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by munin 10y ago
Everything that has an off switch has an on switch. Attacks against the power grid are weak because, in almost every scenario you can conjure, the remediation is just disconnecting the network and flipping the on switch. The things to look
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by munin 10y ago
no, the labs and science majors are funded by their own students and grants the science professors win. the "liberal arts" is just free money for colleges and goes into their endowment.
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by munin 10y ago
> Let them label a bunch of equations poorly, and not label a few, have them explain concepts out of turn in different places in the document, have them produce shitty, unreadable figures, let's see how that turns out. This is what
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by munin 10y ago
> A private XMPP or IRC server is a much better option. the slack servers probably get a lot more security attention than your private XMPP or IRC server that probably sees a few minutes a year of attention from some engineer to run &quo
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by munin 10y ago
"southern hospitality" is great if you're straight and white. as a counterpoint, Dallas is the only place I've lived where people have shouted homophobic slurs at me on the street in daylight.
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by munin 10y ago
Ah, computer science! You should stay in real science.
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by munin 10y ago
As a graduate student at a top research university I have to ask: where do scientists write concisely and accurately? That is the opposite of my experience. Academic writing is very obfuscatory and frequently full of typos, grammatical mist
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by munin 10y ago
> This kind of uncompromising, unsympathetic view makes me think less that Stallman stands for something valuable, and more that he wants to use his principles to be a dick. Stallman is at war, and there are casualties in war. He probabl
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by munin 10y ago
This was my experience as well. You don't want to give any student an advantage. This extends to when a student brings you a proof and wants to know if the proof works. You can't actually tell them, because that would leak informa
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by munin 10y ago
nobody knows how to fix it though, so we're all just sitting around waiting for the higher ed bubble to pop.
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by munin 10y ago
there is also the journal of universal rejection: http://www.universalrejection.org/
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by munin 10y ago
> Can't one just write new assignments each year? the budget / resources doesn't exist for that
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by munin 10y ago
> If you can't get paid time off to vote, no questions asked - you have an entirely different and more serious problem Welcome to the United States?
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by munin 10y ago
chromium still has a sandbox
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by munin 10y ago
the older generations can show up on voting day because they don't have to work
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by munin 10y ago
the legal action is "promissory estoppel" and it basically never happens. the risk to the employer is very low.
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by munin 10y ago
> There should be a 'law' named for that attempted topic distraction in public forums. there kind of is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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by munin 10y ago
> Yet, luckily, we don't see that happen. is it lucky? especially in the west, we'll fight a terminal disease long past the inevitable, at the expense of the patients well being. at some point the humane thing to do IS to &quot
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by munin 10y ago
> blacklist IPs that hit unknown ports so what happens when someone hits an unknown port on your system from every IP on the internet?
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by munin 10y ago
then he should run some numbers or make an argument that takes a position?
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by munin 10y ago
that kind of reduction is frustrating because not all bugs are equal. are all bugs found by fuzzing? does the value of the bugs found by means other than fuzzing outweigh the resources spent to find them?
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by munin 10y ago
> I know this might be a silly question but what exactly do you do in an academic research position? Are you a professor? Then you do whatever you want. If you're not a professor, you do whatever the professor wants. > How do you
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by munin 10y ago
one quick piece of feedback: resumes about stories. namely, your story: what have you done? how did you do it? what impact did it have? there's a hint of a story in your last internship - there was a proposal? you proposed it to manage
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by munin 10y ago
> Don't nobody here know how to play this game? I guess all they need to do is hire "ArkyBeagle" from the comments section of hacker news, right?
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by munin 10y ago
godspeed! that's hard work, especially if you want to deal with MMX/SSE and the FPU.
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by munin 10y ago
I don't regret using LLVM at all. I regret using the instruction decoding features in LLVM. if I could do it again (and someone younger, smarter, and better looking than me is) I would combine the LLVM IR with the XED instruction decod
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by munin 10y ago
I noticed that this only supports AVR. what is your plan to support x86? would you think about linking against some external code that provides semantics for x86?
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by munin 10y ago
hi, I'm one of the mcsema authors and the original author who was responsible for mcsema using the LLVM instruction decoder and it was a mistake. if I had a choice between going back in time and assassinating Hitler, or convincing myse
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by munin 10y ago
okay, I've skimmed everything in that list. I haven't read any of them cover to cover though. that's what I really question, mostly because, who has the time for that? there's especially a lot of shared material between
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by munin 10y ago
no, you're doing research. I know some postdocs who practically don't do research, they manage labs or write software, but their names go on the papers that come out of the lab which is frequently good enough. and usually, the pos

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