pdkl95

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by pdkl95 4y ago
> a crappy but cost-effective approach with a high margin of error may rise to prominence. The tech startup that eventually creates that will call this "efficiency". This type of 'solution' is exactly what capitalism
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by pdkl95 4y ago
> What practical advantages are there? The major advantage of a language that isn't Turing complete is not having the major risk inherent to Turing complete languages: asking if any non-trivial program will produce any given res
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by pdkl95 4y ago
Sun Ra, "Nuclear War" It's a motherfucker don't you know If they push that button Your ass got to go What you gonna do Without your ass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPrI
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by pdkl95 4y ago
> The problem is that the people using said libraries don't know what they're doing. I would like to suggest that the problem is that the skilled people that understand how to write crypto systems are providing libraries that
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by pdkl95 4y ago
A single-browser web, like any monoculture, dramatically increases the potential damage of common mode failure. With everything - even important infrastructure and services - becoming directly or transitively dependent on the the web, we sh
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by pdkl95 4y ago
> is relatively high entropy at <= 13-bits That is only true if-and-only-if we pretend those 13 bits are the only identifying information being sent to Google when requesting a font. The HTTP request is almost certainly being sent t
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by pdkl95 4y ago
The solution to this type of intentionally incompatible product is to return to a legal and cultural environment that respects adversarial interoperability[1] . If a company doesn't want to implement the features people want[2], some
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by pdkl95 4y ago
> based on their facial expression Phrenology is still pseudo=scientific bullshit even when the calipers[1] are replaced with an "AI" black box of software. > Just need software that punishes employees who aren't happy
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by pdkl95 4y ago
Sci-fi is often a metaphorical representation of society. However, it's shocking how many episodes of Max Headroom have become literally true.
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by pdkl95 4y ago
> I could not enter my own apartment because my phone was dead Whenever I hear about "smart" devices as a replacement for something that is safety/security critical (like a lock), the question of what happens when the inte
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by pdkl95 4y ago
Max Headroom , Episode ABC.1.3: "Body Banks": Paula: "...what's that?" Blank Reg: "It's a book!" Paula: "Well, what's that?" Blank Reg: "It's a non-volatile
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by pdkl95 4y ago
While other comments have discussed the technical utility of symbols, I believe symbols can also be seen as useful syntactic sugar that helps communicate intent . Strings used for indexes. named args, and other structural purposes can be r
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by pdkl95 4y ago
> first they become the dominant acme provider The traditional way a big tech company becomes the dominant provider is to embrace an open interoperable protocol to minimize the friction of switching from another provider. Later, when t
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by pdkl95 4y ago
Using language like "fire fast" might presuppose a situation where someone is going to be "hired" - possibly involving a lot of work, life changes, and moving/other expenses - only to have their effort/money wa
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by pdkl95 5y ago
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/d... "The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security" > #1) Default Permit > #2) Enumerating Badness
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by pdkl95 5y ago
http://web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/ThePlan.htm In the beginning, there was a plan, And then came the assumptions, And the assumptions were without form, And the plan without substance, And the darknes
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by pdkl95 5y ago
While some people certainly seem to subscribe to "feeling their masculinity/world-view is threatened" interpretation, the fundamental problem that q lot of people don't seem to understand is that the internet changed the
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This Is Phil Fish (2014) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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2D projection of a 3D cube in Poly Bridge 2(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Regarding the creation and removal of a tempfile (line 72 & 85): local tmpFile="${TMPDIR:-/tmp/bash-web-server.$$}" # ... rm "$tmpFile" To avoid collisions when the PID is reused, and to
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by pdkl95 5y ago
If they are making false claims about you that cause serious damage to your reputation (like telling the FBI you look like a terrorist), then sue them for libel .
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> "What due diligence and groundwork have you done to prove that they are in fact a terrorist?" The solution is to make this question their (Clearview) problem. If you are offering a service that makes damaging claims about p
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Rebuilding the Oroville Dam Spillways(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Also, after scrolling up, there is a 'settings' button (gear icon). Along with various options (including alternative shaders!), at the top there are 8 empty circles that are worth investigating... I'm trying to avoid spoiler
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Tom Scott's speculative fiction about the end game of a DRM-based future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E "Welcome to Life"
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> Everyone Abusing technology to gather and monetize data that reveals users' "pattern of life" used to be limited to tech companies. Now that the tech industry rot has spread into other traditionally unrelated industr
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by pdkl95 5y ago
I admit the vast majority of my experience with hotels consists of a single repeated data point: the staff[1] suite(s) we shared in the Hilton attached to the SJ convention center. They always had glasses/shaker/etc. You could pro
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Even better: practice defense in depth and do both.
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by pdkl95 5y ago
The last time I used a daylight tank was in the mid '90s so maybe newer models are different, but I believe they are made out of black/dark plastic? Several right angle turns of black plastic provides multiple opportunities for a
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by pdkl95 5y ago
I really like Snowden's recommended Faraday cage for phones or other devices of similar size: two drink-shaker cups[1]. Drink shakers are cheap and widely available. The average hotel room in any medium/large hotel chain probably

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