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by virgilp 7y ago
I disagree, not only is it not obvious - it's fairly obvious that he didn't mean that. > the number of Mac users running 100% signed code is well over 50% Would you say he meant "number of users running exclusively sandbox
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by virgilp 7y ago
Did you even have signed apps (typically) installed in Leopard? Anyway, it depends on the standard of proof. But for the parent comment, it's fairly easy to get most reasonable people to agree that it's false. As a reminder, the c
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by virgilp 7y ago
But if you modify it, it's no longer signed?
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by virgilp 7y ago
I bet it's close to 0%, and I think I can prove it too. How much do you want to bet?
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by virgilp 7y ago
WHO doesn't only say things they are absolutely certain about - e.g. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 Also, not the most reliable source, but I've heard claims that initial viral load m
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by virgilp 7y ago
Well, for one, it's insane to say "masks don't help" in the same phrase where you say "we need them for the medical staff". Which one is it?
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by virgilp 7y ago
> This is a good start! I agree, this might be the way to go But they already are! That's the point that you are missing, for basic stuff, you can use a font that is described with only basic features/ that can have no possible
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by virgilp 7y ago
> All I know is, the fonts (in ROM) in the original IBM-PC, or the Apple ][, or the C-64, or the Atari 800, or any other of the 64K computers of the 1980's -- never had a security issue with their (ROM bitmap) fonts. Seriously? Do y
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by virgilp 7y ago
You're also forgetting things like ligatures. And, how would you even render your proposed fonts in embedded devices? The solution is not "huge bitmaps".
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by virgilp 7y ago
> has already had a major security vulnerability. Oh no!! Unlike any other technology on earth that is actually used by non-trivial amounts of people? > “Does Zoom sell Personal Data?” the policy says, “Depends what you mean by ‘sell
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by virgilp 7y ago
Which is why the first rule of distributed systems is "don't distribute your system"
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by virgilp 7y ago
https://archive.is/ZeThk
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by virgilp 7y ago
Yes that's most likely a misunderstanding there - most heuristics I've used were very much deterministic. Non-determinism is evil, that I would agree - but heuristics aren't. As long as you understand they are heuristics and
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by virgilp 7y ago
Lots of companies rushed smartphones after the iPhone; like GM with EVs, Nokia also was the inventor/original smartphone producer.. in fact, it was more advanced in the field than GM is with the EV. Yet here we are, with Nokia being a
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Sun wanted Google to use Java. [...] Oracle doesn't. By your reasoning, IBM could spin-off a division with intellectual property rights to SQL, sell it to Google for 10B, who could then claim "we never agreed SQL should be fr
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by virgilp 7y ago
> that makes you realize what a mind-bogglingly large gamble this is with your savings. Is it a gamble, really? I can't fathom what I could do with my money, should the world economy go to the gutter, big time. Holding cash surely w
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by virgilp 7y ago
So how many weeks for 10 orders of magnitude? Because it feels like you extrapolate linearly...
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by virgilp 7y ago
2% (maybe more actually) is the mortality rate of those infected. But so far infection rate was 0.001% ; it would need to be 3 full orders of magnitude worse to even approach an infection rate of 2%....
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by virgilp 7y ago
> "A LISP programmer knows the value of everything and the cost of nothing." Here, a very old quote that tells you directly what is wrong with FP - the performance on old hardware sucked. For a very long while compilers/in
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by virgilp 7y ago
A language doesn't cost... the environment might. Why did nobody pick up on the ideas? C# is not inspired by K, Go is not, Swift is not, Rust is not, Clojure is not... I mean, take any big or small company that decided "we need a
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by virgilp 7y ago
Javascript must've done _something_ right, no? Yes I know it's bad from "language design" perspective, but we all know what it did right: it was embedded out-of-the-box on a very popular platform (the browser). So, ther
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by virgilp 7y ago
So then, why is K less popular than pretty much any other language? Because people are stupid? Uninformed? There's a lack of PR-minded people working with K? What exactly is your theory? It's funny that a language this flawless is
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by virgilp 7y ago
> It might technically not be antitrust Isn't it? It should be. You're forcing developers to add your sign-in method everywhere... they can't add it on Android. You're essentially forcing sub-par android support.
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by virgilp 7y ago
Nothing complicated about it. You start with SaaS, validate it's a good tool to have/actually used, evaluate monthly costs vs opportunity costs, build your own when/if it makes sense. The slightly more complicated question is
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by virgilp 7y ago
Or Facebook. Or heck, even Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe if you're in the "wrong" department. I bet even some Apple employees might occasionally feel they work at an advertising company.
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by virgilp 7y ago
You make it sound that everything that may involve an "error", however small (that is, absolutely everything ) is "trial and error". This is not what most people mean - I argue that interpretation would make the whole c
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by virgilp 7y ago
But this is from Canada, don't they have universal healthcare?
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by virgilp 7y ago
AFAIK they work in shifts, non-stop; crazy hours & weekend is irrelevant in this context.
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by virgilp 7y ago
But taxation is "taking money" as opposed to "not giving it in the first place". These are not people who take a salary - if you tax the company into oblivion so that "it doesn't make money in the first place&q
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by virgilp 7y ago
But nobody gave them the money! Take eg Bezos - Amazon is textbook example of wealth creation, in the economic sense (lowered the prices, thus people could afford more). His wealth is not "given", it's created! How do you con

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