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571.
by stefs 10y ago
i'm not employed in the field, so this is mostly uninformed guessimation. a) there are companies working on products with tight security requirements. if this is a respectable company, you'd probably spend most of your time examin
572.
by stefs 10y ago
> As you can see, the latency dropped to less than half, and the load average at peak is now lower than it’s previous lowest point! the graph they're referencing shows the peak at higher than the previously lowest load. i guess &quo
573.
by stefs 10y ago
it's a pretty standard procedure to train NNs through GAs but usually not very efficient (e.g. compared to backtracking). in some cases you might lack an easy way to calculate a fitness score out of the NN performance, which is needed
574.
by stefs 10y ago
reddit user TPKM's comment on the sanders-would-have-won-thread: "Support for Trump, much like Brexit, was based upon an extremely widespread feeling that average people are not getting their fair share of the benefits of globalis
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by stefs 10y ago
> Are there examples of large open source projects that have had ground up rewrites? well, netscape navigator turned into firefox. it cost them dearly (in terms of market share), but there wasn't much of an alternative (joel spolsky
576.
by stefs 10y ago
well, i'd say: this now is the minimum viable product, from here on people can improve to make what it should be.
577.
by stefs 10y ago
not death of all email - i think lima talks about that it's too late for per-default end-to-end encrypted email. encrypted transport to/from the server is relatively easy, but client-to-client? email wasn't really built that
578.
by stefs 10y ago
i have to admit, i don't really see the point of this (i admit not having read the paper though): > It's a random key paired with a random plaintext for each input. In the experiments, the key is the same length as the plaintex
579.
by stefs 10y ago
people aren't weirdos by default - most are nice, well adjusted people. if they actually are, you're the weirdo, not them.
580.
by stefs 10y ago
congrats
581.
by stefs 10y ago
finally? rhino has been around since 1997.
582.
by stefs 10y ago
well great: autoplay video (with sound) and not even when you scroll in view, no - the video is several pages down. even if i were interested in watching it or some other video on the site, i would have to find and restart or stop this one
583.
by stefs 10y ago
well, in my opinion: what we call "adulting" is what we see when we are kids and watch our parents. but what we see is an act they perform for us - as role models - and we perceive it without all required background knowledge (bec
584.
by stefs 10y ago
so ... 50% more RAM and 50% more speed for 100% more money? honestly, this doesn't seem like a big issue.
585.
by stefs 10y ago
fully secure ? aeh. it's a tradeoff. you spend time, money and productivity loss (i.e. procedures) on IT security to decrease the risk of a successful attack. every additional dollar spent decreases the probability a bit further (if d
586.
by stefs 10y ago
i think the article omits one interesting point - cache coherence. afaik this is the one reason otherwise inefficient data structures might result in better real world performance for small data sets.
587.
by stefs 10y ago
potential offtopic question here: i always wondered about multi-layered hashtables, i.e. instead of a linked list for resolving collisions use a second hashtable with a different hash function (and then maybe a linked list on the 3rd level
588.
by stefs 10y ago
please. go is so Q1/2016
589.
by stefs 10y ago
didn't find it in the text, but did he mention which dll-injecting program caused it?
590.
by stefs 10y ago
i've been working a 30h/week job, 6 hours a day, with flex hours (without overtime pay but comp time) for the last couple of years and i absolutely love it. last job i worked at had 42 hours and after 2 years i've been totall
591.
by stefs 10y ago
> If we had established UBI then, and people could get paid to sit around, imagine the state we'd be in today. that's simplistic - people generally don't want to be unemployed. if they get enough money to (barely) scrap by
592.
by stefs 10y ago
i used to have a 40+ week with fixed hours at my previous employer and it got me close to depression and a burnout in about two years. now 30h/week (fixed salary). my current company hires a lot of university students to work part time
593.
by stefs 10y ago
i interpreted this as: this was written by security experts (cryptographers), not expert programmers. this means the algorithms are generally ok, but the implementation is wacky (and issue prone).
594.
by stefs 10y ago
> But that also assumes DMCA which, if memory serves, was not in play here.
595.
by stefs 10y ago
so this does affect foreign users using saudi telcos (roaming/wireless)? how about not blanket-blocking by country code, but by country-ip lookup?
596.
by stefs 10y ago
well, i guess if the click triggers a page reload, the onclick-async event won't fire (or at least complete).
597.
by stefs 10y ago
subtitles usage has been a bit problematic for me too. i'm hearing impaired and my mothers tongue is german; i can read english almost as well as german, but spoken language is and always will be a problem (i get parts of it but not ev
598.
by stefs 10y ago
i think the type of programmer who fusses over data locality and multi threading isn't the same one who happily implements sand in the eye making the creature blind (until it's washed out by rain or splashing fluids).
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by stefs 10y ago
the best thing in life (almost better than hearing the lamentation of their women) is when there's a good explanation WHY it's done like that and later someone changes the code while not updating the WHY (writing documentation is
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by stefs 10y ago
> whoever decided to file the takedown maybe that was a bot, which would add another layer to the story.

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