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by gefh 8y ago
Wouldn't surprise me if this document is a victim of one of those "compressing scanners". They reuse glyphs to save bytes. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_m...
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by gefh 8y ago
Thank you! Finally some reason.
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by gefh 8y ago
This data is weirdly bucketed and the fit curve looks sketchy. I don't think it's a robust finding and I don't trust it. Doesn't seem to have stopped a lot of people confirming their anecdotes though.
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by gefh 8y ago
Impressive resilience by the airframe. Good job Boeing.
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by gefh 8y ago
Please elaborate?
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by gefh 8y ago
What a content free pile of speculation.
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by gefh 8y ago
No, surprisingly it's not much more expensive to render than Mercator.
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by gefh 8y ago
For rollouts like this, a small holdback experiment is typical, to assess long term trends. Or maybe your browser doesn't have hardware acceleration enabled? Or you could be in canvas mode? Try ?force=webgl on the end of the maps url i
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by gefh 8y ago
Yeah the flights in particular need to be updated for this projection.
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by gefh 8y ago
Correct. At high zooms, the trig required in the spherical math becomes inaccurate, so we fade back to simple web mercator.
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by gefh 8y ago
Thanks, I delayed the release to squeeze that in :)
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by gefh 8y ago
Should work in any browser with webgl. Let me know if it doesn't.
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by gefh 8y ago
Unfortunately there's no performant way to do this without webgl. Ideally we'd never show distorted maps, but Mercator is deeply embedded in a lot of code.
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by gefh 8y ago
Zoom out a fair bit, say to here: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.8984942,-93.1091234,3.41z
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Google maps is now a sphere(maps.google.com)
11 points by gefh 8y ago|6 comments
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by gefh 8y ago
UK Apple ][e's came with a switch under the keyboard to change $ to £, so Apple was not immune from this approach.
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by gefh 8y ago
Do you wonder whether he is a reliable narrator?
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by gefh 8y ago
Yeah, I can't see them overturning the 2nd amendment even though the same logic applies.
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by gefh 8y ago
Tulips and jewelry at least look pretty. And you're trusting, at least, the implementation and the underlying math. Personally the risk of recourse-less outweighs the value of trust-less.
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by gefh 8y ago
There's been content aware fill for a long time: https://youtu.be/Ge9jsJZ3lA0?t=245 It's not the same backing tech but for practical purposes it's as good.
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by gefh 8y ago
Ah, so he's trying to reduce the competition :)
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by gefh 9y ago
How many ways are there to define max? Surely AT&T should turn around and sue Oracle for lifting max(a, b) from stdlib. Or maybe SCO will rise from the grave and try it again.
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by gefh 9y ago
But if they accept the return, there is now no sales tax due to the state? Customer should get 100% back.
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by gefh 9y ago
Well, fiat currency seems cheaper than PoW, even accounting for the cost of enforcement.
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by gefh 9y ago
It's not that there aren't genetic differences - it's that there is structural racism that means drug trials don't even test safety for minorities.
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by gefh 9y ago
Great, now there's a legislative breakdown on the week that that the murder law had to be re-passed, and it's legal until Congress resumes...
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by gefh 9y ago
Well, shit.
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by gefh 9y ago
I think you need to disable branch prediction on any core that has access to sensitive memory, not just during the execution of sensitive code. It's 'untrusted' code running on the same machine that you need to worry about.
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by gefh 9y ago
I'm pretty sure he's running an unprivileged binary on his local machine, that shouldn't be able to see Firefox's memory, but can with this attack. I don't know of any js exploit - this attack relies on specific mac
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by gefh 9y ago
Seems much more complicated than just changing the comparator to compare lengths first.

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