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by mtkd 9y ago
AS/400 attacks are a whole next level of interest after first wave of Spectre on Intel/AMD etc. This is a much bigger can of worms than any vendor is admitting to right now. Those documented Spectre attacks were crafted by a handf
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by mtkd 9y ago
Which also meant you could do a lot of optimisations - like moving the stack pointer to point to the display memory area and using 'push' to blit a chunk of image data to screen which was quicker than using an 'ld' loop.
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by mtkd 9y ago
It's too early to say which is ultimately the most real-world serious. From the Spectre note (which does affect AMD): In addition to violating process isolation boundaries using native code, Spectre attacks can also be used to violate
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by mtkd 9y ago
I've lost the link, but I read a thread recently with doctors laughing at the idea they could ever be replaced with anything related to AI. The 1 in 20 left - is so clearly going to happen to that profession - I suspect they'll be
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by mtkd 9y ago
Everything I see around AI/ML is nothing but bad news for entire strata of current vocations. Once the algos get fully optimised to point of diminishing returns - data scientists etc. will become just another unemployment stat too.
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by mtkd 9y ago
It's not a now solution - but from the trajectory you can see where this likely ends. It may even be the case that the current WASM specification does not support everything needed for that to happen. But if you look at the DOM and wha
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by mtkd 9y ago
The reason these post-2005 cross-platform envs have gained no traction is because so many devs won't move away from browser - or even consider alts to a browser exist. Suggesting something not SAAS, PAAS etc. right now in most enterpri
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by mtkd 9y ago
I expect something equivalent or better to come out of what is happening with WASM in next year or so. So many people are talking about missing the power of VB, early Delphi, Turbo Pascal etc. and WASM is first tech for a while that looks l
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by mtkd 9y ago
It may be for the best over time - the innovation that comes from the decision is likely an increment over where we are now - and possibly have wider benefits that just enabling NN.
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by mtkd 9y ago
I suspect this will right itself. The next generation are always hardwired to revolt against the previous ones - and they take all existing tech as the norm - so it's not massively interestingly/revolutionary. Millennials may well
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by mtkd 9y ago
I keep reading that - but I just don't buy it - you can offload SSL to edge devices - why do the servers even need to care?
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by mtkd 9y ago
Life is too short to work with tyrants.
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by mtkd 9y ago
GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests - it will likely become a tool for political activism as the new information request system has no fee. It also has potential to spawn new gr
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by mtkd 9y ago
More needs to be done by package managers to warn end users. One scenario that worries me is where apps age and use popular trusted dependancies (e.g. gems on Github). When those gems stop being maintained but need to be updated to work (sa
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by mtkd 9y ago
One of the best resources I've seen on this is Capon and Jinks 'Compiler Engineering Using Pascal' (1988; ISBN 0-333-47155-5) if you can get hold of it http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pjj/book.html
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by mtkd 9y ago
I stopped drinking it for a year just to see what difference it made - it felt like more even energy over the day, but mornings lost something - so I have two strong cups very early now and no caffeine after 9am - except maybe tea Some of t
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This shipping-container farm could someday solve the food desert problem(washingtonpost.com)
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by mtkd 9y ago
> as if something's off I suspect 2018 is the year that stops being an thing
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by mtkd 9y ago
this is happening by the backdoor - at the last school we used we got a letter saying a US defence manufacturer was providing a library system for the UK school that used biometrics "let us know if you have a problem with this" -
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by mtkd 9y ago
bad phrase - it's on another segment
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by mtkd 9y ago
it's not random stuff - it's more often than not the game sites that are ranking which ask to mod the Chrome config - not ads the OSX parental controls break Chrome - or did when they were on - and were overly intrusive - if you&#
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by mtkd 9y ago
it comes, mostly, from the online game sites and other shiny honeypots for kids - google "X game" click top link - the game sites themselves override Chrome search bar and home page etc. - they click yes and put an email in to eve
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by mtkd 9y ago
there is likely more to the story - the volume of negative stories across all mediums really stinks - I fully expect it to come out that negativity was heavily funded at some point I get some newsworthy things have happened there - but you&
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by mtkd 9y ago
we've an air gapped one for the kids every month I have to go in and clean it up - Malwarebytes gets rid of most of the browser trub - to the point Chrome is usable again they are casual browsers - something is very wrong when kids can
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by mtkd 9y ago
These are always the best problems to have
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by mtkd 9y ago
absolutely love pinboard - but it has some cookie timeout thing that I need to log back in more often than I should also, well played Maciej
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by mtkd 9y ago
replace a long established (expensive) team on a complex app who know all the bear-traps with an offshore team of rent-a-coders with a 6 month average turnover rate but at half the price - wcgw
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by mtkd 9y ago
that would make a lot of sense - there was a heavy storm that moved north from south coast right at that time you can have all the DR in the world but if you never fully test it - you never know if it's going to be 100% on the day - th
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by mtkd 9y ago
I was in the middle of some major rail cancellations a couple of months back over 2 days - on the 3rd day many of the assets were out of place around the country - they were clearly trying to solve it manually and the impact escalated over
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by mtkd 9y ago
are there commonly algos or decision support tools to help unravel that in an optimised way?

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