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I have the same opinion as you. I would but most people wouldn't. The root cause of the problem is since the trend about ram is "the bigger the better" (in terms of GBs) we have tons of capacitors on a small surface. I'm no expert too but I think there's no simple hardware fix for this instead of returning back to RAMs that hold less memory, but most people won't accept it. Maybe we're hitting the limits of the current technology and we should switch to another one. Just on a side note two years ago one of my professors quoted an ongoing research in my university about RAM that instead of storing electrons formed crystals, but I don't know any other detail about this.
My "smart" LG TV has a Netflix app. Still have a Chromecast hooked up for Netflix. Why? Because it is several orders of magnitude faster for me to find the video I want to play on my phone than it is with a TV remote.

This same wisdom holds true for TV remotes that have full QWERTY keyboards! TV interfaces just plain suck. They are so slow as to be painful and they are perpetually out of date and always user-unfriendly.

I really hoped Apple would come out with a TV that set a baseline for what a TV interface should be just like the original iPhone did for smart phones (which weren't all that smart at the time).
Yeah, I vaguely recalled that but forgot my password so haven't confirmed it. Just got in, seems my last post was 4 years ago. Anyways, it seems that feature has been disabled (or it's well hidden). But that'd be a useful addition as well.

You can filter on comment length. Apparently right now I filter out all one-line comments that don't have +4 or better. So "+1", "this", etc. won't show up, but "Oh hey, that reminds me of <useful link>" will.

EDIT: Seems I was wrong. https://slashdot.org/my/comments lets me see and change those settings, but getting here was non-obvious so I'm not certain if this will affect anything or if it's merely a legacy page. You'll need to be logged in to see anything. But this offers score modifier options for comments by how they're moderated (troll, offtopic, funny, etc.) and friends/foes.
"Joined September 2011" - so they just got control of the name? But I can't see 'apple' not being used before then so what's up?
The US government will ban kratom but can't even bring itself to ban asbestos.
Is there an expectation of how hard it'll be to scale up the number of qubits? As in, do we think it'll be 10 times as hard each time we add another qubit, or that once we've got the stability sorted going from 5 to 10 to 50 to 100 is more a case of just building a bigger version?

Other random questions, is there a feeling for when they'd be useful? A 5 qubit processor isn't really useful for much, but is a 10? Do they suddenly go from not-useful to "wow" very quickly as we scale up?

Is there something everyone is waiting to hit, like a "once we reach about X qubits we'll be able to do Y which was totally infeasible before", or is it a bit early for that?
Yep. And the results from the last region were delayed for like 3 days, turned out to have a 99% participation rate and 99.5% voted for the guy.
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Between what we hear out of the Western news agencies, various activist groups, hackers and whatnot, the more I hear about China, the more questions I have about what we (the Western public) know about China.

Given China's behaviour towards Western corporations (Google et. al.) which was reported in such a way as can only be interpreted as antitrust, this does seem to be paradoxical. Though, the more I read about Chinese politics the less adds up, much like Western politics. It makes me wonder if everything we're taught about China is fabrication, propaganda, lies, half truths and spin - much the same as our own political system.
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My last remark was too snarky and out of context, I am sorry. You want both projects to merge again with OO being the 'core' and LO the 'user interface'? Sounds intriguing, but are both code bases still compatible enough for that? Would this not be more effort than gain?

What is obvious is that the AOO project cannot support, at
the present time, being an end-user focused effort. I would
suggest we focus on not being one, but instead being a
framework or library that can be consumed by actual
end-user implementations.

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They joined 5 years ago and never used it? That's just my deduction.
Routers like Fritzbox also protects agains DNS Rebinding: https://en.avm.de/service/fritzbox/fritzbox-7390/knowledge-b...
I find this area to be best filled by blogs. The format allows long ideas to be explored in a way no "social" site can. The comments sections are better at being on-topic, because there are less people stumbling in from another corner of a generalist platform. Or comments are disabled, and if you want to participate in a back-and-forth, you need to start your own blog and have something worthwhile to say. Barrier to entry helps with signal to noise ratio. The youtube comments are widely regarded as worthless, but bad video essays on youtube don't make people give up on watching video essays in general.

There is a lot of legwork in finding and following good blogs or aggregators. But if you're seeking out ideas (or "insightful commentary"), you can't avoid doing the legwork. Stopping in one place limits you to the scope of ideas found in that place.

HN and (some) subreddits are certainly good starting points, but the content eventually become predictable, trite and cliche. Even here. (especially here?) The collective conscious of any one community amasses new ideas slower than someone seeking them out can consume them. And that's the best case scenario, it doesn't even account for for topics that have devolved into an echo chamber, or constant flamewars on certain topics. You have to constantly keep moving.

