ajconway

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by ajconway 6y ago
> Like citizen rights and protection of personal data. I was under impression that the original comment referred to open software standards (like email protocols), not data protection regulations.
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by ajconway 6y ago
> The only reason for the rise of apps is that companies see them as a good way of lock-in customers, gather data and increase influence Apps live and thrive because they are convenient and provide the most value to most people. As a use
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by ajconway 6y ago
But what is the real problem that women have? Is it about the lack of fairness in the society they live in? Is it a problem world-wide?
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by ajconway 6y ago
CMake is a natural fit for C/C++ (even though I strongly dislike the syntax). It has a good IDE project generation, and you can use ninja to build super fast. But it isn’t pre-configured for hermetic builds out of the box, remote, team
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by ajconway 6y ago
Not sure if love is an emotion, but sure, why not, these likely are just complex activation patterns in the brain.
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by ajconway 6y ago
It's fairly easy to voluntarily induce happiness, but it's illegal in many countries.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Unlikely, the lack of physical Escape button is what most users were unhappy about.
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by ajconway 6y ago
If hardware quality and design is desirable, there are a several options on the market. Surface Pro are extremely nice if you're into Windows. X1 Carbon is a nice option if you are after a durable and compact laptop. Razer Blade is bas
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by ajconway 6y ago
The original post was against the review process imposed by the platform owners. I wrote that while not perfect, it helps with security. Then there was one subjective statement on what I'd like for myself. I have limited knowledge of t
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by ajconway 6y ago
I'm not sure what we're arguing about. I'm professionally involved in the field, I understand the risks when I press "download" or invoke a third-party script. I run things in temporary VMs. I only have Facebook, Wh
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by ajconway 6y ago
No, I only use Facebook and WhatsApp at the moment. I used to downloads lots of malware from porn sites back when I was much younger though.
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by ajconway 6y ago
I’m capable of knowing which app I’m going to install. I’m unlikely to fall for Instagram-styled icons that promise me free face filters.
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by ajconway 6y ago
But security is not binary. They (especially Apple) are doing something to limit the amount of fraudulent apps on their platform. I would strongly prefer having a free-for-all platform because I have some basic knowledge of information secu
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by ajconway 6y ago
All major application platforms have decent support for RTL, but more often than not it's up to a developer to use the built-in tools (or develop new ones if they had chosen to use a non-standard UI implementation). It might seem that
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by ajconway 6y ago
Generally, JIT requires the ability to execute data (writeable memory pages that contain code). iOS apps need a special system permission (in Apple's terminology — entitlement) to construct such pages. To my knowledge, no apps except f
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by ajconway 6y ago
It is not necessary to resort to JavaScript for the emulation, emulation and interpretation are allowed. App Store effectively forbids the usage of JIT (so VMs do not run as fast as one could expect) and running any code that’s not included
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by ajconway 6y ago
They would work well enough on the computers of that generation and painfully slow on today's supercomputers. Yes, just like the software we have today. I was trying to express that Electron (and the like) is not an inherently bad thin
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by ajconway 6y ago
Imagine one day we get a computer able to perform operations unimaginably faster than what we have now. It would process Snapchat's dog filters in femtoseconds, firing up and tearing down millions of kubernetes clusters every frame (be
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by ajconway 6y ago
FaceTime is a great product, one of the best in terms of audio/video quality, but it does not work on the majority of devices.
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by ajconway 6y ago
They specifically state that Duo is end-to-end encrypted.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Theoretically, FHE can perform any computation including training neural networks. Practically, it's still not viable because of the overhead.
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by ajconway 7y ago
It's really not a secret https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
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by ajconway 7y ago
They use Intel SGX to keep themselves from being able to access their users' contact lists. Still, one has to possess and reveal a valid phone number to use the service. This must help to grow the user base.
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by ajconway 7y ago
> but I can't imagine how it is for girls Girls love their large phones, they are easy to type on, and visual content consumption is much more comfortable.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Do you mean that it will leak additional information due to compression?
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by ajconway 7y ago
Meanwhile most of us curl stuff directly into our shells sometimes: https://brew.sh
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by ajconway 7y ago
Sounds like a good use case for Scalable Video Coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Video_Coding
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by ajconway 7y ago
Centralized services can experience outages, but federation does not automatically solve all of the availability issues.
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by ajconway 7y ago
We do, but modern smartphones (if you are not talking about regular phones with no ability to run third-party software) are so complex that it would require a Linux-level _centralized_ effort to pull off. And it's really hard to imagin
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by ajconway 7y ago
Multipath TCP or QUIC will provide us all with a seamless experience, if they ever gain adoption.

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