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by pdkl95 5y ago
How many people have seen the iMessage source code? A handful of devs at Apple? Closed, proprietary software by definition prevents "more eyes" from looking. Even if we consider an open source product where having "many eyes&
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The Great Myth of the Medieval Tritone Ban(youtube.com)
4 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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Class Breaks(schneier.com)
3 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
It could help by simply being sufficiently different . The only reason this type of malware is such a widespread problem is the large monoculture of potential targets. Just like in agriculture (e.g. potatoes, bananas), a monoculture allo
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Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?
109 points by pdkl95 5y ago|69 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
That's true for every vaccine against any disease. There is always a chance that the vaccine could fail or wear off for a variety of reasons. Historically this usually happens at a very low rate, but occasionally the probability of f
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Webcam Feedback Fractals(codeparade.itch.io)
1 points by pdkl95 5y ago|1 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
If you are interested in using a tracker, I highly recommend trying Sunvox [1]. It's an Impulse Trackers style pattern based sequencer. It's a surprisingly high quality modular synthesizer. It's also multi-platform: Windows,
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> A natural join selects all matching names Yes, which is why I called it "brittle". It can easily break if you aren't careful with column names. However, if someone really wanted (unwisely, in my opinion) to have the DB
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They should use NATURAL JOIN if auto-selection of the join keys is that important. I wouldn't recommend relying on that type of automagic behavior because it is very brittle; adding a column to a table might accidentally break existing
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by pdkl95 5y ago
https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0... "Survival of the Richest" > I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech ... to deliver some insight on the subject
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> Joel Moskowitz https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-... "Don’t Fall Prey to Scaremongering about 5G"
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by pdkl95 5y ago
In high school "AP CS" class in the early 90s, a friend of mine was annoyed at the stupid "security" software the school installed on the macs (system 7). It was basically just a system extension that asked for a passwor
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> I mean I watched people in Canada in the news this morning and thought, why are they still outside in the sun even? "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" by Noël Coward (1932) In tropical climes there are certain times of day When
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by pdkl95 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8i6aMG9VM (cw: strong language) TL;DW - nothing happens, it's an unresolvable deadlock. This "feature" can sometimes be used by deliberately adding many easily claimable wo
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Three copyright strikes and Google may delete your entire YT channel, while they continue to allow (and support via their "content id" service) an unlimited number of patently fraudulent claims from accounts that are obviously
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Sure! Developing both the backend and an initial UI front end in parallel is a good idea. The point is to separate different aspects of the program into manageable, modular sections. Separating the mechanism and UI is just an another way to
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by pdkl95 5y ago
A good solution to this is the traditional[1][2] UNIX approach of separating mechanism and UI. First develop the core functionality without a UI as a library (or daemon or whatever). The actual UI is then developed as a front-end to the l
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> when ads exploit ... music https://boingboing.net/2021/06/14/facebook-asked-pink-floyds... Pink Floyd's Roger Waters: > It's a request for the rights to use my song, "Another Brick in t
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by pdkl95 5y ago
https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/college-stu... > At the self-described “heart” of the company’s monitoring software is Monitor AI, a “powerful artificial intelligence engine” that collects faci
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Ruby seems to handle this out of the box: >> RUBY_VERSION ⇒ "2.7.2" >> data = [1_000_000_000.1, 1.1] * 50_000 ; nil ⇒ nil >> data.sum ⇒ 50000000060000.0 >> data.sum / data.length ⇒
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Tik Tok and dissonance do not mix(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
See this[1] interview for a good explanation of surveillance capitalism, from the person that coined the term. > The idea here is that what is being produced are predictions, predictions of future human behavior that are then sold to mar
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by pdkl95 5y ago
...which is why it's important to design things to fail safely . That "worst result" needs to be minimized by design .
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> more data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTWD0j4tec4 Negativeland has never been more on-topic.
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by pdkl95 5y ago
The WPT is the exact opposite of what I was talking about. The interesting thing about the Acid tests isn't their utility as a conformance test. Sure, that's what the were, but even at the time the problems with the tests were w
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by pdkl95 5y ago
I miss the days when browsers took pride in announcing[1] their new version passed Acid2/Acid3. Sure, the tests had issues, but they were self contained and anyone could see which browsers mostly passed and which were missing half of t
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by pdkl95 5y ago
If a company is serious about this type of promise, they should take away their ability to change their mind in the future with a Ulysses pact [1]. See this[2] older post where for a bit more detail from a talk by Cory Doctorow. >> T
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Software has a significant advantage over things that have to be made in the real world: it doesn't degrade over time. Digital encoding is fundamentally a way to avoid entropy's inexorable erosive effects. Hardware will eventually
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What Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?(youtube.com)
4 points by pdkl95 5y ago|1 comments

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