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   by api 11y ago

   Not sure I can distill it to a single 'taboo', but the SSD revolution is definitely upending a lot of conventional wisdom about storage and how it must be used. With SSDs: - Read and write are radically faster and will get faster
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   by api 11y ago

   I don't disagree per se, but I think if you also factor in a lot of other sticky nasty things about current-generation nuclear power it's one of the issues that weighs it down. I also think PITA factor is kind of a death by a thou
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   by api 11y ago

   My impression for a while has been that nuclear power is one of those techs that looks good on paper but fails in practice due to what Elon Musk calls a high "PITA factor." (Pain in the A$$) I interpret PITA factor as referring to
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   by api 11y ago

   We use Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) with zero issues and their UX is far better than ADP. /no affiliation with them
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   by api 11y ago

   If anything private sector driven surveillance can be creepier-- it's a total "wild west" without even the pretense of public oversight and virtually no regulation. Only the most insanely creepy things like capturing video
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   by api 11y ago

   Does Go not have finalizers? These are mostly solved problems since the Smalltalk era. Haven't learned Go yet and from what I read I'd be better off with Rust or something that would stretch my brain more like Haskell. When I read
7. 12787.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I thought Go had gc. Why would you ever need reference counts?
8. 12788.▲
   by api 11y ago

   You can do both.
9. 12789.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I bet someone in China can turn off your lights now. Am I the only one who sees this as a degradation? IoT will hit it's stride when it moves beyond "put a chip in it." The killer apps will be entirely new things impossible t
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    by api 11y ago

    Isn't that expired now? And if it covers p2p it's ridiculous. All PSNs are prior art
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    Systems of meaning all in flames(meaningness.com)

    1 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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    by api 11y ago

    I wonder if they will do p2p video chat... since Skype abandoned p2p the quality is notably awful.
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    by api 11y ago

    We use Slack and get a lot out of it. We've got people on two continents and it really helps. Sounds like the problem was over-using Slack. I've left Slack channels before because... well... noise. We tend to have a pretty qui
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    by api 11y ago

    Its longevity is due to a couple factors I think: (1) It's stable. No "let's rewrite everything every two years!" It's a bit ugly but once you learn it you know it. (2) It targets a reasonably stable set of platform
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    by api 11y ago

    This is why complexity is so terribly evil in secure protocols. All these features, feature flags, upgrades, downgrades, state transitions ... it's all surface area for bugs. A complete state diagram for a modern SSL/TLS stack wo
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    by api 11y ago

    Don't run more than one process needs nuance. Apache and Postgres work fine in containers and are fork based, and helper apps or threads that are purely supportive don't matter either. No more than one job or "thing" mak
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    by api 11y ago

    Got it. So it's going to take a pedophile site appearing on a darknet that contains thousands of hours of captured home camera footage of naked kids, or a well documented case of an activist or journalist being singled out for a high-r
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    by api 11y ago

    All the deeply creepy ones derive their creepiness from cloud tethering-- they transmit everything back to the mothership and can only be used via the mothership. You are putting a microphone, camera, etc. in your house that someone else h
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    by api 11y ago

    Isn't performance a problem? Technically you can memoize to eliminate constant recomputing of state, but that itself is overhead. Sometimes I try to use a functional style in common languages and end up backing out when it comes time t
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    by api 11y ago

    Was thinking of doing this myself! Awesome.
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    by api 11y ago

    RPi is IMHO the most important computer product period. It's the gateway to PC 2.0, the modern Altair.
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    by api 11y ago

    Entry into the middle class is now gated by a system of indenture in which you must purchase on non-bankruptable debt a certificate to be considered for a middle class job. (... unless your parents are rich or you're part of the small
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    by api 11y ago

    ... or flush every toilet in New York at once. Barrels of fun.
24. 12804.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Does a 2000 mile data path to a light bulb seem dumb to anyone else?
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    by api 11y ago

    If your systems have a local firewall, services are jailed, OS is patched, etc. then direct access to it is not dangerous. Somewhere we decided to accept crap system and device security as normal because oh we'll just firewall it. That
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    by api 11y ago

    It's just yet another nail in the firewall's coffin. I cringe now when I read security people still talking about them as a first or really any meaningful line of defense.
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    by api 11y ago

    IoT is yet another reason firewalls are obsolescent as a security measure. A device is secure or it is not. There is no such thing as a safe network. Never really was, but now there really ain't.
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    by api 11y ago

    Show me a house running on an eCat then.
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    by api 11y ago

    The EmDrive is actually less physically plausible than the E-Cat if you get into it, since reactionless propulsion is identical to perpetual motion and/or infinite energy. Someone had a nice explanation of this over on Reddit but I d
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    by api 11y ago

    If they have patents, why don't they publish a real scientific article on this with all the information needed to replicate? This stuff is permanently in my 'put up or shut up' category, and putting up means true independent