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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   TFA says: > The switch to Signal will also allow the Conservative party to stem the flow of leaks emerging from its inner circle. How will it do that? > Like WhatsApp, Signal has end-to-end encryption baked in, preventing a foreign po
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   > we have decided to replace IRC with Riot/Matrix, hosted by Modular.IM. Looking at the pricing on modular.im[1] it starts at $10/month for up to 5 "active users," $73/m for up to 50, on and up.. Though modular&#
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   > Suppose during my regular game development everyday life I've installed Photoshop recently and I want a look at a screenshot of the game - someone reported a problem or something. > So I double-click on the thing ... one ... tw
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   Or Wordstar.. :) Remember when you could see and edit embedded format codes in your word processor? Surely that never happened!
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   From the accompanying video (17:11)[1] it's not Turing complete "because the verifier rejects unbounded loops and so there is some things that are not possible. We do have bounded loops in BPF now." 1: https://yout
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   Thanks, knowledgeable folk person! Was beginning to think you wouldn't show up ;)
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   So as a somewhat unconcerned user, I've been disabling some kernel mitigation since more or less when these horrors were first revealed, and when I could remember/be bothered after a kernel upgrade. But I'm on an AMD CPU not
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   > So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, in a quasi-empirical direction. The reason why mathematicians are chang
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   by ttctciyf 7y ago

   As a long-time antagonist of Kaku and string theory / supersymmetry, Peter Woit naturally has a blog entry[1] on this that's worth a look. He points out Prof Gordon Kane upped[2] the ante: > By 2020 there will be a Nobel Prize
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    The title sequence, created by John Whitney, right? His brother James' 1966 abstract piece 'Lapis' is a favourite of mine, created using John Whitney's analog computer tech. There's a version on youtube[1] sadly onl
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    After laying out an "ontic vagueness" view, which holds that the world itself is fundamentally vague, rather than the vagueness resulting from an inadequacy of our means of describing the world, piece continues: > The implicat
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    And with Matrix apps you can choose to run your own server. Not sure what legal ramifications that has, but practically speaking it allows the possibility of eliminating another potential weakness.
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    > you can embed JavaScript in an SVG I guess that settles the Turing complete issue then!
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Reminds me of Sean Parent's recounting[1] of how his son's beads and string toy could represent a tree data structure with stateless traversal and some other interesting properties, like: > ...to erase elements from some point
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Ok, well if I visit that url and click links to reddit posts, like [1] under April Fools, they go to www.reddit.com but my preference setting of not seeing new reddit is honoured there. (i.e. looks the same as if I did s/www/old&#
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Well volunteered! You can add: * amp link -> non-amp version of same link while you're at it, please!
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    I log in to www.reddit.com, and have the "use new reddit" box unchecked. Anytime I click a link to reddit (including np.reddit links) it honours my preference of avoiding new reddit (checked just now by a quick reddit search on si
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    As mentioned in the video, but not afaics in the description, the page from the presenters at https://privacyinternational.org/appdata has the testing environment if you want to extend or replicate these results, as well as
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    I just changed my dns-over-https script to use quad9: # sudo /usr/local/bin/dnsproxy -l 127.0.0.153 -p 53 -u https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query -b 1.1.1.1:53 sudo /usr/local/bin&
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Also, https://downdetector.co.uk/problems/cloudflare is currently detecting the outage in very direct fashion!
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    > In this 2019 GDC talk, game developers Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott explain how they set out to determine the lowest bar for success on App Stores. Take a fantastic tour of the weird, dark underbelly of the mobile app market, and learn
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    Adventures in Quantity over Quality [2019 GDC Talk](youtube.com)

    1 points by ttctciyf 7y ago|1 comments
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    The lack of this option is the single most eloquent statement of Google's coercive intentions for AMP. It's incredibly easy to implement, and if they were really about improving user experience they'd provide it in a heartbea
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Not especially knowledgeable, but one factor in the relative lack of interest in other gates might be that NAND and NOR are the only two universal gates which treat their inputs equally. The others ("A and not B", "B and not
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    This looks to be an interesting piece on a very interesting paper! Somewhat tangentially (I'm afraid) I just wanted to comment on this para from the article's intro: > Language is made of discrete structures, yet neural network
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    The whole business of superposition and measurement so reeks of lazy initialization that you might want to worry about what performance constraints the simulation is trying to beat too.
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Am I reading this correctly, that there's no explicit semantic representation going on at any stage, it's purely audio input frequencies -> ML -> audio output frequencies? If so, that's ... so much for Jerry Fodor and h
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Think of it like this: the API is a football, Google is Lucy, and the developers are Charlie Brown.
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    by ttctciyf 7y ago

    Well, the second arg of Unmarshall is expected to be some kind of pointer. > Unmarshal parses the JSON-encoded data and stores the result in the value pointed to by v. If v is nil or not a pointer, Unmarshal returns an InvalidUnmarshalEr
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    by ttctciyf 8y ago

    Coincidentally, I came to this fresh from watching "Database as Filesystem"[1,2], which takes a different view: > Most network file systems are either a layer over an existing filesystem (NFS, CIFS), or are develped from scratc