ee for complete customer data confidentiality and portability could be interesting...
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by a-dub 4y ago
the last time i heard about s/mime was the last time they were talking about section 230. i'm starting to wonder if this is actually just a coincidence...
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by a-dub 4y ago
just checked, chatgpt can give directions... reminds me of the old days when i used to text GOOGL for exact addresses
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by a-dub 4y ago
this is cool. i've often wondered if keystrokes could be read out of an old typewriter accoustically.
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by a-dub 4y ago
some of my first ever C programs did just this for the dos computers at my high school.
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by a-dub 4y ago
it's the 2022 version of "kill your television" and i love it. in practice: i wonder how practical it is to survive as an adult without a smartphone. uber has decimated cabs and i don't think you can telephone for an ube
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by a-dub 4y ago
they don't offer free private ipv4 with nat? these are all outbound reachability issues. the bigger concern i'd have would be inbound reachability for public services. you don't need routable ipv4 addresses on every host to
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by a-dub 4y ago
this is a little surreal. one of the first aircraft i ever flew on was a 747. in the 80s and 90s if you were on a long haul 6+ hour flight, it was likely a 747 (if not an L1011 or 767). it was notable for me personally as it was one of the
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by a-dub 4y ago
it looks at the referer field in the http request to see where you came from, and for the existence of a scarlet cookie. if it's a place they don't like, it drops a scarlet cookie in your browser that says they don't like you
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by a-dub 4y ago
that's cool, but it's not the same as like being a teenager at the dawn of the internet boom where you and a bunch of your irl friends all have shell boxes and you judge people based on their choice of os, configuration thereof an
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by a-dub 4y ago
mastodon reminds me more of the hobby shell boxes of the 90s. where all the ex-bbs-sysops would offer free mail, webhosting and shell accounts to their friends. fun times!
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by a-dub 4y ago
that's right, i remember now fork being an issue. wasn't that much of a deal if i recall as most programs only really used it to spawn new processes by calling exec immediately after. (so, just swap it for CreateProcess) if a pro
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by a-dub 4y ago
notably the actual subsystem wasn't really necessary, if i recall it was some poorly implemented stubs for unix style system services. (think a backend for functions like getpwnam) the important part was the posix api functions that m
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by a-dub 4y ago
fun fact: early versions of windows nt included some libraries/runtimes that made it posix compliant. the sockets api was modeled after berkeley and the libc itself is posix compliant to this day, i believe.
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by a-dub 4y ago
you have to add support for your infrastructure to support building of everything for two architectures. sometimes problems are architecture dependent. if you have to use x86 containers for some reason, they will be dog slow because you&#x2
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by a-dub 4y ago
so arm macbooks are still problematic for developers who use containers and x86 servers... it's still surprising to me that they did this as i always got the sense that developer word of mouth helped drive a lot of macbook adoption in
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by a-dub 4y ago
i think it may be a little while. it's relatively easy to label images with text, yet much more complicated to do the same for complicated software systems. a bigger threat to swe is probably off-shoring, which will probably pick up as
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by a-dub 4y ago
would probably work better with case and punctuation preserving n-grams, sentence length, paragraph length and use of whitespace stats. also maybe a tf-idf vector of top n words per user. also could maybe do a same phrase analysis across th
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by a-dub 4y ago
oh. well i think if you had a job at bell labs, depth of job market wasn't a concern. as i understand it was in a class of its own.
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by a-dub 4y ago
i think i prefer a culture where one is rewarded for automating their job. moves like musk's are bad for the industry. they produce more systems with "job security" built in.
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by a-dub 4y ago
> SV seems to have a little more depth to it. there would have been no need for silicon if it hadn't been for the things invented at bell labs.
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by a-dub 4y ago
i might be mistaken but i think there was something else weird about the windows loopback interface. i can't remember what it was, but something like binding the loopback interface would bind on all interfaces by default maybe?
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by a-dub 4y ago
richard lyons' textbook "understanding digital signal processing" has a nice treatment of spectral leakage issues and choice of window functions. i think it may even discuss the integer multiple issue you speak of with nice i
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by a-dub 4y ago
hm. well assuming they have no network and don't otherwise encrypt bits that an attacker could get ahold of, it's probably fine. the bigger issue would be something like spawning a bunch of servers that share the same rng state th

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