drpixie

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481.
by drpixie 5y ago
The Spectre/Meltdown issues are fundamental and "difficult" to fix - but mostly exist because we can observe state using very fine grained performance counters. Why not disable (or dumb down) the performance counters, and lea
482.
by drpixie 5y ago
So it's onward to 1970 ... (You all remember Concorde?)
483.
by drpixie 5y ago
Or rewrite most of it into small, quick C (or similar) - so it could be ported to other architectures easily. Overall size would be the major factor in speed and memory efficiency - rather than coding language.
484.
by drpixie 5y ago
The 1024b.club are jealous!
485.
by drpixie 5y ago
"Don't be evil" ... Well, why not? ... Ba ha ha ha haaaaaa.
486.
by drpixie 6y ago
Openwrt runs on lots of Ubiquiti (and other) hardware, and generally runs pretty well.
487.
by drpixie 6y ago
Lots of Ubiquiti hardware can run Openwrt open source Linux-based router software. And (at least) lots of the Ubiquiti software is based on (really old versions of) Openwrt! I've been using Openwrt for a while now, and been very happy
488.
by drpixie 6y ago
Agree entirely - Android is an appalling environment for programming, or for using a computer. It shows an almost complete lack of thought and consideration. I resorted to the "graphical language" MIT App Inventor. App Inventor mi
489.
by drpixie 6y ago
A4 paper - A screen is fine for a quick scan of papers and to filter out the dross, but actually reading a paper takes paper.
490.
by drpixie 6y ago
Recommend as simple as possible for the text, and start with pencil & paper for the diagrams. Then move no-longer-draft text into latex (for maths and formatting) and something simplish (maybe inkscape) for the diagrams. You DON'T
491.
by drpixie 6y ago
I also disagree that Google are building a better browser - better at/for what? That was always Microsoft's position ... to paraphrase ... "our stuff is the best, because the most people use it, (and democracy implies most po
492.
by drpixie 6y ago
I don't see much point in removing library packages, but I'd love to see a tidied-up and cut-down python. Keep it small, simple, and quick. Remove those "features" that provide a silly or second way to do things. Remove
493.
by drpixie 6y ago
Don't get me wrong - I like hi-res images, and bluetooth (when it works), and I'm still amazed that my phone has more grunt that a Cray. But the stuff we do day-to-day (excepting graphics) is appallingly inefficient. And most of t
494.
by drpixie 6y ago
I'd like a browser that is just a nice browser. It should fit easily into a few 10s MB and start instantly. It wouldn't waste 100s of MB on implementing dangerous/pointless/wasteful javascript APIs, like battery state or
495.
by drpixie 6y ago
Brilliant - I've long observed that almost everything we are doing with our GHz computers, we were doing previously with old MHz systems. We have more pixels (but use them for the same result), more memory (but everything has grown to
496.
by drpixie 6y ago
And the cost of bitcoin has naturally been inflating to the cost of the power needed to do the mining ... so the whole thing looks a lot like a bubble, great if you got in and out early, bad news for everyone else.
497.
by drpixie 6y ago
Systems in the cloud are always going to be less secure than local systems. With cloud you have the same issues with in-house access and data leaking, because you have the same people with access to the same data, PLUS with cloud you also h
498.
by drpixie 7y ago
Similar, so RSS is not dead, despite google's best efforts $#%%###!!
499.
Google ads look like search(boingboing.net)
7 points by drpixie 7y ago|0 comments
500.
by drpixie 7y ago
From my end, it looks like google search is very strongly prioritising paid clients and excluding references to everything else. Try a search or view from maps, it shows a world that only includes google ad purchasers. Google has become a n
501.
by drpixie 7y ago
I'll vote for the old version - fix the bugs and DON'T add new features. One app, one task.
502.
by drpixie 7y ago
Aaarrrggghhhh blockchain. The current purpose of blockchain is to be fashionable and to obtain funding from the ignorant masses. Use the appropriate technology. If you want to manage versions, version control sounds about right! If you real
503.
by drpixie 7y ago
In a very fundamental way, there is no such thing as "wealth creation", there is only wealth acquisition. Wealth is a zero-sum game. No business actually makes money (well apart from a government mint:), but they do move it from e
504.
by drpixie 7y ago
Don't like it but there is an up side - the main links now seem to point directly to the destination, instead of google's tracking servers. So you can see the real address in your browser's hint, at least until lets-be-evil p
505.
by drpixie 7y ago
Why use that tech - "But, but, but, but it's blockchain!" (I don't have a smiley for beating head against wall.) Sounds like almost all blockchain projects - doesn't solve any of their problems ... but it's blo
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Australia's anti-encryption laws being used to bypass journalist protections(theguardian.com)
4 points by drpixie 7y ago|0 comments
507.
by drpixie 7y ago
True - it's a rather undergraduate article for a PhD candidate! Nothing new or interesting, just rehashing old complaints about Popper. I find his other stuff concerning ... he shows a clear history of setting up straw men and picking
508.
by drpixie 7y ago
A system mirroring a polynomial has the same properties as a polynomial - gee whizz - that really doesn't deserve to be at the top of of hacker news!
509.
by drpixie 7y ago
Thanks - I'm completely over video, when I can read a little text at my own speed, and skim much more effectively. Video is really n inefficient, both in bytes and in my time.
510.
by drpixie 8y ago
"There’s no precedent in American history ". Plenty of precedent in the rest of the world ... In fact, you'll have to go looking to find western countries that don't have universal public healthcare.

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