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by zodzedzi 3y ago
For anyone else who was also seeing just garbled characters in the title, and since the first few paragraphs of the linked article don't explain what that is: GF2P8AFFINEQB is one of the AVX-512 CPU instructions that performs an affine
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
Off-topic question: I've been seeing this "si" URL parameter pop up a lot in shared youtube links lately. Which app exactly pulled the URL for you?
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
> Bilinguals and monolinguals remembered English competitor words that overlapped phonologically with a spoken English target better than control objects without name overlap. High Spanish proficiency also enhanced memory for Spanish com
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
> ... we had to build our own physics algorithm for very specific problems, and ended up selling the software ... Like a simulation algorithm? Can you elaborate on what kind of algo and the problem it solved?
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Ask HN: What's a good Linux OS and setup to build a dev “network” on my laptop?
15 points by zodzedzi 3y ago|14 comments
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
> ... heapsort, which is kind of slow, but prevents adversaries from smashing your stack. How does heapsort protect against a stack attack?
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
Unrelated, but this style he draws the timelines in: is it hand-written/hand-drawn, or software-generated? It certainly has the overall feel and appeal of being done by hand, but I'm not sure. If it's software, does anyone kn
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
Uber gets to introduce driverless cars finally (an old promise of theirs) without the costs of owning or developing hardware, and use that as leverage over drivers. I don't think Uber has anything to fear from Waymo: (1) It will take y
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
Many comments saying Waymo could easily spin up an Uber-replacement app are missing one key point: integrating with Uber allows Waymo to have a slow rollout / soft-launch. They can start adding support one city at a time. And for the U
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by zodzedzi 3y ago
> Generally, the models are compressing their understanding of all text, and in doing so, they're learning high order concepts Are these higher order concepts accessible to us? E.g. can we list those learned concepts? (Re-reading th
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Ask HN: How do GPTs grok high-level concepts, beyond word-level transformers?
2 points by zodzedzi 3y ago|10 comments
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
I had 11.2.11. And you're right, according to their changelog [1], they added it in 11.3. >> v 11.3rc1 + Contextual policies (different capabilities for the same origin, depending on the top-level domain) configurable in the CUST
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
I don't see any of these options in my plugin. I have NoScript 10, and it looks like there is a NoScript 11 out there; is that what you have? Maybe the feature was introduced in 11 and I'm missing that update; checking their chang
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
If they stick with billboards for advertising, I personally don't mind it. The issue to me is with tracking-based advertising(/anything).
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
Ok interesting. I'll try to find those sites I encountered again and check it out with uMatrix.
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
Ok I'll set it up sometime soon and give it a try. Thanks.
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
I see "Custom" allowing you to choose which elements (frame, fonts, etc.) to allow/block for the domain you're configuring. But it doesn't offer the ability to say "apply these settings to the domain example.co
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
I don't remember the sites; I'll try to find them again, and will share here if I do. I remember seeing 3 sites within an hour, and deciding to change the DDG setting to TEMP:TRUSTED afterwards.
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by zodzedzi 4y ago
I use DDG as my default search engine, along with NoScript in the browser. Often when I visit a new website, I peruse the (long) list of domains that the site is trying to pull javascripts from. I keep most of those source sites in UNTRUSTE
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by zodzedzi 5y ago
Which spigot algorithm is the 3-line version using exactly? (I did some untangling of the code in limited time, but it's still pretty cryptic.)
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by zodzedzi 5y ago
What are some example such books?
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by zodzedzi 5y ago
Fork it, create a new non-profit to oversee its development, a la Linux kernel.
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by zodzedzi 5y ago
> One of the big class combos was Electrical Systems, Mechanical Systems, and Fluid & Thermodynamic systems where you work through from the laws of thermodynamics to how they apply in each of the areas. I would love to find a book wi
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by zodzedzi 5y ago
Thanks, that was helpful.
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by zodzedzi 5y ago
So if I disable javascript by default for websites (say, in uBlock Origin), but I don't disable CSS, will there now still be unrestricted javascript allowed to run under the guise of CSS?
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by zodzedzi 6y ago
Agreed in principle. It's my primary browser and it seems to me that it's already in good shape (technically, and feature-wise). And the project is not starting from scratch. So if the financial incentives aren't there yet, a
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by zodzedzi 6y ago
Is it possible to fork and develop Firefox with organization similar to how the Linux kernel is developed?
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Ask HN: Can the Linux kernel development model apply to a browser like Firefox?
1 points by zodzedzi 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: I finally quit my job, want to start on my own. What do I need to know?
3 points by zodzedzi 6y ago|1 comments