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by gmueckl 1y ago
The dissent on this court decision beautifully reasons why there is no practical recourse for the judicial branch to intervene after this decision. The effective power to do so is now solely with the Supreme Court. But the procedure is such
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Have you ever seen submissions to IOCCC or Underhanded C Code Contest? That is what too much syntactic flexibility looks like (if taken to the extreme). If you want your code to be secure, you need it to be correct. And in order for it to b
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by gmueckl 1y ago
The US constitution is outdated. There is a whole host of historical experience around totalitarian subversion of democratic constitutions of similar design to the US one. That experience has never been used to update the way the US works.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Many modern language designers focus on shaping expressibility rather than providing the maximum possible flexibility because their designers learned from C, Lisp and other languages that made mistakes. Examples lamguages are Java, C#, D, G
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by gmueckl 1y ago
"Memory safety" is an aspect of computer security. And security is the first listed value in rust's mission statement. Rust is not written as a pure expression based language. And as we all know very well from the experience
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by gmueckl 1y ago
If a language that claims to be security focused is easily able to express constructs that human minds find barely comprehensible, or worse, then this is itself arguably a security issue: it's impossible to check the correctness of log
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by gmueckl 1y ago
PNG is a bit unusual in that it allows a couple of alternate compressed encodings for the data that are all lossless. It is up to the encoder to choose between them (scanline by scanline, IIRC). So.this encoding algorithm leeway is implicit
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by gmueckl 1y ago
In mynunderstanding, the actual image data encoding isn't altered in this update. It only introduces an extended color space definition for the encoded data. PNG is a highly structured file format internally. It borrows design ideas fr
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I expect a lot of events to get filtered that foreign governments expect to stay reasonably secret, even if they aren't friendly with the US. It's a game. The thing that really saddens me is that the military gets to filter the da
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Ericsson had a really good implementation for German. I would write entire text messages without looking.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
This isn't strange at all, but rather an artifact of the nature of heat energy in a medium. Heat is the uncorrelated movement of particles that evens out to zero effective velocity. Temperature is the measure of the velocity magnitude
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by gmueckl 1y ago
3. (Speculation) They know how to enrich further, but deliberately didn't.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Online banking doesn't need remote attestation. Some additional locked down hardware with its own minimal display is enough. My banks force me to use devices like those made by Kobil or ReinerSCT.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
A hardware device that doesn't confirm transaction details on its own locked down display enables man in the middle attacks. I have to use such devices with my bank card when banking online.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
4. Apps with special security needs are allowed to detect whether a device is unlocked and can either disable themselves or go into a mode that shifts ALL related liability onto the user. It's not the bank's fault if the user disa
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Perforce is convoluted and confusing, but I don't think it's really fair to call it stupid. It is still virtually unmatched in a couple of areas.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
If you want performance, you actually wouldn't want it to be exactly the same, ironically. You'd want to include hardware specific optimizations where needed. And unless Java has changed dramatically, this would at least require i
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Ansys runs on CUDA. That the reality of your "non-starter".
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by gmueckl 1y ago
There is the full power of CUDA kernels, for starters. Then there's a lot of potential low level optimizations that browsers don't enable that can easily make a 2x to 10x performance difference. Also, there is no good way to give
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Security is competing with all other requirements that a product has. That's all there is to it.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
This is just blatantly wrong. There are so many native resources that any serious 3D application requires access to that are blocked by browsers that this statement just isn't true and never will be.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
But even then it doesn't matter in practice. I dare you to measure the battery life impact of this change.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Is it really worse if the GPU spends maybe 0.5ms more per frame on these effects? I'd be surprised if a good implementation adds much more to the per frame rendering time.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I think that the batching that I have in mind would work especially well with complex layouts. The thing to realize is that even if you have tons of elements on a screen, their visual components aren't actually stacked deeply in most c
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I was actually complaining about this the other day: there is no manual (or even a searchable database) of recognized commands/features. I often discover that something was possible with Google Assistant when the announcement comes tha
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I can think of a couple of creative ways to dramatically optimize rendering of these effects. There is probably quite some batching and reordering possible without affecting correctness.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
That was also my thought. How does the world behave 100 hours into the simulation? If half the town residents have managed to get themselves killed by guards and some of the shopkeepers are gone, it's a bad outcome. Complex sims have e
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by gmueckl 1y ago
There is more to serving videos well than meets the eye. Not all browsers support all codecs. Not all devices have sufficient bandwidth to stream the highest quality encoding or the available bandwidth isn't constant. Does the server h
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Well, you do realize that there are already a lot of laws covering these things, right? If you're this cynical, then you need to realize that stuff like what you describe could be legislated at any time. There's no real barrier.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I haven't seen a single widely used sandbox that has never leaked.

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