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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Yes I'm aware. An inside job against mastodon would be harder. A few people may be able to deliberately insert malicious code but that goes for any open source project.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
A large company is guaranteed to have been analyzed very carefully by skilled analysts. If you have a small sum to invest, a big risk appetite and you are willing to do your homework then you are better off trying your luck with understudie
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
If mastodon had a security hole they could all be owned at the same time. Fediverse servers on different software would be unaffected unless the hole is in a library used by both.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Google was willing to pay the most. This means it was more confident than anyone else of being able to scale the products.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
The higher performance is not free. Fear makes you accept a higher risk of injury.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
The nyquist limit is based on recovering a general signal. If you have a-priori knowledge about the signal you can do much better.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Are vacation apartments included? And if they are not how can officials know whether someone visits a few weeks a year? Or will this target company owned apt complexes?
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
That reminds me of the one annoyance of the very cool Softice debugger. The clock would stop while active.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
It's like the halting problem. It's hard to decide whether a given switch works in the general case. But it's possible to design an obviously correct breaker. Edit: the gnarly thing might be ensuring it doesn't harvest p
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
It's not only about the mathematical factor. It's about which usecases are possible.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
If you let the number of objects to sort go to infinity while keeping size of objects in bits capped, then they will behave like integers.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
I'm ok with tying some conversations to phone #. Others, not so much
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Abstinence only is an interesting meme. It's successful as a meme precisely because the advice does not work.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
I think the mockup emphasises the original tweet too much and the apology too little. Suggestion: put the apology first. Use black color for apology, faint gray for original.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
If any of these projects should pose a risk to Microsoft it will be able to pull the rug from under them. Code hosting gone, sponsor income gone, forums gone, bug tracking gone. At the same time. They will have to take care to always respec
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Checking divisibility by a known constant can be done in a better way than doing a division. https://lemire.me/blog/2019/02/08/faster-remainders-when-the...
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Music is definitely an acquired taste. My family was not very good at nor into music. I didn't understand the point of instrumental music until my mid teens. Before that I only listened for the lyrics. On a different note, people often
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Consider this from the perspective of the user's intention. This is the exact behavior I would want if I installed Edge. Saying this as someone who mainly uses firefox and occasionally brave.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Does getting beat for recording actually happen though?
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Modern processors still know how to run 16 bit code.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
What we all want to hear is that they blasted some poor animals with radiation their whole lives and nothing happened. And that they exposed people for a few years to no ill effects. You know kinda like they do for new medicines.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
When people talked about blameless post mortems I never fully believed them. I did however never fear ending up on death row.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
The article literally says not to do this.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Debt is how much (negative) money you have. Net worth also takes non-monetary assets into account. If you take out a loan to buy a house your debt increases but your net worth is constant.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
There was some report quite a while ago from Singapore that they saw deletion variants with lower potency iirc.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
There will be some information loss from edge effects and quantization noise. But mostly invertible.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
You may be in a position where using a verbose framework or libraries save you way more effort than the small pain they bring.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
Standups always bored the shit out of me because a huge fraction of time is spent listening to irrelevant stuff. I wonder if speed dating might be more stimulating.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
I bet it has a higher abandon rate than a webform. But that may be desirable I guess.
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by im3w1l-alt 6y ago
> I think the regulatory equivalent of TCP/IP is probably some form federalism. There are many regional examples of this, to varying degrees. You want the minimum set of laws to provide the conditions for local human flourishing eve

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