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by nn3 10y ago
I find it highly unlikely just based on basic economics. Imagine the potential conversation between Intel and the NSA: NSA: Please backdoor your RNG for us. Intel: We're making xx billions of this chip. What happens if someone finds ou
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by nn3 10y ago
I'm sure Intel would be happy learn from you how they could avoid investing all that money. To misquote George Burns, too bad that all the people who know how to build fabs are busy hanging out on HN instead...
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by nn3 10y ago
Here is a web demo for people to try it out (and actually some documentation) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/slayer/ From some quick experiments it seems to be weak on malloc, no problem with: i
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by nn3 10y ago
Can anyone clarify his claim on MIPS data hazards? I didn't follow that one. To my knowledge MIPS has no special hazards, like a VLIW ISA would have. Is that not correct?
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by nn3 11y ago
Yes the Haswell branch prediction is so good that it obsoleted previous "best strategies" for fast interpreter loops. See https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document But unfortunately a lot of real code is so
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by nn3 11y ago
If you rely on the TCP checksum to protect your data you are delusional anyways. The TCP checksum is a simple additive checksum that is very weak and cannot detect wide classes of data corruptions. It is is well known that it won't ca
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by nn3 11y ago
So if all the humanities papers have a serious message which is just somehow obscured due to circumstances outside the author's control, you would expect at least someone (particularly the editors of the journals) to understand them. B
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by nn3 11y ago
The point of the warning is to find bugs, not enforce a particular coding style. Running astyle would make it worse because you would hide the bug.
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by nn3 11y ago
She explains it herself. I bet it's that. >>> Third: with my name, maybe my novel was taken for “Women’s Fiction”—a dislikable name for a respectable genre—but not what I was writing. If an agent was expecting that, I’m not su
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by nn3 11y ago
I wonder if the drying paint movie could be marketed as meditation aid. Need to put "mindfulness" and "artisan" somewhere in the description.
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by nn3 11y ago
A better title would be "how to make simple things complicated"
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by nn3 11y ago
Do you think your findings would hold up to a double blind test? Often expensive items have a strong placebo effect just based on price ("it has to be better")
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by nn3 11y ago
To paraphrase Stroustrup: There are two kinds of systems: the ones that have security holes and the ones that people don't use.
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by nn3 11y ago
It started off well, until she started talking about mainframes. So her experience is from the 80ies? Sounds like bleeding edge commentary.
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by nn3 11y ago
Can't wait for the data equivalent of the Java programmer's FactoryFactoryFactory pattern. http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
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by nn3 11y ago
So are these changes actually getting into NetBSD?
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by nn3 11y ago
And when something goes wrong with the template version you often get an incomprehensible error message. Not the case with the for loop.
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by nn3 11y ago
The Soviet Union built some fairly complex machines too, for example buran the Russian space shuttle, nuclear power plants, large airplanes, submarines etc. I don't think these are significantly less complex than an iPhone. Likely mor
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by nn3 11y ago
Scary to think that a major search engine really uses regular expressions heavily. Regexprs are great for quick scripts, but one would expect that in major production applications better and higher level parsing algorithms would be used. It
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by nn3 11y ago
Some proposals for newer classic books: Thinking Forth (That's from the 80ies. Amazing that they left that out. ACM doesn't like Forth?) Hacker's delight The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis The practice of progra
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by nn3 11y ago
A good sub title of the article would be "The sad sad world of people who cannot cook"
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by nn3 11y ago
The trick is to not too slavishly follow the recipe. I always replace obscure items in recipes with more common ones I have at home. For example instead of apple cider vinegar just use the plain vinegar you likely already have and use for o
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by nn3 11y ago
Is it terrorism to abuse words like terrorism so badly?
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by nn3 11y ago
I was recently in a hotel room and as there was nothing else to do I looked up who Gideon was in the Gideon bible. It turns out he was a major polygamist (Judges 8.29)
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by nn3 11y ago
Remember the US is the nation of the helicopter parents, where it is common to drive the kids to school and everywhere else until they get their own driving license. And cops are common to pick up younger kids which are around on their own
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by nn3 11y ago
Modern physics currently cannot explain what most of the universe is made of, as in the dark matter problem. While not exactly "down to earth" this would seem like a very pressing problem to me, that may be in need of more attenti
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by nn3 11y ago
>Function calls are really slow Really? How can you design a new language with such a problem? It's not the 80ies anymore.
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by nn3 11y ago
gcc $(gcc -v --help 2>&1 | awk '/-W/ && !/=/ && !/[oO]ptions/ && !/larger-than/ { print $1 }') Not particularly useful though.
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by nn3 12y ago
It is just you.
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by nn3 12y ago
TLDR; vote does not go the way a journalist wants it to, so he writes a long piece on how stupid the voters are.

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