pietroglyph

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by pietroglyph 8y ago
govet catches (all?) mutex copies, by the way. Static analysis is cool.
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
I love the iOS app, but things like this concern me (not quite a dealbreaker though): https://github.com/mssun/passforios/issues/223
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
Very impressive! It has some issues with uncommon hats though (which isn't too surprising): Original: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/xrichar... Background removed: https:&#x2F
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
I don't think the article says that machine learning will solve everything... It's just talking about a new product in this space that uses machine learning.
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
> Then came the 1970s and the drug war. “Oh my goodness, now I have a business,” he thought. This guy is pretty interesting (and it's disappointing that he didn't do something more constructive with his skills), but this quote
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
I would just add that Mozilla also targets security critical portions with Rust rewrites. You don't necessarily need 100% Rust to be secure (if you have the right security model).
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
Interestingly, my numbers are completely different relative to each other when compared with yours... I wonder how the number of runs is determined and if this affects the results. Benchmarking, the higher ops/sec the better. Fir
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Lunar Landing Research Vehicle and Lunar Sim Mode(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pietroglyph 8y ago|0 comments
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This City’s Overdose Deaths Have Plunged. Can Others Learn from It?(nytimes.com)
2 points by pietroglyph 8y ago|1 comments
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
I think GP is referring to this: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/comcast-s... Comcast's behavior isn't exactly malicious right now, but it could be pretty easily.
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
Compiled for easier viewing here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1065880618662313984.html
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China Has an Achilles’ Heel: Undereducation(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pietroglyph 8y ago|0 comments
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
This is an entire (delightful) series: https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html I have often wondered how a hypothetical alien would perceive our computer systems... It's wonderful to see someone has thought about it too (a
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
This is a good starting point on all of this (with links to criticism): https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5927 Has this gone anywhere since 2013?
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
The most interesting part of this is their use of user data. Traditionally, it seems like there isn't a great way to judge demand for a restaurant until you open it, so it makes sense that user tracking (to gauge interest) and the abil
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
The point of that article is that a main justification for turning off selective availability was that the US could still deny access in certain geographic areas. Selective denial != selective availability.
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
The United States actually does have the ability to selectively degrade signals. I don't know enough to comment on this capability in more detail (another comment seems to indicate that it is through jamming). A relevant excerpt (from
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
No one seems to have mentioned that the US has actually blocked GPS signals before for military reasons (during the Kargil war in 1999): https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-... There's
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
It looks like they're going with open core: https://about.sourcegraph.com/pricing
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
It's always amazed me how, in 2018, TI calculators with software and hardware from 10 years ago still cost $100+ dollars [0] and command a near monopoly in US secondary schools (which, I suppose, is why they still cost that much). For
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
You don't need to attract top talent when they come to you via court order, I suppose…
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
The article doesn't mention this anywhere, but the "waveform" is usually a 4D lookup table with target and previous grayscale value, temperature, and frame number.
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but there are actually supported Tensorflow bindings for Go. They're quite usable (at least for me when I used them for inference), relatively idiomatic, and well documented. See https:&#x2
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
Media isn't really regulated much different than Twitter, and an "internet service" isn't required to be politically neutral in its handling of what content it chooses to host.
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
In regards to question a, I think that Go's compile time checking makes it better than Python when each deploy to your robot takes a long time, or when the robot moves and you have to physically reset its position for each run (it suck
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
There's some interesting history behind distress beacons that broadcast on 406 MHz without any subscription. It's a good example of successful Cold War cooperation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
This is only a small part of a large collection of space sounds. I like these the best because they're from the oldest satellites (although some have been recorded relatively recently!) You can find links to sounds from 1961-present, a
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Sounds from Scientific, Meteorological, Commercial Satellites 1967-1971 (2013)(dd1us.de)
8 points by pietroglyph 8y ago|4 comments
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
It's amazing where you can find relatively powerful general purpose processors, and all the vulnerabilities that come with that reality. I like this article on the subject: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=355
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by pietroglyph 8y ago
> C is actually great and is only really dangerous because it gives the programmer so much control. This doesn't actually refute the assertion that C is dangerous :) Control and increased safety are not mutually exclusive. I'll

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