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by tonysdg 8y ago
Yup - guess I can't blame this one on my apartment complex's awful ISP. I hope someone posts a post-mortem later.
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Despite a Ban, Arkansas Farmers Are Still Spraying Controversial Weedkiller(npr.org)
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Using this textbook right now for my grad-level OS class (I'm a student). Definitely one of the most readable textbooks I've ever used -- the authors actually try to impart some personality into the writing. I'm not 100% sold
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by tonysdg 8y ago
It's terrible from a correctness perspective, sure. But from a business perspective, that could mean $50 million of revenue not-lost to a flaw you (as an owner/operator) can't do much about. Sure, it could lead to an exploit
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I can't say whether or not Protonmail is secure, but I'll warn you right now OP: this is a bit of a loaded question on HN. Don't expect a straight answer.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I don't follow - what does Github and its ownership have to do with anything? I could be wrong, but I was under the impression Linus mirrors on Github just for convience's sake. I do know that Linus's Github repo is not the o
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by tonysdg 8y ago
To play devil's advocate, that's because the cache of a modern processor is highly optimized for TDM, not SDM. Perhaps a redesigned cache hierarchy could resolve this problem (at the expense of awful TDM performance).
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Option 3: Did they elect those politicians because they were concerned about the idea of crime? Fear is a powerful motivator; I'd be interested to see how areas that elected "tough on crime" politicians correlate to actual
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Generally speaking, that's where FPGAs excel. You get a good chunk of the speedup that comes with designing your own circuit at a lower cost than actual ASICs (at least for protoyping and low volume batches).
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by tonysdg 8y ago
When the author says someone "stops identifying as X", I have to wonder what exactly that means. Does it mean they no longer wish to emphasize that piece of their identity? Did their actual beliefs change? Or are they simply hidin
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> That method would need to be secure, reliable, and traceable. And that's why it will never happen. This is one of my biggest complaints about the Hacker News community: so many of us are engineers who see a problem and immediately
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Pretty much anything from Digilent. I've got an old Spartan6 board that has a boatload of horsepower. If you want to get fancy, look at the Zedboard family -- FPGA wrapped around ARM cores.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
You would certainly hope; and yet, long uptimes unforeseen by designers can have devestating consequences: > A government investigation revealed that the failed intercept at Dhahran had been caused by a software error in the system'
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but if you're worried about the "do not track" setting identifying, you honestly shouldn't be on the internet. Or you should be using it like rms does [1] (scroll to "How I use the inte
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> First of all it's best done face to face, because you don't want to be misunderstood, and you want to give the other party a fair chance at replying. You're making an assumption here: that one is leaving for amicable rea
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Great for normal users, awful for disabled users. A touchscreen is light-years ahead of mice for individuals who lack or are incapable of fine motor control skills.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> then you'd have to elevate it to get it out. > It would turn into beer I'm confused - are you suggesting reasons you should use a big hole in the ground or reasons you shouldn't use a big hole in the ground?
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by tonysdg 8y ago
>And even then, you need to trust the machine. At the end of the day, it even goes further than that -- you have to trust the people who build the machines. Ken Thompson said it best in his Turing Award talk: https://www.arc
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Honestly, is there actually any chance of there _not_ being an environmental disaster by the end of the 21st century? I'm not saying we shouldn't keep trying, but the political willpower just doesn't exist. Significant portio
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Not to be rude, but the science appears to be against you here. Wikipedia covers the "hockey stick controversy"[1] in rather meticulous detail, with the end of the introduction noting: > More than two dozen reconstructions, usi
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> With scarcity, you need to have a measure of success, otherwise everyone could just say they were a scientist and get a six figure salary to do nothing. Any metric you choose will be gamed. As a current grad studrnt, I'm calling B
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I remember reading a blog post somewhere describing the problem with modern recommendation engines being their reactive nature. Say you purchase a cell phone on Amazon -- they'll start showing you other cell phones, cell phone accessor
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by tonysdg 8y ago
After reading the WSJ version of this article, I can see the argument in-favor: quarterly earnings reports put more weight on hitting short-term goals over long-term investment. That's just basic human nature, I suppose. Yet flat out a
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by tonysdg 8y ago
It's not really that terrible of a concept -- some of the earliest high-level languages (e.g., COBOL) were designed to be "readable" by less-technical staff. It just requires careful design and structure. IMO, it only falls a
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> Business Insider has contacted Apple for comment. The company declined to comment when approached by The Chronicle. Either the story is balderdash, or Apple knows how bad any explanation will look. It's probably just easier for th
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'm not advocating for room searches or intrusion of privacy, but the fact of the matter is all of those cameras and security personnel still weren't enough to detect the worst mass shooter in history. I don't have a better
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Given the problem, this seems like a reasonable action on the part of the NYC City Council. But I'm confused by section on congestion pricing: > Many experts believe congestion pricing is the best way for New York City to fix conges
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Still wouldn't work probably -- think of how many times the average person misplaces their car keys in a given year. Now give them a piece of hardware, that they're only going to use every 2 years (which is a stretch given Ameri
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by tonysdg 8y ago
If you're going to quote Randall Munroe, at least include a link ;-) https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'd also add that this begs a serious question: who _do_ you trust to own the signal? A multinational corporation? A government? No one? Everyone? Furthermore, how do you rectify disagreements over that trust? I may trust a multination

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