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by jabot 9y ago
Good point. EDIT: I think what you're doing here is criticising A by constructing A' and arguing that it is better (by having the same consequences while being less general). That is a good way of criticising the generalization as
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by jabot 9y ago
Then again, a lot of beliefs have direct, strong and immediate consequences on your actions. So if your action is political, and you did that action because of your belief, is your belief still apolitical?
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by jabot 9y ago
First, please do not get too hung up about "all people are created equal". It's just an example in this context. > If we are in search of truth and want to build a consistent model of the world then we just can't acce
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by jabot 9y ago
In a narrow sense you are probably right. In a more general sense, consider the "laws of physics". People believe in them not because of their consequences, but because they explain reality (and quite well). So people believe in
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by jabot 9y ago
As a counter-point: People can hold beliefs because they have certain consequences. Simple example: "all people are created equal". This is a belief that is (probably) frequently held because it has assumed beneficial consequenc
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by jabot 9y ago
... They probably value their time too much.
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by jabot 9y ago
Bugfix release, containing (amongst others) mitigations for meltdown/spectre.
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by jabot 9y ago
So you're in the "it's not that bad" camp, because people are rational? Three problems with that... 1) Your sources of information are advertisers (Google and facebook) - why are they trustworthy? 2) The huge database in
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by jabot 9y ago
It seems that "fancy CPS" is exactly what he is talking about. A simple regex matcher makes for a good example IMHO.
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by jabot 9y ago
... but is it bigotry if it's based on actual lived experience? I mean, you're probably reading a bit too much into the guy's post. He's probably not talking about lynching, more likely about way smaller stuff.
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by jabot 9y ago
Thunderbird supports not accessing remote content: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remote-content-in-messa... This seems to be a sufficient countermeasure against the kind of tracking in the article.
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by jabot 9y ago
Urgh. C semantics. Well, at least that will not happen if you actually use IEEE754 _and_ if a, b, and c all have the same floating point precision _and_ there is no weird promotion/precision change going on. Now that you mention, there
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by jabot 9y ago
No, addition is still commutative (i.e. a + b == b + a) Sadly, it is not associative (i.e. (a+b)+c != a+(b+c)) Imagine a being a large number, and b and c being so small that adding each single one to a will result in a, but adding their su
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by jabot 9y ago
Well, what did you expect? To add something constructive: There are several solutions for collaborative editing that you can host yourself, like Etherpad or gobby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad https:/&#
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by jabot 9y ago
There are two kinds of men that are relevant when talking about causation here: - Those that do not rape as long as they can buy sex. - Those that do rape when they can buy sex. In my humble opinion, it is rather likely that there are more
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by jabot 9y ago
Anyone on mobile? Anyone who doesn't want a cryptocurrency miner in his browser? Anyone security conscious?
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by jabot 9y ago
It isn't to me. Could you please elaborate?
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by jabot 9y ago
It is... somewhat significant. If i recall correctly, you need to generate two large prime numbers to get a key. There are already several caveats for the prime generation, so you cannot just take any two primes that are big enough. So for
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by jabot 9y ago
Thanks for that answer. These "weak" primes are perfect for backdoors, however, if you know about them being weak, and noone else does.
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by jabot 9y ago
The author describes outing him at a later occasion. That means the person is not kept anonymous, his name is simply not included in this article. Now, I think that omitting his name makes the article better, because it removes a distractio
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by jabot 9y ago
Initially i wondered as well. However, the author ended up reporting him, so i guess it's a moot point. ... As long as the guy has learned something or changed his behavior, i mean.
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by jabot 9y ago
You can buy a tux sticker and put it on the windows key. There are some companies that sell them, e.g. getdigital: https://www.getdigital.eu/Key-Sticker-Tux.html
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by jabot 9y ago
I thought about buying this, but was put off by the tiny keyboard. Also, I already have a perfectly working dell xps 13 with linux, so this would really be more of a luxury item.
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by jabot 9y ago
This article has a few points. First of all, the author wants backup, switching machines, and collaboration all integrated into VC. This is a worthwile goal, and i can see that shoehorning git et al into those rules can feel... clunky. I t
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by jabot 9y ago
> Teaching is not the problem. Anyone can pick up a free online book (I like to recommend SICP or HTDP) and learn everything they need to be a professional programmer. That is true, and it is a very good thing indeed. However IMHO there
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by jabot 9y ago
If you have a debug build the source is included automatically (as debug information). MS reserves the right to look at memory dumps and crashed binaries "to improve the customer experience" or something... Take these two things t
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by jabot 9y ago
> I see no practical way MS could benefit from this other than by improving the open source project. Then why don't they make it opt in? > Is there actually a good reason to turn this off? Security. In the sense of "enable o
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by jabot 9y ago
This article bashes Juicero - rightfully, in my (humble) opinion; it is a stupid and wasteful idea, and ridiculously overpriced. However, it has that in common with Keurig - which is a huge success. My point is that just because something i
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by jabot 9y ago
Technically that would not be an a priori reason. IMHO you are right though about discrimination existing.
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by jabot 9y ago
The release drops support for some old protocol versions and outdated/broken ciphers. No more sshv1, RC4, rsa512, ... Is there anyone inconvenienced by this?

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