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by codex 13y ago
In this distribution, are shared libraries really shared, or duplicated?
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by codex 13y ago
In considering whether to buy a Tesla, I would evaluate the safety of the alternatives. Most in the market for a Tesla aren't going to buy the 23 year old Buick LeSabre whose oil leaks caught fire on the Jersey turnpike last week. So
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by codex 13y ago
According to some quick math, then, Teslas are 9x more likely to catch on fire from a collision than the average US car (1 / 5K) / (6K / 254M). I put the Tesla fire rate at one in 5000 per year because the average Tesla has
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by codex 13y ago
This comparison is a bit off. Most of the cars which catch fire are old. The comparison should be to a similarly priced, brand new luxury car. Very few of those catch fire, either.
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by codex 13y ago
It looks like they're backing off the claim that the fire was contained to only one cell. It's unclear, but if the fire were contained to only one cell, it's likely they would mention it: "A fire caused by the impact be
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by codex 13y ago
Redhat is the perfect example. Compare their market cap. to OS vendors which are closed source: VMWare, Microsoft, and Apple. It's a pittance. Profit is only $150M a year depite the dominance of Linux in the server market. Oracle i
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by codex 13y ago
I'd agree. Open source businesses have never been able to extract the value that closed source business can. Imagine if Oracle made their database open source; a dozen repackages would pop up, and Oracle's revenue would drop to
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by codex 13y ago
Also, plains undergo near-constant diagnostics and preventative maintenance work.
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by codex 13y ago
It's interesting that the worlds most popular operating systems, Windows, iOS, and Android, use almost zero FSF software (the "system"), although much of Android is GPL licensed.
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by codex 13y ago
How did the researchers determine causation? What if there is simply a gene for strong language which is responsible both for the parents' financial success and the child's academic success, and the extra words were simply a by
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by codex 13y ago
Why do you think his other family members did not share this desire?
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by codex 13y ago
Canonical is desperate to differentiate and this make money. However, when all the code is open and free, there is no way to differentiate for the better. It's like selling insurance. Everyone's product is the same.
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by codex 13y ago
Unfortunately one cannot assume the opposite either: that just because your unit broke, others have broken, or many others have broken. You buy thousands of things in your lifetime; odds are that at least one will suffer some kind of freak
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by codex 13y ago
You can, but it will cost you 10x more to maintain the distro than it cost the original authors, and you won't be able to share the cost with many others. Worse, the cost will only increase over time. Not as dire as a closed source a
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by codex 13y ago
The facts in the quote above are not inconsistent. Metadata != content. People so easily confused are easily manipulated.
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by codex 13y ago
Lose your phone? Phone out of juice? There goes your ride. Someone steal your phone? Now they have your bike. Combo locks are the best locks.
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by codex 13y ago
iPad's been doing this for years; what's the news? Deep discounts for a design win?
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by codex 13y ago
Easy enough to calculate your destination time via software as well. I wonder if 2D time zones would reduce cancer incidence by encouraging consistent melatonin production via a daylight synchronized sleep cycle.
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by codex 13y ago
Sure, but software clocks could adjust themselves automatically based on your GPS location. Almost nobody uses a mechanical clock anymore.
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by codex 13y ago
I'm not convinced Mars can support a large human population even with initial massive economic subsidy. Pregnancy in the high radiation and low gravity of Mars may result in low fertility rates and some very... interesting, (misshapen
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by codex 13y ago
All of this can be done today in the Sahara, or underwater, or on the top of K2, but nobody has done them there. Why should Mars be any different? Yes, one can do these things, but will the economics work out such that it's actually f
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by codex 13y ago
For those who are keen to travel to Mars: may I suggest a stint in the Peace Corps first, or on a nuclear submarine, or a tour in Antarctica. If that's not ambitious enough, please try attempting to terraform a desert, or establishing
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by codex 13y ago
In this age of software and asynchronous communication, there is little reason to have so few time zones, or to have one 1d timezones rather than 2d. It would be nice if local time continuously skewed a few seconds each day (sometime aroun
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by codex 13y ago
I don't see that they are determining "guilt" at all. What leads you to believe that? Are people being convicted here without a trial? Metadata collection is only a tool; it is not a standard of proof.
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by codex 13y ago
This is no surprise; if phone metadata of US citizens is legal to harvest, then social network metadata collection, which is essentially the same, is also legal to harvest. It looks like this collection is limited only to metadata, if this
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by codex 13y ago
Isn't that because the NSA's entire reason for being is to spy on foreigners?
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by codex 13y ago
The second article is quite alarming. Don't run any code in an enclave which you didn't compile yourself! One may not even be able to use a virtual machine to peer inside an enclave by emulating SGX: the software could demand a
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by codex 13y ago
If you can't trust the TPM, can you trust Intel's debug registers to be secure? Long term I suspect that this kind of thing will use Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), which creates a trusted enclave of code and data th
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by codex 13y ago
Why not keep the keys in a TPM and pull them into "real" registers whenever the kernel context switches into a specially flagged AES decode thread, and zero them when context switching away?

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