anfilt

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by anfilt 6y ago
It still seems pretty aweful today for a lot stuff i try to translate.
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Undocumented backdoor that covertly takes snapshots found in kids’ smartwatch(arstechnica.com)
6 points by anfilt 6y ago|0 comments
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App store principles to promote choice, fairness and innovation(blogs.microsoft.com)
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Apple is requesting telegram to shut down 3 channels(old.reddit.com)
1 points by anfilt 6y ago|0 comments
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by anfilt 6y ago
This has no bearing on how new the engine is. The workloads scale much differently when it comes to parallelism. While it might possible to get a little more parallelism and concurrency with a newer engine. The ability to scale is much more
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by anfilt 6y ago
I never claimed it did. Compilation is an embarrassingly parallel task. This means you can increase the number of threads by a much much larger amount before you hit Amdahl's law. That is not true for video games unless you count what
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by anfilt 6y ago
Just because a game uses threads does not mean it can magically get rid of Amdahl's law. The CPU workload of games does not scale anything like compilation.
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by anfilt 6y ago
Floating point yes, but SIMD depends.
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by anfilt 6y ago
If the game has a CPU bounded work load that scales well across multiple threads/processes. Honestly, most games do not, and are likely gonna run into Amdahl's law much quicker than compilation.
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by anfilt 6y ago
uh what??? No most games do no scale like compilation does. For instances when compiling a large program GNU make lets me the following: make -j 16 That will create 16 instances of the compiler each compiling different compilation units. I
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by anfilt 6y ago
I would have to find the paper again, but CPU caches can mask the error rate. The cached values also can overwrite any corruption with correct values. This has interesting side effect of protecting commonly accessed data structures and func
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by anfilt 6y ago
I mentioned as well it just was quick thought off the top my head. However, then you have the question can you trust the dice. It's a lot easier to trust math. I could sit down try to figure out a construction that adjusts/account
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by anfilt 6y ago
You made me think about this we want system that assigns a judge, but can't be manipulated. I actually think it's possible with our current cryptographic tool box. This just a quick thought off the top of my head, I might have mis
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by anfilt 6y ago
Also an interesting effect people don't consider about inflation is laws. For instance grand theft in the US is generally a 1000 dollars, but those laws don't account for inflation. Most these grand theft laws also were written in
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by anfilt 6y ago
That's pretty much what you do. You print and mint new versions that worth 1:X of the old currency is. Also you quit printing and minting the old currency. After long enough the old stuff is pretty much out of general circulation, but
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by anfilt 6y ago
Nothing is wrong with a 1 cent coin. It's just inflation has eroded it's value. The US penny for instance had the same purchasing power as a quarter today in 1913. Also the japanese yen is an entire currency were each unit is a ce
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Apple sues recycling firm for re-selling devices it was meant to dismantle(news.sky.com)
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by anfilt 6y ago
The IRS generally just asks for the money back. You would have to ignore their requests before any criminal prosecution. If that is not the case your doing something more than just making a mistake when it comes to a deduction.
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by anfilt 6y ago
Err plexy glass and similar materials have been around for quite some time. They have a major problem though. They scratch easily!
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by anfilt 6y ago
Do not lock users out their own hardware. (Aka iPhones, gaming consoles, tractors ect...). Do not create hidden/activated functions.(Think of VW diesel scandal, or other triggered back doors). Respect peoples privacy.
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by anfilt 6y ago
Living in Idaho, loggers are not against controlled burns. Fires can destroy timberland. A controlled burns the small brush and dead trees on the ground, not timber. Also logging done with proper clean up also can help reduce the severity
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by anfilt 6y ago
Epic has a more shaky case here because you can side load on android. The biggest thing I could think epic can shake at google is how google pushed handset manufactures to limit agreements with epic. Although I am not a fan of bloatware it&
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by anfilt 6y ago
One of the charges is "trafficking in circumvention devices" that's a huge concern! If they are successfully charged as such it's going to set a horrible precedent!
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by anfilt 6y ago
A charge in "trafficking in circumvention devices"!!!!!!!!! A mod device should not be illegal. This is horrible for device owner freedoms. I am worried this could be used to set a precedence for that fact. The EFF or some good le
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by anfilt 6y ago
I agree. However, I suspect facebook is gonna try and claim some sort of tortious interference between the TOS the user agreed too.
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by anfilt 6y ago
Flour, Salt, water and yeast thays bread. Start adding sugar or fat your making something in between a levened cake and bread.
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by anfilt 6y ago
Like the thing is a windows binary is not following necessarily following any standard like POSIX. So implementing a compatibility layer without a spec or source can be tough.
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by anfilt 6y ago
Thing is such a choice does not affect those users. They just don't side-load or install an other OS. There are users would use such option though. Otherwise breaking would not be a thing.
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by anfilt 6y ago
What do mean? A change to user freedom would make you leave? You do realize apple letting users load their own signing keys can increase device security. Apples signing keys could leak or be given to government's to comply with local l
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by anfilt 6y ago
They are device owners that do care otherwise jailbreaking would not be a thing. Heck in the early days before apple locked down the boot rom there were people porting linux to iPhone and iPod touches.

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