MikeHolman

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by MikeHolman 2y ago
I worked on a browser team when Spectre/Meltdown came out, and I can tell you that a big reason why Firefox and Chrome do such severe process isolation is exactly because these speculative attacks are almost impossible to entirely prev
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by MikeHolman 2y ago
I think Meta would make the most sense. Funnel people to facebook, instagram, etc. Get all that juicy tracking data and boost additional ad revenue. Doesn't really seem like much of a win for consumers though... it's just trading
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by MikeHolman 2y ago
Strongly disagree. 45 days to allow the authors to fix a bug that has been present for over a decade is not really much added risk for users. In this case, 45 days is about 1% additional time for the bug to be around. Maybe someone was expl
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by MikeHolman 3y ago
I'm sure this isn't something at the exec level, but it seems possible someone somewhere in middle management who oversaw used van sales wanted to increase their revenue numbers and thought cheating the odometer would be an easy w
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by MikeHolman 3y ago
Why should reddit have to freely support a third-party client that doesn't provide revenue for them? The only reason is that the status quo is they have in the past freely supported these use cases, but it doesn't seem that unreas
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by MikeHolman 4y ago
I totally agree. The Chinese Room and, in general, philosophical arguments about the limits of AI always seem to come down to the belief of human exceptionalism.
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by MikeHolman 4y ago
>If enough of us do this with personal websites, more and more people will stop using Chrome and start using Firefox. You don't even have to cut Chrome users off from the content -- just annoy them a little, and suggest Firefox. It&
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by MikeHolman 4y ago
The point is that it is much more land efficient for us to directly eat plants than to route the plants through animals first. Cattle use 99% of the calories we feed them for their own functioning. Only 1% actually make it into the meat tha
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by MikeHolman 4y ago
Beef is an extremely carbon inefficient source of calories. They require a large amount of land, either directly or indirectly (e.g. from corn fields). Pastures and farmland are not effective carbon sinks. Most land used by cattle was earli
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by MikeHolman 4y ago
The compiler absolutely can implement tail calls, I don't know why this keeps getting thrown around. Adding a high-level directive in the spec doesn't enable the compiler to do anything, it just enforces it. The only thing prevent
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by MikeHolman 4y ago
Even if we did somehow get the political will to fund a project of this magnitude, it could never work. The bubbles would get blamed for every single snowstorm, unseasonably cold day, and any other weather that happened after it was put in
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by MikeHolman 4y ago
Scheduling plays a part, but it is definitely more about vectorization.
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
Wasm has the same security risk as executing JavaScript in your browser, except with less risk of XSS type security issues because wasm modules are better encapsulated.
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
The civilian casualties are obviously tragic, but they are not beyond the scale that we've seen in recent wars the US has fought.
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
If the adversarial image is intended to cause car accidents or bodily harm in some way, then the people printing the t-shirts and the people wearing them are already breaking the law. And if they actually do hurt someone, I imagine they wou
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
They definitely aren't all at the same level right now, but I'm happy for the competition. Hopefully it will drive innovation.
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
That's like saying it's not the painter generating any Art, the gallery curating the art through their lens of critical artistic appreciation is the Art.
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
IR is usually represented as a sort of linked list of instructions where you can easily move around instructions, add/remove them, and replace higher level instructions with lower level instructions as you go through compiler passes. A
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
That completely misses the point. The problem is that companies won't do the research to find cures -- because cures don't make money. You can't go to India for a cure that doesn't exist.
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by MikeHolman 5y ago
As someone who used to maintain a large C++ codebase, people usually bug-dump static analysis results rather than actually submitting fixes, but blindly "fixing" code that a static analysis tool claims to have issue with is not su
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by MikeHolman 6y ago
Proper Tail Calls (PTC) were a problematic JS feature, and calling it "Optimization" is a huge misnomer. Only JavascriptCore (Safari) ever enabled it. In many cases PTC causes tail calls to be slower, and it messes up stack traces
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by MikeHolman 6y ago
I think this is a very dangerous line of study. I can easily see these results getting used to forward racism and other appearance based discrimination.
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by MikeHolman 6y ago
I think even more, since there was a stock split since then (share price is dated at 2005).
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by MikeHolman 6y ago
This is somewhat true, but Windows is a perfect example of this not working. There was no Windows 9, because of fear of people using the Windows string name to detect Windows 95/98 (or at least that is the prominent theory).
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by MikeHolman 7y ago
Defnitely not the official stance, but Lijian Zhao (China Spokesperson & Deputy Director General, Information Department, Foreign Ministry) tweeted "It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan." https://tw
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by MikeHolman 7y ago
Probably too late for that. Italy outbreak was only like 19 days ago, so I imagine US will be there in about 2 weeks. I would guess it takes at least a couple weeks from exposure to get into critical condition and treated.
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by MikeHolman 7y ago
It didn't look a lot like flu. China doesn't shut down their entire country for months over the flu.
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by MikeHolman 7y ago
Also, I don't know all the market pressures of 1918, but it seems reasonable that the market was helped by the US winning the biggest war in the history of the world.
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by MikeHolman 7y ago
Don't they test close contacts of cases? So even if not all of the cases are severe, the severe cases will discover a lot of the more mild cases by proxy. But I guess the incubation period is so long that those more mild cases may reso
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by MikeHolman 7y ago
It may not be much easier than your setup, but my fiancée and I have a shared Simple account that we both deposit $x to each month and then withdraw shared transactions. They make moving between shared and individual Simple accounts pretty

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