tonysdg

16 ms·

121.
by tonysdg 8y ago
Follow-up story: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/12/16/seven-days-...
122.
by tonysdg 8y ago
Gods above, "tremendous" is an understatement. I don't think I'd be strong enough to work on a story like that.
123.
by tonysdg 8y ago
Wasn't part of the promise of Bitcoin that no single entity or cabal would control it? It would be a distributed platform, owned by the masses?
124.
by tonysdg 8y ago
Easy -- U.S. citizens don't care about who their government spies on/if the spies get hacked. But the notion of some Russian/North Korean/Chinese/Choose-Your-Favorite-Bad-Guy hacker messing with your money? Unaccept
125.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Isn't that basically what they did in Atomic Blonde with the crowd and the umbrellas?
126.
by tonysdg 9y ago
> an electric cattle prod that is wired up to the mains (three phase) "Have you seen the boss's new toy?" "Yeah. Coincidentally, I'll be working remotely moving forward. Good luck!"
127.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Professional Engineers (note the capital 'E') are protected in the U.S. by such laws. Professional engineers (note the lowercase 'e') are usually not protected in the U.S. -- they're regular employees whose profes
128.
by tonysdg 9y ago
You mean http://github-trends.ryotarai.info/ ?
129.
by tonysdg 9y ago
"Greetings, Professor Falken." "Hello, Joshua." "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
130.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Isn't that exactly how bounties work on the StackExchange websites?
131.
by tonysdg 9y ago
To my understanding, the problem is that when the lenders WERE calling colleges, it wasn't to say "this kid wants to borrow 100k in loans", it was to say "here's 50k in goodies, send your students to us for loans!&q
132.
by tonysdg 9y ago
IIRC, they were bought by Fitbit, who discontinued the Pebble line.
133.
by tonysdg 9y ago
I'd pay to see it. BR2049 was amazing IMO.
134.
by tonysdg 9y ago
If I'm being honest, I'm willing to buy that argument. You're right in that censorship of any type is dangerous -- it draws a line in the sand, and once there's a line it can always be moved to block viewpoints that the
135.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic "Dune". Amazing both for the entertainment value as well as for the thought-provoking ecological/sociopolitical ideas.
136.
Ask HN: How do you combat monopolies created by network effects?
3 points by tonysdg 9y ago|0 comments
137.
by tonysdg 9y ago
> If Pai gets his way, ISPs will be in a great position to cement Twitter and Facebook's monopoly with preferential treatment and free subsidized internet plans. IANAL, but I wonder if this would open the door for anti-trust lawsuit
138.
by tonysdg 9y ago
I've run experiments/developed on both Applied Micro's X-Gene 1 and Cavium's ThunderX (the original). Both of these have been touted as "ARM servers". The X-Gene was complete crap in terms of both performance a
139.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) wrote "Thing Explainer", a book that attempts to explain things using only the most popular 1,000 words in the English language: https://blog.xkcd.com/2015/05/13/new-boo
140.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Hehe reminds me of the computer engineering adage: "The only thing that can't be solved by another layer of indirection is too many layers of indirection."
141.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Oh I'm well aware -- the lab I work in bought a couple of X-Gene 1s for testing, and even an X-Gene 2. They were complete and utter crap performance- and power-wise -- but they were (at the time) the only thing available. Didn't k
142.
by tonysdg 9y ago
I wonder how this will affect Cavium's ThunderX line. When Applied Micro was bought by Macom, their X-Gene line was more or less trashed. If this keeps happening to companies trying to develop ARM servers, you'll never see an ARM
143.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Or DuckDuckGo, for that matter?
144.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/504/
145.
by tonysdg 9y ago
So it's one order of magnitude difference compared to two? That's still not pretty.
146.
by tonysdg 9y ago
I've never programmed a microkernel OS (and I've only done minimal Linux kernel programming), but I would assume it's even _more_ important, as a single change would impact almost every component of the system.
147.
by tonysdg 9y ago
That's the whole idea behind the RISC-V platform [1]. It's well-funded, well-designed, has amazing pedigree (David Patterson literally wrote the book on computer architecture). It's even licensed such that companies can use i
148.
by tonysdg 9y ago
We spend a lot of effort on much less important things <-- someone (not me, but someone) might argue that's exactly why our species should go extinct ;-)
149.
by tonysdg 9y ago
3 cheap technologies: > With the game console's ability to accurately track the exact position of the controller, he wondered, why not just duct-tape the controller to an ultrasound probe? Never forget the duct-tape! ;)
150.
by tonysdg 9y ago
Because it means that some RSA keys may be weaker than others. Without diving too far into the mathematics of it, the RSA cryptosystem (and indeed, many asymmetric-key cryptosystems) is based on the notion that multiplying two gigantic prim

More ›