whiterknight

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by whiterknight 2y ago
I think this is vastly overrated: - how much code actually gets read outside of top 2-3 projects? - how many of those readers can detect security problems? - why are others inherently better at detecting problems than the author? Wouldn’t 1
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Sure, it just invalidates the impending doom, ban C programming narrative.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
1000 lines are easier to secure than 5 million lines
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by whiterknight 2y ago
The point is that many of the problems rust aims to solve become much less relevant. For example, if your program only does 10 Malloc and frees, you can probably track down the memory bugs.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Side note: tell your startup to switch its “hardware with Ubuntu Linux inside” to BSD. You will have a much more stable and simple platform that can last a long time.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Are you thinking of a safari exploit that allows JavaScript to get out of the safari process? What’s the attack scenario?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
I promise, you will be just fine without the security updates.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Yeah and Apple didn’t make any money until after that phase. > If you're trying to build a business then you must be always be selling and marketing. Yes. I am only giving marketing advice. Sales is unfortunately embedded in so many
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> I doubt that there is still any real career opportunity in "applied" optimization. I agree there are no ready made jobs for that. But you yourself know there are optimization problems all over real life. It’s a sales problem.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
When it comes to marketing I think we can take a page from the Apple playbook. Never show anything incomplete. Critics and the general public don’t understand the artistic process and will only become uneasy. nobody cares how you did it. Ju
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> I was naive. Knew much more about math and computing than people and personality. Do you think not learning math would have helped you understand people at a younger age? It sounds like you just needed time to grow socially and in prac
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Sounds like you opened up the newspaper and scanned for “mathematician”. Leveraging phd research into a great job is a tough. Re-skilling into a normie engineer/technician/analyst, is not. My point is not to criticize your job hun
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by whiterknight 2y ago
You’re attributing these life challenges to your STEM PhD speciality? I am sensitive to your hardship, but optimization has nothing to do with it. People are succeeding with bachelor’s degrees in Latin.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> you will forget almost all of the stuff your learned Speak for yourself. You are also developing a meta skill of being able to read technical material, and a fluency with basic concepts (algorithms, signals, etc) Also sometimes learnin
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by whiterknight 2y ago
In other words, the commenters suggestion would not make the video better fit that need.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Billions of views and total YouTube dominance disagree with you.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> recording ui interactions, etc This is a sign that the software has grown to become its own operating system. They also have to add their own version control… remote editing, etc. Unix style versions of tools are interesting in their o
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Why?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Is the hearing aid market big on modularity and compatibility? isn’t it good to have multiple options so consumers can pick what they value?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Like people, VCs are also motivated by status, recognition, and making cool things. If they were only financially interested they would play the game with much less status bias.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
That’s ascribing a lot of power to the EU which I don’t think is politically cut and dry and certainly not a result of elections.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> ill-gotten gains We are assigning moral value to this? You don’t think EU is a self interested party looking to interpret the law as favorably as they can?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
It’s actually just because they all use unreal. 4k also requires upscaling or minimizing work per pixel, which encourages everyone to use similar methods.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
The longer I am around the less true I find this. Can any good developer learn and contribute with a new language? Yes. But there is also a peak performance achieved by using tools for decades that is not transferable. C experts didn’t swit
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by whiterknight 2y ago
If I’m going to take time out of my busy adult life to better myself, I’m probably going to prefer materials prepared by an expert who cares. The scarce resource here is not high quality learning material, but time and effort. Perhaps this
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Would you want to take a course that was generated?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
I absolutely agree. Move semantics exploded the language.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
The solution for move semantics before was specializing the swap function for container types. This was a much more pragmatic approach
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Can we not post bot content?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Seems more like easy to understand and gets the job done bias. Are there common pitfalls you have identified?

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