scoutt

42 ms·

421.
by scoutt 6y ago
It comes to my mind the names of the ministries in 1984 (Ministry of Plenty, Ministry of Love).
422.
by scoutt 6y ago
Yes, the simulation has to have a limited duration. > Lightspeed gives structure to the computation of the universe but it doesn't reduce the load. The load would be saved because you don't need to keep computing interactions b
423.
by scoutt 6y ago
Sorry. I read incomprehensible instead of incompressible . Perhaps the far universe we perceive and will perceive is not there anymore. It doesn't have to. What we perceive is its light (or electromagnetic/gravitational waves).
424.
by scoutt 6y ago
For Industry 4.0, yes telemetry is important. But, not all industrial cares about telemetry. In that case, what I have seen, is that all the data is sent to a concentrator that has the network stack. This is often a "high-end" (pe
425.
by scoutt 6y ago
Maybe the purpose of the simulation is to learn what can go wrong, or what's wrong in order to avoid self-destruction or solve a self-destruction situation in the far future.
426.
by scoutt 6y ago
Why the simulated universe should be the same as the universe outside the simulation? If it's the same, perhaps it's shown to us as a fraction of what's real.
427.
by scoutt 6y ago
I guess the problem is that they can involuntarily crash the system, but we would never know.
428.
by scoutt 6y ago
Now we should keep the phone away from our floppies!
429.
by scoutt 6y ago
Maybe, but what checks would the compiler do on my small embedded memory for a program that processes a sensor and raises a pin? It might sound simple but it's an important core project. Would the compiler check a write outside the buf
430.
by scoutt 6y ago
See. Not all the problems in embedded are network security risks. If you are evangelizing Rust, please stop trying to lure embedded developers with "networks haxxor buffer overflow" FUD because it's simply not going to work.
431.
by scoutt 6y ago
I think these kind of lines only resonates within marketing people. At the end of the day, they are trying to sell palabra , that should be another platform for white-hat spamming everybody could live without; for sending the kind of email
432.
by scoutt 6y ago
Side comment: it's curious how the author went from "not my code", to "the problem was in the code". I say this because as a low level/system developer, I often have to solve problems for the people integrating
433.
by scoutt 6y ago
Ok. Thanks. Still I believe they barely overlap (privacy and freedom of speech). It's a grey area. For instance, I can violate your privacy and not telling it to anyone (peeking through your window), and I can also tell something about
434.
by scoutt 6y ago
I don't get the link between privacy and freedom of speech. I can have private thoughts and private behaviors that don't necessarily have to do with speaking . In fact, many aspects of privacy have to do with what one does and t
435.
by scoutt 6y ago
> there's a good chance people have ... never been able to interface with the machine or external hardware. I agree that the trend is to go up and not down in what abstraction regards, but I also think that embedded programming was
436.
by scoutt 6y ago
> making a video showing how to make pull requests Except when it's a video clearly titled "win free shit" by abusing a system and the means to do it involve a pull request. If I make a video on how-to insurance fraud by
437.
by scoutt 6y ago
Yes, consumer technology is more appropriate. Better yet consumer software/electronics , I believe.
438.
by scoutt 6y ago
I don't get the point of your comment. Sorry. What about the flashlight? Since the article talks about technology ... Why is "technology = only software or apps or things related to a phone" ? Technology can be something th
439.
by scoutt 6y ago
I kind of agree, but calling it technology is pretty broad (article it's mostly app related). Technology-wise, I also expect things ranging from a flashlight to a CT scan to not suck , and they usually do not. Edit: flashlight inste
440.
by scoutt 6y ago
> encourage longer titles with lots of grinding/farming This is a good point that worries me. Also is the anxiety that carries having too much choice , like when choosing what to see next on Netflix. Now if you pay 60USD for a game
441.
by scoutt 6y ago
Again, I am not saying "go ahead and don't care about UB". I know what it is; I know what it can do. Just don't make it a big deal. You (plural) make it sound like it's impossible to build a system with C or any oth
442.
by scoutt 6y ago
There are worse things than can happen with bad wrote code other than security bugs. It doesn’t have to necessarily be exposed to the internet or users/attackers for bad things to happen. I truly believe that people just forgot this li
443.
by scoutt 6y ago
If some of my systems fail, people might die. Should I still be worried for a liability?
444.
by scoutt 6y ago
Sure but in 17 years writing C for a living, with lines of code by the millions, and (embedded) devices running my code all over the world I still have to know about an integer overflow bug. Sure, I don't always write bug-free code (as
445.
by scoutt 6y ago
You are right. I might correct the sentence with "you can often know". Undefined behavior should be avoided but really is not that terrible.
446.
by scoutt 6y ago
I guess people overreact to "undefined behavior". If your software runs always on the same platform then you can know what the behavior would be. It might also be intentional and should not crash your program. Undefined behavior i
447.
by scoutt 6y ago
In the eyes of the state, there is a much, much worse category: tax cheaters. Saul from Breaking Bad explains it very well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez6xH-su2xI
448.
by scoutt 6y ago
Tax evasion is illegal. What these people do is not (but maybe morally questionable?). Please don't go to an accountant asking to help you in "tax evasion schemes" :)
449.
by scoutt 6y ago
But do you and all your colleagues agree on everything with all your bosses? If so, how do you know? What if the boss eats meat or prefer cats over dogs, while you (or other employees) do not? Please don't reply with "are you comp
450.
by scoutt 6y ago
I think one of the first things I do after a clean Firefox installation is to set PDFs to be opened with the Windows default reader. Reading (and mostly searching text in) a PDF in the browser is terrible.

More ›