amckinlay

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by amckinlay 8y ago
The new design looks like it was made in Microsoft Word.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
They do deserve it, just not a censored one.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
Why doesn't C have an actual, formal semantic model? "Furthermore, we argue that the C standard does not allow Turing complete implementations, and that its evaluation semantics does not preserve typing. Finally, we claim that no
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by amckinlay 8y ago
What's wrong with SCTP?
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by amckinlay 8y ago
The mobile game is just a reskin of an existing Netease (Chinese) game. Mobile games are also full of microtransactions which players already protestested in Diablo 3 with the real money auction house. Players actually are angry about a D
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by amckinlay 8y ago
Is there any messenger that does end-to-end encryption with reliable, in-order delivery with decentralized group chat and conversation history syncing? Been looking for years but so far the double-ratchet is inadequate.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
What is with all these email clients supporting folders but not labels for Gmail. I get that labels are not a supported abstraction in IMAP, but they are supported through the Gmail API.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
I still don't understand how this device could steal login details. Everything should be encrypted and authenticated through PKI when using any website that accepts login details. Whenever I visit a website with an expired certificate,
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by amckinlay 8y ago
And this time we actually have legitimate, real, censorship to fight.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
That sounds like a suspiciously confident prediction given the nature of the internet.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
I want a language where you can express time and constraints on time within the language and the type system. I want to be able to guarantee program correctness, pre-calculate fine-grained energy usage, optimize for energy/power-saving
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by amckinlay 8y ago
Should not be too hard to develop a free version of this. Do not look at their source code on GitHub, though.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
Migration policy really has nothing to do with this surveillance law.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
Why can't we have IPSec + IKEv2 everywhere as originally intended as part of IPv6. No "VPN" necessary.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
I think that licensing restriction only applies if you provide the source to the client.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
How is it responsible, medically, to sit on a report of scientific fraud without action for two years, selling and profiting off bad data.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
Still wish the Linux kernel had zero-copy IPC with pipes. vmsplice(1) can zero-copy data into the pipe, but the destination process cannot vmsplice(1) the data out of the pipe without incurring a copy.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
It was kind of funny, though.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
This looks like an intruiging alternative to Julia. Last time I tried Julia, effecient multidimensional code generation was incomplete due to required work in the type system. I wonder how Egison's performance matches it's express
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by amckinlay 8y ago
And if the IoT device is using Wi-Fi anyway there is no need for low power demand of Bluetooth.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
.localhost is the loopback IP on most resolvers, though.
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by amckinlay 8y ago
.local is used ad-hoc by mDNS (Apple). Last time the issue of naming local-area devices came up on ##networking, the consensus was to purchase a domain name in order to name local network devices without interfering with global name resolut
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by amckinlay 8y ago
Last time I tried Scala I had to give up because I couldn't understand what a "trampoline" was, or how to use it to get multi-function tail recursion to work. Probably not Scala's fault.
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by amckinlay 9y ago
And this is a government we're going to rescue if they're ever under attack.
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by amckinlay 9y ago
This kind of accident has happened many times in the history of the Emergency Alert System (EAS)[1] and the earlier Emergency Broadcast System (EBS). The false alarm of 1971[2] actually revealed a major flaw in the EBS. During the incident,
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by amckinlay 9y ago
Apple security is confusing. For example, Find My Mac does not require 2FA even when 2FA is enabled. An attacker can remotely wipe your MacBook with just your iCloud password. Another example: apparently there is a distinction between &quot
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by amckinlay 9y ago
I'm glad they allow you to completely disable the "secure boot" functionality so that other OSes like Linux can be installed. Glad Apple didn't pull a Microsoft here. I would be delighted, however, if the secure boot fun
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by amckinlay 9y ago
Pretty extraordinary that a user's most important files (their documents and whatever else is in their home folder) are accessible to any app at any time. Why are we still using this outdated security model? On Windows, I could downloa
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by amckinlay 9y ago
AMD is doing a lot of things right recently and they have a bright future. And after seeing this, apparently they have been doing things right longer than I thought.
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by amckinlay 9y ago
Providing "support" probably means "fix defects that are otherwise unnoticed in a closed/secret system."

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