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by munin 9y ago
I talked to a pilot once who asserted that this is far from settled in aviation: he described the Boeing way, and the Airbus way, as two separate schools of thought. Boeing's systems keep the humans in the loop more at the expense of t
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by munin 9y ago
You can't even do long term work at a university because you still need the funds for your employees / lab / equipment / materials / subjects. The university doesn't give you those funds, they only pay your sal
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by munin 9y ago
No, most sports programs have highly paid coaches, and very few (4/250 or so) sports programs are even revenue-neutral. Most are in the red and are subsidized by fees charged to the students.
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by munin 9y ago
AFAICT, there aren't that many people looking for jobs who love teaching and are great at it. Teaching is a really hard skill: it's hard to get, and it's hard to be good at it. That is somewhat heretical in higher ed, it&#x27
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by munin 9y ago
This is all spelled out in EO 12333 : https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...
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by munin 9y ago
The US patent system accommodates classified patents: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s120.html
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by munin 9y ago
The women geeks I know keep separate from geek culture, and I only know them due to luck or circumstance. So they are women geeks, but not part of geek culture, if that makes sense.
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by munin 9y ago
I disagree because I know a lot of geeky women who don't like geek culture because it is hostile to women. In my life, I haven't noticed a difference in gender when it comes to someone being a "geek" or not. I'm not
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by munin 9y ago
> They will buy ingredients in bulk, whereas I'll buy them in much smaller packages Buy your produce in re-usable or recyclable containers, or grow it yourself? We pick up produce from a local farm, they bring it to the pick up site
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by munin 9y ago
Windows also does sandboxing.
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by munin 9y ago
> There are many defense mechanisms to this that are inherent to the design and implementation of Darwin/Mac OS. Do you have an example? Beyond the idea of user/root separation, which doesn't really do much for modern sing
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by munin 9y ago
Imagine tracking a "raw data sent vs raw data received" for every host your network talks to. What _should_ DNS look like? Now imagine tunneling all your network traffic over that DNS server, independent of how you encode it, you
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by munin 9y ago
CMU has intense advantages that make that unlikely to occur within the next 50 years.
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by munin 9y ago
> Coach salaries tend to be eye-catching but they are generally entirely funded by the athletic department and its supporters, not tuition or state funds. This is only true at a small number of schools. Most subsidize the athletics depar
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by munin 9y ago
You could take inspiration from a system like Dafny or F-* and write your contracts with the assistance of a type system and compiler that generated proofs that your contracts satisfied some postcondition given a precondition. People have a
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by munin 9y ago
Maybe the way to counter that is with healthy, full throated and sex positive sex education? Instead of trying to bury or hide the "bad" information counter it with lots and lots of good information? Just a thought.
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by munin 9y ago
It's the difference between learning what someone else did and learning new, previously undiscovered truths of the natural universe. Intel 14nm chips are not products of the natural universe. Understanding them does not lead to undisco
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by munin 9y ago
If your manager is the kind that brow-beats when they can't find you, and, they forget things you tell them (in writing), then reminding them of the thing you have told them, in writing, to their bosses boss, will basically get you fir
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by munin 9y ago
This only works if your management remembers your status updates.
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by munin 9y ago
None of the claims in this have anything to do with the essence of security, they all address the window-dressing of security. What does it mean for something to be secure? As I see it, for something to be secure, it means that every securi
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by munin 9y ago
Just curious, do you have direct experience with big companies using R, python, etc in production? My sense from working with people from those companies (and a few internships at those companies) is that you could use something like R, mat
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by munin 9y ago
> Similarly, what's the value-add of Grubhub? The value of grubhub is that I can send written instructions to the restaurant instead of spoken ones, which will be understood more clearly, so my order is done the way I prefer it. It
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by munin 9y ago
I agree with you. Here are some of my thoughts at 15 years: 1. Get sleep and exercise. Stop drinking soda, just stop it. Drink water, coffee, tea, and scotch. 1a. During undergrad, I would get into a trap where I would think I was too busy
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by munin 9y ago
If you only use this pre-paid phone for authentication, then the fraudster has to discover that phone number before they launch their attack. For additional security, you can rotate this pre-paid phone number every few months, and only use
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by munin 9y ago
The blacklists would probably just expand to subnets.
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by munin 9y ago
Most sports programs (>80%) are subsidized by the university through mandatory fees charged to the students.
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by munin 9y ago
The results can be different: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
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by munin 9y ago
> the authentication code depends on the target address The authentication code is a combination of key and context: there are 5 total keys in the system, and then an unlimited number of contexts. Contexts are I think most useable on the
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by munin 9y ago
The difference is the threat model. ASLR does kind of poorly when the attacker can read and write arbitrary memory, because the attacker can just learn what the addresses of all the objects are by dumping memory, then adjust their attack on
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by munin 9y ago
You read the pointer from memory, unbox the pointer into an integer, do arithmetic, then box it back up and write it back into memory. The pointer-as-integer stays in registers while you do arithmetic on it.

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