halomru

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by halomru 10y ago
>If you upgraded to the latest beta, you absolved them of all liability if they never deliver the actual product. What kind of liability? I'm an early backer and I'm pretty sure I never had terms that gave me any kind of levera
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by halomru 10y ago
The seconds count 23:55 56 57 58 59 60 00:00 Counting the leap second twice is more of a quick hack used in computers, but it's not how it actually works
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by halomru 10y ago
>I'm talking of not having to dedicate an ops team to maintain your bare metal infrastructure. You can still build an architecture that works on any of the large feature rich cloud providers with minimal retooling, and that can be d
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by halomru 10y ago
>you know your cell phone carrier already has this data right? No, they don't. My carrier has coarse location data because they know which cell tower served me. Uber has much more precise GPS data. That's the difference between
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by halomru 10y ago
Valve's platform full of shovelware is due to (perceived) consumer demand, not because of size or cost reasons. Steam used to be very selective in who gets in, and people complained that a lot of small developers were left out. So Valv
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by halomru 10y ago
That just increases the verification costs: order ten chips, verify five randomly chosen ones. If all five are clean, the other five are probably also clean. Modify numbers for the desired cost/risk trade-off.
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by halomru 10y ago
The US won't extradite them, but that only helps while they stay in US ground. Their vacation choices are far more limited, and visiting Black Hat or the Chaos Communication Congress is out of the question.
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by halomru 10y ago
Sure, the FBI can legally hack anywhere in the world in the same sense that Russians can hack anywhere outside Russia: it's legal in their host country. But if a Russian hacker leaves Russia, or if a FBI hacker leaves the US, they can
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by halomru 10y ago
That doesn't have to stop them. Europe's borders are also constantly redrawn, even in the 21th century. Next to the usual independence movements and annexations there's also a number of land swaps that happen due to referendu
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by halomru 10y ago
You usually don't need scale and precision at the same time, but a lot of algorithms get a lot simpler if you don't have to worry about rounding errors that get worse with every operation. Floating point errors are hard to reaso
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by halomru 10y ago
>They are never compared for greater-than or less-than. if ip >= IP(10.34.12.3) && ip <= IP(10.34.12.9) //is one of our database servers > They are never added, subtracted, if abs(atk1.ip
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by halomru 10y ago
>Net neutrality is the principle [...] treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. Crimina
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by halomru 10y ago
>CloudFlare [...] facilitating criminals So you are against net neutrality? If they have detailed contact negotiations with known criminals, I can see how that's problematic. But as long as criminals get the same deal as everyone el
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by halomru 10y ago
A bank robbery still has about as much in common with copyright violation as with pirating actual ships. I am not threatening anyone when committing copyright violations A much more convincing argument could be made that theft and copyright
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by halomru 10y ago
Because a bank robbery is a robbery , not mere theft. In a robbery, you make a credible threat to use force against another human being. That's hopefully still worse than stealing $x.
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by halomru 10y ago
Unless terms of service start getting a lot more specific, this sounds harmful even to the gaming industry. The status quo is that the TOS of most online games just have a blanket ban on anything that modifies the game experience, but in pr
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by halomru 10y ago
>But when you get to their scale, it's hard to make big changes like this in a safe way Which only makes it more baffling that AWS still doesn't support IPv6 everywhere. IPv6 is 8 years older than AWS. AWS is a decade old. Give
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by halomru 10y ago
In principle every x86 operating system has this problem. The difference is in the expectations. If a laptop is certified for Windows 10 I expect it to run Windows 10 decently. If a laptop is Qubes OS certified, I expect it to run Qubes OS
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by halomru 10y ago
Machine learning is a better term because it's more specific (and less controversial). But under most definitions of AI, ML is a subfield of AI, so calling it AI may be suboptimal, but not wrong. Personally I'm a fan of the AI def
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by halomru 10y ago
It's not just his definition. Many AI courses will teach you pathfinding algorithms as examples of AI, along with optimisation algorithms, genetic algorithms and neutral nets. There is a valuable distinction in hard AI vs soft AI (hard
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by halomru 10y ago
>if we had a 100% sure way of detecting that someone's going to commit a crime, should we use it If it was 100% correct, it seems morally justifiable to use it, as long as you are a dictatorship. For a democracy, you would need not
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by halomru 10y ago
It's very hard to make sure that the signal extends exactly to the perimeter of the prison. If your jamming signal is weaker, some corners of the prison will have reception. If it's stronger, you are illegally blocking the signal
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by halomru 10y ago
I thought strings with ISO8601-encoded dates was the de-facto norm (i.e. "20161026T2044+0200 for this comment's timestamp). Have I been living in a bubble with the majority being less sane?
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by halomru 10y ago
The caller still holds a pointer to the element and can free it. I would argue that delegating the responsibility of freeing the element to the caller is more performant, since that allows the code to reuse that list element and insert it i
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by halomru 10y ago
In my eyes that practise would be equivalent with dual-licensing your code under GPL and the (more liberal) license of your choice. This happens with some frequency. It's a way to honor the GPL idea for the stuff you link to without ha
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by halomru 10y ago
>It would be nice if the pricing of Steam was adapted to the economic conditions of the country - but that then has problems of rich country users would probably find proxies in poor countries. This is a thing. Steam games have different
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by halomru 10y ago
Yeah, pretty much everyone agreed that the ISO standard for docx was nearly impossible to completely implement for anyone outside of Microsoft and that it should have never been accepted as a standard.
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by halomru 10y ago
It only doubles the car miles if there's nobody nearby to pick up. That would mean that most people are headed in a similar direction (e.g. all from suburbs towards city). But if all head in the same direction, the lane for return traf
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by halomru 10y ago
Getting your money later means that your you are effectively giving out a free loan to whoever is holding your money. For you that's an opportunity cost because you can't reinvest the money for some period of time. If your expense
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by halomru 10y ago
>if your cities are already gridlocked, this won't make them somehow less gridlocked I disagree. Human drivers use roads very inefficiently: they overreact, have high latency and drive overly selfish. Computers can drive cars closer

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