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by whyever 8y ago
> So what is the advantage of switching to a different model if it produces the same result? Those who go to college don't have to deal with crippling dept.
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by whyever 8y ago
After this beginning: > To millions of parents and students, they're magical words: free college. But is the idea pure fantasy? I had trouble to take the article seriously, given that it does not even mention the free colleges in ot
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by whyever 8y ago
Are you saying all of this does not happen in paid colleges?
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by whyever 8y ago
They are are arguably about as trivial to implement in Rust. It becomes tricky when you add constraints: usually you want to avoid unsafe code, but even then you can just implement them on top of a vector and bypass any lifetime/aliasi
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by whyever 8y ago
I agree with the idea, but I don't think it is enough: A fuzzer does not necessarily find all problems.
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by whyever 8y ago
C does not have `auto`, so you couldn't store closures in local variables.
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by whyever 8y ago
> Python can be reasonably fast with pypy. Until it can't and then you are stuck with reimplementing the hot path in a language that can.
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by whyever 8y ago
> it is frustrating and a ball-ache to have to learn yet another syntax to manage build dependencies and instructions. Oh, I agree as well. I was just providing context.
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by whyever 8y ago
It's kind of a historical accident. Originally, CMake was supposed to be just a list of commands (CMakeLists.txt). Of course, it was heavily extended to what we have now.
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by whyever 8y ago
> the US security establishment doesn't really want to maintain that military presence. The Pentagon confirmed this year that they intend to modernize the nuclear weapons stationed in Germany starting in 2021. This does not sound li
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by whyever 8y ago
> With one of the most restrictive IP licensing scheme I've encountered in my professional life. Way to promote innovation indeed. I feel like you are moving goal posts. Also, do you think IP in the US software industry is any bette
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by whyever 8y ago
> I'm sure they did their research and provided a good implementation Apparently their implementation has several shortcomings.
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by whyever 8y ago
I don't understand why the poor implementation of the default constructor (seeding the RNG with the time) cannot be changed. It is not reproduceable anyway, so why not initialize with entropy requested from the OS?
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by whyever 8y ago
> All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver. Wow, this is a ludicrous claim without provid
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by whyever 8y ago
This is from 2015.
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by whyever 8y ago
> I suppose the author meant that the illusion of proper encryption is worse than simply storing the password as plaintext In this case, the alternative would be not storing the password at all. Note that "plaintext" in the tit
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by whyever 8y ago
> The truly paranoid will keep their private keys on an encrypted thumbdrive and remove it from the machine after authenticating the key into their keychain Does not necessarily help when the machine is compromised. Using one key per mac
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by whyever 8y ago
> But it's still just a membuf library, without any string support. Just like the strings in the C and C++ standard library.
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by whyever 8y ago
It's fundamental research. What security issues are you talking about?
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by whyever 8y ago
She is criticizing a subset of the theoretical physics community, not the experiments.
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by whyever 8y ago
GR only works at large scales. It is still unclear how gravity at quantum scales should be modeled.
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by whyever 8y ago
It might make sense to remove systematic outliers if you know they are from non-statistical effects.
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by whyever 8y ago
They are hashing the data.
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by whyever 8y ago
> And both the game devs and Red Shell as far as I can see aren't selling this data. Just collecting the data makes it vulnerable to abuse. What if there is a breach?
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by whyever 8y ago
If it is part of their day job, the responsibility is towards their employer, not their users. The millions of users are usually providing nothing in return for the software, I don't see how that entitles them to anything. In fact, I t
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by whyever 8y ago
> Millions. Of. People. Write. Python. That. Affects. The. Lives. Of. Billions. Of. People. Start there. I don't think this is how open source development works. Probably most of the core contributors are doing it for pleasure, not
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by whyever 8y ago
We don't have a satisfying definition of life. The most common one is basically a list of symptoms that may or may not apply to life.
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by whyever 8y ago
It can be as sensitive. But in the best case, shared IPs provide more anonymity.
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by whyever 8y ago
> Even scientific calculation would be fine with 32 bit floats It really depends on the algorithms in question and the error tolerances.
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by whyever 8y ago
It seems like this does not work for denormal floats.

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