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CoastalCoder

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CoastalCoder
·昨天·discuss
Most of us who build weapons of war live with some awful dilemmas. One of them is:

We want to perform our work skillfully, effectively, and professionally. But we never want our tools to actually be needed.

(Another is that we can't effectively create a shield without the risk of it being used as a sword.)
CoastalCoder
·昨天·discuss
If you think Milspec is expensive, you should see the cost of not having a Milspec supply chain while still being risk-averse.
CoastalCoder
·前天·discuss
I don't do web stuff, but I wonder if one could easily create a browser extension that hides AI-centric submissions?
CoastalCoder
·4 天前·discuss
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

I have the urge to grab a pitchfork, but I know better than to make assumptions about why that functionality was added. Time to do some homework I guess.
CoastalCoder
·4 天前·discuss
Some of the comments here talk about the risk this poses for multi tenant vm providers.

Wouldn't this also be a risk for people using VMs to sandbox untrusted code running on trusted hosts?
CoastalCoder
·4 天前·discuss
I'm just starting to read up on capabilities-based security in Linux.

Would they potentially be a solution to sudo's all-or-nothing granularity in this domain?
CoastalCoder
·5 天前·discuss
Chuck Norris will pass his torch to Jim Keller.

Jim won't have a say in the matter.
CoastalCoder
·6 天前·discuss
I really dislike the complexity of modern C++ language specs, but does it obscure much detail about FP ops?

TL;DR:

A vast majority of the programmers I've worked with don't understand the nuances of FP in general, nor the various extents of IEEE-754 support in different programming languages.

So for important numerical programming, I think clarity regarding the FP operations being performed can be crucial. I'm just unclear if modern C++ is a significant factor for that.
CoastalCoder
·7 天前·discuss
I feel like I'm ignorant of some classical fable here.

Is this an allusion?
CoastalCoder
·13 天前·discuss
Any reason he couldn't try advancing it somewhere like China or India, which (I assume) are less vulnerable to that kind of interference?
CoastalCoder
·13 天前·discuss
Sounds like we have the basics of an oscillating system now!

I wonder what it's resonant frequency is.
CoastalCoder
·16 天前·discuss
> The closest I can think of is the bronze age collapse.

No idea about your question, but I'd love to hear more about this part.
CoastalCoder
·18 天前·discuss
Ask your local unemployment benefits office if Nope™ is right for you!
CoastalCoder
·26 天前·discuss
That's an interesting point and worth discussing.

I'm not sure why you got down voted. Maybe people are perceiving some subtext that I'm not.
CoastalCoder
·27 天前·discuss
> Shouldn't it be the exact opposite here ? The burden of proof is the other way around

That's the rule for criminal court in the US, but each of us is free to pick his own standard for his own purposes.
CoastalCoder
·29 天前·discuss
It sounds like one potential interpretation of his behavior is that he values his own time more than your time.

I wonder if that's occurred to him.
CoastalCoder
·30 天前·discuss
You're just parroting the GP.
CoastalCoder
·上個月·discuss
> There is nothing to secure, because there is no SQL query.

Yet.
CoastalCoder
·上個月·discuss
Does that meaningfully restrict which foods / ingredients you can get?
CoastalCoder
·上個月·discuss
My kids heard it in Narragansett.