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by rocqua 2y ago
How will microphone access be monetized? For video, it is extortion. For microphone, it's much harder.
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by rocqua 2y ago
People watch porn on their laptops. Even just your orgasm face would be embarrassing for most people.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Empirically, most low level extortion does seem to be about leaking video. I would see a threat model based on 'criminal wants to extort me for money'. As more reasonable than 'creep wants to look through my computer for cree
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by rocqua 2y ago
WiFi and Bluetooth are usually provided by the same device, and it makes sense to want Bluetooth on a desktop. So you get WiFi essentially for free if you get Bluetooth.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Corporate WiFi based on a password and a device certificate is fine. For BYO devices, you have a separate WiFi network that does require a VPN to reach the corporate network.
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by rocqua 2y ago
You can use quantum computers to ask about the behavior of a random quantum computer. Google actually did this a while ago. And the result was better than a real computer could simulate.
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by rocqua 2y ago
I think a transistor, etching, and photolithography should all be explainable to these geniuses. If you get those, and then hand wave 'but now a lot more and precise' they will have about an average understanding of the process fo
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by rocqua 2y ago
This is just proving 'move spheres closer means more neutrons'. It's something you quickly show someone to explain what you are going to do. The people watching will then get most of the same ideas you are suggesting, and fig
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by rocqua 2y ago
Sure, there is a hierarchy. But the hierarchy is open. You still need to recurse down the entire call stack to figure out which exceptions might be raised.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Boeing could have specced some weird stuff on the dispenser, just to make it harder to get elsewhere. Things like impact resistance, yield strength in a fire, or counter-rotating threads to prevent it shaking out.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Exceptions in Python and C are the same. The idea with these is, either you know exactly what error to expect to handle and recover it, or you just treat it as a general error and retry, drop the result, propagate the error up, or log and a
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by rocqua 2y ago
There is web of trust, where you trust people that are trusted by your friends. There's issues with it, but it is an alternative model, and I could see it being made to work.
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by rocqua 2y ago
> If not for LE perhaps there would have been more motivation to implement support for a saner trust mechanism by now I would argue that LE has only highlighted these problems, and now actually causes people with power to worry about the
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by rocqua 2y ago
Because they want to check on the wire, before it hits an endpoint. Common situation is detecting malware sent through a phishing mail. You want to intercept those before a user can unpack the file.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Good compression should still be cryptographically distinguishable from true randomness right? Sure the various measures of entropy should be high, but I always just assumed that compression wouldn't pass almost any cryptographic rando
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by rocqua 2y ago
Satelite still is centralized, needing a core to handle billing and routing. In time of war, it is quite easy to disable, and it remains fragile due to complexity, whilst being in someone else's control. HAM radio is robust, has no out
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by rocqua 2y ago
That should be the point of the question. Figure out what context the asker is missing. Not to diminish the work of the one being questioned.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Twice the words. But more importantly, if a DNS record is a bad idea, your version is likely to get a more detailed response. It can be valuable to get a compact answer like filtering rules or we don't have a local DNS server.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Just in a statement is insulting if the other person has no idea why the statement is true. Why don't you just, in a question, is insulting if the suggestion is a good one. There is weird symmetry here.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Great bit of semantic insight. Just signifies an assumption of simplicity. Which is different from signifying it IS simple. Which makes it very nice for getting your assumptions checked.
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by rocqua 2y ago
I love the word just in a question, exactly because of what the article points out. Just means, my suggestion seems unreasonably simple to me. It means I am looking for, and expecting, a reason it doesn't work. The downside is if the s
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by rocqua 2y ago
As matt levine likrs to say. High level finance is mostly about seating charts. In other words, it's about status, not money.
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by rocqua 2y ago
This was on automatic shifting cars.
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by rocqua 2y ago
I do really think ACOUP is a great comparisson. It's not a newsletter, but it still hits the spaced repetition point. It doesn't have the advantage of following news, but it makes up for this by having a huge 'backlog' o
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by rocqua 2y ago
That is only possible if the optimization is wrong (rare), or the program already had undefined behavior (very common, because undefined behavior is very easy to trigger in C).
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by rocqua 2y ago
The excuse for this is that performance is not considered part of the behavior of the program. So it doesn't matter to the question of whether your program is deterministic.
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by rocqua 2y ago
Rust is all about ring-fencing the scary parts in unsafe. A rust program that doesn't use unsafe, and only uses dependencies that are sound with respect to unsafe, is guaranteed to be fine. And it is very easy to write code without usi
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by rocqua 2y ago
Regardless, these deep dives are so valuable in teaching yourself, they can be worth it just for that.
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by rocqua 2y ago
A quick fix works now. It makes the next fix or change much harder because it just added a special case, or ignored an edge case that wasn't possible in the configuration at that time.
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by rocqua 2y ago
As for gambling. The point isn't gambling is evil, but that others think gambling is evil, so being associated with gambling is bad for business.

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