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Using Hermes’s Quicksort to run Doom: A tale of JavaScript exploitation(engineering.fb.com)
4 points by jtuple 4y ago|0 comments
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by jtuple 4y ago
I still lament that "streaming" is considered a unique "new thing" rather than the evolution of all the media rental businesses before it. "First Sale Doctrine? Who cares!" -Big Media (probably) The whole &quot
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by jtuple 5y ago
> What about if we live inside a simulation? AGI may be possible in base reality, but not within the confines of our simulated universe. Touché! Although, in that case, aren't we proof-by-construction of AGI? Also, if true, I suppos
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by jtuple 5y ago
Thanks for the book reference, added to my list. Concerning Philosophy of Mind, I guess a lot of this comes down to the whole reductive vs non-reductive physicalist issue. IMO, if someone believes the mind is entirely physical, then I think
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by jtuple 5y ago
There are many industrial processes that use tons of power and are far less efficient than a human doing those tasks. Yet, they're still viable because they (scale / are faster / more consistent / etc than humans. For AG
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by jtuple 5y ago
I'm surprised by the number of "is AGI even possible" comments here and would love to hear more. I personally think AGI is far off, but always assumed it was an inevitability. Obviously, humans are sentient with GI, and vario
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by jtuple 6y ago
Wow, never knew this backstory about Professor Eggers! It's kinda crazy how often seemingly random events and chance encounters are often the catalyst for major life outcomes. Even more so when they trigger an outcome that hadn't
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by jtuple 6y ago
> What you're proposing is essentially a oligarchy lead by the Supreme Court. Overall agree that we shouldn't be throwing members of Congress in jail over good-faith disagreements of constitutionality, etc. However, "Supre
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by jtuple 7y ago
Sad news. But, not unexpected given the state of Joyent in recent years. Really happy Z got a chance to work at Joyent though, even if it was only for a few years. For most of us ex-Basho (ie. Riak) engineers, Basho was a career highlight.
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by jtuple 11y ago
Unfortunately, Riak CS (as of today now rebranded Riak S2, apparently), is something I don't have enough personal experience with to really have an opinion on.
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by jtuple 11y ago
Riak is a great product/technology. I have no idea what the future of Riak looks like, but Riak in it's current form is something I still highly recommend. Just keep in mind that Riak works best for pure key/value workloads -
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by jtuple 11y ago
To be honest, the repositioning isn't really a response to the brain drain -- it's a reflection of a changing culture at Basho that was the cause of the brain drain in the first place. The primary reason I left Basho is that I fel
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by jtuple 12y ago
It's a shame how much inconsistency there is in applying the letter of the law in different cases. Did Anaya suspect illegal activity with his traps? Probably. But, perhaps he doesn't agree that drugs should be illegal and was int
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by jtuple 12y ago
My main problem with Javascript is the various truthiness rules as well as the numerous implicit conversions to strings. Eg. > [2,1,3,10,6, 200].sort() [1, 10, 2, 200, 3, 6] is both unexpected, and is just one of many landmines that can
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by jtuple 13y ago
Avinash Lakshman make a decision early in Cassandra's life cycle not to use vector clocks for performance reasons. You gain performance, you lose the ability to safely update an existing key concurrently. This is a reasonable tradeoff.
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by jtuple 14y ago
One thing that isn't highlighted much in the release notes or blog post (but will be once I get around to updating the docs) is the addition of the new 'replace' and 'force-replace' cluster commands in Riak 1.2. Have a cluster A/B/C and wan
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by jtuple 15y ago
As far as I know, R=1. Rusty is likely the best to comment on this and things may change before/after release, but currently there is no way to specify R for index lookups, and only the minimal set of replicas is queried. Technically, when
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by jtuple 15y ago
Currently, the entire keyspace is queried, but querying the entire keyspace does not requiring touching every partition. Only a covering subset which is influenced by your N-value (number of replicas) needs to be queried because the index i