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by debatem1 9y ago
If you consider homosexuality a sin (worth saying: I don't) and determinism is at play, the risk is that you go full Zvingli. That would be very unusual today, so it seems worth asking about.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Out of curiosity, why not select life? Everybody sins-- why not accept that maybe this sin is more likely and love the children that might be born to you?
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by debatem1 9y ago
FWIW, I worked there and used this stuff. I think my interview was a good but incomplete window into what I would need to know to do the job.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Yes. Poorly written drivers are a major piece of attack surface for Linux devices.
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by debatem1 9y ago
I don't think you intended it this way, but the analogy of a tornado going through a junkyard and building Watson is very apt for the emergence of any intelligence. Any individual path or outcome is itself fantastically unlikely, and
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by debatem1 9y ago
There is literally no reason to believe that developing chemistry is impossible underwater. Interesting and useful chemical reactions happen underwater every second of every day; it is irrational to assume that there is no path by which an
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by debatem1 9y ago
You're making three specific claims and have provided zero evidence: that it is impossible to develop fire underwater, that it is impossible to develop chemistry underwater, and that it is impossible to build a technological civilizati
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by debatem1 9y ago
Why are you confident that underwater technical civilization isn't possible? It would seem to me that techniques like hydraulics would emerge quickly, and large pressure and temperature differentials over small distances are considerab
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by debatem1 9y ago
From the article: "Their amount of concentrated authority resembles the divine right of kings" Call me when Apple starts exercising prima noctis. I'm pretty sure Google can't wage war, either, and if Oracle could hang yo
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by debatem1 9y ago
You know, it's a real bad plan to pull a con that you can't stop from working on you. Someday, everybody lucky enough gets old...
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by debatem1 9y ago
From the article: "It’s common knowledge in psychometric circles that reading comprehension tests are statistically equivalent to IQ tests" I'm not sure why the author throws this out there, then ignores it. English proficien
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by debatem1 9y ago
While you're not wrong, it wouldn't require throwing out 8-bit MCU support to bring CAN into this century. In particular, replacing the CAN CRC with a short auth tag would not be beyond the capability of many small MCUs at low spe
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by debatem1 9y ago
CAN should have authentication built in. That's the root of the problem, and without fixing it everything else becomes hard.
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by debatem1 9y ago
2017: the year when "I don't support Nazis" became a controversial political statement in the United States of America.
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by debatem1 9y ago
"nowadays, we have the technology and the research to replace humans by AI for making judgement calls, no matter how difficult it is" "if we are able to build a system to play Dota, we are also able to build AIs for anything
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by debatem1 9y ago
I dunno, there's pretty strong evidence that one out of the three here is, in fact, habitable.
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by debatem1 9y ago
A system that will live for 12 trillion years. A home to seven Earth-sized worlds, rocky planets inside the Goldilocks zone. A hope, at least, for an atmosphere. What a universe!
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by debatem1 9y ago
Not going into the merits of any particular point of view, but it's amazing to me how few people talking about identity or diversity work to ensure that their arguments aren't perceived as naked self-interest. In most areas of pol
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by debatem1 9y ago
Why not use plastic?
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by debatem1 9y ago
I'm not sure why not. Some of the same groups that sign this code also do formal verification of other codebases, for instance FSBLs. It seems reasonable that they would try similar approaches on TZ code given the scarcity of fuses.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Although I was prepared to be impressed by project zero's work here I find that I'm not. There's an efuse based revocation mechanism. It isn't used for every vulnerability. That's unfortunate but understandable-- fu
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by debatem1 9y ago
I suspect you're right, but it makes me sad. I really like verilog as a language and after working with it for a few years wish it was possible to program desktops in a similar way.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Why is this being called a backdoor? Is there any indication that that's what it is? Except for the headline, the only claim even remotely as serious made in the article is that it can root some devices, and figuring out which ones is
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by debatem1 9y ago
This is exactly my question. We know that many painkillers work on the pain caused by heartbreak, for example. Does this effect have a similar root cause? If so, it would be reasonable to conclude that many painkillers would cause this as w
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by debatem1 9y ago
Herp, forgot duplicates. Sizing the entry correctly (logN) solves the issue and makes SIMD more compelling unless logN is << word size (or dupes are forbidden). Which is actually an interesting case: what if the number of values is re
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by debatem1 9y ago
For u32, the easy solution is to mmap enough space to hold a bitvector (4 billion/8b) then let sparse files do the rest for large (>32k entries) gaps. You'd then sum in wordlength blocks at k offset and popcnt. I'd be surp
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by debatem1 9y ago
...and as a result a hefty fine under an unrelated law should be levied? Europe is and should be a place where laws are more than just tools with which to punish disfavored parties. If the double Irish should be illegal, then make it so, an
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by debatem1 9y ago
I've given up on yubikey at this point. I love the form factor, but it was easier in the end to build a different second factor infrastructure than it was to deal with the company. I've been toying with the idea of building an ope
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by debatem1 9y ago
I'm not sure we're saying the same thing. I'm saying that it is not true that it can only touch three (or four, or any less-than-infinite number of circles). I think you're saying that only three of them are necessary to
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by debatem1 9y ago
It's communication. If you communicate what you want and not what you don't, it's successful by definition. The point made above is that sarcasm can be a way of communicating what you want (eg, "you're late") w

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