modshatereality

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by modshatereality 5y ago
It's true you shouldn't tinker with many types of hardware without extensive knowledge and experience. You're going to want to staff your off-world outpost with competent engineers and scientists that can develop and test new
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by modshatereality 5y ago
Maybe not exactly futile, but too many security measures can become a serious problem in certain scenarios. Imagine you are being chased and need to get inside your front door as quickly as possible, the more locks you need to operate, the
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by modshatereality 5y ago
Others claim mrustc is the second, but has anyone actually tried to use it? the readme does not inspire too much confidence, and looks to (currently) be a C transpiler: "mrustc's primary goal is bootstrapping rustc, and as such it
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by modshatereality 5y ago
unobserved hypothetical variables used to explain a big assumption.
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by modshatereality 5y ago
The admins knew this was going to happen, people need to stop spreading misinformation pretending that they were caught off guard.
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by modshatereality 5y ago
The real enemy is latency. Physical switches that trigger an IRQ directly to be handled by the program within microseconds would be ideal for human gaming (edit: or directly reading hardware registers). Everything else is just another weak
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by modshatereality 5y ago
When did computers stop being deterministic? Just because your mainstream PC-OS is no longer a sane piece of engineering doesn't mean the entire field is lost.
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by modshatereality 5y ago
Judging youtubes (javascript) performance trend observed in the exact same browser build on the exact same hardware over a multi-year period, time to abandon ship fellas.
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by modshatereality 5y ago
FTC website falls victim to the darkest pattern of all: relying on javascript to manipulate html elements, so this is just a blank page; yet another anti-HTML site.
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by modshatereality 5y ago
True, though systemd-* naming scheme provides a substantial amount of brush for mal-binaries/configs to use as persistent cover. Every system could be different, but distros are lazy it seems.