firethief

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by firethief 2y ago
> “We cannot share details on the exact fix at this moment, for obvious security reasons.” This seems a bit disingenuous. To people with a bit of understanding of cybersecurity, they are admitting that they haven't solved it; but to
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by firethief 2y ago
It sounds like their architecture enables them to solve much more interesting problems than would usually be encountered in meeting their business requirements.
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by firethief 2y ago
ID.me also seems to be the only way to interact with the IRS online, and has arbitrarily decided my identity is unverifiable.
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by firethief 2y ago
Apparently surfraw has an elvis for it: https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw/-/wikis/current-elvi
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by firethief 2y ago
All languages have redundancy; it serves as a form of forward error correction. I recall some sort of study (sorry, no link) finding that information density was (by some metric) similar across different languages. So it's not just ine
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by firethief 2y ago
Interesting idea. I've just tried it with a couple of languages: - TS with Vue: SFC are not really working (it's showing a style change as if the whole stylesheet were replaced with a mostly-identical stylesheet). - Rust: It doesn
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by firethief 2y ago
I can't picture how that would work. While collaborative features require that some objects are shared and synchronized, efficiency and programmer sanity rely on the fact that some objects are not. If synchronization is opt-in, how wou
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by firethief 2y ago
I don't know what kind of computer weenies you know but speaking for myself: needing to interact with someone to get exercise would add a major hurdle for me. OTOH, I'm really getting in to minmaxing myself in Garmin...
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by firethief 2y ago
I went through the same paradigm shift with cycling. I used a cheap bike that was slow and heavy because higher efficiency wouldn't allow me to get exercise any faster. Then I got a nice road bike, and it's so much more fun to rid
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by firethief 4y ago
Well yeah. SSDs are worse than HDDs in every way when the denominator is capacity. The headline would be the opposite if they were comparing per IOPS. The shocking conclusion: Use SSDs when you need fast random access; use rotating media fo
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by firethief 5y ago
I have an Android TV and streaming subscriptions. If I want to stream something I have to find out what service carries it, open the right app, and attempt to type the title with the arrow keys on the remote. For me, it's much easier t
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by firethief 5y ago
`for` is a foreach. If you want to increment a number through a range like a typical C `for`, you have to use a `while` loop. I don't really see the draw.
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by firethief 5y ago
> do black-and-white code editing You've piqued my curiosity. No syntax highlighting?
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by firethief 5y ago
Well I assumed it would be an electron app because getting it done with a shedload of giant 555 timers wouldn't be as funny :)
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by firethief 5y ago
Oops. It's 40ms!
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by firethief 5y ago
It would take an electric signal about 40ns to travel from the center to one corner and back, and a signal certainly needs to do more than that in a clock cycle, so the physical limit on its operational frequency would be well below 25 kHz.
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by firethief 5y ago
It's not mutations that are the threat, it's mutated COVID-19 .
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by firethief 5y ago
We are talking about the relative evolutionary fitness of different variants, so until we have the ability to decide whether to avoid someone based on what variant they have (and may not be showing symptoms of), I don't see how behavio
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by firethief 5y ago
That's only a problem if you use code that is unsound. Well-written crates do not incorrectly mark functions safe.
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by firethief 5y ago
It depends on how high up the software stack you work. For most people it won't make much difference, but for some people it's huge. I do a lot of SIMD optimization, and x86 is 128/256/512-bit short-vector SIMD. Arm is 1
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by firethief 5y ago
> Theoretically, yes. Practically, I think that’s a “sufficiently smart compiler” class of problems, insanely hard to solve. Especially given that WASM is a JIT compiler, it simply doesn’t have time for expensive optimizations. Detecting
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by firethief 5y ago
> The [NEON] Wasm SIMD implementation is 65% faster than native! But what is perhaps more interesting is that the Wasm scalar implementation is only half as fast as the Wasm SIMD version instead of the 3x seen on x86. Perhaps v8 doesn’t
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by firethief 5y ago
Is it emulated, or does it have a peephole optimization for the mask/multiply idiom? If it's hitting the emulation path on this case, that can easily be fixed.
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by firethief 5y ago
> I think the effort to minimise the differences between early humans is admirable, and should be continued. We have a tiny, farcically small sample size of evidence to base any conjectures about early humans on. Being inclusive about Ho
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by firethief 5y ago
> The evidence is undeniably clear that limiting exposure to toxic phthalates can help safeguard Americans’ physical and financial wellbeing. It's kind of sad that "this could kill you" is followed by "and think of th
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by firethief 5y ago
> For example, for most social mammals, being higher status protects you more from stressful life events, so that you less often invoke the standard mammal stress response. By not spending on stress, you body invests more in growth and i
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by firethief 5y ago
That would throw off a simple compass, but if they can see relative strengths of magnetic fields it would be more like a source of glare than a blindfold
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by firethief 5y ago
I would argue that its those restrictions that make trees a useful simplification, but also a simplification
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by firethief 5y ago
You might enjoy this essay from 1965, "A City is Not a Tree": https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html
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by firethief 5y ago
> On the one hand, I hate that I’m being manipulated by artificial constructs. If you care mainly about things that wouldn't matter (or even make sense) if you were the only human, that ship had sailed. Might as well use it consciou

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