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by daeken 7y ago
I just got back from my first cruise, a 6-day on the Disney Dream. I couldn't help but keep thinking about how astounding the Titanic was at the time, and how tiny it is in comparison to the ship I was on. It was a genuinely incredible
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by daeken 7y ago
The `Lightness' subproject under LumberSharp does (among many other things) this: https://github.com/daeken/LumberSharp I built this out to translate 3d models or signed distance fields to SVGs for pen plotting pu
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by daeken 7y ago
I'm super concerned about this. I head up hacker education at HackerOne and the biggest part of that is Hacker101, which hosts all its videos on YouTube. I have the master files and could host them elsewhere, of course, but there&#x2
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by daeken 7y ago
I'm still bothered by this case. While I don't think that PepsiCo should've been forced to buy and then sell (for points) a Harrier jet, the fact that there were no consequences for the ad just kind of baffles me. If you loo
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by daeken 7y ago
It actually doesn't prefix all symbol names as such! The underscore prefix indicates the cdecl calling convention specifically; other calling conventions have their own name mangling schemes. Edit: I had a nagging feeling that I was fo
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by daeken 7y ago
> I don't think asking for serious, regular, transparent, independant audit for decades is a bad thing. You're right! It's a great thing, in fact. That's why there are over 3000 studies on GMO crops so far, with hundr
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by daeken 7y ago
Seed irradiation hasn't yet been in use for 100 years -- the first commercial crop to use it was ~80 years ago -- but we consider it safe, despite that it consists of forcing completely random changes to occur. Why? Because we don&#x27
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by daeken 7y ago
How do you figure it's self-safe? That implies that selectively bred crops can't be harmful, but that's nonsensical. Many selectively bred crops carry higher than natural carcinogen quantities, for instance (potatoes). And th
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by daeken 7y ago
Literally everything you're talking about applies to selective breeding of crops as much as it does transgenic crops (what people typically mean by GMO). It applies even more so to irradiated seeds, which - strangely - no one seems to
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by daeken 7y ago
> So if you're claiming that cryonics has "a snowball's chance in hell" of working, then I presume that either you are (1) ignorant of the science, or (2) making some sort of statement about long-term storage prospect
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by daeken 7y ago
No one is claiming it's a personality trait, though that absolutely could be a part of it. More likely, it's because police officers can act with impunity in pretty much every scenario. Add in a high-pressure job, and you'v
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by daeken 7y ago
Err no, no it's not. It's that there's been a ton more attention there. We're no more or less safe than we were before, we simply didn't know about the bugs that were there. (FYI, I've been a security researc
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by daeken 7y ago
Before Spectre and Meltdown were disclosed publicly, very very few security researchers were looking at the CPU level, beyond things like attacks against hardware virtualization functionality, TrustZone and friends, ME, etc. Those bugs had
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by daeken 7y ago
Pandora's box was opened with the public disclosure of Spectre and Meltdown. Security researchers will continue to find new and better ways of attacking the security boundaries in processors, and there's unlikely to be an end to t
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by daeken 7y ago
It does, yeah. They don't distribute pre-built linux packages, but most distros do.
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by daeken 7y ago
That, to me, is a pretty solid argument in support of the parent -- that deregulating medical devices will strongly benefit the scammers you mentioned, rather than benefiting patients desperate for something to help.
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by daeken 7y ago
I really, really want to see a live band or orchestra play a set of AI-composed pieces, none of which were filtered or manipulated by humans. Just generate MIDI, spit out sheet music (hopefully written well enough that it can be sight-read
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by daeken 7y ago
This is a tangent, but if you haven't listened to Lonely Avenue, the album that Ben Folds and Nick Hornby did together ... Do that. Ever since I heard it, I can't see his name without the lyrics popping into my head: "Some gu
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by daeken 7y ago
I genuinely can't imagine an outcome where these don't become commonplace. Not going to predict that they're going to replace beef or anything, but it won't be weird to get a meat substitute burger from Wendy's or t
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by daeken 7y ago
As a meat eater, I've had mixed results with Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger. With real meat, it's pretty hard to mess up a burger; if it's anywhere from medium rare to medium well, it's still going to be a pret
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by daeken 7y ago
At this point, I flat-out tell recruiters what I'm looking for and ask if they're going to be able to offer something in that ballpark before we proceed to an interview. I let them know that it'll be a hard no if it's be
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by daeken 7y ago
I don't have the spare cycles to test this out for myself right now, but I'm curious if a 64kb table would be substantially faster. You'd cut it down from 8 indirections, 3 shifts, and 3 ORs to 4 indirections, 1 shift, and 1
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by daeken 8y ago
Is there a way to see what else is accessible from the Chinese iTunes store? I'm curious if "Hypnotize" by System of a Down is accessible; the first line is "Why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen Square?"
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by daeken 8y ago
I created a system to convert Windows binaries to native Linux/OS X binaries and wrote my own implementation of a ton of Win32 APIs. Never did get Oblivion running, but did run several other games, most notably Prey. Eventually pivot
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by daeken 8y ago
> It's rare to see a real impassioned defense of gaming outside of "it's not that bad" but I'd like to go out and say it had a hugely positive impact on my life and I think it's really doubtful I'd be w
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by daeken 8y ago
I rewatch it about once a year, and it's amazing to me how well it's held up. Honestly, it's just a really well-made film from every angle; not perfect, but very solid. The sequels don't hold up as well, graphically-spea
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by daeken 8y ago
That's not what serverless means. It means that your code isn't running on a specific server, and between requests it isn't in any kind of running state whatsoever. It's effectively in cold storage until it's needed
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by daeken 8y ago
> not to mention are under heavy stress from the ever-increasing levels of noise pollution from e.g. fracking, oil exploration, shipping Wow, is this really a thing? Got any links on the subject? I wouldn't have thought that they co
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by daeken 8y ago
Gender is not a biological concept, period; that's sex. Your body is also distinctly not "one or the other", given that a large portion of the world is born with one of several intersex conditions.
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by daeken 8y ago
I genuinely had no idea that you could produce bare object files with ilc. This is so exciting to me, as compiler work has ended up being the majority of the work that goes into pure-managed OSes. Guess I know what I'm going to do whe

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