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by admax88q 6y ago
An awful lot of work to protect my system from myself.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Are you purposefully misunderstanding? Did Snowden "not follow an order" or did he do something explicitly already illegal according to civilian law. Also note that if captured he's not going to face a court martial, he'
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by admax88q 6y ago
Its still civilian in the way that matters for this discussion in that its not a crime for an NSA employee to disobey an order.
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by admax88q 6y ago
The CIA and NSA are also civilian.
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by admax88q 6y ago
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
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by admax88q 6y ago
That's a biased comparison. Obviously an image is better at communicating an image. By setting the goalposts at "pixel perfect recreation" you've already selected a winner.
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by admax88q 6y ago
RISC-V is not an IP core, just an instruction set architecture. Any implementation of it has the exact same patent minefield to navigate as any other ISA. Most of the patents are around implementation techniques not instruction set.
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by admax88q 6y ago
> That's not a moral judgment. That was still a moral judgement. Welfare and UBI always have this issue in that everyone has a moral opinion on what recipients of money should spend it on. If you have money, nobody cares what you s
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by admax88q 6y ago
Why should everyone be compromised because fuzzers want to use the simpler rand() API instead of something different? I'm not saying we shouldn't have a way to generate predictable "random" sequences. But the default, s
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by admax88q 6y ago
Because your in the minority. Why should rand() be reserved for your use case and people with other use cases need to use a more obtuse SecureRandom() API? Defaults should be secure. The simple case should be secure.
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by admax88q 6y ago
> or possible future removal—don't change it. The future is now, insecure code has had long enough to catch up.
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by admax88q 6y ago
This is exactly what I mean about being stuck in the C mindset. You're looking at the problem though the lens of what this giant pile of ancient C software does. Why should newer languages take the same approach to APIs that these old
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by admax88q 6y ago
Just make Math.random() cryptographically secure, now all your apps are fixed, and no existing code broken. I can't imagine anything relying on Math.random() being "less" random than a CSRNG. Why must CSRNGs always have alte
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by admax88q 6y ago
Yeah yeah that's fair. But every time a new product comes along that isn't _yet_ as good as Android or iPhone HN commentators reflexively dismiss it. I get that that when its some new proprietary product trying to enter the marke
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by admax88q 6y ago
And yet people used the first android phones.
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by admax88q 6y ago
I don't think that's what I was looking for. That talks about dispatching generic functions at compile time. > you still have polymorphism that can’t be efficiently monomorphized without an exponential space penalty. Wouldn&#x
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by admax88q 6y ago
If I knew the types beforehand at compile time then I don't really _need_ the generic functions per say. Is there a CLOS implementation with inline caches for generic method dispatch?
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by admax88q 6y ago
Its kind of amazing that there isnt an official qr code scanner app preinstalled on phones given how ubiquitous QR codes are.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Honestly deltachat works great and its chat over smtp and imap. Im not sure "chat" needs this much constant "innovation" at the protocol level. Most of the issues with email are client UX more so than actual protocol li
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by admax88q 6y ago
I have never had the media server support in VLC work for me.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Oh so i cant actually trust the walles garden apple has curated. Everyone told me that locking my device to the curated app store is for my own safety. Let Apple select the software you can run so that youre safe from scams. Good to know t
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by admax88q 6y ago
It feels like Lisp scales vertically and Java scales horizontally. Java scales for number of developers, its idioms and ecosystem make it easier to have tons of developers on a single project. Lisp scales on the size of problem that a small
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by admax88q 6y ago
Shorting was brought into thr market to prevent short squeezes? That doesnt make sense.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Thats optimized for never having to renumber yoir lists as you edit your document. I would hate to have to change 30 numbers because i want to move an item from last to first.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Thats exactly my point, somebody will be left holding the bag. Holding GME worth 20-40 that they bought for 400-1000.
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by admax88q 6y ago
The goal is to make enough money for pensioners to live off. If the goal was to reduce risk then pensions would be better off being held in cash. But pension funds dont have enough cash to meet needs so they have to grow.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Youve skipped the step for obtaining a card in the first place. Something which is trivial here in Canada (easier than a drivers license, and free). Also theres none of this in-network vs out of network chaos. Emergency care always covered
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by admax88q 6y ago
And if it doesn't fall you lose money. You can't just reduce risk without also reducing gains.
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by admax88q 6y ago
> The "little guy" refers to the Reddit traders that are making a killing right now, with the expectation that eventually the stock price will crash again. The reddit traders are only making a killing if they're selling th
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by admax88q 6y ago
What does it say about your intelligence that you didnt choose to learn about diabetes given how devastating it can be?

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