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by clord 11y ago
"Book author" is at least closer to the truth. There are editions and old copies floating out there, it's hard to estimate completion dates, and authors have many of the same copyright problems. The difference is that softwar
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by clord 11y ago
With what we know now about beneficial bacteria, I wonder if, in addition to the pathogens, we're killing probiotics? And perhaps the lack of exposure to mild bacteria mean we're more susceptible to immune diseases? Of course gett
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by clord 11y ago
I think jahnu was referring to obtaining the private keys for a trusted signing authority, which would enable said agency to create valid-looking certificates for the purpose of MITM. Weak algorithms are also concerning, but not really the
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by clord 11y ago
It might help prevent crap-tastic apps on the store because it changes the incentive structure. If the subscription is doled out in proportion to time spent in-app, the incentive on developers would be to maximize engagement time, which mig
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by clord 11y ago
We're in the final stages of migrating a large non-web system to react for a client right now (we're up to ~200kLOC of JS) first big project our new company is doing. Next time I'd use an immstruct layer for maintaining state
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by clord 11y ago
Exactly. Clang makes platform-specific lowerings and bakes in some ABI-specific gunk. Granted not so much as the object code on the other side of the back-end. Enabling target-specific vectorization and whole-program optimization are probab
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by clord 11y ago
Not saying I think gold is a good investment or that the system is in any danger, but it's obvious why gold is still important. Just as with bitcoin and unlike fiat currency or IOUs, it's quite hard to forge metal (or proof-of-wor
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by clord 11y ago
> The question then becomes: why would anyone do them, and (somewhat linked) what are the chances that anyone will do them to you? Let me rephrase the items from the GP comment: 1. A company that your boss hires will tell him when you li
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by clord 11y ago
> Anyone who would pursue IBM in hopes of 'incubating a startup scene' is, not to put too fine a point on it, grossly incompetent Could be they are geniuses: banking on IBM laying off tech workers in order to get the startup sc
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by clord 11y ago
We went through this at my former employer (not MS) just before i left. In fact the politics surrounding it drove me to seek relative sanity of doing a startup. When I started working on it, there really were two camps: clang emitting house
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by clord 11y ago
That was my first thought too. Since sometimes these are sub-second trades, it'd be interesting to look at whether they're physically possible (i.e. whether speed of light is respected.) Would explain stuff like [0]. [0]: http:&
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by clord 11y ago
That was exactly my point. thank you. Humans last longer than machines because we self-repair and acquire our own energy. Last I checked, human-made machines do neither of these things. Not sure why I was down voted for pointing that out?
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by clord 11y ago
Unlikely. It was a terrible thing that is being taken advantage of by politicians to advance their agenda of increasing their own power.
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by clord 11y ago
Um, Last I checked, not many human machines can continuously operate up to 100 years. Most robots and machines like cars are considered "long life" if they last 30. Seems to me the human body is built to last.
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by clord 11y ago
It's interesting work. I wonder how much input energy is required to mine, refine, and build the required silicon and titanium oxide nanowires? If it's less than 1 to 1 with the lifetime output, then the tech will need more work t
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by clord 11y ago
DPI of final print , not the sensor. Large format cameras could even have larger DPI than an SLR and still get vastly better pictures. Large format CCDs exist, but are very expensive, and of course have different performance characteristic
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by clord 12y ago
It's certainly complicated and my answer probably does not apply to such a trivial example code that is using mostly stdlib functions. But the potential gain for Haskell is with loop fusion. The user could implement all of those functi
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by clord 12y ago
Wouldn't a carpet-block defeat the purpose of keeping greatfire on the site? Might as well just remove the offending content, since the attack would have achieved it's goal: preventing people in China from accessing content on git
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by clord 12y ago
If someone has a recent clone and the licence was compatible, is there a reason a fork can't be started?
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by clord 12y ago
Not always true. For a trivial example, in fortran code, we'd often see people wanting to write code that calls runtime methods directly because it leads to clearer implementations. The language rules were such that we could prove inva
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by clord 12y ago
Also worked on compilers at a major chip company. Generally it's better to have clear code than fast code. For that reason I would say that the future of optimization are things like whole-program optimization that exploits language fe
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by clord 12y ago
I imagine the multinationals get to play both sides of the negotiation — they can lobby it to both governments. Hence it's probably mostly all carrot ("Sign and you'll get lower barriers to your own products"). I can ima
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by clord 12y ago
Ok this did it for me. That's incredible. It's almost into the audible spectrum. That means they're churning them out at something like that rate too. And then realize that not too long ago any one of those iphones would have
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by clord 12y ago
The only thing I can think of: a good HFT algo might be able to exploit leap seconds to somehow gain an advantage over those that are ignorant of them (or vice versa).
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by clord 12y ago
You're assuming resources are liquid (meaning: able to be relocated for low cost). This is only true if you're trading, and civilizations trading energy can't really be separate civilizations. The only civilization we're
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by clord 12y ago
Although the naturalistic fallacy is real, please remember that the foundations of naturalism have some merit, so it's not a universal fallacy. In fact often-times biasing to 'natural' is the best way to get the right outco
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by clord 12y ago
I'm just starting off working with nixops. quite nice IMO, although not getting into the meat of it yet (i.e., trying real deployments). Nix solves the dependency problem really nicely, and I can spin up machines from scratch really fa
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by clord 12y ago
This puts incredible power in the hands of the financial industry. It is the most clear evidence I've ever seen for the shape of the coming (already here?) plutocratic era.
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by clord 12y ago
The far right has been rising across Europe lately[1]. And the far left for that matter[2][3]. [1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elinadav-heymann/sudden-rise-o... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h
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by clord 12y ago
You're right, that reported failure rate is way too low, I'd be glad to only have 26 corrupt files. I have one disk with about 300gb of CR2 files (HFS+). Not long ago I did a similar procedure as in the article (except that I also

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