wiml

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by wiml 13y ago
It would be weird if the answer to this were "No, nobody's job involves coding "reports".", wouldn't it? I assume you wanted to ask some other question. It's not a main part of my job but I am occasionally asked to produce a report of some
932.
by wiml 13y ago
Why do you want to make that distinction?
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by wiml 13y ago
I don't think it's any harder to carry line-and-column annotations through the compilation process than it is to carry just line annotations. In fact many compilers do. Of course your debug information gets larger, but that's not usually a
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by wiml 13y ago
I think that this is not a risk (between the PBKDF2 salt and the IV of the underlying cipher). IANAprofessionalcryptographer, however.
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by wiml 13y ago
Xilinx' block diagram shows the FPGA having direct access to both the peripheral bus and the memory bus, including the cache coherency port, so I'd guess you can transfer data to the ARM cores fairly fast (as fast as you can get something f
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by wiml 13y ago
You only need to screw up once to blow your identity, though. And never screwing up is ... difficult.
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by wiml 13y ago
Pedantic response: There's surprisingly little provable (in the mathematical sense) security in the crypto world. It's possible, though rather unlikely, that the NSA has a cheap way to factor large numbers and has been laughing at us all
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by wiml 13y ago
It feels kind of like a public forum, but it really, really isn't. Facebook owns it, and has complete say over how you use it. It's "private property", despite being open to the public --- there are very few public spaces online (probably b
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by wiml 14y ago
It can be a lot more expensive, though.
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by wiml 14y ago
Or if I have to pay for it, the NSA should at least be willing to send me a copy if I lose my own backups.
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by wiml 14y ago
My takeaway from this was "don't take a job with a 4 hour commute".
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by wiml 14y ago
Of course. The _whole point_ of _any_ ethical or moral principle is that it directs you to do things that are right even at some possible cost to yourself. If you believe that standing up for your strongly-held beliefs will get you fired, y
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by wiml 14y ago
I'm not sure what assertion you're claiming is a huge exaggeration? The Federal government claims a 100-mile region in which the border-crossing exceptions to the Constitution apply. The court judgment you cite says that's BS and the govern
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by wiml 14y ago
If you click through the tweet and then the bitly link you end up at this article: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/us-lawmake... which basically describes bills to defund basic science research in favor of near-term a
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by wiml 14y ago
Pretty cool. Is the high inclination on purpose, do you know, or is it just that's where the launch vehicle they piggybacked on was going?
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by wiml 14y ago
Not really. Ownership of land, chattels, etc. are usually considered natural rights--- the government protects your ability to own things, it does not grant you that ability. Copyright, trademark, patents, etc., are different; they were not
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by wiml 14y ago
It's a funny "balancing" that means that 2/3 of the population does not have the right to be secure in their persons or papers, freedom of movement, the requirement of due process, warrants, and probable cause before being handcuffed or cav
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by wiml 14y ago
There's also cscope, which is ancient as the hills but still quite handy for navigating a codebase you're not completely familiar with.
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by wiml 14y ago
It was added in C99, I think.
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by wiml 14y ago
I don't think browsers should assume that http://blahblah and https://blahblah refer to the same resource.
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by wiml 14y ago
Not that the political meanings of liberal / conservative in the US are very strongly tied to the literal meanings of the words, but isn't "conservative" actually an antonym of "innovative"?
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by wiml 14y ago
I don't think I know anyone who doesn't turn off the sound effects as soon as they discover them.
953.
by wiml 14y ago
NeXTmail had some very similar scan/fax/email integration, but it might not have been until a couple of years later than that --- I don't remember.
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by wiml 14y ago
Folks interested in this kind of thing from a hacker / citizen-science angle might be interested in http://publiclaboratory.org/ , "The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science".
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by wiml 14y ago
You use it when you don't know the material (because you're surveying an old house) or you don't know the delta-T (because you're looking for a hidden fire, grow op, etc).
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by wiml 14y ago
So ... this is just a paraphrase of the MySQL documentation on resetting the root password? Why is it here?
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by wiml 14y ago
Yes. Everything old is new again, it seems. Many old OSes were VM hypervisors in today's parlance--- VM/370 comes to mind; several of the first Unix and other systems I got to play with were virtual machines running on IBM big iron--- and
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by wiml 14y ago
It's hard to have a global name system with readable/meaningful names unless you have a central organization. He isn't the first person to make this observation, but Zooko's Triangle is easy to link to, so: https://zooko.com/distnames.html
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by wiml 14y ago
So, kind of like the stock ssh-keyscan, but in go?
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by wiml 14y ago
The US Nike-X Sprint had similar performance (Wikipedia says only 90 gravities, and there's some nonphysical-looking footage of test launches on youtube somewhere). Pretty crazy, and I gather that MIRVs made that whole category of ABM obsol

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