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by geocar 4y ago
> Surely lack of hardware acceleration and poor implementation are incidental, not fundamental issues. Of course not. These are just some of the many many needles of crap that broke Flash. > I expect the same would have happened for F
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by geocar 4y ago
> Now, there is some convenience in having scripturally short symbols when you do your math with paper and pencil, for example posing some additions in column. But that’s all there is to it, pencil convenience. You say that like you can
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by geocar 4y ago
> What I mean by "readable" is, that it uses ASCII strings and actual names, not merely 1 character I urge you to reconsider: That they are 1-character is an extremely important feature of Iverson's work. > instead of s
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by geocar 4y ago
In português it's "quadro branco" (a white board/rectangle/frame on the wall or on a stand) and "lousa" (which refers to the material and/or its colour and texture). I think "chalkboards" an
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by geocar 4y ago
I don't know if that's right. It seems to me that this could be a critical part of a larger attack: One attack that occurs to me is to pause a client when it is looking up a DNS name, but before it has gotten the response. With th
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by geocar 4y ago
That's how I found out about this rabbit-hole: Baker references Lafont's Interaction Nets in that paper. I also really liked https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319868 -- It is great. Clear an
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by geocar 4y ago
Have you heard of Linear Lisp? https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/research/hash-cons/hash...
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by geocar 4y ago
I don't want something just because "most people" want that thing. And I disagree: I think everyone who has been harmed by another wants the ability to have their story heard by a judge and jury and be cured by the law. Maybe
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by geocar 4y ago
> Even if you swear undying fealty to Apple (or anyone else) today, you might change your mind in the future. Changing my mind is easy enough: I can export my iCloud passwords to a csv file, and I've done this to transfer a bunch of
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by geocar 4y ago
If you want them to remain the same, use symbolic links.
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by geocar 4y ago
Sort of. Improv lets you work in the pivot though, like that's the main view, and the ramifications of that are huge. - You don't have to make your sum/avg/analytic rows because Improv does that automatically. Yes, Excel
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by geocar 4y ago
> but why is it so common for people to think psychedelics are opening us up to what is ""real"" or some deeper truth, instead of assuming that the experiences are just what happens when you completely overload brain
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by geocar 4y ago
> have allowed him to move out of my parents, get a place of his own, pay down debt and buy a house > Intellectual property is how he takes care of his family. Art is how he makes money. Money is how he takes care of his family. Peopl
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by geocar 4y ago
No, but they're a useful target for Verilog, and this limitation is shared by any hardware compute/circuit (I had hoped that would be obvious from the description)
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by geocar 4y ago
> What banker got a “ski jolly” here? Well, this guy for one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/03/10/svb-fin...
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by geocar 4y ago
Yes. Forever. Yes those too. All of them. I live in a socialist European country, but I'm originally from the USA, and I wish it was better there.
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by geocar 4y ago
Look up at the stars: You can only see a few of them. These functions are like really twisted/complex lenses and mirrors you might imagine we have hoisted into view so that now the sky is completely white (to our eyes) and we can see e
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by geocar 4y ago
> Microcode is effectively just a program. Can't you just write the same program in Verilog or whatever? I think the answer is "yes" No. FPGAs are basically big fat lookup tables, some clever partitioning logic, and a bool
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by geocar 4y ago
I mean, yeah. Lots of people are starving and homeless for as trivial a "decision" as that. I'd much rather give everybody food and a home, including the Etsy seller, instead of: giving the bankers a ski jolly, people still s
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by geocar 4y ago
I think it's a critical difference that the Apple enclave has direct access to inputs (the touchid).
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by geocar 4y ago
They're not the same. The TPM chip is really just another little computer your main computer talks to over a special network; it has no access to the rest of your computer hardware, so when you type your pin or passphrase in, your co
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by geocar 4y ago
> In that case I would kind of rather they go to a megacorp vs. me needing to get a lawyer and figure out how to respond. If a crime occurred outside your home, but your home security cameras caught it, the police will discover this when
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by geocar 4y ago
> It says quite clearly, quote "If you look at most inter-process communication mechanisms, you can see that they are most often used by only two programs — usually a client and server." Two processes on a local machine, using
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by geocar 4y ago
> The article defines client as another thread or process It does no such thing. The word "client" is given once in the text, and little is said except it isn't a thread due to the fact their support is fraught with peril
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by geocar 4y ago
> This is absolutely not true. Those systems work just fine with even a million reader threads. I suppose it depends how you define a "client". If you define it as a query (or an HTTP request or something like that), then I sup
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by geocar 4y ago
> That's not to say that nothing is moving forward, but the fact that people are unhappy with a technology doesn't mean that technology is objectively inferior to a proposed replacement. Sometimes it's just fashion. I apol
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by geocar 4y ago
> * The socket API as applied to networking is empirically designed for arbitrary numbers of peers -- there are unlimited real world examples. The socket API as applied to local IPC is of course similarly capable. I think "the [BSD]
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by geocar 4y ago
> I've often wondered why 'the market' doesn't understand that if garbage men disappeared, my city would look like a hellscape in a week Maybe it's because "the market" believes you would be a garbage
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by geocar 4y ago
That's exactly what marketing is. Your customers want to get leads/traffic and convert them into sales, and you're promising you can make "marketing" that does this, so show them by creating that "marketing
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by geocar 4y ago
> How the issue you're raising has anything to do with Google? Because Google benefits from this and not me. I think you would have to be stupidly naive to believe this legislative lobby happened without their help. > Google ha

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