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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
AS refers to the Autonomous System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) It's an IP routing concept. AS Numbers are used to refer to different networks (run by different ISPs and providers)
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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
> Another way to look at this problem is by data size. Let's assume we are training a NN using a data set of 10,000 pages text. The total number of pages of all possible knowledge in the world (ever) is an incalculable number, but l
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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
The article seems to me to hint that exploring inner space is the key here. Perhaps the internet, computer games and other ways of interacting socially without actually coming into contact with each other are a way for us to expand the amou
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How the CPSC Is (Inadvertently) Behind the Largest DDoS Attacks(blog.cloudflare.com)
9 points by scotchmi_st 10y ago|1 comments
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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
There is a partial solution to this problem- API schemas . Define a schema for your API and make it public, then have API methods auto-generated directly from that. For example, for web APIs, there's jsonschema- http://json
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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
> Does it matter more that there's no duplicate particles (ie. no changes of a copy being made)? Yes, it does matter. No copy being introduced means it's just a translation of displacement. That's an entirely different ope
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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
We're chasing our tails here. The definition of the copy function requires both an original and a copy. There is //always// an original and a copy. Thus, exact clones and copies made in teleport machines are always
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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
Or you could, you know, use Celsius like the rest of the world... ;)
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Announcing Support for HTTP2 Server Push(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by scotchmi_st 10y ago|0 comments
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by scotchmi_st 10y ago
"Those very politicians, advertisers, media moguls, corporates and journalists who thought the internet a passing fad have moved in and grabbed the land. They have all the reach, scope, power and ‘social bandwidth’ there is. Everyone e
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
> With that info, a terrorist can buy a SIM card for my name, use it to proxy-blow up a goddamn bomb aaaaand I'm in jail. Or, you know, dead. It's a bit optimistic in the current climate to assume they'd arrest you peacefu
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
I think you're misreading what he says. "...replacing it with Rust /or pretty much anything else/" (emphasis own). The point is we should be replacing C with /pretty much anything else/. Rust looks like th
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
Surely it's `import twentyfour`? 2 x 3 = 6 => 2 x 3 x 4 = 24 ;)
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
> ...now that the low hanging fruit has long gone. That begs the question of what we determine to be low-hanging fruit. An engineer in 2030 may look back on the time now and see the 2016 advancements as 'low-hanging fruit' rela
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
> If you drive the engine with parameters tuned for low emissions, you'll get less efficiency etc. Can you explain that further? Given a specific power output, lower emission levels would to me indicate that the engine is doing more
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
There are plenty of confounding factors with your own "easy test", some of which you admit yourself- the stress of the life in general. Who's to say that living a neolithic existence isn't stressful? Indeed, it probably
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
> Code is written with two kinds of readers in mind: the computer and other humans. Prose is written just for humans. I don't think the fact that code is also meant to be read by a computer is relevant in this context. But let'
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
I would say that unless you know the rules (imaginary or real), it's not possible to break them in a way that is interesting. A programming example: PEP 8 makes no difference to whether or not your Python code will run. You can quite h
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
Then again, no-one ever said that you could learn a trade at 20, and that trade would still be relevant when you're 40. If capitalism is something you agree with, then you must also accept the transitory nature of your work. Although p
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
No, you seem to be talking about whether certain behaviour involving cars should be allowed. That's not the issue in the article, or being discussed here. The issue is whether it's a good idea to design computers to allow certain
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
Cory Doctorow goes on to discuss that as well in the next paragraph after the one I initially posted, when talking about banning hands-free kits in cars: "We understand that cars remain cars even if we remove features from them. Cars a
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
He had me until the bit comparing illegal movie downloads to terrorism and drugs, and how MegaUpload and Google are 'enablers' by allowing users to upload/search for copyright-infringing content. It's quite clear that he
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
That broadly speaking comes under point 1, and in my opinion, that's very unlikely, given that at the point Snowden stopped contracting for the NSA, PGP was still considered uncrackable by them.
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
I can see 3 possible scenarios here. 1. Russia/China have got hold of the files, and know how to decrypt PGP (Very unlikely). 2. A journalist with access to the files and the encryption keys has left them lying around, or was cooerced
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
It's the same old problem of trying to build a peer-to-peer social network. How do you ensure that large files are distributed correctly and quickly with minimal security implications in an environment where nodes are constantly joinin
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
Sure (although I'm not a musician). But it's possible to get better at something with practice and to think or say otherwise is toxic. If you think it's possible for someone to rethink their attitude then you already agree wi
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by scotchmi_st 11y ago
> Some people are tone-deaf too, and will never sing nor play an instrument. That's quite a telling statement. Actually, there are very, very few people who are _truly_ tone deaf. Since intonation is used extensively in nearly all h
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by scotchmi_st 12y ago
I've seen things similar to this before, but they tended to be unreliable. Has anyone actually used this yet? Does it work reliably? Also, how does the authentication work exactly? What's to stop someone from blasting out the same
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Silent Circle's warrant canary is out of date(canary.silentcircle.com)
148 points by scotchmi_st 12y ago|107 comments
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by scotchmi_st 12y ago
> "The astonishing thing is, you'd think it would bump into a million other waves that are coming at it from every direction; that it would pass through other storms, spreading, bumping, traveling, that all this travel would sa

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