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by snerbles 9y ago
> What is there to test? These aren't servers. Such hubris. When I worked night shift in emergency dispatch, our base network ops center pushed out an update that took our phone workstations offline. The phones that receive instal
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by snerbles 9y ago
This configuration command prior to make worked for me on Linux: ./configure --disable-shared CC="afl-gcc" It calls the AFL GCC compiler instead, which presumably injects instrumentation.
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by snerbles 9y ago
The case of Justine Sacco. A magical combination of a single bad joke and outrage culture. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-t... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fema
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by snerbles 9y ago
Twitter can afford an army of lawyers.
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by snerbles 9y ago
While the case may be resolved favorably in the court of law, the defendant will still be pilloried in the court of public opinion. There's also the issue of having their assets seized, with all the financial costs associated with tha
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by snerbles 9y ago
A more extreme example of this concept is denatured alcohol, which is ethanol adulterated to deter consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol
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by snerbles 9y ago
Writing test benches in Icarus Verilog was quite helpful for me, along with pretty much everything at asic-world[0]. I haven't looked for a VHDL equivalent of Icarus, unfortunately. Of course, always remember that "can be compile
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by snerbles 9y ago
These layers of abstraction seem to lead software bloggers to re-discovering concepts known by hardware engineers for decades.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Hardware Description Languages tend to be concurrent by default, with specific syntax for sequential logic. A parallel pair of AND gates is physically concurrent, let alone anything with a clock.
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by snerbles 9y ago
As a personal reminder, I agree. No one else cares, until they do. And when they do, any little thing in your past can and will be used as a social cudgel against you.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Helicopters can auto-rotate, "gliding" on the momentum of the main rotor. This allows for a controllable landing under loss of power. There have been rare cases where a mechanical failure seizes the main rotor, such as the crash
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by snerbles 9y ago
Your racetrack analogies are deviating too far from the classroom example. If you want to model selective advantages, give one student additional coins to flip.
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by snerbles 9y ago
See Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. While Facebook and Google are dabbling in this behavior, Microsoft was the master of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui... https://en.wikipedia
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by snerbles 10y ago
Or enough of the legacy media sees the clicks as a zero-sum game, and seeks to strangle the competition before it gets too powerful.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Lamenting the manners of society whilst being rude herself.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Sure, the DoE produces and "owns" the nukes, "loaning" them to the DoD for the deterrence mission. Military personnel still turn the launch keys, when the order comes.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Start an arms race, use ML to generate fake traffic.
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by snerbles 10y ago
It's all fun and games until someone feeds it pictures of children. Now you have an illegal information firehose.
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by snerbles 10y ago
This is the same concept as EVE's PLEX item, which was introduced to combat TOS-violating real money transactions. In-game prices are subject to in-game market fluctuations, which are relatively stable. Ever since then, any headline i
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by snerbles 10y ago
You should never trust an exit node. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-to...
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by snerbles 10y ago
I remember an '80s-era middle school science textbook touting seabed manganese nodules as the future of mining, driving mass underwater settlement.
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by snerbles 10y ago
I imagine a DF source release would spark a handful of Medium articles lambasting Tarn's coding practices.
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by snerbles 10y ago
The engine is the foundation upon which the content runs...but engines in and of themselves aren't content. In the case of most game engines, the two are well-separated. In the case of Dwarf Fortress, I imagine the content and the eng
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by snerbles 10y ago
Being a personal project, there's also a concern of losing control over one's art. Would Rembrandt invite a hundred paintbrushes upon his canvas? Quoting a comment from a thread several months ago ( https://news.ycombin
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by snerbles 10y ago
Probably in an effort to be "friendly" to potential advertisers. They usually don't like their products appearing next to potentially abusive content.
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by snerbles 10y ago
We're fighting an uphill battle against fear peddled by various media outlets to attract viewers and clicks. Fear that is useful to the surveillance apparatus.
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by snerbles 10y ago
It would have to be revealed in a fashion genuinely disruptive to the public. The average Joe Sixpack may grumble about the occasional privacy headline, but he won't feel the impact until it dwarfs our daily distractions.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Graphical languages are quite common in the industrial controls space, ladder logic in particular. Horrendously cumbersome to you or me, but usable by controls engineers and factory technicians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by snerbles 10y ago
Are we going to make the PE exam a requirement for the title of "Software Engineer"?
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by snerbles 10y ago
A large mass of water ice would make a decent ablative shield.

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