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by debatem1 8y ago
One thing I'd put out there: AA is great if it works for you, but it's not the only game in town and can be hard to love. If it doesn't work for you, SMART and lifering are both popular and well-validated options.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I've had this happen for pretty large companies. In one case their security team later gave a talk about bugs they'd discovered that included a diagram I'd sent in my description of an issue, which I found annoying. These day
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by debatem1 8y ago
They seem to have been pretty well known among my former co-workers so I'm not sure if there's an original paper on it or what, but things like detecting the difference between small (cached) integer creation time and the full obj
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by debatem1 8y ago
And some of the optimizations that do exist are interesting. I wonder if, post-Spectre/Meltdown, the old side channel results involving Python's integer behavior would be more widely viewed as problematic.
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by debatem1 8y ago
Not your main point but it touched on something frustrating to me. Personally I had a very hard time finding metal bands I liked until I started going to a lot of shows. Spotify etc obviously try pretty hard, and with diligent effort you ca
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by debatem1 8y ago
You seem to be hedging and I'm not sure why. Your core point is one that every good engineer should understand: not all important things can be practically measured. We've all watched metrics or standards defined with the best of
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by debatem1 8y ago
No, you could also raise taxes or cut non-discretionary spending.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I see the opinion, but the kernel developer in me thinks that perhaps it would be better for everyone if the answer to such narrow, performance focused use cases was not "let's develop an exotic kernel interface that doesn't
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by debatem1 8y ago
I'm surprised that for something this simple there isn't an easy to use approach through netmap and friends.
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by debatem1 8y ago
The last line in the comment you responded to is, and I quote: "Now I wonder whether the companies are different or the times are." I think that makes it clear that I'm at least asking the question you lead with (but do not a
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by debatem1 8y ago
Maybe I'm naive, but I used to work at Google and I'm 100% certain that back then if someone inside the company had used data in this way they would have been fired unconditionally and immediately. Now I wonder whether the compani
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by debatem1 8y ago
I've never gotten anything but a form letter from my rep either. I usually just call their office and say I have a general question about X, could you please help me find who to ask. The staff seem helpful and knowledgeable as long as
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by debatem1 8y ago
Honestly, I'm not super well connected so I'm not sure what to make of the comment that the process is opaque. For example, the PSRC is just one of the groups involved in this kind of funding but it's probably the one most at
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by debatem1 8y ago
I called around a bit and it sounds to me like Duvall basically built half its allocated growth housing for 20 years in about a year and a half and spent a ton of money on roads along the way, and now wants the PSRC to double both growth ta
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by debatem1 8y ago
I don't understand. Duvall is a separate city from Seattle. Is there some tie-in on road funding I'm not aware of?
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by debatem1 8y ago
I drove a stiffened up sports car in the area for years and the idea that Seattle has bad roads is ludicrous. The city of Seattle literally has an app where you can report potholes. I reported one on my street and it was fixed 2 days later
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by debatem1 8y ago
I get that you don't like taxes, but policy disagreement is not evidence of incompetence.
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by debatem1 8y ago
As someone who was raised in the south I find the competence of Seattle's city government absolutely amazing. It's night-and-day different from the learned helplessness of city governments elsewhere in the US.
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by debatem1 8y ago
Let's please not hypothesize exotic attack capability without evidence. It makes it difficult to get people to pay attention when we really need them to be concerned about sophisticated adversaries.
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by debatem1 8y ago
Do you have a source for this? I've done a reasonable amount of work on weaponizing these sorts of attacks and it's definitely nontrivial. I'd be shocked to find out that Facebook had successfully deployed them at scale.
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by debatem1 8y ago
This is definitely true. You do not want to be poor and male and running at night when the police come by, or poor and female and running in a truly bad neighborhood. I've spent time in the back of a police cruiser because they thought
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by debatem1 8y ago
I have a pair. You do move faster, jump higher, etc-- but that energy doesn't come out of nowhere. You're adding big weights to the ends of your legs and running, jumping, etc. It's definitely sports equipment, and it's
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by debatem1 8y ago
I think these are all good questions. They're certainly things I mulled over when considering whether to take the job. Regarding being fundamentally evil or not, I've worked around groups which were constitutionally amoral or immo
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by debatem1 8y ago
My experience has been different. I'm fairly confident I've moved the needle on security and privacy at other large companies and I don't think it's irrational to think I might do so again, given the right role.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I recently considered a role there, on a security team no less. I've never had a Facebook account and agree that the product as-is is fundamentally destructive. However, there's some value in "running towards the fire" s
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by debatem1 8y ago
Have you considered starting this up as a business? Surely there's a market for it, and the claims data alone would make you a valuable acquisition target.
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by debatem1 8y ago
At some level of approximation you can encode any higher dimensional space into a lower dimensional one. The usual approach is to use a space-filling curve, like a z-order curve or Hilbert space filling curve, then describing a point in the
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by debatem1 8y ago
Ocaml is, imo, a pretty and not utterly impractical language as well.
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by debatem1 8y ago
Rockstars and 10x engineers are both real and not terribly uncommon, but often are not the same people. For the 10xer, it usually isn't that they do 10x more work, it's that they know how to make their org do 1/10th the work
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by debatem1 8y ago
SpaceX would almost certainly do so if Russia would let them. They launched PAZ, which was a Spanish spy satellite and have launched several cargoes for governments like Qatar and Thailand. Edit: just to expand on this a bit, SpaceX is and

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