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by sspiff 10y ago
I think the Swiss system is pretty good, but I don't know about the Swiss people. Are they smarter than other citizens? Are they less vulnerable to populist propaganda? I also think this is something that works best on "smaller&qu
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by sspiff 10y ago
VGA was 640x480, not 320x200. 320x200 didn't have an acronym I can recall. SVGA was 800x600.
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by sspiff 10y ago
Regardless, most cryptocurrency could easily be dominated by existing payment players if they would chose to do so.
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by sspiff 10y ago
As far as I know, Fortran is not a dead language, but is actively used in the scientific computing & mathematics niche.
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by sspiff 10y ago
As most hosts do. I've noticed the following from personal experience, but I'm pretty sure there are more out there: - OVH modifies the kernel (though users can opt for stock kernel, losing integration into OVH's monitoring i
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by sspiff 10y ago
I knew about ME, but I didn't know it had an ARC processor in it. Odd that Intel didn't opt for an in-house design, like one of their older cores backported to a newer process. (like a P54 or 386).
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by sspiff 10y ago
It is most likely running a Java Card[0] environment, which is a special embedded fork of Java, with a different (more limited) bytecode format. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
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by sspiff 10y ago
> What that means is a laptop that can turn it self off between waiting for sectors to read in from the disk or packets to come off the network, or keys to be pressed by the user. Yeah, no. It might be able to turn of the CPU, but everyt
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by sspiff 10y ago
Ah, I have fond memories of running NetBSD and Linux (JLime) on SH3 handhelds. SH3/4 represents a meaningful step forward, hope they are able to implement it soon-ish: > The sh4 processor (dreamcast) has an mmu, but the last sh4 pat
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by sspiff 10y ago
Not sure if all this applies to corporate BlackBerry environments, which have their own servers, and generate their own sets of keys. I think you need to ask the company (or government agency) for their keys to decrypt their conversations o
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by sspiff 10y ago
Exactly. From what I've seen of WebAsm, you can request pages of memory using grow_memory. Upon this, you could implement a memory pool system to handle malloc and free. Using this, it is trivial to port existing GC's. I don'
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by sspiff 10y ago
Garbage collection is not magic. It's a fairly simple (but byzantine) matter of tracking references, and allocating and freeing memory. Why would this be so much harder for WebAssembly? Why can't existing garbage collectors be com
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by sspiff 10y ago
> The fit and finish of linux desktops, especially KDE, are nowhere near as good as the Mac I beg to differ, but only with the "especially KDE" part. KDE is a different beast than most other modern desktop environments, in that
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by sspiff 10y ago
> QualComm ... TrustZone I think to most people following him, it's clear this is about ARM TrustZone.
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by sspiff 10y ago
Ah man, I was curious to take a look at the early development history of this, but seems like they didn't push the full history of the engine :(
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by sspiff 10y ago
It depends though - a lot of people have MBP's and they all look alike, especially when closed and turned off. She could have taken it in error. Now, the fact that she didn't leave her own MBP behind is a strong indicator that she
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by sspiff 10y ago
And US political factions don't use advertising to manipulate public opinion and don't own controlling stakes in huge media conglomerates. And the US government would certainly never cause suffering, at home or abroad!
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by sspiff 10y ago
Off topic and no arguments to support your case, sounds like downvote material to me.
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by sspiff 10y ago
Those are just examples of a high-level language and a systems programming language though, and the expected result is the same as comparing Perl/Tcl/Python with C/C++, or whichever decades old variation of this topic you wan
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by sspiff 10y ago
TL;DR: Using a lower-level, compiled programming language results in lower memory consumption and faster software. Shocker. Besides the lack of data to illustrate their point, their point is well know and has been well documented for decade
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by sspiff 10y ago
I agree, and looking at the story that is available to us here, the guy in question is very suspect. However, that does not mean we can or should change the rules (or define new rules) to put him in jail. I'd prefer they use another wa
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by sspiff 10y ago
Wouldn't stop the police from keeping him behind bars. "He went through the trouble of encrypting the drive and keeping it clean from prints, but we found it in his car. He's clearly a well organized, determined child porn co
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by sspiff 10y ago
Thanks!
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by sspiff 10y ago
I wonder what happens to long bets when the charity of the winner no longer exists by the time a bet ends.
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by sspiff 10y ago
What is UD here? Uncertainty and doubt? Do you mean that the comparison using selective breeding is some kind of false argument or a straw man? I feel like selective breeding is sufficiently similar to warrant comparison. You could easily d
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by sspiff 10y ago
I feel like they're different shades of the same colour, at least.
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by sspiff 10y ago
Or sweet, orange carrots: they were originally purple and bitter and had a woody core, but were selectively bred to reduce bitterness in Persia. Centuries later, they were selectively bred to be orange by Dutch royalists (in support of the
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by sspiff 10y ago
> More importantly, these days, you only find malware ads (consistently) on real shady sites. > ... > Sure, that has happened. But it's rare and again, it makes the news when it happens because of how rare it is. I don't
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by sspiff 10y ago
Calling ad blocking to prevent malware infection a BS excuse is ridiculous. Ads are being used to distribute malware through reputable sites, and as an average Joe user you have no feasible way to identify which sites pose a threat. I agree
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by sspiff 10y ago
DTrace is closer to something like LTTng than to strace, though.

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