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by chc4 8y ago
The fear would be that software engineers who are Australian citizens would want to travel to Australia again to visit family, and then be forced to comply. You can be living and working in the United States, but if you're an Australia
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by chc4 8y ago
I was told mad cow disease and CJD interchangably, which looking it up seems to be slightly different. I don't know the difference between CJD and vCJD and Wikipedia isn't helping much. Honestly, I don't know how fast it&#x27
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by chc4 8y ago
A few months ago I was talking at a family gathering and learned that one of my distant relatives has CJD. They're a high-ranking company executive, but their cognition is rapidly wasting away and will be dead within a few years. Anoth
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by chc4 8y ago
Roblox has a very good Lua ecosystem. It's on the scale of an actual featureful game engine now, with free cloud hosting and microtransactions support and developer payouts that attract would-be gamedevs. It's been growing extre
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by chc4 8y ago
sigscans are how nearly all third-party modding APIs work. It's a lot better to hardcode what behavior you're trying to find than hardcoring binary offsets, and then having to update them manually once the program updates.
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by chc4 8y ago
Have you looked at Urbit? It uses this idea - programs are state machines that you give to the runtime, which pumps them with events (IO, RPC calls, etc) that return [new-state events-out]. All programs are purely functional and determinist
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by chc4 8y ago
It's Unix-like, not a Unix clone. In particular they settled on a "everything is a URL" instead of "everything is a file", with different URIs being delegated to userspace services. It still draws quite a bit from U
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by chc4 8y ago
I was talking with some friends a bit ago and was surprised to learn that Haxe is used a lot in game dev and embedded a lot. Apparently a lot of set top boxes like Tivo or car infotainment systems use it, and there's a lot of very good
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by chc4 8y ago
Spectre was announced 5 months ago. Even if Intel had a fully laid out and tested new design, with new masks and any changes to the production pipeline the instant it was dropped, just fabbing the chips I've been told has over 6 mont
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by chc4 8y ago
Tail call optimization is returning the result of any function, with tail recursion being the specific case where it's the same function. I think I've seen some languages where they special-case recursion by doing a code transform
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by chc4 8y ago
Yes, and there have been some cases of people hitting very large binaries and having to put effort into slimming them down. In most of those cases it's due to either wanting to run in very constrained space or distribution size, and th
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by chc4 8y ago
"The only reason to shell out the $10K is if you are looking for a job." That's a pretty big "if". If you're considering a cyber security Masters degree, you're probably interested in doing it for a career
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by chc4 8y ago
I highly recommend https://microcorruption.com/ - it was a game by (the now defunct) Matasano to do hiring for exploit researchers, and is a lot of fun. You're given the disassembly for an ARM e-lock and told to craft
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by chc4 8y ago
I exclusively use `i.reddit.com` on my phone so that I hit the old mobile site. It is amazing how much better it is than the slow and confusing piece of trash the new UI is.
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by chc4 8y ago
Easy way out: Use the NIST randomness beacon. Now, if only half the pull of cryptocurrencies wasn't the rampant libertarian dream of it...
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by chc4 9y ago
It's not listed there, and didn't reach full feature parity (and seems to be dead now). https://github.com/frodwith/jaque is the project though, which is an implementation of the Nock VM from Urbit
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by chc4 9y ago
Someone I know wrote a Java implementation of the small VM for an open source project that had a simple C interpreter. My first thought was "wait, why?", until they mentioned that it was more than 10x faster and much, much easier
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by chc4 9y ago
It says it's powered by React and (presumable) Electron - does it have the same kind of issues that Atom does? Can it open big files, how responsive is it, etc. How do plugins work? Do neovim plugins work out of the box with Oni, do y
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by chc4 9y ago
No, and they said several times that they had no plans for it (which might have changed, to be fair). Their roadmap was to target servers, which have a use for secure OS and sane driver requirements. ( https://news.ycombinator.com
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by chc4 9y ago
If you read the white paper, it pretty clearly says that your node will cache files that peers request in order to build reputation on the network. Maybe IPFS doesn't actually do that currently, but it could and the whitepaper says i
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by chc4 9y ago
Honestly, that sounds like a problem for cryptocurrency. Lots of people just put their wallet address on things and you can send them money.
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by chc4 9y ago
I was looking into Ripple last night, and it uses something similar[1]: you enter a set of nodes that you trust will not collude together, and an 80% supermajority of those trusted validators propose transactions, and then an 80% supermajor
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by chc4 9y ago
I'm looking forward to the world of running Servo on Redox and never having to worry about a buffer overflow again.
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by chc4 9y ago
I'm surprised you didn't link an actual c file; everything related to k seems to trigger an exorbitantly high number of "what the fuck"s. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/blob/master&#x2
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by chc4 9y ago
Learning that itch.io is powered by Lua was pretty cool. There's a [write-up] about how they leveraged coroutines for async programming which is super nice to read. iirc, Cloudflare uses mod_lua for a lot of its packet filtering stuff
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by chc4 9y ago
I struggled with it, until I learned about "reference style" links in the original Markdown spec: this is a link [1] [1]: <link> would display 1 and direct you to <link>. Then inline links are just reference links but
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by chc4 9y ago
That's pretty much the end goal of Urbit, though. It doesn't want everyone running a server in their closet, just a server in general which includes on AWS. The point is that it should be easy enough to control that your mother ca
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by chc4 9y ago
My dude, how can you read code out loud and not understand the draw of having single-syllabul names for all the weird characters in ASCII. I don't have many of them, but this is a hill I will die on even if Urbit falls off the internet
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by chc4 9y ago
I haven't seen that as the reason behind it (something about 4 billion planets being a good limit, maybe), and assumed it was hyperbole. 2^32 "houses", even if it was ideologically motivated, is a design decision that makes s
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by chc4 9y ago
Do you have something in mind? Using GNU Social as a convient whipping-post, it's built on PHP and MySQL and Salmon and PubSubHubbub and... The point of Urbit is to be a cobherent, self-contained platform. Every other decentralized app

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