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by markhahn 4y ago
ML is pretty promiscuous (as are some other ecosystems), so supply-chain is a realistic threat to a developer. restricting the user that runs such code is helpful. but suppose it gets owned: - can it call home? - can it escalate to root?
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by markhahn 4y ago
SE should be one of those "if it's not fun, you're doing it wrong" things no? alternatively, consider that it's just a minor component of programming in general: it doesn't deserve to be called a field: just li
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by markhahn 4y ago
citizens deserve equal protection under the law. there's nothing special about his kid (or him). if anything, information about public figures, when in public, deserves less shielding.
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by markhahn 4y ago
Rich people think they deserve special accommodation when in fact, they deserve less.
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by markhahn 4y ago
surely you aren't saying that current euro cultures are "original". perhaps you're saying that previous cultures were more/more-often absorbed and incorporated?
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by markhahn 4y ago
almost as if iOS and/or Go are problematic.
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by markhahn 4y ago
preach!
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by markhahn 4y ago
I remember 386 support connected with 1.3, but probably still using descriptors. NSFT was still involved at 2.0 time, though DOS+Windows was pretty obviously going to win, so to speak, and NT OS/2 was still hush-hush. NT OS/2 ran
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by markhahn 4y ago
doesn't JVM sniff of the 00's?
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by markhahn 4y ago
no, CVMFS is secure. clients have to somehow be provided a repo's key, but every chunk is signed by that key and validated by the client. so intermediate repos (stratum 1) are not security concerns, for instance. CVMFS specifically e
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by markhahn 4y ago
Not just British people. Canadians, for instance, still have a role for the head of the commonwealth...
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by markhahn 4y ago
it sounds more like ARM wants to quash any leakage, and keep fingers in every possible ARM-arch pie. that's pretty much the opposite of wanting to promote RISC-V...
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by markhahn 4y ago
saying Q can't use N designs isn't quite the same as A demanding those designs be destroyed. although you can make a contract for (almost) anything, it's surprising to me that N would agree that A could forbid use of N design
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by markhahn 4y ago
Those who can't compete in the market, compete in the courtroom. ARM has had something of a secure niche until recently - markets that Intel ignored or did poorly in. But now there is renewed competition from x86, attractive alternati
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by markhahn 4y ago
never attribute to malice (or conspiracy) what can be explained by incompetence (or bugs).
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by markhahn 4y ago
The problem is bundling and integration. The customer is best served by dumb-pipe vendors. Imagine if your devices conducted a reverse auction periodically, and could switch providers without significant cost. My phone service is Rogers a
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by markhahn 4y ago
obviously, latency is the big question. it's fine to say "let's aggregate memory across multiple systems via a coherent layer on PCIe", but you're talking about taking away 50ns DRAM. enthusing about PCIe 7 bandwi
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by markhahn 4y ago
You can always sell your conspiracy as countering a previous conspiracy. Make your audience afraid of whoever you're pointing the finger at - no need for rigorous facts, because you're talking to your audience's Type 1 thinki
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by markhahn 4y ago
I've always been puzzled by the rail industry, since in spite of having incredible potential for efficiency, it seems stuck in so many ways by history. In this case, the impression I get is that we're seeing the result of too much
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by markhahn 5y ago
I'm surprised this sort of thing isn't done far more widely (and better). Can anyone comment on reasons why it's not more widespread? Especially in social media, where provenance is nonexistent.
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by markhahn 5y ago
and how do you verify the signature? public key infrastructure has always stumbled over issues of authenticity, more than just indexing.
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by markhahn 5y ago
hah! it would be funny to see politicians try that - not far from legislating Pi.
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by markhahn 5y ago
Talking about OpenGL feels very regressive - the 'G' in GPU is hardly "graphics" any more, so presenting through the lens of rendering is backwards. These days, GPU is more like "General (data parallel) Processing
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by markhahn 5y ago
Amazon's thing is the network effect, not margins on a particular feature.
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by markhahn 5y ago
This strikes me as totally unsurprising. How could it be otherwise? It's basically saying that a brain normally operates in an interesting dynamical mode: not chaotic, and not very regular. Wow? If it were chaotic, we wouldn't
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by markhahn 5y ago
unfortunately, the legitimacy of a patent is only determined by contention. the simple elegance of the following has been lost: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors
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by markhahn 5y ago
The patent system is broken: these features are obvious and should not be protected.
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by markhahn 5y ago
extirpate jndi. personally, I'd extirpate Java too. but I'm curious: does anyone need and use jndi?
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by markhahn 5y ago
Had one, was great! For me, it wasn't quite as amazing since I had SMP at work (university research lab). Is the hacker ethos (in the "repurposing" sense) pretty much dormant?
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by markhahn 5y ago
NaN's should trap, but compilers should not worry about accurate debugging.

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