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by zurn 11y ago
On the other hand this is from an Amazon marketing event and they are probably combining hindsight with colored glasses. Ultimately you can always diagnose failures as "they didn't know what they were doing". But usually ther
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by zurn 11y ago
I agree that corruption can hurt public transit, but I'm not sure it's closely related to driverless cars in PT...?
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by zurn 11y ago
Public transport is going to be largely built on self-driving cars if/when they enter the market. It's the perfect fit: a) Personnel costs dominate human-driven PT cars b) huge vehicles because of a) c) vechicles are on average mo
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by zurn 11y ago
You may be operating with an erroneously optimistic definition of "open standards"! Open standards in computing means proprietary implementations of patent-laden published protocols. (Well, it doesn't preclude open source or
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by zurn 11y ago
There's quite some dissonance between the artificial "generics" vs normal types. Why the concrete str type for strings, but not for lists? I realize there are implementation level arguments for it, but the resulting compromis
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by zurn 11y ago
Signals are not generally used for IPC on Linux. Also you can handle them orderly along with other fd events using the standard & portable self-pipe pattern or Linux-specific signalfd.
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Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools(dymaxion.org)
69 points by zurn 11y ago|82 comments
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Writing an application that supports DNSSEC in RHEL and Fedora(developerblog.redhat.com)
2 points by zurn 11y ago|1 comments
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Support for DNSSEC in the GNU C Library(sourceware.org)
2 points by zurn 11y ago|1 comments
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by zurn 11y ago
Some pretty big advantages: They are voting blocs that are long lived enough for reputation to work. It makes representatives much easier to follow and predict (for media and citizens). They become much more efficient in wielding power and
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by zurn 11y ago
The stick only has half the memory bandwidth of the Xbox 360 though.
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by zurn 11y ago
Officially Google still provides security patches for Android 4.4 but there is not much information on what this means in practice. How many OEMs actually make use of this and provide security patches for 4.4 devices? (source: https:/
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by zurn 11y ago
What's a "checking balance"?
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by zurn 11y ago
In comparison to other first world countries the housing square footage is very high but peanuts compared to residential energy consumption. For example USA has 77 residential m2/capita and Germany has 55 m2/capita (50% more), but
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by zurn 11y ago
> If there's an argument here at all it's for having energy prices take into account whatever externality Vox is specifically concerned about, not for forcing people to live in smaller homes So this concern hasn't translat
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by zurn 11y ago
Encryption does not address the security problems of "cloud" services if your threat model includes eg BND. Traffic/metadata analysis is plenty to find out what you're doing and who you're doing with. Secondly if yo
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by zurn 11y ago
So it's FBI paying the military to do law enforcement work. Not really better.
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by zurn 11y ago
He had done most of the work on Windows beforehand (OpenGL, implementing his own portable shading language, UTF-8 etc).
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by zurn 11y ago
What kind of bugs do you have in mind for fixed point? While there no doubt would be some, I have a feeling they are a significantly lesser drag (in frequency and debugging complexity) than floating point bugs. Assuming the language support
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by zurn 11y ago
Floating point is actually a significant source of bugs in 3D graphics and games. And a complex thing you have to constantly keep in mind, taking cognitive resources from other more useful stuff. And a thing you have to code around, increas
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by zurn 11y ago
How big improvements do you feel improved hardware fixed point support could yield, and what form might the improvements take? Imagining for example that Intel decided to make a instruction set extension in their next CPU.
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by zurn 11y ago
Re "hacker-free", Pirate Bay's anakata was jailed for breaking into mainframes. See http://insecurety.net/?p=877 (the doc link there is broken, try https://wikileaks.org/gottfrid-docs/ )
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by zurn 11y ago
You might have mixed per-quarter and per-year numbers there. According to http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricity... the average (in MWh/a) is 11.7 for USA and 7.2 for Australia, both at the high e
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by zurn 11y ago
So did phototypesetters basically work like printers, or was the output just used as a "master" to duplicate more copies of things like books using another kind of machine?
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by zurn 11y ago
"Mole for mole" is completely irrelevant to the issue at hand though.
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by zurn 11y ago
Many European countries have very large (dominant even) state owned power companies that work pretty well. But really the argument about Russian privatization is that it ought to have been executed less poorly, for example not donating most
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by zurn 11y ago
No mention of security impact of these bugs in the tracker. Anyone know if FFmpeg has some vulnerability process, or do they just commit fixes and let other people worry about exploitability, security hotfixes and CVEs, like Linux?
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by zurn 11y ago
Anyone know the history of this protocol, was it much used at any point?
449.
by zurn 11y ago
PostgreSQL + JSON gets you working transactions and schemaless.
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by zurn 11y ago
Also check out Durus, a close relative of ZODB but simpler. https://www.mems-exchange.org/software/DurusWorks/

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