ajross

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by ajross 4d ago
I remain amazed that the idea of the USA being a coherent, unified rational actor one can describe as a "Nation State" has survived the current administration. To be less glib: Yes, there are still smart people in there making ins
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by ajross 5d ago
The problem is that "being at war" isn't really the problem, it's a symptom. A lawless and destabilized gulf region is the result of incomplete and inneffective military action, and in a darkly hilarious way is only t
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by ajross 6d ago
FWIW, the native app specialists are in some sense the most invalidated here. Shopify decided they couldn't afford your skill set and didn't change their mind until you could be replaced with an LLM. Really the whole concept of
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by ajross 6d ago
> Came down hot Really that's all that needs to be said at the moment. They had way too much energy[1], which anyone with flight sim or RC experience will recognize as a routine mistake when hand-flying. The question is why all (al
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by ajross 8d ago
I can't tell what you're disagreeing with. I'm just going to repeat: there is nothing notable or unique to Christian appropriation of myths and stories from other religions. It does it at least as much as everyone else does,
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by ajross 8d ago
Editor snobbery digression: that would be poor writing. The job of signaling the main subject of the article belongs to the headline and lede, and "Christian saints" is right there. No, that phrase is just filler. And IMHO it&#x
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by ajross 8d ago
I really don't think that that use of "in particular" is correct or notable? Cross culture motion of mythology and storytelling is the rule with humanity, not the exception. Really it's only in the last/final gener
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by ajross 9d ago
Shrug. If you feel you can do better by offering free email with ad targetting and beat GMail in the market, feel free. As it is, Google clearly feels that offering "free mail client" functionality to external domains is a net l
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by ajross 9d ago
Ah. But you can delete the relationship in Google Wallet too, IIRC. I thought that was what you were talking about.
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by ajross 9d ago
Not following? Paying with Google Pay is obviously not "easy" if you're not logged in, it's impossible? And obviously you don't need to use an email if you're already authenticated?
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by ajross 10d ago
> It's not quite the same as the old Intel based generation, where they were more like premium/well built machines with good screens and hardware. Not sure what generation you're talking about? Intel c. 18-25 years ago wa
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by ajross 10d ago
> they used to let you run Windows! They let you run Windows when they were losing in the market and needed a path to migration for users of the winning platform. Once they started winning, they stopped. Conversely, Microsoft refused to
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by ajross 10d ago
> Why Apple does not at least provide the specs to the community? Because then they'll have to compete with Linux, which opens them up to someone else making a cheaper computer that does the same stuff. I mean, I'm typing this
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by ajross 11d ago
This is missing the point. The whole point of a "sandbox" in the sense of defense in depth is precisely because it's expected that first-line security guarantees will be broken. Like, maybe V8 has a bug and you can write
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by ajross 12d ago
> Why you would choose to use the weakest defensible option I still remain confused why people are interpreting this from what I wrote. I'm not "choosing" to use RSA nor advocating for its use. I'm pointing out ane
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by ajross 12d ago
Everyone wants to argue crypto when my point was precisely the opposite (to wit: "Two decades after the factoring freakout, RSA is fine, go figure"), but whatever. I'll retract that when they break it. But the pace has been
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by ajross 12d ago
> Your 1024 bit key is only "fine" because you are a small fry, not because cryptographers think it cannot be attacked. This is falling for an xkcd 538 fallacy, btw. Nation states obviously have vast higher capability to subve
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by ajross 12d ago
It's sort of fun to remember the genuine worry in the community around RSA and the (really, really shocking at the time!) progress in factorization leading up to GNFS techniques. Like, it really looked like everything was going to fall
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by ajross 12d ago
Yeah, basically this is terminating the trick some people used where they host a domain elsewhere but want to use an free personal GMail address as the "mail client" for it. Google sells their own domain email product, they'
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by ajross 13d ago
Fair enough. I'd view it as "florid" vs. "shallow", but it's not my opinion that matters and I fully agree that there's a spectrum between "strongly held" and "offensive" and you have
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by ajross 13d ago
Both of you are misunderstanding the point: I was responding (pretty clearly I thought!) to the ridiculous "all electric" range. Yes, it can go farther if you burn fuel. But so can a Dash-8, very effectively. No one is intereste
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by ajross 13d ago
It's chemistry, not technology. Motive engines that can suck ~70% of their reactant mass from the atmosphere have a horrifyingly unfair advantage.
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by ajross 13d ago
To repeat: the market is filled with fuel-driven turboprops. This only wins if it's better, and it's only better if it's cheaper. Is it cheaper? If it's cheaper they should say, and not spend time talking about "
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by ajross 14d ago
Oh sure, but that was a hack. The rest of the market (even in 1982) had already moved on, c.f. the ROM on the 1978 Disk II card that could load and run a boot sector automatically. Having an "operator" was a design paradigm, and
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by ajross 14d ago
> "LOAD .... 8,1" (I don't remember the middle part). Interestingly this was sort of the beginning of the end of digital computers as an operator-centered environment. So, the LOAD command took three arguments: the first
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by ajross 15d ago
> You're also still wrong about the nature of AnkiDroid So were you though, if you're still standing by "just some nerd programmers". They want to take donations through an outside payment processor, which they simpl
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by ajross 15d ago
> "Phone apps" is irrelevant, because again, Anki was not taking donations via their app but rather via a link to OpenCollective, a separate website. ...Irrelevant? That's the whole point. "Taking donation via a se
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by ajross 15d ago
Since you seem to have done the research, can you link some other iOS or Android apps that have been allowed to solicit donations for the Open Source Collective? Thanks. I mean, come on. Just read their page. They're not a charity,
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by ajross 15d ago
> Anki and Ankidroid are not the same entity So... why is one soliciting donations on behalf of the other?! My Fraud Meter is rising, not falling here. > It's also just some nerd programmers who ported Anki to run on Android. It
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by ajross 15d ago
Do LF and Rust solicit individual donations via phone apps (or at all, really)? Indeed, those are structured as corporate-funded consortiums of exactly the type you'd be very suspicious of if, say, your kernel or compiler logs started

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