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by rixed 5y ago
This is indeed important for a serialization format to permit extensions, and ASN1 types can accordingly be extended in a backward compatible way (for instance, enumerations can be said to also accept other constructors to be defined in the
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by rixed 5y ago
How could a richer type system or more choices regarding the encoding be a bad thing? I don't understand your remark.
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by rixed 5y ago
ASN1 has a much richer type system than protobufs, and is more general in that it accept several encodings, some of which optimised for size, some for speed, some for simplicity. I believe we could prune all the unnecessary 90s fad from the
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by rixed 5y ago
What do the security experts recommend?
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by rixed 5y ago
Also, the nail on the coffin for my unquestioning admiration for Russel could be the passage were he suggests that the human race survival might not be desirable. Was it just intended as a joke? Or was he in such a bad mood around that per
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by rixed 5y ago
I count myself as one of the many Russel fans, but I have to admit that if this article were my first encounter with his thoughts then my opinion on him would probably be very different. In this speech Russel loosely identifies 3 competing
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by rixed 5y ago
https://m.youtube.com/user/eaterbc Mature, technical, no delusion of grandeur. The only computer oriented YouTube channel that I've ever subscribed.
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by rixed 5y ago
> unfortunately neither of them are formally verified operating systems with any kind of guarantees about correctness and security, so you've just got to keep up with patches. I'm unsure that conclusion follows from those premi
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by rixed 5y ago
A quick Google search indicates that vitamin d deficiency happens less often in the UK (1/5th adults) than in the US (2/3rd adults), yet we don't see that people in the UK are significantly less susceptible to get severely il
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by rixed 5y ago
Just for the record, it is possible to type check format strings with regard to their actual arguments. OCaml does this, for instance, probably since its inception ~30 years ago or so.
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by rixed 5y ago
Oftentimes build farms that I've came across were implemented by leveraging the local dev machines so it would naturally scale with number of devs. Copying back the debug build is indeed more of an issue as it depends on network gears
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by rixed 5y ago
Weren't compile farms a thing decades ago? What happened to them?
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by rixed 5y ago
Sure, but how many wars and famines before we land back to where we stood during the last glaciation?
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by rixed 5y ago
With sufficiently complex systems to detect fraud, such as AI or that involve constraint optimisers, it is not always doable to isolate a single, clear parameter that is responsible for the data to be flagged. This is an issue also for them
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by rixed 5y ago
> Are there any desktop apps delivered like this yet? Any operating systems or some sort of runtimes (browsers?) that support them? Ever heard of apparmor? That's per application security profiles, distributed with any applications
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by rixed 5y ago
If you want a video broadcast service where only paying customers can provide content, you already have one, it's called TV.
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by rixed 5y ago
How do you design the appeal process to ensure it's not going to be spammed?
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by rixed 5y ago
I do not believe this would address the root issue, which is not "how to put pressure on Google to do less evil". The challenge is to moderate a popular service where any user can upload content that many actors will try to abuse.
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by rixed 5y ago
> Apple is ensuring that everything developers need will be ARM compatible Let's rather say that Apple helps developers realize that the vast majority of open source dev tools they need have been working seamlessly on arm platforms
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by rixed 5y ago
Actually, by the million (monthly) https://www.science.org/content/article/how-many-mice-and-ra...
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by rixed 5y ago
Apparently, from recent posts on this page, the problem is not solely caused by the fact that log4j perform some substitutions from a preset map, but that it performs substitution recursively, thus interpreting again the data injected into
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by rixed 5y ago
How are varargs implemented in the JVM ABI? Is the called function even aware of how many parameters were actually passed, or does it have to rely on the format string for that?
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by rixed 5y ago
Advertising is needed to protect good products from the advertising of bad products?
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by rixed 5y ago
Mind you, you sound 100% like someone who do not care about others. But your decision to not take flu shots sounds totally reasonable given you apparently get a bad adverse reaction every time. You therefore belong to that group of people w
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by rixed 5y ago
Why engage in discussions when semantics does not matter?
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by rixed 5y ago
"Page an engineer for any blip in the radar" is the equivalent of treating compile warnings as error.
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by rixed 5y ago
My best guess is that the power law governing covid epidemics growth poses a greater threat (in terms of costs and casualties) than slow evolving obesity crisis.
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by rixed 5y ago
Obesity is costly and deadly, no doubt about that. But it is not saturating the health system as in filling up all available life support equipments. Also, obesity "epidemic" is slow, therefore easy to manage, compared to the covi
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by rixed 5y ago
> the unvaccinated are taking all the risks. Not if they saturate the health system and you need it for something else.
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by rixed 5y ago
The strong phrasing you use in your comments betray that you are the one showing emotions here. I totally get where those are coming from, and certainty share some of your exasperation, yet I believe this world view of thin-skinned versus t

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