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   by mafribe 10y ago

   Thanks for the description. I guess container networking like Weave works by 'hijacking' veth and executing NAT-like address translation. like a virtual machine. That's surprising. Containers were advertised to me as
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   Yes, that's right. But you need parametric polymorphism for "Boxes Go Bananas" which may not be available in some languages.
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   ASTs and SSA are orthogonal concepts. ASTs are a representation of syntax (including SSA) where immediate subterms are easily accessible (unlike with strings as representation). Easy access to subterms is important for the efficiency of typ
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   Thanks, this is very useful. Has that been written up somewhere in a suitably abstract form? Is there a list of variables that are affected, and how they are affected. In particular, I wonder about network interfaces. Say your hardware has
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   Thanks "geofft" and "cesnja". converting certain global variables How do the copies of the variables that become local relate to the originals? What happens at read/write, what happens if the host OS changes
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   containers as an expanded chroot jail. Could you point me to a succinct description of exactly the semantics of containers as an expanded chroot jail? I've been looking, but have so far not found anything.
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   I mean equal w.r.t. a chosen notion of equality. So for any pair (==s, ==t) of notions of equality, there is a different notion of full abstraction. Here ==s relates programs of the source language and ==t relate programs of the target lang
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   Full abstraction (FA) simply means two things: 1. That any two source programs are equal exactly when their translations are equal. So FA is parametrised by two notions of program equality, one for the source, one for the target. 2. That th
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   by mafribe 10y ago

   Javascript currently doesn't provide viable concurrency which makes translating languages that do a problem. Parsing Javascript can also be a performance bottleneck for some applications as Javascript parsing is somewhat expensive in c
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    which is both racist Is it more racist than demanding the right for the non-French people to change the ethnic composition of their host country? and probably impossible. Japan does it quite successfully. Try getting Saud
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    modern religious interpretations do not dictate that I'm not sure you understand what Animats means. He's not making a normative statement that religions should place women in this/that/the other role. He&
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Our religious nut ancestors didn't have nuclear weapons.
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Nothing in social will ever be 99.999%, so what? 60-80% is enough for the network effect to overcome everything else, and for the phone/IMEI to become the de-facto standard. Just like TCP/IP/Ethernet/Wifi became the netw
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Yes, absolute assumptions about identity fail badly, as you correctly point out. My point is different: for most people the combo of phone number/IMEI and the phone as physical token is the de-facto electronically addressable social id
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    I'm not sure I understand your point. You are referring to rare edge cases that don't invalidate the general point.
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Exactly. And the phone number and/or the IMEI is the technological identifier that ties all our identities together.
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    I used to think the same, and in the past it was possible (more or less) to use just one messenger for everything, but I've changed my mind on this. - Siloing helps to separate communities. In particular, it reduces the probability o
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Exactly. For me the pattern is: I subscribe to any new social / communication service and see what happens. Probably because I work in IT, I'm an early adopter, and when I first subscribe to a service, I have nobody to talk
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    it's pretty hard to beat either a phone call or email. I like email too, but it's difficult to reach young people this way. They may not even have email addresses. In my world, phonecalls now have primarily two purpos
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    I don't understand the handwringing over too many messaging systems and their notifications. The smartphone is the messaging centre where we coordinate our electronically mediated communication. Whether you get 7 notifications from dif
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Is there any evidence that this works in the sense of foiling sophisticated attacks?
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    I interpret this as a rhetorical technique with the following purposes. - Give the illusion that the interview is raw, unedited, so closer to truth. - Elevates the social status of the interviewer, because he's on joking terms with i
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    for a return to the glorious past It's misleading to argue that the Soviet Union was hankering after a "glorious past", the opposite is the case. I'd even argue that this is misleading in the case of Nazi German
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Why is an aging population a problem? Older people are more experienced, wiser, and less likely to be violent. If a young population was such a great thing, why are Chad, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Zambiam Malawi, Mali,
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    they are homogenous enough that failures are attributed to character, rather than ... This is a though-provoking sentence.
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    That's misleading. The party elite was not living in much greater luxury than the general Soviet population. The party leaders did not indulge in Saudi-Arabia style opulence. They did kill a lot of people, but that's orthogonal to
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    But it's a policy Stalin and his ilk carried out, at near global level. With fairly disaterous results.
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    Lack of offspring is already extremely apparent among highly educated women. My university is full of them. Most have no children or at best one. Feminism is sometimes seen as an evolved reaction to overpopulation.
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    I know Idiocracy, and I like Mike Judge, but I don't really believe that (much of) intelligence is heritable, at least in the way the film suggests. I base my prediction that feminist will die out not so much on abstract theories of in
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    by mafribe 10y ago

    You don't think false rape accusations and convictions are an extreme case of harassment?