mananaysiempre

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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
There’s actually an argument to be had around how illegal this should be. Let’s take computers out of the picture again. Suppose I know that an organization O throws out folders with sensitive data D into the trash can in their publicly-acc
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
> For example, what if I tell you I’m going to club you over the head and get access to the computer you’re on. [...] There is no material deception. Then there’s no hacking and you should be charged with assault or whatever else is appr
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
... Also known as a very simple case of a “column-oriented database”, of which are several at various scales from Metakit[1] to Clickhouse[2]. It’s a neat way to have columns which are sparsely populated, required to accommodate large blobs
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
... Aa-and I’m being stupid, because there were of course also “persistent” OSes like KeyKOS[1], where a memory image (swapped in, modified, and swapped out as necessary) is essentially the only way for a program to exist . (Good news: cap
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
I agree (differential geometry as well). Ironically, though, implicit differential equations tend to melt my brain, or rather modern approaches to them melt my brain (contact form on the first jet bundle anyone?) and classic ones look sensi
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
Well duh, it’s the (slope of the) tangent to a circle, of course it’s not 2y (or 2x). OK, not duh, of course, or else you wouldn’t have written this, but that is the desired state, so let me try to get you there. Stop thinking about the equ
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
“Format compilation” in TeX also appears to be inspired by a similar snapshotting mechanism built into TOPS-20[1]. Generally, I’d say that dumping VM state (if not in the host executable format) is a perfectly ordinary thing for an isolated
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
I (not the grandparent) would prefer “the heuristic”, which feels like it gives an accurate impression of how well-founded and transparently derived the decision is... But maybe it instead shows how confused I am about how, why and in which
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
Re the last link, as long as an archive only exists in a single place or is only operated by a single entity, it may as well not exist at all, because eventually it won’t. (This is also what terrifies me about the Wayback Machine and, to a
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by mananaysiempre 5y ago
While what you’re saying about how it works sounds extremely plausible, I am rather dubious about the idea that this is how it ought to work (and the inference that this is simple, therefore it’s how it ought to work). Taken to the extrem