wladimir

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by wladimir 15y ago
Both can be used. CUDA is not that different from OpenCL. Your underlying question seems to be "is it best to use ATI or NVidia cards for a render farm", I don't know the answer to that. Probably depends on the specific rendering software u
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by wladimir 15y ago
We're now purged our systems. We've traced every filename, grepped every file, and generally undertaken the mammoth task of removing anything that someone not steeped in hacker culture might find questionable If I was a federal agent, tha
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by wladimir 15y ago
+1 -- I keep warning people about this, but them don't seem to get it through their thick skull :) The bitcoin client and protocol itself doesn't use doubles internally, but fixed-point numbers. I don't know about MTGox, though.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I agree his example is a bit convoluted. But I can see how it is useful, for example if you want to be able to retry operations after an I/O failure.
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by wladimir 15y ago
But NaCl in its current state is limited to a specific platforms, which is a big problem for a web app. Do you know if portable NaCl ever got anywhere?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Probably. I think part of his point is that these days it's very hard to have networks completely isolated from the internet. If there is only one host connected to both the internet (or a network that connects to it) and that proprietary n
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes a VM would be nice. Or LLVM + native client, "portable native client", Google is (was?) working on this in Chromium.
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by wladimir 15y ago
And why would this "legal system" not apply to BTC transactions? It is the same as paying someone in cash. The kind of currency used for payments has nothing to do with whether to punish fraudsters and cheats or not.
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by wladimir 15y ago
"Arbitrary code execution, potentially in the kernel". Luckily, the kernel component of graphics drivers (at least the NVIDIA one) is comparatively small these days, and mainly concerns memory/buffer allocation and resource scheduling. Apar
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by wladimir 15y ago
CS is an interesting personality. On one hand, he writes fiction about the singularity, AI and interstellar travel, and is clearly enthusiastic about them. On the other hand, in his essays he states that humanity will probably never leave t
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by wladimir 15y ago
No it's not a joke. If you forget to rewind your CD-ROMs before storing them, the next person using it might start reading at the wrong position. This can result in incomplete or corrupted data.
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by wladimir 15y ago
It only exists on Solaris AFAIK, as part of the CDE window manager environment.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Not a panic in itself is the problem. But as the grantparent mentions, there might be a technical issue (such as a hack, in this case) if such an irrational thing happens. Safest action in that case is to halt the market temporarily (as wel
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by wladimir 15y ago
+1 for how you guys handle this. Instead of turning this into a drama, you handle it pretty humoristically and make contest out of it. This is much more viral than simply railing against them, and is just as effective in showing their folly
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by wladimir 15y ago
You go through a lot of trouble to try to secure an inherently insecure protocol (email). Or do you mainly use on-the-wire encrypted mail as well?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Improving the wallet security is priority #1 of the dev team at the moment. Note that no one of the developers expected it to get this big this fast. Six months ago, no one would even bother stealing bitcoins as they were not more than a to
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by wladimir 15y ago
It doesn't. HTTPS mitigates passive sniffing and most MITM attacks but does not have any effect against cross-site script attacks such as CSRF and XSS.
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by wladimir 15y ago
It is not always that easy to distinguish servers and clients. What about P2P systems such as Skype?
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's indeed an issue at the moment. Hopefully it is a temporary problem, as decisions such as this will nudge services towards supporting https.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Ouch. That'd be a very Kafkaesque situation to be in. You know you didn't do anything, but they claim to have your IP in the offending logs. Luckily, it sorted itself out. This is really scary. With the little the police knows about IT, the
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by wladimir 15y ago
Reminds me of some slackware install script back in 1999 or so, I think it was for the gnome documentation. Anyway, it accidentally removed rm-rf'ed /, I only discovered it in time because it gave errors about removing nodes in /proc...
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by wladimir 15y ago
Good as in "coded according to established coding standards". This probably reduces the likelyhood of programmer errors (such as the quoted mistakes with sizeof()..), but doesn't mean that there are few actual bugs left.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Adrian Lamo? isn't that the guy that ratted Bradley Manning to the FBI? This is getting curiouser and curioser...
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by wladimir 15y ago
Most likely this was discovered sooner. But people kept the vulnerability to themselves and possibly even profited from it. These kind of vulnerabilities in high-profile sites can go unreported for ages, even up to the point that they are c
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by wladimir 15y ago
The average people's computer is probably less secure than the average's bank's computer. But I wonder by how much: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656837
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by wladimir 15y ago
The wallet is a database file with all the private keys of the bitcoin addresses (ECDSA keys) in it. These private keys are needed to spend the coins in the addresses. The private keys could be encrypted with a password, but I'm not sure ho
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by wladimir 15y ago
Agreed. It looks very much like a front, or weird viral/marketing operation. Not sure it is by a government but that'd be possible. They piss off literally everybody, and don't even have the remote resemblance of anything like ethics. Smell
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by wladimir 15y ago
Pseudo-anonymity also brings out the best in people, such as unbounded creativity. The spread is very large.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I wish they added 'on average' to these kind of titles. Oh of course, that would be as sensationalist anymore...
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by wladimir 15y ago
Does flash have OpenGL support these days? I investigated options for making a 3D web game two years ago, and back then Flash was still limited to 2D polygons and no depth buffer. There were some '3D engines' but those did all vertex transf

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