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by drivebycomment 7y ago
One of the reasons I really like Challenger Launch Decision is because it does a very good job of avoiding the hindsight bias as much as possible, by getting the readers to understand the perspective and the cultural norm of the organizatio
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by drivebycomment 7y ago
That's a really good summary / perspective. The more I read the Challenger Launch Decision, the more I was convinced that mistakes like the Challenger are unavoidable. We can try to reduce the risk, but given that we're alway
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by drivebycomment 7y ago
> Worse, the security policies seemed to be fundamentally flawed, because they kept insisting on some form of authentication based on a trusted device when the purpose of the transaction was to notify them that the trusted device had bee
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by drivebycomment 7y ago
Just before the part you quoted has this: "Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.g
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by drivebycomment 7y ago
It's always so much easier to criticize (as nothing is perfect) than actually come up with a better solution in real life. So anything where there's no perfect solution, people will endlessly criticize online, even though they the
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by drivebycomment 7y ago
For non-assisted GPS, the GPS device needs to download orbital information from the satellite directly when first powered on - with only ~50 bits/s of bandwidth, it can take a while - minutes to tens of minutes. With Assisted GPS, the
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
Google claims they don't track with fonts: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... Whether you believe them or not is up to you of course.
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
https://9to5google.com/2019/04/08/google-duplex-expansion-pi... says it's been live and expanding.
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
A unique random password doesn't matter much, as a lot of hijackers use password obtained using malware or phishing. Practically no account is hijacked through brute-force attack nowadays - in most cases it's impossible, and even
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
I don't mean that the nursing period is so much a differentiating factor for the outcome, but rather that if the parents chose to breastfeed, that is one and about the only biologically differentiated role between a mother and a father
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
I don't think there's enough evidence to suggest that stay-at-home dad would result in worse outcome of children. So, it would be fair to criticize men if men aren't sharing the burden of raising the children 50/50 (afte
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
I just tried googling pipeextender, tried it on both google.dk and google.com, and the results look reasonable to me - the first row is their sponsored, but that's actually a list of pipe extenders so still useful. Then the organic res
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
Information security is inherently asymmetric in offense vs defense: Offense needs only one hole, whereas defense needs to plug all, including human behaviors. When the offensive side finds a new attack, they can often try and see which of
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
> Perfect example of how companies only want free markets when it benefits them. There are many cases where corporations show hypocritical behavior, but this criticism seems off the mark as the companies actually do want free market in t
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
You're comparing a merchant system with a criminal justice system. Obviously the cost or the downside of false positive is very different between those two, as well as the cost of making the judgement itself, given the difference in sc
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
You're perfectly entitled to your own opinion of why you think it's terrible and why it will fail and is useless, etc (and I would agree with some of your points). But I just don't understand: > Just because some company w
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
It's not a bug. Google doesn't allow similar looking emails to exist at the same time for gmail.com for security reasons. e.g. johnsmith@gmail.com and j0hnsm1th@gmail.com aren't allowed to exist at the same time. If one was c
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
https://youtu.be/hJtrZrPCUuY is a full episode on U2 from Smithsonian channel and has lots more details.
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John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM Turing Award Lecture(youtube.com)
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
https://www.bustle.com/profile/kaitlyn-cawley-1912533 "She has a bachelor's and a master's in comparative literature from The American University of Paris and Trinity College Dublin, respectively."
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
Thanks. Sorry about that. Removed the denunciatory part.
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by drivebycomment 8y ago
https://www.bustle.com/profile/kaitlyn-cawley-1912533 "She has a bachelor's and a master's in comparative literature from The American University of Paris and Trinity College Dublin, respectively."
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by drivebycomment 9y ago
> I expect Google is slurping all of my connections to help build an ad profile on me. Google says they don't - from https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy : > We don't correlate or
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by drivebycomment 9y ago
Jumping to the conclusion based on pure conjecture ? See their launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFxjRMv5U8 where they specifically mention how quiet it is (and the noise profile in the video indeed seems not a
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by drivebycomment 9y ago
Just giving up speculation entirely is too much of a performance penalty. So one possible solution is: when you know it was a misspeculation, processor can just kick cache lines out of cache if the speculation caused the cache line to be lo
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by drivebycomment 9y ago
Dick retired last year. But your point still stands, as Google is flush with academic and industry veterans in processor design.
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by drivebycomment 9y ago
Indeed. It's much easier to criticize a new effort. It's not that the components of the criticism itself is necessarily wrong, but the conclusion that what the new endeavor is doing is impossible is purely based on armchair quarte
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by drivebycomment 9y ago
Sun's optimizing compiler did AoS->SoA reorganization, data member inlining/ordering, and range analysis in a whole program optimization mode, even for C++(!) without any extra #pragma, when it can correctly prove no aliasing a