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by drpixie 3y ago
So - what is the BIOS password really protecting against - other than deterring employees from playing with company laptops? Note: If I own the laptop and don't have the password, I'm at the mercy of the vendor. And does the vendo
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Google further guts the Android open source project(osnews.com)
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Scott Locklin – Chesterton's Fence(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
3 points by drpixie 3y ago|0 comments
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by drpixie 3y ago
Seems applicable - https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/chestertons-fe...
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by drpixie 3y ago
> How do you craft software The same way that you would craft a beautiful piece of furniture, or fabulous wine, or marvelous garment. By caring first and foremost for the qualities of the result. Not the speed with which you can buil
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by drpixie 3y ago
Unfortunately the article fails to mention the most import aspect of security ... WHAT IS YOUR THREAT MODEL? Who/what are you protecting against? Without a clear answer to that, you're probably wasting your time. And check out B
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by drpixie 3y ago
Absolutely! I know there are designers out there, obsessing over every last detail. But I want an easy to navigate, consistent experience. I don't want to wave the mouse around hoping to find the easter-egg that is a link. Or the almos
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by drpixie 3y ago
Not sure what you mean by "threshold for action" but I think cost has a great deal to do with it. Running a cable (copper or fibre) along a street is expensive. So is putting up a wireless tower. And either have to be connected to
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by drpixie 3y ago
And also done as a local wifi server - https://internet-in-a-box.org/
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by drpixie 3y ago
From outside (I am not American) the anti-Cuba position seems to have an almost religious fervor! Almost like They're socialist, we're capitalist; it's natural, true, and necessary that we must oppose everything about them.
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by drpixie 3y ago
So sneakernet never went away, it just got less fashionable. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
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by drpixie 3y ago
I love RPN for calculating - I still regularly use a HP11C (Swiss Micros replica). But I hate coding or reading prefix (list) or postfix (rpn, forth, etc) languages. Once wrote a substantial project is Postscript - works fine but note easy
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by drpixie 3y ago
"He looked out over the flat landscape" -> "He looked out over the landscape, intelligently"
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by drpixie 3y ago
Or we could produce systems/languages/etc that don't need all that boilerplate!?
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by drpixie 3y ago
Perhaps I'm getting old, but remember when crypto was going to save the world...
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by drpixie 3y ago
INCONCEIVABLE! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by drpixie 3y ago
> Dynamic types mean the constraints are known later. Don't you mean, constraints are found when the program throws an unexpected exception and leaves you with a largely meaningless stack dump :) I'd rather have the system tell
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by drpixie 3y ago
Perhaps it's growing bored. Seeing the same queries, again and again, from thousands of different people. You want another cheap answer for your assignment! You still looking for code to do that! Don't they learn!? What's
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by drpixie 3y ago
Sounds very feasible. Also, when people started using it, they had few expectations and were (relatively easily) impressed by what they saw. Once it has become a more normal part of their routine, that "opportunity" of being impre
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by drpixie 3y ago
Not familiar with that one. Thanks for the pointer.
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by drpixie 3y ago
The cons that come to mind: Size: The more externals you drag in, the bigger and less efficient the apps will get. An extreme version of this are the deployment packages like flatpak and snap - you drag it a substantial copy of an OS! Bigge
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by drpixie 3y ago
added... > (I can be hopeful but I hold not outlook for such better models. Too many backwards compatible apps and too much depends on our existing code.) I see it that we (you, me, almost all programmers) are so practiced at the "f
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by drpixie 3y ago
I'm still hoping that the OS will make our lives (programmers and users) easier, rather than us having to know about the low-level stuff, even if (these days) we usually handle it by invoking yet another library.
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by drpixie 3y ago
I'm familiar with OS400 and Pick. Pick provided the DB table as its lowest level of storage.
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by drpixie 3y ago
I'm thinking something where the system maintains "objects" of arbitrary types, presumably they could include multiple other objects. You just access objects and the system makes them available - the object could be a documen
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by drpixie 3y ago
Current file systems are impressive - flexible, robust, close the hardware performance. But I'm disappointed that we are still using such low level models for our day to day computing. Files = everything is an array of bytes and every
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by drpixie 3y ago
> how to navigate the world without fully understanding or having a complete model of it GPT-4 does not have ANY understanding or model of the world - it just has a model of what tokens (words) are likely to appear in a certain context.
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by drpixie 3y ago
Or perhaps they have been successful primarily because of luck. They were lucky to be selected by IBM for the PC. Once they were riding the PC wave, their position as market leader (by volume, not quality) kept them there.
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by drpixie 3y ago
Touchscreens require significant user visual attention. You can't just feel for the button while watching the road and the traffic, you have to look at the screen and place your finger. It's really bad design to require a car driv
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by drpixie 3y ago
> I’ve seen LLMs find matches for queries like this, even if “Dick” is a nickname for “Richard”. An awful lot of business questions are in this category and neither relational theory nor full text search is useful to solve such problems.

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