Note: When I say blogs, I mean blogs. Not some hackneyed news-blog that will feed your mind poison just to keep you coming back. The Gawker properties were a FOX News for a younger, lefter crowd and it drove me up the wall when people didn't recognize that.
+1 Been using them for 8 years without any trouble
"Also true for many embedded apps given the remaining runtime hit can range from single-digits to 40% depending on scheme used."

I think that depends on the definition of embedded. When one is lucky enough to work with a chipset in which a 40% performance hit still results in acceptable performance, such a tool is reasonable. I can tell you from my experience in the consumer electronics field that BOM costs often rule over software performance, and as such, firmware engineers are often stuck with finding creative ways to solve problems on nerfed hardware. Wrestling with a tool that can occasionally inject unwanted runtime overhead in unpredictable locations can compound razor-thin time-to-market timelines for last minute BOM changes.

The focus for my tool is to provide people with the ability to build additional propositions that go beyond basic correctness or memory bounding found in tools like Astree. Astree, for instance, may be able to automatically discover whether a subset of C is correct -- because it has a very reasonable policy of assuming incorrect behavior unless otherwise proven -- but it can't solve for custom policies such as, "does this seemingly correct code actually follow my architecture and specification?"

Also, Astree isn't free software. It's an AbsInt product, which means most likely that it comes with a hefty price tag. To give you an idea, their CompCert compiler is licensed in the five to six figure Euro range per seat. Of course, for the sort of customers AbsInt is interested in -- companies like Airbus or Boeing -- this isn't necessarily a deal breaker. They are willing to pay for such a tool because of the mission critical aspect of their work.

But, I'm of the opinion that the industry as a whole needs access to tools like these. The tool I'm building will be released under the LGPL. The security problem is one with which the entire industry needs to engage. My tool may not necessarily be the best one out there -- nor am I trying to build the best tool -- but I am trying to build one that is "good enough" and reasonably sound. I think I have struck the right balance, but time will tell.

I wouldn't say that I'm a formal methodist as much as a software engineer looking to be able to make strong guarantees about critical components. I have a problem to solve, and I've spent a few years studying this problem off and on. Somewhere along the way, I acquired enough hubris, if not enough knowledge, to think that I could build such a tool. So far, things have worked out better than I've thought. But, I still have a few big hurdles to overcome before I can confidently say that this tool will be useful to others. INRIA and other researchers have blazed the trail, and they have rightfully charged a small fortune for what they have discovered. I'm much more interested in ensuring that the average developer has access to such technology. My tool won't have the bells and whistles of commercial offerings, but it's hard to beat the price.
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Using const auto& over const auto makes your code more robust. For example, what if you later decide to change the type of items in the vector from ints to something that is more expensive to copy? You would need to track all uses of the vector and add an ampersand there. And as for the access speed, YMMV but compilers are generally good at optimizations and will drop the reference when it would be faster to just copy the items.
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I still think and say "open office." LibreOffice is that thing that I downloaded when I heard about OpenOffice being insecure.

Probably the lesson to learn here is that an open source project should do as much as possible to keep its branding separate from its parent companies.
If elections are going to be basically meaningless anyway, I guess it's OK to do them less often to save money.
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But be careful about the lifetime of the object referenced! Just because its 'const' doesn't mean it cant go out of scope.
Hmm, I don't think the situations are even remotely comparable when you look at the actual projects.

With Eve, you still have to learn their home-grown programming language. That is non-trivial. If you didn't have to learn a completely new programming language along with its own non-standard terminology and idiosyncrasies then I would agree.

I am aware of what they are trying to do -- I've been following the team for the last 4 years. I liked their approach of starting from first principles, but at some point they lost the plot.
I agree. But that's true for current Uber .

But once we start talking about UberPool and via its pretty close for the problem I describe, especially if we're talking about the commute , with a possibility of people preordering rides sometime in advance(or even some prediction abilities about that).

As for the other option, carpooling ,it depends how far will people be willing to drive out of their way for that extra income. But being conservative and I they won't go out of their way , the problem becomes assigning riders to a million bus routes with small capacity, which seems to naturally break this problem into many ,largely independent problems , and may prevent any big exponential complexity.

Don't you agree ?
I actually asked Eddy Nigg (startcom CTO) to do the gnome deal and give us ssl certs for free (back when I was able to ssh/irc from work and be a member of the GNOME Sysadmin Team), which they did. As much hate as they get, they are one of the few "secure" CAs of all of them I've ever worked with. One of the more quiet things when it was first revealed Comodo was hacked was that Startcom was also hacked. Eddy went on the record as bragging not a single rogue SSL certificate was issued as they have a human validate every single certificate request (yes seriously) and that prevented any rogue certificates.

