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by zzzcpan 7y ago
These days people can call you a conspiracy theorist for the very things Chomsky stands behind.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> The entire feed is conspiracy theory videos which have led them to believe some really awful things. > the victims are actors, it was a false flag operation You don't know what led them to believe what. And false flag oper
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> The oracle database functioned as a database, but also as a high throughput queue, as well as a message passing platform. At high loads, different applications were hitting the same rows so frequently that the transaction errors alone
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's not even on the radar for them I believe. Maybe ask again in another ten years.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
"Decency" is not a universal thing, so it's not acceptable to enforce your ways of being decent onto everyone else.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Preemption and cooperation are unrelated to any of it, you can have affinity or lack thereof with either of them. This is about misunderstanding of trade offs, as if work stealing can somehow fix slow broken shared memory multithreading mod
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
"Many processors, each with their own run queue" "Because synchronization is almost entirely avoided, this strategy can be very fast. However, it’s not a silver bullet. Unless the workload is entirely uniform, some process
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Do fully legal cryptocurrencies even make sense? They have to be legal only to sneak past regulations and gain adoption, but still somehow escape government control, so that AML, etc. cannot be enforced.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
"Fibers (sometimes called stackful coroutines or user mode cooperatively scheduled threads) and stackless coroutines (compiler synthesized state machines) represent two distinct programming facilities with vast performance and function
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
In fact Elixir and Erlang are the only reasonably known dynamic languages that differentiate on concurrency. The rest either do higher order event loop concurrency, which is ok, but not a differentiator, or do worse, shared memory multithre
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Starlink is more vulnerable to governments than VPNs and is going to be much much more expensive.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Those benchmarks are for hashing data in the billions of bytes range. Hash tables typically use data in the 1-20 byte range. No, you misunderstood the purpose of the project. From the benchmarks, SipHash: Small key speed test -
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> It puts industrial strength end to end encryption in the hands of millions of Chinese. But China doesn't allow stuff like that, surely there is a backdoor.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> but it does at least employ actual security and privacy in many places. It doesn't. It has total control over what you can use which is the least privacy and security friendly option you can have. That control means they can give
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I guess you don't read much PR. PR is never sincere, it exists to manipulate public opinion.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's the same thing as giving fandoms names, pretty manipulative and creepy.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> This is a measured and well-thought out response. No, it's a repulsive hypocritical corporate PR that tries to justify putting profits over people suffering.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Which behavior? Sounds like you are not up to date. Pretty much everyone who accused rms of some bad behavior was lying, a bunch of lies were caught with real proofs.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I'd suggest to avoid dealing with wifi routers as much as possible, they are not worth the time, and instead separate wifi and routing. Doing all the dhcp, dns/pi-holing, nat, firewalling on a PC-based router and using a wifi rout
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> I can assure you the number of people who do not contribute to the Linux kernel because they're turned off by it is significantly larger You can't, actually. This is a deeply false ideological assumption not based on any real
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I second that, for like ten years on upwork and jobs.perl.org Perl has been barely present and on local job markets in most countries completely dead. I know people who moved on, found work with other languages and other technologies and wh
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I don't think it can be an argument for offensive weapons. It's the opposite for offensive weapons. As the government can always have better and more of offensive weapons and letting people have them would just be an excuse to use
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Aren't you missing power hierarchy in those entitlement examples? If one entitled to something but has no power, does it really matter? It only matters if power is involved and the entitlement can be enforced.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> "... nor shall the secrecy of any means of communication be violated." > All wiretapping was illegal in Japan until 1999. So, at the end of the day constitution is just some document that holds no real power and can be vio
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Security is always in service of something, not the other way around. The highest point for security is coming together with something side by side, but not before it.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Android has one of the best security models and sandboxing for apps. It's based around SELinux. You mean a security model that misses the fact that the kernel cannot be updated and relies on a "sanboxing" solution that d
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It depends on your use case. LevelDB is way too sloppy about memory allocation, threads and I/O, which may not be acceptable for an embeddable database. I got to the point once where every daemon on every node using LevelDB had to be r
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
In the latter case it's just as easy to catch real IP addresses by sitting in front of authoritative DNS servers and actual servers those DNS records point to. As I said, you just can't justify it as a privacy feature. It does not
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> An eavesdropper can sit in front of the authoritative server for a site and eavesdrop on all the DNS queries with EDNS information. No, they can sit near your 1.1.1.1 servers and catch all incoming and outgoing traffic, watching connec
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Someone capable of eavesdropping on that query sure as hell capable of eavesdropping on incoming connections to 1.1.1.1 where they can see actual IP address that initiated the query. There is no way to justify this as a privacy feature. Wel

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