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   by agar 7y ago

   This refers to a joke made by Stephen Colbert (while portraying his satirical persona of right-wing host Stephen Colbert) that "reality has a well-known liberal bias"[1]. It is generally used to point out that many of the stories
2. 182.▲
   by agar 7y ago

   This is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down. When you consider some of the recent decisions about what constitutes "speech," it raises the important question of whether a private company influencing its customers' voting pre
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   by agar 7y ago

   This is a blog post by the software company that discovered the issue. It's simply a marketing team leveraging the current threat environment to raise the profile of their product.
4. 184.▲
   by agar 7y ago

   I both agree and disagree. A metaverse doesn't need to include games per se, though portals to standalone games will be important - the metaverse simply acts as a lobby. However, the critical component is the unified physics and intera
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   by agar 8y ago

   I look forward to a comment section filled with passionate developers rejecting the author's premise, and pitching their favorite framework(s) as proof... Thereby validating the author's premise that "the majority of the prob
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   by agar 8y ago

   Yes, the software library is very good, continues to improve, and 2019 will see significant new releases approaching AAA quality (according the the vendors, of course). Naturally, it depends on your interests. But my issue is lack of time t
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   by agar 8y ago

   In the interest of providing data, here is at least a single reply. Though I haven't voted, by my criteria your comment leans more to downvote than upvote. My reasons: 1. It adds little to nothing to the discussion. You raise two items
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   by agar 8y ago

   As much as I love the concept, I can only imagine what a professional with expertise in cephalopods and their DNA would think while reading this article. If you've ever read a popular press story in your area of expertise, you immediat
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   by agar 8y ago

   Thanks, I took a look through that and most (all?) of the benchmarks seemed to be fairly traditional tasks, some not even highly threaded. I guess I'm wondering if complex, multi-box, cloud-scale workloads have any advantage on Dragonf
10. 190.▲
    by agar 8y ago

    With DragonFly's architecture being designed with multiprocessing and clustering in mind, how does it fare (relative to Linux and other BSDs) in modern environments with many-core CPUs, horizontally-scalable architectures, reliance on
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    by agar 9y ago

    Of course some gun control advocates want a "we've come to collect your guns" law. I never said that no one holds extreme positions. But that does not mean that everyone holds extreme positions, which is what you claimed. A
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    by agar 9y ago

    > The only thing that could possibly give the gun-control people what they really want is total confiscation of all guns Strawmen are so unhelpful in reasonable debate. Not all gun control advocates are either anti-second amendment, nor
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    by agar 9y ago

    Arguing that medical devices don't fail is specious. The procedure for reporting errors that lead to deaths can be found here: https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ReportaProblem/def... > "E
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    by agar 9y ago

    Thanks, no apologies needed. I didn't mean to come off snarky either. And I obviously am not averse to unnecessarily long messages. As an aside, Valve's tracking solution is much less USB-intensive than Oculus's. In Valve&#
15. 195.▲
    by agar 9y ago

    Whoops indeed. :-D About a $5m whoops, considering Oculus just gave everyone a $15 store credit due to the problem. Sometimes education is expensive.
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    by agar 9y ago

    I believe it is possible, though I doubt many people look at the raw data due to its limited usefulness. Without sensor fusion between the IMU (or inertial measurement unit, AKA electronic gyroscope) and various other inputs (including dead
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    by agar 9y ago

    To be clear, I'm not arguing that old, already-installed drivers should fail if not countersigned. This seems like an extreme, and customer-unfriendly failure case. However, I am saying that this appears to be the default implementatio
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    by agar 9y ago

    This is in late beta, but anyone can opt in, try it, and opt out if it's not ready for them. But I use it and it's amazing. Edit: Here's the "sizzle reel": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvP_RI_S-bw
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    by agar 9y ago

    Argument: A modern VR stack is much more complex, and does much more, than just displaying images on two screens. Counterargument: The 16 things that happen other than just displaying images on the screen aren't relevant, have been don
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    by agar 9y ago

    Rereading your question, I realize I may have not actually answered an underlying topic: what is the difference between a certificate and a signature? The short answer is: - a "certificate" contains a number of things: a portion o
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    by agar 9y ago

    See my other comment replying to someone in parallel to this one.
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    by agar 9y ago

    Good question. An expiring cert is not required for VR. It was a massive screw-up by Oculus. Most (I won't say all) certificates expire. However, there's a huge difference between an expired certificate and one which is renders a
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    by agar 9y ago

    OK. The issue arose because the expired certificate wasn't countersigned by a timestamp server. So many comments agree that (a) security is hard, (b) countersigning with a timestamp server is easy to miss, (c) countersigning makes buil
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    by agar 9y ago

    For what it's worth, I think this is a very sane perspective.
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    by agar 9y ago

    The "monitor you wear on your face" trope is simply inaccurate, and essentially a misunderstanding of the state of VR today. I say this not to either criticize you or excuse the mistake by Oculus (they really needed to countersign
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    by agar 9y ago

    While this article is interesting, I strongly encourage anyone - from CEOs, to managers, to individual developers - to actually read the text of the GDPR. This is not written in unintelligible legal-ese. It is very approachable, understanda
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    by agar 9y ago

    Let's say you're a business in the EU that needs a sales management system. In it, you store personal data of your clients. You are considered a "controller"; the SaaS sales management system (that will store this data f
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    by agar 9y ago

    > I think it is important for everyone nowadays to have at least an notion of how software works, given that there is software is almost everything we use these days... I couldn't agree more. Education isn't just learning facts
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    by agar 9y ago

    Considering the over-the-top language ("a game changer for the computing industry") and questionable or imprecise comments like, "[it] allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit" (um, who reads that
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    by agar 9y ago

    Only a single data point, but Scratch has definitely sparked an interest in programming in my 12 year-old daughter. Though still early days, she has taken her first steps into learning Python. The concepts of loops, variables, counters, an