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by gcp 10y ago
Known techniques. JPEG uses Huffman coding for entropy coding, you can replace that with arithmetic coding. This requires knowing the format details, though.
872.
by gcp 10y ago
Compare it to the Opus patent license (also including a retaliation clause), which includes grants from Broadcom, Mozilla and Microsoft. Using zstd gives Facebook a free license on ALL your patents. Using Opus gives Facebook only a license
873.
by gcp 10y ago
With multiple processes you can apply more strict OS controls to one of the processes. That doesn't work with threads.
874.
by gcp 10y ago
Not only tear up the architecture, but also accept that a major competitive advantage (the add-on ecosystem) would be for some part collateral damage in the transition.
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by gcp 10y ago
I believe Mozilla released a plan for the future of these things which it showed what they wanted to do step by step (e.g. plugins first, etc). Flash and Media Plugins (video decoders, EME/DRM) have already been sandboxed for several
876.
by gcp 10y ago
there are many things that are easier to apply to single processes as opposed to multiple (killing, affinity/priority, sandboxing/permissions Sandboxing is easier with more processes, at least if the processes are split up to ma
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by gcp 10y ago
Not possible. Normal torrent sites work fine and aren't marked, so that's weird. You do get the occasional blacklisting for ads that inject malware. Maybe you're not seeing them due to an Adblocker?
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by gcp 10y ago
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Application_Reputation https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features/Application_Reput... Local database with whitelists and blacklists, file signature inspecti
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by gcp 10y ago
Sounds very niche, so something for an add-on.
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by gcp 10y ago
as it both punishes small software authors/projects and creates confusion on new releases even for bigger projects. Do you have actual evidence of this happening? I get no warnings for my own stuff, even though I'm sure it'
881.
by gcp 10y ago
We don't know how Google's grading works, but you may be on to something. I publish several free tools and games for Windows, and they're all raw executables without any kind of code signing. Internet Explorer continuously bl
882.
by gcp 10y ago
Why don't you read the article and research the system before commenting on it? Almost every single thing you say in your post is wrong.
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by gcp 10y ago
ASLR and MAC are unrelated - I don't get your comment.
884.
by gcp 10y ago
Right, so it would actually have been hard to mess that up. The only platform where Firefox has limited ASLR is Linux, where PIE is disabled, due to issues with some desktop managers not detecting PIE executables are executable. So the defa
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by gcp 10y ago
Firefox, by contrast, “had turned off [ASLR], one of the fundamental safety features in their compilation.” Firefox has had mandatory ASLR since 2012. After more investigation, this appears to be about Mac OS X specifically (which isn&#x2
886.
by gcp 10y ago
>knowing that proprietary ones wouldn't ever get any traction. Not unless AMD had a dominant market position. CUDA dominating the ecosystem right now is a major PITA, and so is the insistence on GSync over FreeSync.
887.
by gcp 10y ago
There's also some belief Project Denver was supposed to be an x86 core and could still be turned into one.
888.
by gcp 10y ago
Current Intel iGPU, and especially AMD APUs are powerful enough to play all the most popular esports games, despite them being quite a bit more demanding than solitaire.
889.
by gcp 10y ago
Firefox defaults to Yahoo Only in the US. It's Google in most of the world.
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by gcp 10y ago
PGP/GPG traditionally did this too.
891.
by gcp 10y ago
>backpropagation wouldn't work, because small changes in the tuning parameters wouldn't do anything cough Rectified Linear Units cough
892.
by gcp 10y ago
what users overlook that every URL is checked against a database of URLs already in Google's 'safe browsing' repository ...the database of which is downloaded ahead of time and hence not transmitted to Google. Read this: h
893.
by gcp 10y ago
It's Chrome that uses a Bloom Filter. Firefox uses a compressed Prefix set, which has no false positives (unlike the Bloom filter).
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by gcp 11y ago
You simply cannot do a full evaluation to the end of the game: it's computationally infeasible. You can sample several randomly played out games. I think you knew this, and I hope you understand that sampling works, but for some reas
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by gcp 11y ago
Doesn't sound unusual for large projects with a long history that had deadlines to meet and a ton of actual users.
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by gcp 11y ago
I'm pretty sure lee sedol cannot explain his own moves either. Yes, he can rationalize why that move is a good move, but he won't be able to explain the complete reasoning process that led to that move, because it relies on intui
897.
by gcp 11y ago
Monte Carlo Go was also known and researched for a long while before the breakthrough came in 2006 (how to combine it with tree search).
898.
by gcp 11y ago
The proof of the pudding will be in the applications that come from this specific line of research. What is "this specific line of research" though? Monte Carlo simulations with tree search? This is a bit tricky because simulati
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by gcp 11y ago
MCTS does exceptionally well at Go all by itself. When coupled with something (in this case trained neural nets) that can give it better-than-random guidance in exploring the state space, it's no surprise it does even better. The tri
900.
by gcp 11y ago
It's not at all easy to say who's winning or losing at most points in the game, or if there even is a winner or a loser. You play out the game to the end. making backward-looking techniques like minimax impossible, even if you

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