grumdan

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by grumdan 8y ago
Even if you don't inspect it personally, there's a greater community of people who don't get their paycheck from Apple who may be looking at the code. Regarding the Intel comparison, you have no choice but to trust them, but
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I'm not saying that this is what happened and I don't know the background of this story, but it would have been easy (technically speaking) to just push an update to Chinese users that will extract their private key and send it ba
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> In general, I agree with you that army should not do that. However, enemy rarely tries to help to achieve that, i.e. they are not putting markers "we are soldiers, shoot us" at their positions. So goal of typical army is to m
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by grumdan 8y ago
I didn't have a concrete moral framework in mind, but I was thinking of a few baseline rules that should hold in most sensible systems, such as not bombing hospitals (like what happened with that hospital in Syria a while ago), not kil
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by grumdan 8y ago
Helping a military that is behaving immorally and being unarmed are also not the only options. If more and more people refuse to work for the military on these grounds, this may in the long run put some pressure on them to change their beha
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by grumdan 8y ago
> Is it really so terrible to research arms for the people who risk their lives keep us safe? If this was the only thing the weapons were used for, then maybe people wouldn't be upset about this kind of stuff. The same arms will how
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by grumdan 8y ago
Cryptography deals with much more than encryption though, and also in real life often you want properties that go beyond what encryption provides (message integrity, forgery resistance, perfect forward secrecy, anonymity, ..).
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by grumdan 8y ago
I was assuming that Atom extensions were similarly powerful as in Emacs, if that's not the case, then my point is moot. I agree that restricting what plugins can do can lead to better stability and speed at the expense of extensibility
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by grumdan 8y ago
> I had the impression VSCode had the technical superior plugin system From my very limited exposure to VSCode's plugins, it seems they are a lot more limited in how they can change the editor's behavior compared to elisp code
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by grumdan 8y ago
I'm German and had the same immediate reaction as you, but as the other comments show, it's hard to tell how widespread that is.
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by grumdan 8y ago
On the other hand, life might be harder for people who don't fit in well and then don't have anywhere else to socialize; the lack of privacy and constant gossiping probably doesn't help either. I grew up in a 1000-people vill
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by grumdan 8y ago
> No, they don't. Do you really think if, before she made this purchase, someone explained to her all the things that could theoratically go wrong with this device, she would have chosen not buy it? I think this would only indicate
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by grumdan 8y ago
How harmful a security breach is depends on how much private data about users was stored though. So even though security breaches will still happen, they will cause less harm if less sensitive data is leaked as a result.
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by grumdan 8y ago
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse is also a great read, dealing with feelings of meaninglessness and how they relate to one's identity.
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by grumdan 8y ago
This is somewhat orthogonal to what window manager you are running though. Most tiling WMs (e.g. xmonad) combine nicely with xfce[1], giving you all the convenience features you mention while still not having to mess around with moving and
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by grumdan 8y ago
This is pretty subjective, but I spend a lot more time typing than using the touchpad and while the MBPs touchpad may be nicer, I think the MacBook keyboards can't hold a candle to ThinkPad keyboards. I'm happy to trade a worse to
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by grumdan 9y ago
In addition, their server-side code is open-source and they claimed that federation support is something they are considering to add: https://github.com/wireapp/wire/issues/160 Overall, I'm also not a bi
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by grumdan 9y ago
Your comment doesn't actually add anything to this conversation, so regardless of one's position on Trump vs. Hillary, the downvotes are justified. All you said was a vague commonplace sentiment that has very little to do with the
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by grumdan 9y ago
Even if we assume that we wanted to address this for real, I fear that it will be next to impossible to actually assess whether whatever mistake caused this has actually been addressed when all the technology behind it is proprietary. I can
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by grumdan 9y ago
> Let's say that halving the death rate is what we can reasonably expect from the first generation of self driving cars. What's your evidence for why this is a reasonable expectation? The fatalities compared to the amount of mi
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by grumdan 9y ago
I would say that variability in ability to concentrate might be reasonable to assume as a starting point, given how much people vary in other features as well, even if there are similar connections to how humans evolved. For example, food p
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by grumdan 9y ago
Good public transport systems provide even better benefits for points 1 (accidents involving subways are probably still going to be rarer than for self-driving cars), 2 (you don't even need fossil fuels for subways / trams), and 5
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by grumdan 9y ago
> What's the argument for night owls being better learners at night? I would say that the argument is that many people report this to be the case and there are some studies pointing to the existence of such an effect (sometimes call
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by grumdan 9y ago
Just flipping the about:config bit alone doesn't help much though. Any malicious extension installed after changing the setting would still have to have some payload with similar malicious behavior. Moreover, even if Firefox was compil
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> Because any extension or sufficiently capable malware on your system can change about:config values, meaning that if Mozilla ever makes a mistake in the extension approval process and lets a malicious extension slip through, or you get