starspangled

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by starspangled 3y ago
Aside, nation-state is a specific geopolitical term. I don't know why it started to be cooped by the security circus, perhaps just an attempt to give themselves more gravitas. They just mean country or state, right? Even that doesn&#x2
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I think they could. By kid I mean roughly mid teens to mid twenties. I've seen what they can do -- create Linux, for example.
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I didn't say "just" some DB hacker. He's almost certainly much more skilled than most "security" people I would say. But he wasn't actively looking for security bugs nor gives off security researcher hubri
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It's a damning indictment of the computer security industry, IMO. They push wildly complicated and performance-costly bandaids for vanishingly unlikely exploits for dubious benefit, and pay very little attention to holes like this you
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxo92I-akL0 This speech? You think that makes Bukele a "globalist neoliberal"? That would indeed be hilarious, if you did. I do like your sense of humor! But no I wasn't claimi
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What's crazy is just how terrible the globalist neoliberal political agenda and the mindless cookie cutter politicians they produce everywhere have been, that people are thoroughly fed up and are looking for alternatives, no matter how
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by starspangled 3y ago
Why AI agents?
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I disagree. Lots of things are executed poorly and the learning from those result in subsequent improvements.
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No, not about TPC-C. Hardware firms neither. The last hurrah for it was the fight between Itanium and PowerPC and then everybody stopped caring. It devolved into a benchmark where you'd get another % performance for every cache miss yo
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We know of the ruling class regularly getting together to plan, and surely they meet and collude far more often than we know about. Of course they are making plans.
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Western ones don't particularly want that anymore, IMO. It's the pursuit of wealth and power. And by power, an army of robots works just as well as an army of subhuman commoners. Trump does seem like an old school egomaniac who wa
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I don't think it was that Intel didn't have enough capacity to manufacture more. Intel was a manufacturing-first company that beat out "high end" and specialized competitors by economies of scale. Over the long term, the
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If AI/robots can do everything a human can, and if the cost vs productivity of them exceeds humans, then the ruling class would no longer have any interest in keeping humans around. We fear AIs. What if they don't do what we want?
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by starspangled 3y ago
Oh, I just assumed you were talking about Google's Linux distribution and applications it runs on its fleet. I must have mis-assumed. Re-reading... maybe you weren't talking about any builds but just whether or not to oppose kerne
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Right, but I was asking about functional problems (being "stuck"), which sounded like a big issue for the choice.
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> So we'll be stuck fighting an unwinnable argument with a much larger community. In what way would you be stuck? What functional problems does adding frame pointers introduce?
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by starspangled 3y ago
Just because bureaucracy is outsourced to private corporations doesn't change much. It's still basically bureaucracy, decisions are not made by elected representatives but by opaque and complicated bodies and processes that are in
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Lawyers rule the entire justice system. Not even the "good" ones want to normalize the prosecution of lawyers for committing crimes while practicing law.
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Well, and obviously X is providing a windowing and drawing service to the clients. Doesn't matter who initiates the connection or the M:Nness of the communication, X is providing the service to the applications, and they are not perfor
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It didn't improve it for me. I don't want a switch animation that looks (like the designer thought) a physical switch might move. I want a widget to indicate and change some option. It's not a great type of widget for that an
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How crazy does the headline make it sound? They're a book store that got into the online cloud business. They got into the chip design business. I don't know the industries to know whether it would make sense for them to buy power
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> I was curious that they claim that lithography is done with ultraviolet, and I looked up the wavelengths involved. Sure enough, "typical" UV is still hundreds of nanometers long, like visible light. This would be too coarse