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by chaboud 4y ago
I personally don't think it's necessary, but the Blockchain creates an effectively irreversible collectivization of the work: Removal would also undo whatever other work was committed. It's kind of like cryptographically amor
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by chaboud 4y ago
I read that with the sarcasm that I hope was intended and had a good laugh.
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by chaboud 4y ago
By the way, if you are ever tempted to measure AC with an oscilloscope, please use differential probes to reduce the risk of damage/electrocution. It is very easy to create a pretty significant voltage potential across your probe
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by chaboud 4y ago
It looks like the big spend (besides avoiding Gigabit being a feature… wow) is the power supply being linear. Having taken scopes to power lines in homes, I can grudgingly attest to the non-zero impact switching power supplies have in audi
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by chaboud 4y ago
The article starts with stating a desire to bring the term "Steel thread" back to Wikipedia, formerly removed for the term's lack of use in the industry. After reading the linked article, I'm actually more convinced that
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by chaboud 4y ago
It doesn’t even really work for two eyes if the viewer is close to the display. Close one eye to really nail the illusion. Think of it as the perfect approach for pirates with no friends.
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by chaboud 4y ago
One great way to guard against this is to force teams to design for scaling up and down. I regularly give a "plan for success, and plan for failure" speech that covers this area. If your service opex breaks even at 1k users bec
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by chaboud 4y ago
That's a great write-up. However, once people do give a shit, if you didn't think about scalability, it becomes an enormous problem. And, funny enough, the people that didn't think about scalability, if they're smar
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by chaboud 4y ago
That is so.... meta...
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by chaboud 4y ago
I don't insist on this (or even suggest it) for others (I'm an old BBS'er), but I do generally use my real name on the internet.
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by chaboud 4y ago
My preference is simply down to he act of lying increasing my cognitive load to engage with others. If I choose not to tell someone something, that's relatively easy. If I tell them something artificial, I have to maintain and harmon
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by chaboud 4y ago
By the way, and this is abnormal: My name is Matt Chaboud. My username is my last name, and I'm easy to find. I try to behave online in a way that doesn't rely on anonymity (though I recognize that that carries some risk). But I
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by chaboud 4y ago
Ah yes... I'm Skimmington Harborough, Esq., I come from a family that made its fortune in philanthropy generations ago. This seems like a pretty straightforward mechanism for covert operatives, to generate a believable (and memorizable
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by chaboud 4y ago
I'd love to see trends and stats on the photos across regions and collaboratively filtered (e.g., someone who accurately predicts photo XX is more likely to accurately predict photo YY). Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos
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by chaboud 4y ago
That statement, right there, should be the epitaph of every former great that found themselves disrupted.
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by chaboud 4y ago
It’s much easier to lose trust that to gain it, and the ramifications of the move will be felt for a very long time. There’s the time before and the time after, and Google won’t ever really look the same to the industry. That said, Google p
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by chaboud 4y ago
It’s probably a funny artifact of the architecture and the impracticality of image-based background on the hardware of the day that this was made available. PatBlt() was a fast way to fill a given rectangle with a color (or xor it), but it
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by chaboud 4y ago
No rule is strictly true in optimization, except the rule that no rule is strictly true in optimization... It's quite often the case that branches are bad for performance in tight loops, so It's better to treat branches as likely
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by chaboud 4y ago
I totally agree that Bulldozer was ahead of its time. In some ways, it was a case of being too clever, trying to do things under the hood for the FPU similarly to Hyper-Threading for decoder/front-end resources (which also caused pr
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by chaboud 4y ago
Others have covered it here, using masks, multiplies, or horizontal operations to avoid branching by running the logic for all of the branches is common in vectorized code (and shader operations for similar reasons), where raw compute outru
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by chaboud 4y ago
Well before Bulldozer had taped out, AMD briefed us on the high level processor plans (our software was included in BAPCo Sysmark and we'd been a very early adopter of AMD64, so we had lots of these meetings). I told them that it was
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by chaboud 4y ago
Considering the revenue incentive behind express lanes, this is likely the reason. The most salesworthy point of buying your way into that lane is so you can go faster than the flow of traffic. Capping that at the speed limit is the same a
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by chaboud 4y ago
This is a classic application of the mean value theorem. Because your position is a differentiable function, you must, at some point, have been going your average speed over a window of time, and you can be ticketed accordingly. It's
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by chaboud 4y ago
Private keys checked into code? Password salts that were identical for the entire set? "Random" initialization vectors always created from the same prng seed? Without coders like these, hackers would really have to work for it. (A
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by chaboud 4y ago
At this point I’be caved and just coerce through json via python and jam things through jq for most of my data inspection and sleuthing.
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by chaboud 4y ago
The cases I'm thinking about would more be internal data protections. I'll give an example: We have wikis that are internally and externally accessible, with permission systems for internal users and external partner users that ca
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by chaboud 4y ago
This seems like a spectacular way to break permissions restrictions and escape data to non-authorized entities. If it's successful, it's the sort of thing that will be brutally blocked by IT all over the place. Very slick, though
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by chaboud 4y ago
Verily so!
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by chaboud 4y ago
In Sunnyvale the alert hit with enough time for me to grab my mug (so it wouldn't spill on my laptop) and step away from things that could tip (TVs, bookcase, standing desk)... Followed by a couple of tiny wobbles and then business as
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by chaboud 4y ago
Boudin's conviction rate was higher than his predecessor....

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