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by dooglius 7y ago
Email+PGP may have some usability flaws, but it far surpasses the security of Signal against powerful adversaries, especially concerning metadata. Signal leaks your phone number which can easily be traced back to your physical location and
692.
by dooglius 7y ago
Ha, I was wondering how you managed to reverse the hash and then had a facepalm moment.
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by dooglius 7y ago
Most connections will not be peer-to-peer over Starlink, so you need to deal with the least common denominator.
694.
by dooglius 7y ago
> we don't use telemetry/spying Thank you for respecting user privacy, I'm sure the temptation to get more data is strong.
695.
by dooglius 7y ago
Did you miss a "not" there or are you saying deplatforming should be a requirement?
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by dooglius 7y ago
SGX tried to protect against hostile ring-zero code. This attempts to protect against Spectre-like things from getting the kernel to expose data via a side channel.
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by dooglius 7y ago
Context: https://libgen.is/scimag/10.1162%2F0011526042365645
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by dooglius 7y ago
I didn't read it as such. The point behind what I and the parent are saying is, the programmer is going to do much better at optimal memory layout than an optimizer can, and C allows manual control while languages which can mess with m
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by dooglius 7y ago
I definitely agree with all your criticisms of the memory semantics in C, and I would love a language that fixed these flaws, but the "ideal" low-level language is still a lot closer to C than it is to anything else. I also think
700.
by dooglius 7y ago
It's not, that's the point, the language/compiler cannot interfere with the programmer fine tuning data structures to suit the underlying architecture.
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by dooglius 7y ago
Yes, you can read it from the horse's mouth: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-Novembe...
702.
by dooglius 7y ago
I think you are assuming that significant distress will result in awareness that the distress is medically significant.
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by dooglius 7y ago
I know, that's not my point, I'm saying the barrier may be that a blind schizophrenic person may not even be aware that there's anything seriously wrong or worth bringing to a doctor's attention, so he would never get to
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by dooglius 7y ago
Or the journal editor, you definitely should. This is the kind of thing that can easily get cited in future work on the matter.
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by dooglius 7y ago
Did you mean "does not rule out misdiagnosis"? Going further than misdiagnosis, how many congenitally blind people are even tested for schizophrenia? Maybe lack of visual hallucinations make it less likely someone would get to the
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by dooglius 7y ago
Would anyone bat an eye if, say, Thunderbird had a thing saying "Still using IE? Try Firefox."
707.
by dooglius 7y ago
Apple is way worse than this, they don't even allow other browsers to exist as anything but shells of theirs!
708.
by dooglius 7y ago
VCC [0] was a project by Microsoft Research that was used to successfully prove Hyper-V correct, but unfortunately it seems to have been abandoned. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vcc
709.
by dooglius 7y ago
Doesn't seem like a viable threat model--a user can edit the .bashrc of a sudo-enabled user but isn't sudo-enabled himself?
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by dooglius 7y ago
Being "opinionated" is a step back IMHO, one of the big selling points of C is that it doesn't get in the programmer's way.
711.
by dooglius 7y ago
Only if you define it to be something dumb like an error or returning 0. It should instead be defined as the hardware behavior: a load to the resulting linearly-calculated address which enters an implementation-defined exceptional state (e.
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by dooglius 7y ago
Maybe this one did, and the recipient used a Bitfinex account
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by dooglius 7y ago
Looking at it this way also makes it easier to remember/understand function pointer syntax, as well as attributes like const and volatile when placed between asterisks.
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by dooglius 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21084748 I think the point in the comments about Mathematica et al just being more careful about the domain is pretty damning of the claim the neural net beats them.
715.
by dooglius 7y ago
> Consciousness experiences the reality in which it lives the longest. This is a huge straw-man. The claim is that it is that it takes a probability distribution that inherits from the underlying multiversal one, but weighted by your exi
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by dooglius 7y ago
Userspace libraries (which userspace programs could choose to use or not) would presumably be available.
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by dooglius 7y ago
> "null reference" here is really a shortening of "every reference in the type system is implicitly nullable" I don't think this is quite accurate, there are definitely cases where non-null pointers are required
718.
by dooglius 7y ago
I think it has more to do with the fact that farm employment is seasonal.
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by dooglius 7y ago
> and given Oracle's interface copyright suits (see Java) This seems pretty ironic, given that the whole problem is Linux developers trying to claim and enforce that only other GPL code is allowed to use its APIs (which, IMHO, goes
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by dooglius 7y ago
Yeah, that's what I was riffing off

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