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by badsock 10y ago
What I don't like about this argument is that it vastly downplays corporations' ability to form monopolies and cartels in the absence of government programs to abuse. They are perfectly capable of using whatever means are at hand
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by badsock 10y ago
https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php It's quite expensive, and prerelease, but from what I heard it fits the bill.
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by badsock 10y ago
Voting is secret, so your solution as described wouldn't work, but say you used a one-way hash to verify the vote. It still wouldn't work in the case of someone voting from a compromised phone, because the confirmation can easily
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by badsock 10y ago
As I said elsewhere in this thread, blockchains/consensus algorithms won't work. If the computer/phone that the software is running on is compromised and the attackers have control of the video and/or input devices, the
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by badsock 10y ago
People in this thread are assuming we can just solve the security issue if we try hard enough. We can't. It would mean securing every single voter's computer, and that's preposterous. There is no consensus algorithm or bloc
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by badsock 10y ago
I understand that details can't be released, but is there any evidence at all for what you claim in your first paragraph?
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by badsock 10y ago
Also MS in particular is famous for misleading results due to spontaneous partial remission unrelated to the treatment.
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by badsock 10y ago
There's pressure for distros to adopt the Red Hat's init system, regardless of its quality, for compatibility purposes. For example when Gnome 3, which has significant ties to Red Hat, started depending on systemd, other distros
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by badsock 10y ago
It's dog whistle for "Norway doesn't have black people"
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by badsock 10y ago
When it was coined "Don't Be Evil" was a reference to Microsoft, who at the time was an especially bad actor in the industry, even for them. Dropping support for a protocol is one thing, but actively sabotaging open protocol
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by badsock 10y ago
They're just simple IR sensors - they can detect when IR is shining on them, but not from which direction. Put another way: each one is the equivalent of a single pixel in a camera sensor. Position is determined by watching the timing
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by badsock 10y ago
Ah, I meant per channel but I wrote per pixel - thanks for the correction.
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by badsock 10y ago
Not a correction (given that they posted after you), but if krasin's mention of 32k colours is right then it's 5bpp.
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by badsock 10y ago
Lambda can run arbitrary executables, including a Python3.5 interpreter. Admittedly it's a little silly to have a Py2 script that does nothing but start up Py3, but it's better than cutting and crippling, I'd bet.
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by badsock 10y ago
And I'm tired of everything being dumbed down to within an inch of its life - filled with introductory noise, or worse, just avoiding complex arguments. We're all reading this on the internet - if you don't know what a term m
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by badsock 10y ago
I'm not the person you're asking, but I don't think it's "entitled" to expect that government policy should at least try to address the needs of the average citizen.
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by badsock 10y ago
You could have saved a few bytes and just said: "Hey everybody, I'm a libertarian!"
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by badsock 10y ago
Sometimes it's a virtue to hold a grudge. If people and companies are forgiven the instant they stop being abusive, then what's the disincentive to being abusive again? Microsoft did what they did because they had a monopoly posi
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by badsock 10y ago
The Greeks providing us with this free giant horse statue is nothing but nice! Microsoft has acted unethically from it's inception until just recently when they've been backed into a corner. For decades they've repeated show
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by badsock 11y ago
Yes, there's a fully open stack for the Lattice iCE40s (the largest of which has 7680 LUTs): http://www.clifford.at/yosys/ (Verilog synthesis) https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr (Place an
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by badsock 11y ago
You're choosing your neighbour's level of risk too, though. Even a house built to regs has a hard time staying not on fire when the one right beside it is going up like a pile of tinder.
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by badsock 11y ago
I think what's happened is that you meant "supposed to do" as in "it fills the need that ML was aiming at", and I took as "it has feature parity". The latter is clearly not true - ML is supposed to have a
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by badsock 11y ago
Well, Google Chrome isn't made from actual chrome either ;) And while certainly VR goggles may eventually share the same fate as 3D TV, I don't think the comparison is valid (other than they both involve stereoscopy). It's a
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by badsock 11y ago
First-mover is an advantage, sure, but it hardly means that anyone who isn't first to the gate is wasting their money. Anyway, I see downthread that VonGuard has made the silly claim that "Hololens can do everything Magic Leap is
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by badsock 11y ago
What does Hololens do that Magic Leap doesn't? Information is very sparse, but I had the impression that the latter is a superset of the former.
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by badsock 11y ago
They weren't smart enough. They were prevented by government regulation introduced in the 1990s.
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by badsock 11y ago
It can be very difficult to find a place to rent in Vancouver.
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by badsock 11y ago
Not at all. It's more like a giant bittorrent full of everyone's git repos.
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by badsock 11y ago
Yes, did some research and found that the Python run time is the fastest to start up of the various options - all it really does is start up, call the C program, then shut down (<10ms to get to the subprocess.call() if memory serves).
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by badsock 11y ago
I'm going to be purposefully vague to avoid doxxing myself, but it's a lot like the "run" button that compiles the code on the Rust homepage, the difference being that the compiler I'm running is too performance cri

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