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by mokus 10y ago
That is absolutely true and I don't disagree that it is possible to write C securely. But I would contend that the statistics you mention reflect differences in programmer attitudes and skill, and should be controlled for in any compa
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by mokus 10y ago
All the more reason not to rely on security properties of code written in C - I don't have time to read and understand the source of every piece of software I use, and popularity is completely useless as a proxy for code quality. Bein
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by mokus 11y ago
My first inclination upon hearing this situation was to reply with something along the lines of "if you're putting that much stock in my school, that just tells me you're not qualified to judge me by my merits as an engineer,
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by mokus 11y ago
Looks like quite a few of these were cribbed from the intercal character set[0]. Nice to see that living on. [0] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal-man/tonsila.htm...
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by mokus 11y ago
Yes, and in general it's pretty clear as you're doing it that that's what's happening. The ML family and Haskell type systems occupy a pretty nice place on the spectrum of expressiveness in that there's not much yo
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by mokus 11y ago
It seems plausible that the implied causality is backwards - perhaps it's not that people don't mind the parens because they use LISP, but rather that people use LISP because they don't mind the parens. Personally, I don&#x2
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by mokus 11y ago
It does run at compile time, and it doesn't run afoul of Rice's theorem (a useful generalization of the theorem about the halting problem) because it's not implementing a general decision procedure that can decide for _all_ p
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by mokus 11y ago
Agreed - in addition to wanting more time to look at it, the sudden change while i'm trying to focus on it is giving me motion sickness. Looks pretty cool apart from that though.
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by mokus 11y ago
"cyber to spider" would be a fun new addition to the "cloud to butt" browser extension.
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by mokus 11y ago
A thousand times this. If you want revenue for my view, ask me for some money. I'm happy to pay for content that is useful or entertaining, so give me the chance. But name your price in terms of some currency. My eyes, my choices, a
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by mokus 11y ago
I think 1/2 argument makes essential use of the fact that the "2 people" are the same person at different times. Ultimately it comes down to a different idea of the way "being right twice" is valued. In the 1&#x2F
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by mokus 11y ago
Which answer is "correct" depends on your interpretation of the question, as you say, and that's exactly the point. Like many paradoxes of the kind, it illustrates the ambiguity of the question and, by extension, the lack of
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by mokus 11y ago
I don't think anyone doubts it can react more quickly. The real question is whether it can react more correctly. I think the answer is "soon", for what that's worth, but I also think that until the answer is an unmitig
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by mokus 11y ago
Re edit 2: I'm pretty new at Rust so it's entirely possible I did something in an unusual way that caused the compiler to emit worse code than it would otherwise. My quick hack to test was to declare the registers as &mut, an
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by mokus 11y ago
zinc's "ioregs" macro system takes care of that sort of optimization quite nicely these days, actually. For each peripheral register, one of the things it generates is an "update" structure that the optimizer can e
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by mokus 11y ago
Shameless self-plug coming here, but it's pretty directly relevant: I've recently started tinkering with rust on a handful of STM32 "discovery" boards. I'm currently focusing on building a low-level environment to
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by mokus 11y ago
Is it not true, then, that if you don't pay for the upgrades the base solitaire app contains ads? If it does not, then I and presumably also the people making a fuss about this have been misinformed.
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by mokus 11y ago
When a canary dies in a coal mine, it's not the canary the miners worry about. The fact that the OS ships with a subscription-based freemium app with ads [EDIT: that used to be free] is, for many people, that canary.
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by mokus 11y ago
Working through this and other sampling algorithms was a real eye-opening experience for me, and really helped me develop an intuition for statistics in general. It was definitely worthwhile. I'm still rather proud of some code I wro
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by mokus 11y ago
> Given that legally the USA and NK are still at war For those, like me, curious about the situation, this is apparently something that has occurred several times in history[1]. In most if not all cases it seems to be pointless hair-spl
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by mokus 11y ago
Absolutely, but it is incorrect to cast that as a problem of the units being overpriced. I don't need Teledyne-LeCroy's 100 GHz oscilloscope at work, so if I bought one anyway when a 1 GHz unit would do, it'd be hardly fair
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by mokus 11y ago
Ah, I see. In that case, yes - there's no connection to net neutrality as long as they don't penalize anyone in any way for buying those subscriptions directly from the sites themselves (EDIT: or other sources... if i buy a sub o
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by mokus 11y ago
Paying _ISPs_ for content is exactly what net neutrality is about. I already pay my ISP to deliver bits. I'm not giving them a microcent more for the privilege of having all content that isn't in some "package" blocked
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by mokus 11y ago
The bit I was replying to was a hypothetical situation where QA does, for some reason, find the flaw but management rejects it because it doesn't match a bullet point in the requirements. My point was just that if that's not in t
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by mokus 11y ago
I have to think even the most myopic bureaucrats would remember to include "cannot be opened except by authorized parties" in a requirements document for a safe.
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by mokus 11y ago
Depends on definitions, but if you go with 10 as your base for "orders of magnitude" and 64-bit prefixes as "one IPv6 address" (which is the intended amount of address space for a single host), it's pretty close to
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by mokus 11y ago
Even if that was a possible outcome, it seems like the advantage of having it at a time of your choosing would be significant.
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by mokus 11y ago
According to the OPM's web site[0], notifications for the first breach they announced have been completed, and notifications for this newly announced one have not yet begun (see the end of bullet point 2). I don't believe they hav
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by mokus 11y ago
Another aspect worth considering, which I haven't seen mentioned yet, is that this database clearly fits the standard criteria for Top Secret classification (potential to cause "exceptionally grave harm" if compromised). I r
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by mokus 11y ago
And not only your information - that 21.5 million figure given for the clearance database is 1 in 15 people in the entire United States population. What I'd like to know is how this information failed to warrant even the level of prote

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