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by archgoon 8y ago
Well; the entire modern smartphone (post iPhone) industry is only a decade old. Expecting another revolution on par with the first in 5 years seems a pretty high bar to cross.
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by archgoon 8y ago
> seemed to have a short-term view of everything (we were going to "flip" the company to a large pharma), > which caused a lot of bad decisions to be made. Unfortunately, if they were trying to flip the company; then they ma
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by archgoon 8y ago
> But I'm far less confident that he would be treated fairly. Maybe, maybe not, but there is precedence in America for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg > Daniel Ellsberg... precipitated a
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by archgoon 8y ago
What's your threat model when you say "AI safety"? Which scenarios are you attempting to prevent?
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by archgoon 8y ago
Breadboards hide the connections and require a significant amount of thinking in transforming to and from a circuit diagram. This isn't hard once you've mastered it, but I can understand wanting to ease K-12 classrooms into it.
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by archgoon 8y ago
This throws some light as to why Kodak had weapons grade uranium in one of their labs. https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/us/new-york-kodak-uranium/ind... At the time, to me (not having had this bit of
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by archgoon 8y ago
I use the CLI when I use it (mind you; it's largely for CTF style questions most of the time).
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by archgoon 8y ago
I recommend anyone who is attempting to do a ctf reversing challenge to checkout r2. https://rada.re/r/ It's a free and open source set of tools specifically for reverse engineering. There are some commercial opti
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by archgoon 8y ago
So the original plan was to announce this earlier then?
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by archgoon 8y ago
"For the 2nd round candidates, NIST will allow the submission teams the option of providing updated specifications and implementations (i.e. “tweaks”). The deadline for these tweaks will be March 15, 2019. We originally planned that su
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California governor proposes data dividend(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by archgoon 8y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 8y ago
> What about those African languages made up of all clicking sounds? I am unaware of any African language, or any language in general, that only uses clicking sounds. Which one are you thinking of?
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by archgoon 8y ago
Also unicode. Я0XX0ЯZ!!1 I seem to recall that Western or Latin-1 encoding was more common (or at least, Netscape would assume) than UTF-8 in 1995. This resulted in some sites not displaying Russian characters correctly when you visited a s
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The imagination gap, part 1(ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
1 points by archgoon 8y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 8y ago
This appears to be "What Colour are your bits?": Ethanol Edition. The original "What Colour are your bits?" essay. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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by archgoon 8y ago
A vector space is a set of elements that are closed under addition and scalar multiplication (multiplying by a real or complex number). The precise definition of what we mean by that is covered by the vector space axioms. http://
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by archgoon 8y ago
I don't know if that's true. Don't you gain all the usual advantages of decoupling systems (clarifying responsibilities, documentation, independent growth and optimization, interoperability with other programs, easier testing
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by archgoon 8y ago
So something like Firecracker? https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
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by archgoon 8y ago
What's wrong with Fortran? You're argument seems to be "it's old." What are the main features you find to be lacking? What language would you propose should be used for the use cases of Fortran, and why?
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by archgoon 8y ago
>but he's currently not even in the top 50 even with his main race. I don't understand this part of the complaint, and it also seems to go counter to the idea that they should be releasing more data. Do we only want to see the
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by archgoon 8y ago
That's a linear accelerator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_particle_accelerator Presumably, you want to actually see the results of your collision.
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by archgoon 8y ago
The tube isn't just to provide a vacuum; it's there to provide continuous acceleration of the particles while keeping the charged particles in the particle beam from dispersing. There's another issue though. The reason that a
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by archgoon 8y ago
The author's argument is not that there are not questions that still need to be answered; but there is no reason at all to believe that a larger collider, that we are capable of building with today's technology, will answer any of
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by archgoon 8y ago
One can both be a former chairman of the FCC and care about security. I think you need to expand on your argument to justify your claim. Has the author previously opposed pro security proposals?
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by archgoon 8y ago
It is thoroughly inappropriate to respond to legitimate criticism, made in good faith, published in a reputable journal, with a lawsuit. It doesn't matter if you're right. If you're right; arguments can be made to show that y
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by archgoon 8y ago
To clarify; this is "no government" as in "there is not currently a parliamentary majority, and no new legislation can be passed". This is not the same as, say, the current US federal shutdown (which is also different th
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by archgoon 8y ago
> Can it fly? Yes. > Is it a quad copter? No; current designs are showing it to be an octocopter.
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by archgoon 8y ago
Why would there be? The Bahamas is not inside the United States and thus is part of the NSA's mission of monitoring foreign communications. Spy agencies spy. It's their job description.
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by archgoon 8y ago
It occurs to me that attacking people who are probably on your side, and are in a position to influence Google's policies, is probably not the most effective way of enacting change. Unless your real argument is "Everyone's ev
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by archgoon 8y ago
File offsets; not addresses :) I assume the tool isn't reading ELF format files and working out the memory address.

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