wittrock

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by wittrock 4y ago
Congratulations on the launch! I'm very excited to try replacing my hacked-together AppScript with this.
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by wittrock 4y ago
Hi there, I work on Fuchsia, specifically on our Software Delivery system [1]. You hit on exactly the right point: it's _possible_ to download and run software on demand, but it's also possible (and recommended) for products to tu
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by wittrock 7y ago
There are some ways to do this on paper ballots! They aren't foolproof, but provide optional verification of votes without relying on electronic voting. An example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
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by wittrock 7y ago
A number of end-to-end verifiable voting systems have been proposed and fielded! See [0]. The key issue they try to solve is how to let you check your vote was counted without being able to prove who you voted for to anyone else, thus preve
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by wittrock 10y ago
Chaum, Rivest, others have done the leg work though, in real-world binding elections: "Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy" http://static.use
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by wittrock 11y ago
Backpressure between threads and utilization could be hard here. Balance between the speed of the accept, request, and worker threads is something I'm curious about. In theory, you could create pools of each if you find that one set bo
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by wittrock 12y ago
This is called reference counting, and it's nigh-impossible to do quickly in a nondeterministic system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting See this for why it's slow compared to other schemes:
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by wittrock 12y ago
That's the point--who.is won't play music by itself. Its lookup of the DNS records of jaimehawkins.co.uk injected the music into the page.
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by wittrock 13y ago
The real problem is the entrenched legacy software that uses BSD sockets. I don't want to even imagine the cost of rewriting all of that to use a different networking paradigm. POSIX certainly isn't the best way to do things, espe
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by wittrock 14y ago
It happens all the time, actually. Michael Bloomberg has attributed the rise in New York's crime rate recently to a rise in the snatch-and-grab thefts of Apple products. [1] [1]: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/crime-is-up-and
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by wittrock 14y ago
It looks like the GPU on the RasPi is still more powerful, so the cheaper board might still be better for things like a media center application. I'm very curious though about what appears to be a SATA port on the Cubieboard. Also, the RasP
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by wittrock 14y ago
I'm going to go ahead and guess that the people behind Qubes were worrying less about the fact that the desktop paradigm may be fundamentally flawed in terms of usability (not going to argue on that one), but more about security, which is t