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by tgbugs 6y ago
The author is nearly there, but they are lacking a few key pieces in their ontology and thus their language traps them by forcing them to conflate concepts that in fact need to be decoupled. The required concepts are as follows 1. condition
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by tgbugs 6y ago
I firmly agree that sharing passwords is bad, however I can't imagine a threat model where password sharing among multiple parties is more risky than giving multiple people sudo. As zests points out, practically there is no difference
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Yet another vindication for one of my long-standing practices. I try to avoid installing sudo at all cost on my systems because all it does is increase the attack surface. Despite this, the wisdom of the crowd is that you should never su to
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by tgbugs 6y ago
It is a straw man that people use to try to try to make systemd seem like a solution, the only issue is that the problem never actually existed, just like people who try to argue that "x is dying or not attracting enough new users&quot
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Significantly less the the energy it takes to cool current processors. Nearly five years ago I was talking to a professor who was at a conference on the future of computing and there were folks there from the big 5 and he said that all of t
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by tgbugs 6y ago
This is quite similar to why Christian theologians eventually had to give up the idea that doing good works could lead to salvation, because someone could force God to save them by doing good works thus limiting God's omnipotence. The
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Having done years of development in Python I can say, all the time. The thing is that in languages like Python you just learn that it cannot be done, or that if you do you are inviting in chaos and the creeping sanity destroying little unre
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by tgbugs 6y ago
I talked to Fernando about this at Neuroinformatics 2018. In principle generating dependencies from a notebook should be as easy as parsing the ast, finding all the import statements, and then using sys to lookup what package provided that
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by tgbugs 6y ago
The author quickly moves on after finding that expand-file-name is the issue and routes around the problem. The last time we hear from it is when it is patched out. But what is really going on? The problem is that many parts of Emacs and li
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by tgbugs 6y ago
A relevant Bryan Cantrill talk segment on this, which heightens the paranoia around this. Namely, firmware hiding correctable errors and only reporting uncorrectable errors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2104&v=fE2KDzZ
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by tgbugs 6y ago
While we're on the topic of WSL2 causing issues, I will add one that I noted to the pile. If you have WSL2 installed then the first bash on PATH is the WSL2 version of bash. For whatever reason, this version of bash has a major impedan
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by tgbugs 6y ago
I have spent a stupid amount of time trying to come up with a somewhat more secure approach and wound up with `scurl` which requires a cypher, a checksum, a url that points to an immutable file, a target path, always writes the output to di
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by tgbugs 6y ago
My conclusion reading this is that a gradient is a gradient is a gradient. If you can minimize one, you can minimize them all. The hard work would seem to be figuring out how to transform into a gradient that your hardware can solve. It wil
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Consider a use case where you need high concurrent write performance and you don't want the things you are writing to be accidentally dissociated from the file. If you have to write to a zip file there will be overhead every time you a
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by tgbugs 6y ago
I have used python's pathlib to create a common abstraction across ADS and linux xattrs, but have had to stop at the lowest common denominator that is the linux implementation. It is good to know that some of the other nixen don't
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Even with current abstractions this is the case. I'm not worried about users that have sufficient knowledge to intentionally modify a file. Users who know enough to find, much less modify an sqlite database can make their own mess if t
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by tgbugs 6y ago
They say file format problem, but one of the reasons why there are so many different file formats is because current file system abstractions are fundamentally insufficient for a wide variety of use cases, particularly ones where you need t
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Don't forget that CPT is also a massive money maker and completely proprietary. Want to do open research to improve patient care and health and use CPT codes? Probably not going to happen [1]. 1. https://www.ama-assn.org&#x2
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by tgbugs 6y ago
They definitely do, but we have much better historical data about the time course and about how to care for them so that they don't go as quickly. There is also the possibility to stamp them out of something that is more resistant to d
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by tgbugs 6y ago
I recently became curious about whether vinyl records might be a good choice for long term widespread backup of the information needed to bootstrap back to a full working Turing complete runtime, sort of as seeds for some future where much
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by tgbugs 6y ago
This is one of my all time favourite pieces. Whenever it comes up, I am also reminded of another piece which recounts what happened to the Native American populations and politics as if it were an invasion by space aliens following a plague
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Compositional UIs are extremely hard to learn. You have to be a composer! Quite a high bar, but once you can clear it, you can do things that others consider impossible. Like writing a Symphony Fantastique. Wrapping the composable interface
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Yes. I did not mention this in my original comment, but internal accounting and oversight by IACUCs is pretty good. They know within a couple of cages how many rodents are on campus at any given time (module reproduction etc.). If we want t
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by tgbugs 6y ago
The original article saying that more unsuccessful research should be published, and I agree. The sentence quoted in gp is a bit hard to parse, but it is just another way to say unsuccessful research shouldn't be hidden and ignored. Th
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Full disclosure, Anita is a lab mate. One of the things that is latent in this article is that in the US you are supposed to have done a power analysis in order to justify the number of animals you are using in your study. Almost no one doe
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Great link. In a broader context this is makes me wonder whether the development in-group nomenclature (slang) developed for similar reasons, to defend against collisions in terminology with others where misunderstandings could lead to disa
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by tgbugs 6y ago
We had this on the features page. Not sure why it was removed, but here is the commit [0]. 0. https://github.com/tecosaur/orgmode.org/commit/54ad9895065cb... .
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by tgbugs 6y ago
This should serve as an example to people who want (for example) the GNU project to relax their contributor copyright assignment practices. It only takes a single moment of complacency and the vultures will swoop in. In this case it was bec
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by tgbugs 6y ago
Direct Detection Device.
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by tgbugs 6y ago
UP doesn't really apply here. The data the underlies the reconstructions requires massive averaging of individual objects as part of the tomography (see Radon transform for the core approach). In addition those objects/particles n

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