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by mokus 8y ago
I’d love a way to enforce other resource limits as well - cpu, for example. And maybe also a “maximum rate of pixel change” to kneecap the inevitable end-runs around autoplay being disabled.
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by mokus 8y ago
I’m probably in a minority but I consciously and intentionally penalize ads that bypass my psychotic-level blocking. Getting me to notice their ad will cost them, I make sure of it with vindictive fervor.
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by mokus 8y ago
I could see this as a Black Mirror script too
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by mokus 8y ago
I have literally never done so. I have, however, mentally blacklisted brands that had obnoxious ads, and I have always had a really low threshold for that determination.
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by mokus 8y ago
We can create black holes here in earth? I’d love to read more about that if you have any starting points
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by mokus 8y ago
In the formula “just do X”, the problem isn’t so much the “X”, it’s the “do”, for the reasons outlined by the GP comment. In this particular case, the notion that Medicare works at all (let alone well) is a point that about half the country
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by mokus 8y ago
> Doesn’t describe my government. This mindset seems to be why the US political parties keep handing each other more and more federal power. Nobody can imagine their nation would be so stupid as to ever put the Other Guys back in power a
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by mokus 8y ago
And if they can figure out which ones are not coffee makers, why not show the list without coffee filters to start with?
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by mokus 8y ago
The problem is that this precision comes at the expense of the vast majority of people’s ability to comprehend the agreements they are entering into. In these cases, I would argue the contracts should be void because there is no “meeting of
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by mokus 8y ago
It also claimed Apple removed 7000 SuperMicro servers in a few weeks. That seems especially unlikely to happen without at least some explanations to upper management. Sure, they could lie to management about why but either way management
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by mokus 8y ago
I just spent a day eviscerating my 2012 unibody MacBook Pro to replace its keyboard and battery. It’s a little depressing to think that after over 2 decades of using Apple hardware and software it will probably be the last thing I ever buy
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by mokus 8y ago
I suspect they were being facetious - every option in that list is owned by Facebook.
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by mokus 8y ago
I wonder if people from other constituencies called Sen. Wyden’s offices en masse to thank him, would that news get around to the other offices and maybe get some attention?
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by mokus 8y ago
It seems like the main problem is that the compiler doesn’t know the specific target it will run on. We actually do have our smart-enough compilers. They just come in the form of microcode that we can’t audit or even opt out of because the
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by mokus 8y ago
Serious question: how much of that cost is because we don’t have to fire them more?
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by mokus 8y ago
Arguably, the reason for Spectre, etc., is that people have failed to realize that at the scale of modern intel CPUs, these problems already are distributed systems problems.
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by mokus 9y ago
> a language with all the performance of C without the footguns IMO, this isn't even the right goal. The problem is that in many cases using C is itself a premature optimization. Consider two languages: * C, which gives you perfor
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by mokus 9y ago
Those taxes are a cost of doing business in the state - akin to the rent on a property. If nobody wants to rent your property at your asking price, you can let it sit empty and get zero, or lower your price and get more than zero. You are n
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by mokus 10y ago
> This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an
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by mokus 10y ago
That's given as an example of "in a manner contrary to the designed and normal operational purpose" - to me, it sounds more like a mechanical slot machine being manipulated by pulling it in such a way that the mechanism doesn
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by mokus 10y ago
I imagine those loud objectors would take issue with the idea that the government is "literally just US" - it's much more literally a small minority of us who are deciding on behalf of us what we are to do with our resources.
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by mokus 10y ago
Even worse; many of the restaurants still make you buy a whole bundle to get the one item you want from them. At the end of the day, in order to get your burger, fries and a shake you've also paid for 3 bowls of rice, 3 plates of nach
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by mokus 10y ago
This. The trackpad is just about the only thing keeping me on apple hardware these days, but it's a much bigger deal to me than I'd have ever expected. It seems they are the only company that can figure out how make a mobile point
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by mokus 10y ago
So all it takes to destroy someone's iOS app business is to hire a shady marketer to shill for them?
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by mokus 10y ago
And a two-cent thermistor should take care of that...
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by mokus 10y ago
I'd much rather be denied access to the content if I'm outbid. I'm bidding to view the media, not auctioning my eyeballs. My eyeballs are not for sale, at any price.
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by mokus 10y ago
To be fair, an autonomous vehicle will probably also never accidentally put the vehicle in drive instead of reverse. The particular failure modes are likely to be radically different in many cases, so it seems reasonable to gloss over their
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by mokus 10y ago
I'd say C is more of a symptom and exacerbating factor of the cultural failing. C makes it easy to achieve performance and time-consuming to achieve correctness. When the people funding the work (and this includes people donating thei
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by mokus 10y ago
I'd love a C compiler that implemented memory-safe C. If one existed today in a readily usable form I'd recommend it in a heartbeat.
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by mokus 10y ago
Oops, forgot to make the explicit connection to your comment - the TL;DR is really the last paragraph. OpenSSL is a beautiful case study in this. If it were written in a memory-safe language, you're right that many things would still

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