khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
> But it seems like a falsehood to suggest that it's not possible to understand one level of abstraction without knowing the full stack; isn't that why we have abstractions in the first place? Any non-trivial abstraction will h
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by khedoros 10y ago
That sounds like a perfect way to satisfy my curiosity! I've been considering writing a software rasterizer for the fun of it. Thanks for the recommendation; I'll keep a look out for it too.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I remember doing something similar (ignoring matrix transforms and hand-calculating everything with trig because I wasn't comfortable with it). It works fine, and it's great for a theoretical understanding of how rasterization wor
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by khedoros 10y ago
I appreciate the ingenuity involved, and I appreciate that it's possible on at least some of the hardware. It reminds me of the modifications necessary to replace a drive in the original Xbox. If I was looking for a weekend project and
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I strongly feel they were poorly implemented. I'll agree with this. In the context of Python, the behavior is surprising. > but in Python it is implemented in a different way that is mathematically (but not pragmatically) incor
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by khedoros 10y ago
> and frankly any laptop nowadays without internet is pretty crippled. Depends on what you keep locally on the machine =) I've generally got a bunch of DVD rips, a few dozen games, my dev environments, documentation for whatever I&#
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by khedoros 10y ago
A drive 4-8x that size would be nice (and not hanging off the side of the computer).
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by khedoros 10y ago
I'm thinking about "ctrl-d" to boot, and the likelihood that my kid's going to eventually play with daddy's laptop and pound on the spacebar during reboot. What I'd like: A Linux distro of my choice that boots
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Not to mention Chromebooks essentially are open products. The OS itself is pretty open. If I'm not mistaken though, if you put it into dev mode, you get a scary screen at every reboot, and an opportunity to hit space to re-enable
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by khedoros 10y ago
In that definition, it seems like DOS OSes never had programs.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I agree with anything that you just said, and that's not the portion of the previous post that I had a problem with. The Python3 disambiguation is a nice way to handle the former ambiguity.
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by khedoros 10y ago
It demonstrates that different internal mental states influence actions in predictable ways. I don't think that it kills the concept of free will, but I don't think that it provides evidence for it, either.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Most people wouldn't argue that an all knowing god would mean free will is impossible, why is this different? I'd argue that an all-knowing God is something that can't really be reasoned about. It's the introduction
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by khedoros 10y ago
Well, yes, but he's saying that "rules" and "software" are incorrect metaphors, and that they are a way of saying it wrong . I think that's an important distinction. What strikes me in the section of the art
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by khedoros 10y ago
That's a more believable attack than what most of the other posters have suggested. I suspect that the first step to fight that might be to store a value for the entropy of each backed-up file. A massive change in a file's entropy
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by khedoros 10y ago
> The ransomware could, however, know about a fixed set of backup programs, and, when it detects one is running, silently encrypt (parts of) backups of old data. That assumes that the ransomware has direct access to the stored backup dat
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by khedoros 10y ago
> 1/2 = 0 is mathematically incorrect. 1/2 = 0.5 is mathematically correct. Those are two different functions, and both are "mathematically correct". The notation is the problem. The former operation isn't specif
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by khedoros 10y ago
I'm not talking about rsync'ing a bunch of files onto a NAS, I'm talking about an actual backup system. You'd just restore from the file revision immediately before the encrypted data.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Fine, fine. But why specifically a browser-based UI? I'd think you'd make a jump like that to solve a particular problem. From hoodoof's reply, they think that current Linux desktop design is "shit", and that the so
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by khedoros 10y ago
There isn't anything inherent to web design that makes it better-suited to creating "slick" interfaces. There's a lot of the culture of web design that I want to stay the hell away from my desktop, though. To me, the w
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by khedoros 10y ago
It's just an advertisement for the book (with a bit of content mixed in to keep you reading). The descriptions are inventive, but it's just marketing tripe, and I think that's what you're recognizing.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Do you think there are smart people who would or could be good developers who did not major in computer science and later went on to attend a 'bootcamp'? Of course. I know someone that would fit that description, and I don&#x
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by khedoros 10y ago
I'd consider it for a hobby project, or for adding a GUI to a C program without introducing many extra dependencies. Judging from the comments though, most of the people interested in this library aren't interested in writing a C
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I was recently thinking that operating systems should ditch their custom desktops in favor of a browser based UI. Why? > it still seems to me that a browser based OS UI would be far more effective than things like Gnome and KDE and
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by khedoros 10y ago
Sure, if it was found for whichever library code was used on that device, and if you also found a way to use it to get the OS to expose data that it usually wouldn't. I'm not saying that someone couldn't work out a way to e
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by khedoros 10y ago
"Good enough" backups can include incremental backups, where changes are tracked at a sub-file level. You end up only actually backing up the parts of your computer that change (after an initial full backup of the system). Every
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by khedoros 10y ago
And ransomware mimicking other ransomware. The mimicry doesn't even have to be perfect, if it's good enough to provide the impression that "CryptoVault 3.2" only decrypts your data occasionally, after you pay.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I think the issue is that in our everyday lives, we see people doing things that appear to require collection, storage, retrieval, and processing of information. Honestly, I'd want to see an explanation for how I can do something like
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by khedoros 10y ago
I found it odd how he noted rooting and nursing instincts in infants, then said that we aren't born with rules or software. That seems self-contradictory.
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by khedoros 10y ago
There are pieces of data that I store in some manner (and that would be easier stored in a computer). I'm thinking about phone numbers, addresses, and such. The fact that I can accurately reproduce those pieces of information on demand

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