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by api 12y ago
I used it a while back when I worked at a place that used Linux desktops. I liked it over Ubuntu since yum/rpm is so much faster than deb/apt and because they just seemed to give you a good solid system that just worked. They were
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by api 12y ago
"demonstrably safe" -- this is another issue I have with this crypto conservative FUD. "Use SSL, don't roll your own!" Then we get BEAST, CRIME, Heartbleed, etc., and we discover that the dominant SSL/TLS imple
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by api 12y ago
You're right, though there are some things that are about as hard: compilers, language design, machine learning, databases with strong ACID guarantees, etc. The problem I have with the "crypto should be a forbidden zone" line
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by api 12y ago
Containers implement something not unlike SELinux policies. Networking stuff requires the NET_ADMIN permission, which is not set by default.
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by api 12y ago
"Fuck you" would have indeed been a more appropriate response to "how dare you try to implement crypto" FUD. Crypto is hard, but it's no harder than a lot of other hard things. If you think someone's crypto is
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by api 12y ago
You speak as if SSL/TLS hasn't been a rat's nest of problems. If they did it competently, there is no reason they couldn't implement their own crypto encapsulation. As far as why they rolled their own... have you ever
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by api 12y ago
Networking is a disaster. Kernel level networking is nice, but that requires access to the kernel which you can't provide in a container. Doing so means containers no longer contain. IPV6 was supposed to solve a lot of this by having a
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by api 12y ago
What constitutes an 'extraordinary claim' is a subjective judgement. I don't find it at all impossible that governments would resort to tactics like false flags. I don't find it to be an 'extraordinary' claim,
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by api 12y ago
I've been programming since I was four. Was doing 6502 machine code at eight or nine. I know over ten languages pretty fluently, and have done everything from high level web and desktop stuff to bare metal kernel hacking. I can't
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by api 12y ago
It's a cycle. Once the artists and other culture creators are driven out, the careerists move on and the descent begins.
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by api 12y ago
The places utilitarian careerists create are miserable alienating cultural wastelands. As a result, they are repelled from the places they create and drawn to "artsy" cities and neighborhoods. When they arrive they bid up the pric
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by api 12y ago
Estimate surveys have a poor record. Technologies tend to be perpetually 10-30 years away until they are 0 years away, or never happen at all. ANI and AGI are qualitatively different. Progress in making cars faster will not lead to teleport
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by api 12y ago
A few of the people making these claims are actually in the field. This does not cause me to take them seriously. Unless there is something secret in a government black project, there has been almost no progress on AGI... at all... ever. We
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by api 12y ago
You are assuming that ANI is anything like AGI.
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by api 12y ago
Those all seem long ago. Are there any in the last, say, 50 years? That's when I'm having trouble thinking of any. Also the roundness of the earth was never as far as I know controversial among the learned. Heliocentricity was onl
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by api 12y ago
Must it be local conservation? In other words can we rule out systems that push against something nonlocal or against everything in the universe at once? Edit: elsewhere in the thread you explain that yes, it must be local. So if this isn&#
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by api 12y ago
Was the Casimir effect highly controversial like this? Is there a good example of a discovery that was both challenging to reproduce and initially dismissed by many but was later vindicated? We hear lots of examples of the inverse of this l
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by api 12y ago
This sounds like a 4chan rant from a 13 year old boy who just finished reading a bunch of stale archived Pajamas Media blogs from 2005. :p
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by api 12y ago
I would not even go so far. Assuming this isn't a mirage, we don't know what it's doing. It could be conserving momentum but in some weird non-obvious way, or even doing something weirder. First question is whether it "w
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by api 12y ago
The way I see it there are two sides to the hype coin: frothing believers and curmudgeonly skeptics. Both are simple minded and shallow. Both really come out of the woodwork for stuff like this. BTW the reason SpaceX is more exciting than S
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by api 12y ago
How do you get the successes without the risk? If that were possible there would be no angel or VC and investment banks would just fund winners according to some formula.
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by api 12y ago
That is distinctly possible-- the cart pulling the horse. There's a lot of money in these programs, not to mention the possible profits in insider trading and corporate espionage.
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by api 12y ago
Meta, but a question I ponder often: These turn key totalitarian infrastructures have broad bipartisan support, especially among old hat insider politicians like Clinton and Feinstein. What is the motivation? Is it just the typical thing bu
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by api 12y ago
No, the idea would be that http becomes https with a self-signed cert. It shows as 'not protected' the way http does now to the user. It only turns green or gets the key box when it's a signed cert.
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by api 12y ago
Wow. That is legally questionable.
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by api 12y ago
Key distribution and NAT traversal. The latter is literally impossible without some kind of external third party to facilitate.
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by api 12y ago
I have never seen a community that did not get ruined by assholes, whether physical or virtual.
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by api 12y ago
Nothing changed. Bleak ideologies are still really common. You must serve God even though he built you with sinful urges and generally behaves like a tyrant. If you deviate you will be tortured forever in hell. Serve or burn. Pretty miserab
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by api 12y ago
"End of" or "death of" == click bait hyperbole, almost always. It's the end of the age of car-centric design in large metropolitan areas, but not of the car or "car age" by any stretch of the imagination.
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by api 12y ago
What's weird and funny is the collapse in complexity this represents. Linux, NT, BSD, and other modern kernels implement all kinds of complexity around user/group management, ACLs, security policies, file types and permissions, an

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