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by wolf550e 10y ago
I am reminded of the story of author Lois McMaster Bujold's sci-fi awards. She is a very successful author ("won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record") and sci-fi awards (and nom
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by wolf550e 10y ago
If someone is an asshole to women and not to men, he's sexist. But if he's an asshole to everyone, he's just an asshole.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Yeah, we don't want a repeat of this: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/multimedia/progress-collisi...
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by wolf550e 10y ago
In semiconductors, you need to invest billions before you make and sell your first chip. With fiber, you can start with a dozen customers. There is no comparison.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
> I was starting an ISP, perhaps the most capital intense business on the planet Semiconductor manufacturing is literally a million times more expensive (~3B investment in a new fab). The sentence I'm quoting doesn't appear to
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by wolf550e 10y ago
'spuz is familiar with male-dominated environments and finds them stifling. 'spuz is unfamiliar with a place as bad as what is described in the article and speculates that he would like that less.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
It's a way to use NASA budget to prop up military contractor ATK.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
"security through obscurity" refers only to violations of Kerckhoffs's principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Facebook see your whatsapp contacts (social graph) and can sell that, but they really can't see the content of conversations. If being known to be in contact with certain people (e.g. human rights activists) can be damaging to you, you
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Not meant as a dismissal at all. I just noted that the phenomenon in which big complex C programs evolve into using features of higher level languages (like garbage collection instead of the regular malloc+free approach) is well known. Game
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by wolf550e 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule ?
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by wolf550e 10y ago
So all that hasn't existed for ages. Only dumping the intermediate representation has existed for ages, but not loading it and not running the middle-end of the compiler on the loaded IR.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
So is GCC adding a toolchain similar to the one LLVM has around its bitcode? In this instance, a way to write a text representation of an internal data structure that represents code, run a single optimization pass over that data structure,
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by wolf550e 10y ago
There is a presentation[1] by grugq on how to communicate securely. Using gpg with email is hard. Anecdotally, people reply in cleartext quoting the encrypted message. If you can train and test your co-conspirators before sending them incri
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Sitting congressmen were put on the no-fly list. They were removed, but the rules were not changed. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/lewis.watchlis...
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Oracle DBAs are super easy to retrain to PostgreSQL because the two systems are quite similar and Postgres is catching up on features it has been missing.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Has a cryptographer ever looked at the protocol you invented? Maybe doing the asymmetric crypto on every packet is just a harmless performance problem that, but maybe you invented something insecure. Or is the protocol strictly from the spe
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by wolf550e 10y ago
I that would be crazy. Instead of that, something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines_A2 might be doable.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Is it better than pt-online-schema-change from percona-toolkit? That thing creates a new table which is the same shape as the old one, runs an ALTER on the new table, sets up triggers on the old table to update the new table, and then copie
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Dr. Robert Zubrin on the radiation on the way to Mars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UChuIqIKF4&t=1031
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Trump has implied in twitter that he'll use the army and national guard to deal with the problems in Chicago. http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/27/illinois-gov-we-dont-want-...
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by wolf550e 10y ago
r: term limits for legislators. California tried that. Turns out representatives without experience at drafting and passing legislation rely on lobbyists with the requisite experience, and the power shifts from nominally accountable represe
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by wolf550e 10y ago
They use libx264 for H.264 video encoding (and maybe libx265 for HEVC). What do you think they use to split the video from the audio in the source file, decode the source video frames, resize and crop every frame, and then mux the resulting
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by wolf550e 10y ago
zip is not a solid archive. Each file in a zip is compressed independently without referencing data from other files, so zip files can't exploit redundancy between files for better compression. tar.gz files compress the concatenation o
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by wolf550e 10y ago
It's only binding in the sense you lose the extra compensation if you leave.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
I know of an S/360 assembly code base that (as of a decade ago), still ran code that assumed 24 bit address space and used 31 bit pointers with tags stuffed in the unused 7 bits. So it had to run in the lowest 16MB of memory, on a 64-b
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by wolf550e 10y ago
An explanation from 'bcantrill about why the talk was not recorded: https://lobste.rs/s/q2xz14/systems_we_love_videos/comments/i...
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Your professor can fully understand your work, could have done it herself if she had the time, and can fully check your work for any flaws or limitations. Your non-technical manager cannot fully understand your work, do it herself or check
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Even more enhancement in newer versions: "Version 7.0 20/July/2016 New Features Row Hammer Test (Test 13) now uses double-sided hammering and random data patterns in an attempt to expose more RAM modules susceptible to distur
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Appeal to authority is not nothing. If there is a complicated issue and a majority of credible authorities on the subject agree on some conclusion, I should accept it unless I have studied it enough (advanced degree in the right field + stu

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