locacorten

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by locacorten 1y ago
From my standpoint, this isn’t about revenge. It’s about accountability and alignment with broader realities. Over the past 18 months, we've seen over a million layoffs across the US tech sector alone. White-collar industries everywher
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by locacorten 1y ago
In the city where I live, the contrast is striking: the local state college boasts dorms and facilities that are remarkably luxurious—architecturally grand, stylish, and visibly well-funded. Meanwhile, the local NVIDIA office operates out o
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by locacorten 3y ago
I wonder what would be a really effective incentive to the construction industry to build more homes. Something like -- no tax on any homes construction for the next 5 years. Wouldn't that create a construction boom?
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by locacorten 3y ago
I beg to differ. Regular human beings would die 100% of the time. Not 80.
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by locacorten 4y ago
I'm disappointed to hear this news. Understanding the origins of Covid is one of the most important things we can do in this century.
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by locacorten 5y ago
No. It's not deep in their nature. People do not compete in a system offering no incentive to compete.
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by locacorten 5y ago
I think everybody is missing the point. If one grad student was able to do this, imagine what a team of dozens of well-paid, well-equipped, and highly experienced security experts could do. In other news, we just learned that any half-decen
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by locacorten 6y ago
I get a server error (500)
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by locacorten 6y ago
It might be flawed, wrong, stupid, etc. but that’s not a reason to flag it. Argue against, bring more light into the discussion. Censoring it brings no good. Censorship should be rarely and carefully used.
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by locacorten 6y ago
Sam, I know that you now spent a couple of months with researchers, and thus can write "deep" articles on researchers vs. founders now. Everyone knows that the best kind of researchers in the world are all at OpenAI now, and that
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Are We Susceptible to Rowhammer? An End-to-End Methodology for Cloud Providers(microsoft.com)
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by locacorten 7y ago
All drawings, paintings, and art I saw in Africa, all of them depict people in a group. There is never a single person depicted in any imagery. You won't find any Mona Lisa in African art. :-)
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by locacorten 7y ago
I have not read the paper, and I could be wrong. However, these appear to be attacks against the crypto implemented inside a TPM/fTPM. The reference implementation of TPM 2.0 leaves the choice of the crypto library up to the platform v
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by locacorten 7y ago
On iOS, OneNote has a completely broken search experience. That's a showstopper for me.
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by locacorten 7y ago
Great point. But there should be a distinction between academic conferences where professors from U. Mich are publishing and practitioner conferences aimed at industry (including sales, etc.). My criticism is about academic conferences -- t
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by locacorten 7y ago
The main trait of a top researcher is skepticism -- the willingness to doubt results. You learn to be skeptical as part of the training during your Ph.D. Unfortunately, the standards have fallen. The security community is one of the worst i
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by locacorten 7y ago
Two points: 1. The article's point is that the "The Race to 5G is BS" and not "5G is BS". Please adjust. 2. I can try to offer an answer to the author. History has shown that a novel piece of technology often leads
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by locacorten 8y ago
I really hope this event is picked up by the media. This is truly worrisome because it unnecessarily erodes US's ability to be at the forefront of technology research. This is not about H1B visas. Not about the Muslim ban. Not about Ch
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by locacorten 8y ago
Yes! What could possibly go wrong?
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by locacorten 8y ago
This is very interesting. I wish I could read more about it. Is this true of minimum-security prisons too?
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by locacorten 8y ago
A whole bunch of links don't work or have empty pages: Code Development Overview https://microsoft.github.io/mu/CodeDevelopment/overview/ Code requirements: https://microsoft.github.io/De
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by locacorten 8y ago
I think you're under-estimating how important his refusal to use force was. This was an unprecedented reversal of 50+ years of policy of using force. More importantly, it was humane. We sit in comfy chairs with Starbucks lattes in fron
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by locacorten 8y ago
Solzhenitsyn's writings gave hope to people, to their minds and souls. Like Voice of America and other channels of information from outside the curtain. But saying that they destroyed an empire is an overclaim. In my opinion, no single
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by locacorten 8y ago
Yes, it's a hypothesis. A hypothesis that has been invalidated by data again, and again, and again, and again.
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by locacorten 8y ago
This is byte-addressable persistent memory. They look like DRAM DIMMs and they plug into DIMM slots. You access them using your memory controller and not your storage controller. People sometimes refer to them as non-volatile memory (NVM).
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by locacorten 8y ago
For any files, my expectation of a backup program is that Restore(Backup(FS)) == FS, where FS is the state of my file system.
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by locacorten 8y ago
Nice job. I'm a little skeptical though -- I think the devil is in the details. It's a lot of work to make a highly reliable backup program. As a Windows user, here's a list of questions I'd ask: 1. Does Relica work with
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by locacorten 8y ago
Can you provide more details? I'm also an Arq user and haven't noticed any problems.
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by locacorten 8y ago
I have been and continue to remain very skeptical about all this hoopla about AI. Five years ago, I thought the hoopla about AI is just a fashion and it's all going to quickly pass. Two years ago, I thought it's a bubble that will
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by locacorten 8y ago
In my opinion, this is criminal behavior and Uber's senior leadership should go to jail.

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