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by xiii1408 8y ago
They'll almost certainly hand over user data to the central government. They're required to partner with a Chinese firm, and this is a fairly common practice among Chinese technology companies.
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by xiii1408 8y ago
No. It's not fair to justify building the machinery of a totalitarian state as simply "abiding by local laws and regulations." Not when the consequences involve clear violations of human rights. You don't have to look
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by xiii1408 8y ago
We make double stipend during the summer, to try to somewhat offset the financial incentive to take a summer internship. I'm including this in the base rate--without, it's probably closer to $32K.
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by xiii1408 8y ago
I live in a high cost of living area, and starting salaries are usually around $100-140K. Students in my program usually end up paying 40-60% of the base salary toward rent.
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by xiii1408 8y ago
This has been my experience as a CS Ph.D. student at a top US university as well--the pay is way less than industry, but it's enough to have a decent quality of life. In my department, students make about $40K/year as a base salar
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by xiii1408 8y ago
The install hooks are chrooted inside the pacman install directory. But, yeah, they run as root, so they can still do damage. My point was that the danger zone is when you trust the package, rather than when you run the PKGBUILD itself with
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by xiii1408 8y ago
All the install hooks are run chrooted inside the pacman install directory. But, yeah, they run as root, so they could still do something nasty at install time. Not when you `makepkg` the PKGBUILD, though.
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by xiii1408 8y ago
Yeah, Chromium , which is FOSS, not Google Chrome, and Google Noto Fonts, which are also FOSS. Anything proprietary can't simply be copied over and mirrored for copyright reasons.
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by xiii1408 8y ago
People still have CD players?
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by xiii1408 8y ago
No, AUR packages are PKGBUILD files, which are essentially little batch scripts that run inside a fakeroot. IMHO, the danger of a PKGBUILD itself doing something nasty is small--it would be limited to things like recording `uname -a`, lis
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by xiii1408 8y ago
AUR PKGBUILDs are much more restricted than this, since they're restricted to a fakeroot. Of course, if you're ultimately going to run the program, the binary set up by the PKGBUILD has a lot of control. But the PKGBUILD itself
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by xiii1408 8y ago
My understanding is some things (e.g. Google Chrome, Google and Microsoft fonts) can't be put in the main Arch Linux repos for copyright reasons.
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by xiii1408 8y ago
Exactly. It's actually kind of a success story for the AUR, since they found the malware so quickly. Of course, it would be more interesting if we could scan or survey the AUR to get a percentage of suspicious packages. I've lon
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by xiii1408 8y ago
I had a similar experience after a visit to Mexico. I picked up an ATT Mexico SIM card, and noticed that it still worked after I got back to the US. I bought a new tariff each month for about $10 USD using Ding, and it worked great. The o
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by xiii1408 8y ago
What was the modified version of the GitHub page?? Looks like it was taken down before I could get there. Crossing my fingers they added jokes about Stallman and muh freedums .
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by xiii1408 8y ago
Yes, the utilization for these supercomputers sits upwards of 99%. There's a lot of research into supercomputer queueing that helps maintain this high throughput. Larger jobs usually take days to weeks to run. There are separate debu
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by xiii1408 9y ago
Very cool! The function pointers bother me a bit, but hey, I'm a C++ programmer, and maybe link-time optimization is there now.
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by xiii1408 9y ago
msn.com??? Wonderful 90s throwback. Didn't realize this still existed.
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by xiii1408 9y ago
UPC++ follows the same paradigm but is much easier to use and has better documentation. https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/upcxx/wiki/Home
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by xiii1408 10y ago
Oh, wow! Silly me. I had assumed the original was set in Tokyo, and I looked around to see if I can find anything about setting before posting this, but couldn't find anything.
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by xiii1408 10y ago
Why does this include the skyline and flag of Hong Kong... I thought Ghost in the Shell was in Japan.
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by xiii1408 10y ago
Neat idea! Added ten bucks of credit to my Google account, then feverishly dialed the number... "You are about to be connected to a random French." Ooh, how charming. Upbeat hold music, then silence. "Hello?" I call
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by xiii1408 10y ago
We don't need to reverse engineer a browser to get hints about how North Korea's internet and intranet work, since people who've been there have given talks about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuxlLLeKZZ
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by xiii1408 10y ago
A guy who spent a year teaching in North Korea touched on this at CCC a couple years back. North Korea's intranet has its own DNS system, and they also (contrary to the article) assign a bunch of IP blocks not in RFC 4192 internally. P