So as much as people think Startcom is scummy, they are actually pretty decent people. They're also quite secure. So YMMV.

This was long before the alleged sale to china though, maybe 5-8 years ago? I forget.
My father has worked with metal his whole life. If just a tiny sliver of metal shaving landed in his eye and worked it's way around to the back, an MRI would tear it straight through the eye ball.
That's my interpretation, as well. The standard is for carriers, not mailboxes. As a carrier, (or someone sending an email) you should respect case, as well as respect all of the special characters, because the server is allowed full decision power over whether those things are meaningfully used.
Why is the default posture whenever the government does something badly to throw in the towel rather than fixing the damn problem?
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Currently the feature is only committed in the "unstable" branch, but for the next 3.2 patch release it will be merged.
A browser allowing externally loaded scripts to access private ip ranges

There are plenty of legitimate systems in the ecommerce world that rely on doing this.

Take Ariba Punchout, for example. The idea is for the store to pass the user's shopping cart back into the customer's internal ERP system to be turned into a purchase order and sent for approval. The way this is handled is that the initial request sets up a session including a URL to a customer-internal service that's intended to handle the transaction. When the user completes checkout, a page is returned to the user containing an XML payload, and script to submit that XML to the specified internal service URL. That way, the store is able to provide the PO data to what is otherwise a completely internal system.
I'd hesitate to claim that OpenOffice is "excellent software", if the security issues aren't being addressed in a timely manner.
Legion, Battlefield 1 beta suffer launch-day outages–DDoS attacks fingered
reddit.com/r/askhistorians is a goldmine. I love sitting in the cheap seats for some of the discussions there.
Their customer service is rude. But they're giving you free certificates, and they have customer service. That's already better than what you get when you pay for Google services or have a Windows license and run into Windows problems or something.

Lesson of the day: public perception of customer support is important. Rude support worse than no support at all. Noted.
Pretty nice UI. Always looking for an APP with all these functions. Would like to know the background framework used in this source and the cost for 2nd year?
I think asbestos is actually banned already?
Interfaces for presenters in MVP are a waste of time
Cool, just switch to whoever makes the bug free OS then.
The LG phones have replaceable batteries. Seems to cover the same demographic
Hydrogen sulfide is in deep of Black See is deadly area. If clean water contamined by h2s2 most of will die about it.
> After a couple of calls, I finally got someone to tell me it was void because the battery was replaced with a third party one (which was, admittedly, news to me).

Wait, using a third-party battery voids your warranty?!
I'm still unconvinced, most people still self-filter, consciously or not. You already have this filter mechanism right now, in a coarser form, by picking the subreddits, twitter accounts, … you follow – and those you respond to.

How'd you get the initial exposure to high-quality content you disagree with? HN is the only site where I run across right-wing content that (occasionally) isn't utter garbage, and even here you have the whole community pre-filtered for people who accept HN's comparatively heavy-handed moderation/censorship approach.
You could refuse to serve to web browsers with a Brave user-agent. Or I could fetch your website using wget and strip out ads. If you can't control a user agent in other situations, why do you want to control it here?
Yep, that's the one I have. I honestly rarely get to 50%, but you stop feeling guilty about leaving the screen on for too long and it's just more pleasant to use never having to worry about the battery. + it's incredibly cheap and still super thin
Ask HN: How would you design a voting system?
A friend and I were recently discussing the security of electronic voting systems in elections, and I came to the conclusion that it might not actually be possible to design a system that cryptographically ensures votes have not been tampered with.

Using the following constraints...

1) A voter must not be personally identifiable.

2) A voter must only be able to vote once.

3) Every vote must be cryptographically signed in such a way that it can not be tampered with.

4) Client machines (the hardware used to place votes) can not be trusted.

...the best theoretical solution I've come up with would be to issue everyone a PGP key at birth; record the public key in a master database, but not tie it to any other form of personal identity; sign and submit votes using your birth-issued PGP key; only accept votes with a valid signature, produced by a key in the master public key database; exclusively allow voting using hardware owned by the voter (to reduce chance of someone compromising a voting system for an entire city).

Obviously this would never actually happen in the real world. Given the goal, though, of a perfectly secure system, how would you design it? What would be it's weak points?
Like what?

And no, Android features Apple copied from Google don't count.
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Would be popular among dentists :-)
Not me! I use real Microsoft Office. And it works great.