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by colmmacc 4y ago
I lease a Tesla Model S and my app currently advertises all of this for "Full Self-Driving Capability": "Navigate on Autopilot", "Auto Lane Change", "Autopark", "Summon", "Smart Summon&
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by colmmacc 4y ago
Apple need the labels either way. They can't just go creating new derived works without a license, and the artists and producers would far prefer to avoid the artifacts of something that is overly automated. It's already become pr
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AAC is already interleaved multi-channel. Two-channel L/R is obviously very common for music, but spatial audio and Dolby Atmos comes with more channels (up to 128, which can be arranged and binned into "beds"). 5.1 (6 channe
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by colmmacc 4y ago
This looks really cool, and it'll be interesting to see how artists and producers react. Presumably the tracks need to be mixed for the format with dedicated vocal track. Although it's possible to isolate vocals some of the time f
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by colmmacc 4y ago
The real point being made here is that a 'real company' can generate value in the form goods or services, which hopefully makes the out pipe bigger than the in pipe. This could be true of crypto; maybe the voting system in a DAO,
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by colmmacc 4y ago
This reminded me that a long time ago I used S3 website's error handling feature so that S3 could render simple markdown files as HTML natively: http://composedit.net/ http://composedit.net/dickens is
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by colmmacc 4y ago
The relevant commits and pull requests are confidential and per OpenSSL's normal operating procedures are only available on an embargoed private fork to embargo participants.
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by colmmacc 4y ago
IMDSv2 lead here! Overall the IMDS is a pretty massive security win ... it means that software and scripts can use short-lived ephemeral credentials that are tied to an instance role very easily. That rules out the kinds of credential leaka
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by colmmacc 4y ago
There was almost three and a half hours between the first signs (2PM) of collapse and the final total collapse (5:20PM). It began with bulges and inward collapse on upper floors and then the fire service evacuating and abandoning the buildi
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by colmmacc 4y ago
AWS and Amazon is not for everyone, and that's not quite about us being 'elite' or the 'we only hire the top X%' (though statements like that are probably true too). It's more that the first part of "Work
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by colmmacc 4y ago
I'm proud to have worked at Amazon over 14 years so I guess I don't agree about the toxic part. At this point I'd be pretty surprised if we ever forced employees back to the office. Amazon has always had very autonomous cultu
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by colmmacc 4y ago
AWS VMs mostly use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor (on x86 and ARM), which has a smaller surface area than Xen and also further isolates itself from the guest using hyper-virtualization extensions. With the Nitro system, the network and storage vi
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by colmmacc 4y ago
Full title - "DUELING OVER DUAL_EC_DRBG: THE CONSEQUENCES OF CORRUPTING A CRYPTOGRAPHIC STANDARDIZATION PROCESS" - an interesting article from the Harvard National Security Journal.
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HNSJ: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process [pdf](harvardnsj.org)
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Tim Cook emphasizes personal privacy in every interview I've seen with him, and he seems genuinely affected and passionate about it. He's also backed tough fights with the FBI and DoJ. I don't mean to reduce a gay person to t
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by colmmacc 4y ago
You're most likely right about what Dunkin' Donuts know. I'm less confident about what Apple themselves know. Apple have people talented enough that they can build a privacy-preserving back-end too so that their operators and
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by colmmacc 4y ago
Having a gay CEO in times of re-emerging bigotry and homophobic oppression probably does help make Apple genuinely committed to some privacy for its own sake, and its revenue model does give it more latitude to serve the needs of customers.
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by colmmacc 4y ago
Matt recently wrote a tweet thread about this paper and his history with a University Locksmith ... https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1553244850304290817
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by colmmacc 4y ago
Usually those libraries seed from a FIPS-validated hardware entropy source. AES-NI is a common one, it's validated on some chips, but other hardware vendors have others (we have a hardware RNG in the AWS Nitro System for example). FIPS
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by colmmacc 4y ago
This change makes me sad, not because it isn't brilliant work - it is - but because this kind of brilliant work is unlikely to move the needle in the real-world. I can't use this RNG because it isn't FIPS validated. I can&#x2
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by colmmacc 4y ago
So far this font has failed to censor a single horrifically racist or homophobic slur that I've tried, and these words are much more universally taboo in every culture. It makes me nervous even just to type them in as an experiment a
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by colmmacc 4y ago
As a gigging musician I've found that pedals aren't without their own UI/UX problems. Nearly every pedal has a gain control ... but they can interact in non-linear ways. Tiny changes make a bigger difference when the overall-
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by colmmacc 4y ago
That might be true of politics and cable news, but I think active listening and being able to succinctly restate someone else's line of reasoning, position, feelings, or argument is incredibly useful in normal life. I find myself doing
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by colmmacc 4y ago
I've lived here in the US for 12 years and recently became a US Citizen. Coming from Ireland, to me the US is quite far from a functioning democracy. The democratic will of the people is not reflected in the make-up of congress, the co
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by colmmacc 4y ago
I know nothing about this project and probably shouldn't comment but from previous logistics projects I've worked on I've learned that maintenance costs from wear and tear all seem to increase non-linearly with mechanical spe
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by colmmacc 4y ago
Oh man, I really can't resist adding to the record a bit here. The author of the article - Marc Brooker - has worked (and led!) on formal methods at AWS and DynamoDB much more than James. The paper James linked to in his post was autho
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by colmmacc 4y ago
How do you find the Skytrain in Vancouver? As an occasional visitor I've found it reliable and friendly, but it is also a fully-isolated track (right?). I'm not sure how well current automation would cope with the semi-open train
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by colmmacc 5y ago
Not linked from the article for some reason is a great, and very readable, paper "The U.S. Experience with the Phasedown of Lead in Gasoline" https://web.mit.edu/ckolstad/www/Newell.pdf . I found it a fa
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by colmmacc 5y ago
Serious question, how did you weigh up taking the "SSL" out of the book title?
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by colmmacc 5y ago
One of my original goals from the very beginning of s2n was to move decisions like which protocols to support, which ciphers to prioritize and so on out of the hands of system administrators and compliance auditors and into the hands of exp

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