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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I am not saying that SpaceX isn't allowed to do dangerous tests. I am saying that a test where a rocket might explode is the kind of thing that the FAA should 100% be involved in and it's ridiculous to pretend otherwise.
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Seriously? It's a test flight of an enormous brand new rocket! It exploded! It doesn't matter what the flight plan is or what SpaceX claims is enough clear airspace. Launches of this sort endanger every flight in Texas and several
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I think you made the wrong correction in the article: > Update: Thanks to gus_massa and wiml @ HackerNews for pointing out I had used associative instead of commutative.... This means that floating point arithmetic is noncommutative [i]n
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The thing is that private companies also have 1st amendment rights, and ideas like “we need to force FAANGs to do business with horrible racists like the people who run Parler” is much more of a threat to free speech than “Parler can’t buy
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> As far as memory safety goes, never rely on null terminated strings, allways copy the exact amount of data to a statically defined max, and make the buffer that holds data have the length max+1 with an extra byte that is allways set to
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
What a silly comment. a) “Why do we use DRAM instead of SRAM?” is a perfectly valid question from a programmer that is worth a paragraph of detail, including the capacitor discharge curves. It is not like this is a major focus of the articl
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This should probably have a (2007) in the title, FYI. “What every programmer should know about memory” is a modern classic and at first I thought this was a contemporary article about the paper. As this is the introduction, it might be he
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> Because how else do you explain this madness: they spent three years developing a new version of Racket that et the end turned slower than the original! This is just a blatant misunderstanding of what Racket on Chez is trying to do, an
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
You could make a similar argument about... any video, song, essay, etc, created by anyone. So I’m not sure what the point of your comment is. I think you are getting at the fact that there’s a lot of bad-faith grifters out there who prey on
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Wait till you hear what us leftists want to do with Facebook! I will say that my preferred solution to the problem of Facebook (nationalization and open criminal investigations into its leadership) actually raises serious constitutional iss
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I am very sympathetic to the idea that ISPs should be common carriers, but definitely not colos and platforms like AWS. Let’s use an old-fashioned analogy. An ISP is like a post office, and people’s letters should not be meddled with (outsi
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This isn’t necessarily something I’m proud of, but at my old C# job I would do inline C# in Powershell as a very hackish “C# REPL” for prototyping and interactive testing. At the time C# Interactive in Visual Studio was unreliable and I fou
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
In general I found it weird to have a whole conversation about "security" without mentioning that Rust is statically typed, unlike Node/Python, and has a great deal more null-safety. Now, I am not sure if memory bugs are &quo
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The most important point from the study: > We found that job demands could be the most important factor that can develop work addiction risk. So this factor should be controlled or should be investigated by the organization's manage
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I didn’t mean aesthetically so much as how vibrant the city feels (and again, I’ve only read about and watched the game). But traffic and pedestrians are far more brainless than even Vice City, the city itself is far less interactive or dyn
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I don’t think the anticompetitive thing really holds water: Parler is in no way a competitor to Alphabet’s companies, or Amazon, and not really a competitor to Facebook (whereas I could say it was a serious competitor to Twitter). So it’s h
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I am not coming out swinging - my comment was very much about the reaction to the game and I never tried to pretend otherwise. I said my impression is that it's a B+ game at it's best, which means that its horrible technical failu
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
OK - I didn't buy into the lofty expectations and I don't think you're understanding my point. My point was that even a platonic ideal of Cyberpunk wouldn't have lived up to expectations - I was surprised by how medioc
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
IMO the real issue is less that it’s unfinished and more that the product at its best doesn’t seem to live up to its lofty expectations (disclaimer: have not played it and don’t intend to until it goes on sale, just watched others and read
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
a) I didn’t really lean on Parler’s immorality per se so much as pointing out a business model widely perceived as immoral is a very risky thing to be hosting on AWS. My other two points had nothing to do with immorality. b) A person who sn
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> AWS et al should be treated as a public utility not bound by a private TOS How ridiculous. Individuals need water, heat, and electricity to survive in the 21st century. I would argue they also need a cell phone and internet access. Ind
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
You made up a truly dystopian future where many norms and laws have fallen by the wayside... including existing legal protections for gay consumers and entrepreneurs. So I don’t think your point is as great as you think it is! I agree that
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Honestly: fuck off. Anti-semtism is immoral and homosexuality is not. Homosexuality is protected under civil rights laws while racists are not. So no, kicking off a business for catering to homosexuals should be (and in many cases is) illeg
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Unreservedly yes: a) Parler is hardly being “kicked off the entire internet.” They are being severely ostracized and being denied service by major online companies. This would happen to me in my city’s various bars if I developed a reputati
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> Do you really think Hyundai is going to use this tech for humanitarian aid No, but like Ford or Mercedes or any other company like then, I believe they would sell this tech to humanitarian aid organizations that might use it. > I
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Because DARPA invests in high-risk research! They pour lots of money into lots of failures. It’s the nature of research. DARPA gave up on Boston Dynamics in 2015 - BigDog and it’s like were just too noisy and finicky for use in a combat sit
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I get your point, but a) Slack has 5x as many employees, global market share, consumer ubiquity, etc. It’s simply a bigger entity (in the same way that Home Depot is a more ‘boring’ business than slack but 15x larger in valuation) b) Boston
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I was referring to your comment about arresting Trump - Twitter’s line is clearly about “legal” state violence. This wouldn’t be murder or forced sterilization or a coup d’etat. But it could be a legal (or even legally murky) military actio
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The difference between - an illegal mob ransacking Congress in an attempt to overthrow an election, and - a constitutional arrest of a criminal president (e.g. by the House Sergeant-at-Arms, or by the FBI under Mike Pence’s and the Cabinet
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I didn’t say Haskell would fix bad security! My point is that it’s nonsense to suggest that existing languages are “just fine.” But many security bugs in C or C++ come down to sloppy types, sloppy pointers, or sloppy concurrency, all of whi

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