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by gnode 7y ago
The cold war isn't a great example. It encompasses violent proxy wars, involving plenty of ground combat (e.g. Korean War; Vietnam War).
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by gnode 7y ago
Except Dyson's expertise is electric motors and aerodynamics. This is arguably somewhat transferable to electric cars. I can believe that they designed a nice product, but it seems to me that car manufacture is very economically hostil
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by gnode 7y ago
It originates in the constraints of hardware, particularly 8 and 16-bit computers with typically 4K or 64K addressable memory. Starting with the modification of existing games, it became a challenge to push how impressive a program could be
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by gnode 7y ago
> I'll give you another video about Hong Kong protesters for a different perspective The video shows one person being frustrated that a road is blocked by protesters: "if you kill people, set fires, I don't care. But you&#
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by gnode 7y ago
Maybe this is because the Great Firewall doesn't apply in China's special administrative regions (Hong Kong; Macau), yet there are many Chinese speakers there. I'd expect this is the main audience for Chinese-language Wikiped
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by gnode 7y ago
While companies should be held to account for caving to economic pressure, and boycotting them is justified, I think it's important to recognise that this pressure exists, and for all companies, not only those yet to have an infamous P
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by gnode 7y ago
"There is" is more accurate. "There is a separate whitelist here (as link)" would probably be clearest.
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by gnode 7y ago
> Up to 60+ FPS AAA gaming Great marketing. https://www.xkcd.com/870/
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by gnode 7y ago
> never given Microsoft license to do so It's possible that they don't need it. There are fair use exemptions for reverse engineering and automated analysis. These may be the legal basis on which anti-malware research can be co
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by gnode 7y ago
Same way as in the US and many western countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
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by gnode 7y ago
> DNS and caching services mean that broadband providers do more than simply move bits from place to place. With widespread adoption of HTTPS, and now browsers pushing towards DNS over HTTPS, it could become harder for ISPs to argue they
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by gnode 7y ago
> Hell, actually require you to wear a device at all times so all conversations can be recorded. The government could similarly demand backdoors into people's private devices, so people can be listened to and their usage of the devi
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by gnode 7y ago
Very interesting. The article's "see also" references branch prediction. Given all the nascent security findings around cache security, it makes me wonder whether disfluency could be used to attack cognition, in interrogative
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by gnode 7y ago
"Doesn't sound like anything to me."
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by gnode 7y ago
I'm not sure it's strictly necessary to have the tunnel be low pressure. It's nice for the sake of less resistance, but the speed of sound is actually lower at lower pressures, and so would more readily produce a sonic boom.
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by gnode 7y ago
It can be; swap and suspend-to-disk / hibernation can cause tmpfs to be written. I wonder if there's a way to execute from mlock'd or madvised memory. I can imagine this be particularly useful, if you wanted to prevent your i
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by gnode 7y ago
In the example given "We've managed to get access to a victim at 10.131.66.89", it's implied that nefariously injecting arbitrary binaries into a locked-down host is one use case. > otherwise the API would not have be
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by gnode 7y ago
1,000km/h is within what is conventionally considered transonic (965-1235km/h). I wonder how practical these speeds are without a containing tunnel, particularly on the ground where there is potential for damage to buildings, stru
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by gnode 7y ago
Developing a new kernel or operating system in Rust is a good idea, but a massive undertaking, and it's hard to see it gaining adoption quickly. I think a more credible way to benefit from Rust in the short term is to rewrite small but
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by gnode 7y ago
I can't help but feel most of these bugs and vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel could be avoided with a more robust foundation than C. It's nice to see that Rust is starting to be tolerated in the Linux kernel for modules. It wou
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by gnode 7y ago
I wasn't suggesting that you need to run your own email or web servers. It's easy (albeit costly) to pay a service to host your email (e.g. Protonmail; Rackspace; many domain registrars), and there are countless web hosting provid
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by gnode 7y ago
Bewilderingly, many people believe in and have expectations of genuine corporate social responsibility, and view profit-incentive interpretations of public relations as cynical. Arguably, if this were not the case, much of PR as practised w
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by gnode 7y ago
This article seems to present the state of the Internet as a kind of feudalism, where one must swear fealty to an established "brand", and carving out a life as a freeman is practically unattainable. I'd say the reality is th
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by gnode 7y ago
> They intend to realize George Orwell's 1984. With advancements in technology (particularly machine learning), I'd say more like a cross between 1984 and Minority Report. E.g. https://mashable.com/2017/07&
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by gnode 7y ago
> Is there any other serious argument against encrypting DNS? In DNS over HTTPS, requests are still going to a single, potentially untrustworthy entity. Encryption by itself only offers privacy against eavesdroppers, and can give a false
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by gnode 7y ago
Perhaps more significantly: there are around 1.3 billion PC gamers out of a larger 2.5 billion video gamers globally. Around 35% of Americans are PC gamers, although the largest market region is now Asia-Pacific. Amongst people most likely
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by gnode 7y ago
From my personal experience, there is a large overlap between people who like to play PC games and people who are interested in and curious about computing technology, and would otherwise be inclined to use Linux. Although the trend appears
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by gnode 7y ago
Maybe this campaign was as primitive as they let on. It's likely that bringing down a terrorist group's marketing campaign didn't need or warrant a sophisticated attack, like sabotaging Iran's nuclear programme with Stux
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by gnode 7y ago
The raytracing is, but you don't see the result of the raytracing, you see the output of a neural network inventing detail based on higher definition training data. It's like seeing some blurry dots through a microscope, then draw
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by gnode 7y ago
Techniques used to create realism with rasterization (e.g. normal mapping; shadow mapping; screen-space anti-aliasing) are still simulations of optics, just not entirely faithful ones. Generating visuals with an autoencoder, albeit hinted b

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