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by pflanze 11y ago
What I don't understand is: what's different with iOS8 and 9 so that they can't do it anymore? If the difference is that the older version's user data is not encrypted, then why are they asking Apple to unlock it versus
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by pflanze 11y ago
I said "risk of deadly instability through destroying most of nature" but really meant to say "high risk of deadly instability through having destroyed most of nature". I.e. we might get ever closer to a world which is s
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by pflanze 11y ago
Able yes, but at very high risk of deadly instability through destroying most of nature and accordingly higher dependence on technology, and smoothly working social structures?
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by pflanze 11y ago
With regards to HashCash, the explanations I've seen didn't persuade me (the counter arguments most often cited have been made by some researchers in some IMHO very weak papers). To me it seems that the real reason why it's n
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by pflanze 11y ago
More about the plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_Watchkeeper_WK450 Are these being used in the UK for civil surveillance?
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by pflanze 11y ago
The problem is from "body * { opacity: 0; }" in: http://steveworsley.com/assets/css/styles.css (It didn't display in Chromium without JS either; right click "inspect element" on the middle
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by pflanze 11y ago
Interesting. Reminds me of Montreal's external stairs[]; oddly I still haven't found a historically backed (citations, research) account of why it has them. [] e.g. https://chicagomontreal.wordpress.com/2007/0
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by pflanze 11y ago
The original poster says: "Given that unikernels compile only which is necessary into the applications, the surface area is very small." I think this is a somewhat strange statement. You don't lower the surface area by not co
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by pflanze 11y ago
Your answer may look unscientific (hand-wavy, with the word "meaningless" being too strong, that's how I explain the downvotes), but I guess if eating is (partially) feeding gut bacteria, then the micro structure of the food
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by pflanze 11y ago
The user identifier for PGP keys is the User-ID (name and email address), and you can have any number of PGP keys for one. GnuPG lets you search for a User-ID (or part thereof) with --list-key, the same is true for key servers. Each key can
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by pflanze 11y ago
I've done a similar thing in Scheme to learn Intel assembly (it only supports a small subset of it, and produces standard .as output files instead of byte code, and I have not used it for anything in production so far): https:/&#
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by pflanze 11y ago
This assumes that the body is magnetically conducting. The article implies this, too, with the statements about increased privacy and the claim of employing the body as a communication medium (versus simply having it transparent, which woul
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by pflanze 11y ago
Yes, if the tripwire raises an alarm instead of triggering a bomb. A bomb would stop the attacker by killing/injuring him, which is not the case here (he can just come back with X11 exploitation code).
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by pflanze 11y ago
Are you / is AppArmor using a separate X11 instance for these? As otherwise, forget about it, I wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652228
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by pflanze 11y ago
I might post something in the +-near future.
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by pflanze 11y ago
Interesting, I didn't think of quines since I learned about and played with the fixed-point combinators. I never wrote a quine, I guess that's why. I'll try some time.
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by pflanze 11y ago
Thanks. Thus it seems that I misinterpreted it (I was on NT 4): I've got somewhat solid confirmation that Perl also supported it on NT, thus I guess I got to the conclusion from old docs that were written for Win95/98/ME.
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by pflanze 11y ago
The Haskell implementation is not the Y combinator. But it's one way to implement the fixed-point combinator (and it is functionally equivalent): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator Edit: The diff
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by pflanze 11y ago
I wasn't aware that Microsoft Windows supported a stderr filehandle separate from stdout. When I worked a little on it about 17 years ago, I thought it didn't have that (e.g. warnings from Perl were intermixed with redirected stdo
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by pflanze 11y ago
Hm, the question now becomes what kind of `goto` you're talking about. C's goto is definitively not enough either, since you can't use labels in other functions as target (and have other restrictions). Perl's goto qualif
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by pflanze 11y ago
> In a language with loops, however, TCO is not essential since you can always just use a loop. That's not correct. Loops are just one kind (the simplest) of iteration. In a language with TCO, you can also implement state machines w
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by pflanze 11y ago
We're talking about static content here. I'm asking to read a document, not execute a program.
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by pflanze 11y ago
Unlike when serving people with disabilities, which you can't understand and test well if you're not disabled yourself (or specially trained), as a developer you should automatically be aware when you'd exclude people without
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by pflanze 11y ago
Do like me and turn off JavaScript by default. The more people we are, the greater the chances that the web remains usable without JavaScript.
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by pflanze 11y ago
Those seem to be good ideas. A nice balancing act, I guess that was what may have made it interesting to analyze for Richard Stallman.
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by pflanze 11y ago
How are private Github repositories using the same idea? Normal access controls are just implemented at the data source, limiting read (or write) there. DRM is implemented in the hardware of the user so that some programs that the user uses
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by pflanze 11y ago
I can confirm that Gmail has gotten a major pain for me with too eager spam filtering. 1. some Gmail users have told me they don't receive email from my non-gmail server/address, even though I set up SPF, reverse DNS lookup and ev
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by pflanze 11y ago
I was expecting this to talk about heavy metals[1] (which are (sometimes?) used in paints applied to ships), but it is using this title just to refer to the heavy industry. (Link bait?) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by pflanze 11y ago
I was wondering about what "two copies" meant. Chromosome pairs aren't copied from each other, but surely the author didn't mean to separate the DNA strand into its mirrored halfs, that must surely not be stable whatever
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by pflanze 11y ago
Any recommendation for literature on turing machines? The wikipedia article seems to be a bit clouded to me. I know turing machines and CPUs with infinite memory are similar in some ways, and that like lambda calculus they can (somewhat equ

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