mmirate

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by mmirate 8y ago
Oh, goody, just in time for the theoreticians to finally tell us that any kind of speculative execution can be made into a security flaw, and that there's nothing to do about it but to crawl back into a hole, err, I mean, back to ARM m
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by mmirate 8y ago
Doing so means putting all Python packages into a single opaque OS-level package. Not fun when your build system and related infrastructure, were all designed to work with OS-level packages.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> none of those things matter ... unless the software's needs evolve over time such as to require them. > you know if your gray box ships with a 10gbe card or not Yes; and lucky we do know. Else, our upcoming model of gray boxes
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by mmirate 8y ago
Ecliptic Curve cryptography. In-tree driver modules for last year's 10Gb Ethernet cards. Python 2.7, let alone 3. Official support for kernel 4.x. I've barely been in the industry for 90 days and I've already had to deal with
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by mmirate 8y ago
It gets better: there are places selling their software via hardware appliances that run RHEL6.
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by mmirate 8y ago
I don't hate those people per se (and I'm not stupid enough to attempt to harm them). What I hate is that they are usually moving far more slowly than what I and the people behind me would prefer, and that they do so even when
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by mmirate 8y ago
Spoiled, eh? Well excuse me for wanting to be able to focus my thoughts onto something other than the ambient temperature, and for wanting to not drown in my own sweat. Seriously, now that uncomfortable weather is largely a solved problem
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by mmirate 8y ago
Sure, bicyxles are great and all - but I dare you to try even a half-mile commute via bicycle during the Florida summer if your job involves presenting yourself in a non-slobby manner.
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by mmirate 8y ago
The former, obviously; but in the modern day, most usage of the latter in preference to the former is, in itself, arguably a bug overall. The modern world is mostly outside the operational parameters of our highly-evolved instincts.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Bubkes. A middlebox can transparently rewrite incoming packets' port numbers from 22 to 2200, and backwards.
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by mmirate 8y ago
What if the store I frequent happens to use one highway, but its competitor across the street uses another? I'd rather pay the "true" price of whatever goods I actually buy - transportation included - than be forced to subsid
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by mmirate 8y ago
Others disagree: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
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by mmirate 8y ago
Indeed; if everything is special/important/priority/good, then nothing is special/important/priority/good. Words have meaning dually by the set of things they name and the set of things they don't.
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by mmirate 8y ago
In a way that is true - it merely happens to be that when you don't have the near-infinite resources of a large taxpayer population at your disposal, violence's expensiveness actually becomes relevant.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Me neither; and such a place does not (yet) exist, and to my knowledge humans have never truly created such a place since the dawn of agriculture, if not earlier. It's entirely in the realm of theory, for now. I'll even admit: we
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by mmirate 8y ago
I keep forgetting that UBI, implemented properly as you describe, in a nation with pre-existing Robin-Hooding ... is a net-gain for liberty. Yet, given history, I doubt that the median-minus-one politician could have the courage to end the
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Do you feel the same way about taxes to pay for, say, highways and airports? Or do you give those a pass because it's infrastructure, from which you benefit? I don't give them a pass. Not by a long shot. Right now I'm on
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by mmirate 8y ago
Again: who is "we" and -more importantly - how do we decide which/how-much resources to grant? Write a nice letter to the Gates Foundation? Steal from the productive and call it "taxation"?
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Any implementation ideas for that perishing? Starvation? In the streets or organized in ... camps? Or something quicker, the arena perhaps? Suicide booths? "Perish" is such a comfortably abstract term... If a given person is
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by mmirate 8y ago
But who is "we", and who is anyone to decide which of the 35% should be retrained, or which new field to retrain them in, or how to allocate resources to such retraining? Those are the difficult questions that are most deftly answ
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by mmirate 8y ago
> what if an uncomfortably large part of the population just really doesn't have anything economically worthwhile to offer in the modern context? They and their skillsets must evolve or perish. This is nothing new, ever since at lea
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by mmirate 8y ago
Ehh, there were plenty of nifty little details in that show, but they don't end up meaning much since the plot gets hijacked by a supernatural deus ex machina . (And with The Expanse having shown such signs from Episode 1, it almost
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by mmirate 8y ago
Oh, but your first sentence is all-too-true at face value. Rust is currently in the process of baking asynchronous I/O into the language, and their implementation cannot do this: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/12&#x2F
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by mmirate 8y ago
So roads are great and all, but the info I really care about is what's on them. I know all of my possible commute routes like the back of my hand, and couldn't care less about which data source is more accurate for them. What I
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by mmirate 8y ago
Liquidity.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Okay, but whose definition of "efficient" are we using here? Space sounds exciting, sure, but Earth still has enough resources that there aren't any goods that can be produced in space that can't be produced more cheaply
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by mmirate 8y ago
Meh, cell phones are just glorified tracking devices anyway.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> historical fabric I don't get it; why can't we just write some textbooks and then be done with it?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Since the grandparent is rate-limited, I'll point out for them that the incident you’re pointing out is more nuanced than you seem to think. To combat human trafficking, we separate children from adults we suspect may not be their pare
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by mmirate 8y ago
Well, that says more about the current state of the field of psychology, than about the task at hand. :)

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