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by cillian64 5y ago
GC protects you against use-after-free memory safety issues but doesn’t help with concurrency issues, i.e. one thread reading from a shared structure at the same time as another writing to it.
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by cillian64 5y ago
Dream of electric sheep?
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by cillian64 5y ago
My thoughts: I appreciate that they are very open about exactly what information was public and how this happened. Compared to many disclosures this is refreshingly straightforward. However, it looks like that they are only telling me abo
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Tell HN: GitHub leaked names of private repos with pages
149 points by cillian64 5y ago|22 comments
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by cillian64 5y ago
I also do this! A bonus benefit is you can go back through the list when packing up to come home so you don’t leave your charger/toothbrush/… in a hotel. I always feel a little obsessive or over-careful making lists for this sort
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by cillian64 5y ago
Yep, it’s very freeing being able to just delete things even if you think you might need them later. I just recently resurrected a test which was deleted 6 months ago because it wasn’t useful at the time but is now. Version control also s
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by cillian64 5y ago
I think of it like this. If you suddenly owned 100% of Bitcoin, then you wouldn’t actually have anything valuable - nobody would buy it off you. If you suddenly owned 100% of Tesla then you’d be able to extract a lot of value.
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by cillian64 5y ago
Everybody complains when someone gets inexplicably/stupidly banned by an AI and there are no humans to review it. Spending money on moderation by actual skilled people is how you solve the problem. This is one place I’m very happy to s
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by cillian64 5y ago
> some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. What bothers a lot of us isn't the libertarian nirvana ideal, it's the fact that most loud proponents have a financial interest and stand to gain by in
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by cillian64 5y ago
If security software can read email enough to observe the shortened URL, couldn’t it just see what it expands to and then judge the target URL? Link shorteners don’t seem to have any obvious CAPTCHAs.
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by cillian64 5y ago
Exactly this. I accepted it because I got sick of the popup and wanted to talk to my family without having to try to convince them to move to another platform. I’m mildly annoyed about it but it didn’t seem like an issue worth spending ti
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by cillian64 5y ago
I guess this is a big difference between perl and python. Perl gives you a powerful concise syntax and relies on you to either try quite hard to keep things sensible and readable or deal with the monstrosity you create. Python tries to coer
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by cillian64 5y ago
I think it’s not downrankng so much as monetisation in most cases. Advertisers don’t want their ads shown alongside videos covering certain sensitive topics so YouTube “demonetises” these videos and the creators don’t get any revenue from
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by cillian64 5y ago
Perhaps something smartwatch-based would make sense for this. Almost certainly cheaper and easier than AR and still more immediate than pulling out a phone.
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Performance at Scale: Graphcore’s Latest MLPerf Training Results(graphcore.ai)
3 points by cillian64 5y ago|0 comments
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by cillian64 5y ago
That doesn't seem possible. Fundamentally you need more addresses than IPv4 can represent, so legacy programs wouldn't be able to handle the addresses of any system which solved that problem. Now, you could have an upgraded syste
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by cillian64 5y ago
Last time I looked I couldn’t find any convincing videos of anyone picking an Abloy Protec2 cylinder. Abloy cylinders aren’t that uncommon so I took that as a sign of these locks being basically unpickable rather than nobody trying.
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by cillian64 5y ago
My public key would still be published even if I only ever dealt with private repos, so this argument doesn’t hold.
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by cillian64 5y ago
Because I can google “How to drive addressable LEDs from Raspberry Pi”, for example, and find a lot of example projects and blog posts and not have to reinvent the wheel. It’s inelegant for sure, but great for prototyping or duct tape proje
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by cillian64 5y ago
This seems like a nasty move from EVGA to shift the downside onto whoever ends up unknowingly buying these cards on eBay. It’s weird, they normally seem like a company with a decent customer focus, and it’s not like this move is going to m
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by cillian64 5y ago
Nyquist’s theorem only covers sampling (turning a “continuous” signal (which exists at all points in time) into a “discrete” function (which only exists at certain points in time)). Each of the Nyquist samples is a real-valued number which
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by cillian64 5y ago
HN readers will probably try quite hard to solve a problem by themselves before contacting customer support so are unlikely to be helped by a chatbot. But I wonder whether we are unrepresentative of most users in this respect. Are a lot of
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Graphcore brings new competition to Nvidia in latest MLPerf AI benchmarks(zdnet.com)
1 points by cillian64 5y ago|1 comments
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by cillian64 5y ago
According to some Googling, the Huy Fong sauce isn’t available here any more because the preservative (E222) is no longer allowed in the UK
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by cillian64 5y ago
If cars would just use standard DIN entertainment systems then upgrading that part every few years would be cheap and trivial. But I expect car manufacturers would rather people buy a new car when they want the new shiny infotainment.
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by cillian64 5y ago
That's not an argument for not replacing your car, it's an argument for not buying a big car when you do. At least outside the USA it's not hard to buy a new small car.
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by cillian64 5y ago
Also my 2009 Yaris has a decent size touchscreen LCD with carplay in the dash thanks to it being a standard double-DIN head unit. Makes it even harder to justify replacing the car now that the entertainment system is basically the same as
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by cillian64 5y ago
I had the same problem with the Herman Miller Mira 2, which has the same mesh seat. There’s an optional adjustable front seat angle which seems like it would help with this. It’s disappointing that they don’t have adjustable seat depth thou
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by cillian64 5y ago
Passwordstate doesn’t seem to have automatic update and the update process is mildly annoying, so I can’t imagine very many people were unlucky enough to update during the couple of days they were compromised. Not saying this isn’t very con
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by cillian64 6y ago
I’ve been playing with Lemmy and it looks good so far - UI is okay and the community looks decent at first glance.

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