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by rst 7y ago
Gundotra's comment to Bray was "the iPhone is really good" -- so that conversation had to have happened after the iPhone was announced, and perhaps after it shipped -- by which point, by the commenter's account (and your
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It needs more than just the rocket. You also need a lunar lander, and all we have right now are paper sketches of designs that would take more than four years to finish and build, on conventional timelines. (One wild card is the SpaceX Star
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Designing and fabricating optics comparable to Hubble's is not an amateur job -- it requires engineering meter-sized objects to micrometer tolerances, with similar requirements for alignment. (This was initially botched in Hubble itsel
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It's on the current OWASP top ten as one case of "Broken Access Control" (scenario 1): https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/OWASP_Top_Ten_2017/Top... (In at least one prior edition, it had an entry
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Other diseases are worse. Measles is a lot worse, with an R0 estimated at between 12 and 18. But R0 is a measure of propagation rate in an undefended population. For most highly infectious diseases with known R0 values, we have defenses
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There is no single TCP monoculture codebase -- even among Unix-alikes, the Linux networking stack is a reimplementation, with no common ancestry with the BSD stack. (To say nothing of routers with their own implementations, often including
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The most obvious rationale for this sort of thing is limiting what an attacker can do after injecting and running their own code in the process. (Straight Morris-worm style buffer overflow attacks are hard to execute these days, but there
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by rst 7y ago
The pseudonymous but well-connected 'swiftonsecurity' twitter account reports on background that 'RCE' chatter about this particular vulnerability does indeed relate to compromised software update channels. (Not just Aut
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The bug is being publicly described as specific to the implementation of a particular class of cryptographic primitives (ECC). If that's accurate, simplifying the certificate data format (unnecessarily messy though it may be) wouldn&#x
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Security updates in Python itself aren't the only issue; a Python 2 project may also depend on packages with security issues of their own, which require continued upstream maintenance. For example, the python-saml package (for managing
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It is. The news is that Boeing has conceded that retraining pilots will be required to get it flying again.
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Well, according to that reference, it's hardened against a specific, previously known attack. Do you have any information on whether that also protects against the different, new attack which was just published?
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There's an oddball NYC tradition of (not strictly observant) Jews going out for Chinese food on Christmas because those were the only restaurants that were open. The Chinese restarauteurs are appreciative, but sometimes mystified...
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by rst 7y ago
Hmmm... your reference seems to indicate it's OK, so long as it's clear to any observers what's really going on. Cheeseburgers with non-dairy mock cheese are an explicit example. (Next two paragraphs quoted: For example, if o
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So, someone has to ask... is Impossible Pork kosher?
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The originality of the 1966 moving-dot graphics demo is likewise... overstated. Ivan Sutherland had done the first MacDraw-type program (Sketchpad) at MIT in 1962; the same year, undergrads at MIT playing around after hours did Spacewar, wi
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by rst 7y ago
See also "The Secret History of Silicon Valley", by former tech executive Steve Blank: https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ Post-world war II defense contractors, mentored and brokered personally by Stanfor
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From a few years ago, with Scala 2, but the fundamentals may not have changed much. Scala had, and has, a large bespoke standard library, which is big enough that if you tried to ship it with even a trivial app, it exceeded limits not just
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by rst 7y ago
Boeing does get to reuse theirs. SpaceX is ultimately planning to reuse them as well, but is planning a new capsule each flight for the initial contract while negotiating recertification requirements with NASA. (That's what they did fo
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There are already other options, if NASA had chosen to fund them -- Sierra Nevada put together a fairly strong bid for their DreamChaser lifting body, which is still being funded as one of the next-generation commercial ISS cargo transports
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by rst 7y ago
The cost of a new-built capsule is likely more than the cost of the rocket, for both companies. Though Boeing may not be out that money in this case -- the CST-100 is supposed to be reusable, so there's at least the prospect of relaunc
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They were gambling on a quick fix that would be acceptable to regulators, and which could be easily retrofit to existing aircraft, including the ones still rolling off the production line. Pausing production has cost -- and if the planes we
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by rst 7y ago
There have been Linux phones before, like the Nokia N900. But there hasn't been the combination of marketing push and, perhaps, polish required for them to succeed commercially against other platforms. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by rst 7y ago
Cantrill's blog post explicitly references the Open Compute Project's base designs -- which are Facebook's published versions of the design they use for their own on-prem servers and network. They seem to be dropping lots of
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by rst 7y ago
ARM is doing CHERI-enhanced cores, at least as a research project: https://www.eetasia.com/news/article/CHERI-based-Prototype-t... There's also Dover Microsystems, which is trying to commercialize similar-in-
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That is the crux of the argument -- which seems to ignore that Bostrom restricts his argument to considering " ancestor simulations", which would be rigged to at least look to the inhabitants like they have the same physics as th
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It has, but in this case, the family was (by their own account) not so much unfavorable, as clueless -- they say they inquired about getting the books back into print, but asked Ford's former agent, who was in the process of ghosting p
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Also sometimes titled De Vermis, which is the title of the blog post that Ford dropped the first comment on: http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html
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There's also this sonnet, composed on a whim in response to a half-joking prompt: The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the
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Per the reddit thread on the launch, the fairing recovery ships are all in port. It's not clear why.

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