nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
Pop-Tarts are a cheap, readily-accessible, easily-consumed source of calories with a long shelf life that most people will at least tolerate. They're nutritionally incomplete, but they will help keep you alive and functional in the short te
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by nknight 15y ago
That was mostly a physiological experiment with a comparatively mild psychological components. They were trying to prove the physical viability of keeping someone in microgravity for the amount of time necessary for a Mars trip. Things are
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by nknight 15y ago
There's plenty to dislike about Wal-Mart, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with predicting a sudden shortage of a product in a particular area, and trucking in a bunch. If they'd doubled the price, that would be another matter, but tha
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by nknight 15y ago
"strict realtime requirements" and Mac OS X (and most other off-the-shelf operating systems) do not mix and never have. Either these applications don't belong on the platform in the first place, or you are misunderstanding their requirement
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by nknight 15y ago
The IPC mechanism is XPC, and my memcpys run at a few thousand megabytes per second, why don't yours?
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by nknight 15y ago
Ah, the other version of China-as-a-bogeyman -- "technology" being "stolen". Hint: The only reason China gets special attention is it's not a member of Club West. Funny how quickly stories of industrial espionage by NATO members drops out o
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by nknight 15y ago
Unless you're making a talking-head argument about China owning the US treasury, the only way the US "funded" this is via the publicly available information on NASA's work, in which case you have to mention the Soviet Union/Russia, too.
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by nknight 15y ago
I can think of only two GUI apps I semi-regularly use that can't fit within those restrictions: VMware Fusion, and Steam. Plugins are a red herring. Some poorly-designed plugin infrastructures will not be workable, boo-hoo. Valid use cases
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by nknight 15y ago
Any application that interacts with untrusted data is a potential vector for malware. Ignoring that is the worst kind of arrogance a developer can display.
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by nknight 15y ago
Redis is a series of tradeoffs between simplicity, performance, and power. For the moment, simplicity won as far as keys go -- they're all strings, period, end of story. Supporting other key types is potentially useful, but brings complicat
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by nknight 15y ago
The principles articulated by the FSF are ones I broadly agree with. I have no ulterior motive (nor any real vested interest) in being a "detractor" of RMS, I simply find him to be an irredeemable ass and the worst possible spokesman for th
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by nknight 15y ago
> Another person didn’t want preferred shareholders to have any preferred rights. I'm just fine with the idea of VCs getting common stock like everybody else, but I'm not so much in favor of random redefinitions of words. I'd be afrai
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by nknight 15y ago
RMS's repeated failure to demonstrate any humanity has an awful lot to do with the dislike people are feeling towards him.
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by nknight 15y ago
"Recess" has rather specific connotations in American English. It is not simply another word for "break". It connotes a supervised, semi-structured playtime for young children, generally outdoors, in the presence of teachers. By the time
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by nknight 15y ago
Please stop giving libraries names that are exactly the same as the words used for the abstract concepts they implement. It confuses absolutely everybody , especially search engines and people just coming in to a new language.
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by nknight 15y ago
Brendan Eich would seem to disagree[1], as would, well, everyone else I've ever heard talk about JS, so I'm not sure from whence you draw that rather remarkable assertion. It may or may not meet your particular needs, but that has very litt
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by nknight 15y ago
Different models will work differently, the ones this guy worked on are apparently always open, despite the manufacturer's intent. The simplest solution that doesn't make ridiculous assumptions about the time and place is to just do HMAC +
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by nknight 15y ago
Where do you see a "debunking" there? I sure don't. Just a downplaying of the risks of the previous type of attack. This is a new, MUCH worse attack from a different researcher -- one with significant existing credibility, I might add.
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by nknight 15y ago
If the premise is ASCII, JavaScript cannot be the result. ASCII is intensely simple and, for its intended purpose, very close to perfect. JavaScript is... not. JavaScript is, at best, the most common language used for today's GUI applicatio
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by nknight 15y ago
What's your OS? OS X defaults to much softer font rendering than most systems, and Windows/Linux can be tweaked (try googling for things like "OS X style font" or "soft font rendering" with the name of your OS tacked on)
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by nknight 15y ago
No, it was disturbing 20+ years ago when the possibility was first raised of these kinds of attacks. Today it's just expected. And depressing. The sectors that need to understand information security the most are the ones that have absolute
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by nknight 15y ago
Presumably he'll be publishing The Protocols of the Elders of YC any day now.
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by nknight 15y ago
Having extra hardware to help speed it up doesn't stop it from being bank switching. That is its essential nature, it doesn't matter how heavy the lipstick is.
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by nknight 15y ago
No, it can do glorified bank-switching. That's not an increase in address space, it's a hack that assumes applications will still keep their memory usage to no more than 2-3GB.
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by nknight 15y ago
Is there any backstory on why this is only happening now? The address space situation is already borderline in some areas of ARM usage, and cell phones are about to break 1GB of physical RAM (if some haven't already?). Seems like this is a
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by nknight 15y ago
Are you sure this applies to Iceland? My understanding is they've had their crash and are cleaning up from it.
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by nknight 15y ago
There's also, as I understand it, the matter of how Greece was permitted to join the Eurozone with, shall we say, overly optimistic economic reports that were blindly accepted under a set of rules that would warm a sub-prime lender's hear
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by nknight 15y ago
> They're not professional property managers who can take over the property and deal with a renter. Neither are most rental property owners. I think you'll find most landlords who have many tenants either engage the services of a prop
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by nknight 15y ago
As far as I could tell, the landlord wasn't claiming to be entirely blindsided, but blindsided by the actual foreclosure and auction when he'd been in communication with the bank seeking a modification. He absolutely should have told the te
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by nknight 15y ago
It's not just BofA, that was just the bank specifically mentioned in the article, and of course one of the worst offenders in the general category of being a major pain in the ass. Most of the cases I read about begin either before the owne

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