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by throwawaysed 10y ago
A lot of people are in denial that there isn't using some magic efficiency to cloud services that other datacenters don't have. Primary cost savings on cloud VM's is from overprovisioning. The more abstracted away the service
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
I have a feeling what's happened is that they built something they thought was quantum, but since it's so hard to measure qubits they had to develop a bunch of powerful statistical models to help read the qubits. These models have
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
So how long until MS freaks out and starts attacking Linux again? I'm calling GPU DRM modules existing in the next 2 yrs, commonplace in three. Shaders and 3D API inaccessible without the right keys. Only 2D mode and OpenCL without the
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
instead of messing with JSON and making it less human friendly (arguably the thing that made JSON so popular in the first place), why not just use something designed for efficient machine-to-machine transfer? Basically making JSON more mach
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
This article has little substance. The arguments don't apply to JWT, it just mentions badly done implementations and an insecure option that obviously nobody would turn on. What else are we going to use? JWT is basically the simplest t
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
Zucks rants about his dream for society scare the hell outta me. It's seriously 1984 type shit... the only way to create "safe" and "friendly" global communities is with bulletproof censorship. Some level of civil d
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
they could bake a pre-trained CNN into the messenger pretty easily and run it locally... so plausible
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
:) Sorry, I always carry my trusty pitchfork when on the internet.
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
Cloudflare is unquestionably a source of pure, unencrypted traffic for the govt. Does anyone remember a few years ago when Google found out through leaks that the govt was wiretapping it's private traffic between datacentres? What make
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
I like how HN will change any clickbait titles you post but regularly does clickbait titles of its own. This entire article could, and should, be a single sentence title. "YCombinator holding Canada interviews for founders without US V
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
Having used JS along with somewhere north of 10 other languages over the years... JS is the most painful, even moreso than Perl which was close. Classes and objects are 100x better than the crap they've come up with to fix JS so far so
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by throwawaysed 10y ago
NSA 100% . Some time around 10 years ago governments decided the internet was too "dangerous" to be free. Arab spring cemented that into their minds, and now a bastion of free thought has become the worlds biggest spying apparatus