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by j1vms 8y ago
In Soviet Russia, "Once people not in you anymore, danger love you."
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by j1vms 9y ago
As long as the US continues winning the economic/political game it doesn't matter what country builds X weapon that (perhaps) the US doesn't have (yet). It doesn't really make sense for China/Russia to try and comp
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by j1vms 9y ago
> They claim most people stop going to the movies after the first couple of months. Which of course hurts the ads/analytics side of their business. Not going to any movies means little or no data generation.
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by j1vms 9y ago
You are right on some level, but there may be exceptions to the rule. Keep in mind that Google may never have grown beyond its first years without Linux (and Linus guiding it). There was no other economically viable option with developmen
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by j1vms 9y ago
Anyone know whether there will be any repercussions for continuing to keep the flawed chips on the market, and for that matter continuing to sell these as of today. I'm not talking about recalls of purchased product, just that Intel ch
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by j1vms 9y ago
Maybe off-topic: Is formal verification viable anywhere in CPU logic design? Also, could any existing "CPU static analyzers" have caught the issue that caused Meltdown? Edit: It looks like the answer to the first is a definite ye
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by j1vms 9y ago
> They don't for macOS. And the iOS one is invite-only. Which may, unfortunately, speak to what management thinks about the security/quality of the macOS codebase. I wouldn't be surprised the recent and upcoming exploits l
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by j1vms 9y ago
> and then launch their own if desired version. If that's what happens in the worst case, then that would be a significant change in the business model of theaters/theater chains - and by extension, the movie industry. And th
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by j1vms 9y ago
> Proof of individuality still would allow people of power to use an army of identity soldiers (...) Which would point toward some form of Proof of (Human Free Will + Random Selection) being the "ideal" mining scheme (at least
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Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (2014)(studioforcreativeinquiry.org)
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by j1vms 9y ago
"Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy." -- Richard Feyn
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by j1vms 9y ago
> Will quantum computing kill Bitcoin by rendering the underlying cryptography obsolete? No, as even if the current underlying crypto falls (for whatever reason), the ledger up to that point could very likely endure in a new form. Outsid
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by j1vms 9y ago
Unfortunately I have nothing yet to add to your discussion with parent, but I was wondering if the two of you might peek at the following paper, and let me know if and where it fits into the picture: [1] Jose Luis Rosales, Vicente Martin, &
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by j1vms 9y ago
> Wasn't the main point of WASM that it is faster to parse than JavaScript? That is only one of the advantages of WASM. The major advantage is that seen by CPU-bound code sections where WASM can be efficiently executed at "nea
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by j1vms 9y ago
> (...) the direct challenge to the discourse of “free software” that Torvalds himself had never been interested in mounting. (...) “Free software because it works better” easily trumped “Free software because all software should be free
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by j1vms 9y ago
> use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism... And therein lies the sad reality for us all. Given how brilliant Russians truly are, had they directed their tremendous cultural we
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by j1vms 9y ago
What some may fail to see is that the Web's success in the smartphone/mobile era is not yet secure. Both Facebook and Apple, among others, have vested interest in treating the Web as competitive threat. I believe AMP was Googl
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by j1vms 9y ago
> Google using their search monopoly to create a distribution monopoly is also extremely worrying. Google is using any means possible to keep the web (html, js, css) relevant in the age of native apps (that includes Facebook app running
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by j1vms 10y ago
Which means someone else is getting fired. First rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club.
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by j1vms 10y ago
Almost before anyone cites supply/demand: > the company (said) two salt and plow trucks were working on the southbound Express Lanes on I-495 and I-95, causing traffic to slow and increasing the toll on those lanes. So no one was go
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by j1vms 10y ago
The article brings up a lot of great points. Though people do need to be mindful lest they be writing a follow-up, "Why my project got forked, and I now sidelined."
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by j1vms 10y ago
> If only these mythical experienced developers that never shoot themselves in the foot actually existed. Rust is a great language, but people have to stop "marketing" it by saying things like: no matter how great you are with
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by j1vms 10y ago
> As a friend put it more eloquently, Fuck 2016. I think "most" anyone who lived through the years 1914-1918 or 1939-1945 (and was >= 4 years old at the time) would beg to differ. The world was literally tearing itself to s
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by j1vms 10y ago
> HandBrake used this part of RAM and could not cope with false data read from RAM Which in itself alludes to the encoding stream itself (or one of the intermediate streams during the encoding process) having some form of strong channel
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by j1vms 10y ago
> locking up entire condo buildings with "exclusive provider" access by wiring the building at construction.. These days, that sort of thing has got to affect sale/resale value to a small, but still noticeable extent. If
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Primer (film) (2004)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by j1vms 10y ago
> (...) it would take many times more compute resources than the Earth has for longer than the Earth will likely exist to break. Claims like these are often misleading as they assume that i) malicious parties' capabilities, ii) what
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by j1vms 10y ago
Pearson and Sully would certainly share some interesting words, were they to ever meet.
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by j1vms 10y ago
Ya, those Canadians glider pilots, always finding some way to make full use of their skills. ;)
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Finite Simple Group (of Order Two) (2006)(youtube.com)
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