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by gizmo 2y ago
Most server software today intermingles data that should be strictly isolated because it's convenient . I don't buy your arguments about efficiency either, because despite having no data isolation web software is still comically
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by gizmo 2y ago
Who cares if my password app has memory corruption? There are no negative consequences. Worst case I have to re-download my password database file.
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by gizmo 2y ago
This seems cool, but I think many people have been burned by smart speakers of various types. If your system does Spotify and Pandora and such then it's going to have a phone app and then if the phone app enshittifies the entire invest
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by gizmo 2y ago
What matters is that a random app cannot access sensitive data like your passwords, sessions, email. On iOS you can run anything from the app store and it's fine. On Windows any .exe you run can cause havoc.
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by gizmo 2y ago
1. The point is you don't need root when the unprivileged process already has access to all data. There is nothing more to be gained. 2. Good luck breaking out of your AWS instance into the hypervisor.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Databases also have access controls! Which developers don't use. If you have 10.000 tenants on the same server you can simply have 10.000 database users. And that simple precaution will provide nearly perfect protection against cross-t
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by gizmo 2y ago
The memory protection strategies this paper argues for are fine. If we can recompile legacy software to gain better protection against stack and heap exploits that's a clear win. As the paper points out memory safety is not a great con
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by gizmo 2y ago
No, Moore's law is the number of transistors on a chip doubling every 2 years. Quantity not cost.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Intel made 3.7 GHz CPUs 20 years ago. Modern CPUs run at the same frequency. So was Moore's law dead 20 years ago? Clearly not. Right now Nvidia's focus is on making bigger silicon with faster interconnects. But pretty soon that w
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by gizmo 2y ago
pg doesn't want to be known for his wealth or business acumen. He wants to be known as a serious thinker. He wants to write essays that stand the test of time. Just like he wanted to create the "100 year programming language&quo
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by gizmo 2y ago
S3 is designed for 99.999999999% durability. Hetzner's Volume storage is just replication between 3 different physical servers. In terms of durability that's a universe apart.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Meanwhile frauds like Trevor Milton get pardoned. Milton donated 1.5 million to the Trump campaign and his lawyer is the brother of the Attorney General, which I'm sure was not a coincidence. Milton was on Team Trump. I don't care
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by gizmo 2y ago
Sonnet 3.5 is better at respecting your code than 3.7.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Notice that it's the parent who made the binary and totally false claim that "The only reason the Chinese solar industry exists is because of brain drain".
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by gizmo 2y ago
China produces more scientific papers than the US or EU. China produces 30% of papers published in the world's top journals. China also produces more top tier scientific papers (1% most cited) than the US. A decade ago the west was cle
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by gizmo 2y ago
Free speech must include unpopular and even grotesque speech. That's not moving the goal post that's the entire point. It's no coincidence that the laws used to punish people for speech are exceptionally vague. There is no cl
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by gizmo 2y ago
Do you actually believe Chinese researchers are incapable of figuring out photovoltaics by themselves? China has first-rate universities and thousands of PhDs in every field imaginable. They can make solar cells without our help. Having acc
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by gizmo 2y ago
> [media posts] reinforce the "negatively abbreviated representation" and fuels an atmosphere of fear and rejection. In explaining the verdict, Halbfas also made it clear: "Those who attack human dignity cannot invoke free
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by gizmo 2y ago
Germany is indeed like the UK in that it also does not believe in basic free speech protections. These anti-speech laws don't produce much domestic outrage because the people of Europe just like their politicians don't believe fre
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by gizmo 2y ago
I don't think the CCP views Taiwan as more successful than mainland China. The CCP position is that Taiwan is already part of China and by that logic Taiwanese success is automatically Chinese success. I agree that cultural revanchism
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by gizmo 2y ago
Putin was popular in Russia in 2022 and his domestic enemies were weak. Putin didn't need a war to hold on to power. Wars are sometimes fought to distract from domestic problems, but that wasn't the case here. Putin has argued for
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by gizmo 2y ago
This is basically the George Bush argument "they hate us because of our freedom". Totally absurd.
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by gizmo 2y ago
> and making a whole new web browser from the ground up is effectively impossible because the browsers vendors have weaponized web standards complexity against any newcomers I would argue the exact opposite. Web standards have steadily i
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by gizmo 2y ago
Municipalities obstinately refuse reasonable requests because they resent that the Freedom of Information Act allows regular civilians to get all up in their business. The excuses they make for noncompliance (it's burdensome! it violat
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by gizmo 2y ago
The state that changes is the location in the search space, in this analogy.
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by gizmo 2y ago
> "move fast and break things" versus "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE." An alternative analogy is "binary search" versus "linear search". With linear search you don't risk overshooting your target,
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by gizmo 2y ago
Bizarre how you shoehorned a complaint about immigration into this. How are migrants responsible for choices made by blinkered and conservative Mittelstand owners? It's easy to blame outsiders -- migrants, Chinese, Americans, Russians
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by gizmo 2y ago
> However, if you’ve ever used a product marked “Made in Germany,” you’ll understand what German culture truly values: mastery of a craft and uncompromising quality. You won’t find many Germans willing to sacrifice their health or person
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by gizmo 2y ago
A decade ago the vast majority of YC founders came from middle-class or upper-middle families. Maybe it's different today, but I doubt it. The people who got rich through YC would otherwise have lived unremarkable lives working for App
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by gizmo 2y ago
> 250k investment from his parents that sure helped I looked it up: 250k in 1995 is about 520k today.

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