It sounds strange in our digital world based on whole bytes, but those odd half-byte encode naturally onto vinyl and add warmth and feeling to the intonation.
If you have a small address space then you need to write code that manually pages / caches the working set for an algorithm from storage. If you have a large address space then you use an interface similar to mmap and address the large dataset directly. It makes the code easier to write, and means that the paging / caching can be handled in hardware, where there are opportunities to speed it up.
PhDs are ten-a-penny in these parts. Most of the students that I knew back in grad-school spent half their lives on slashdot, a lot of the audience here is similar. If somebody claims to have a PhD in nuclear physics - sure why not, just like assholes, everybody's got one - but I'd still want to know what they think about the challenges in scaling stellerators up to commercial production.
Your argument about honest / open / productive doesn't really work. I can take it at face value that you personally behave that way. But this forum is not the result of a single poster, however much some people may try. It is the aggregate of many different posters so we have to talk statistically about the ouput of ACs in general. People who claim they never read AC posts probably don't do that much moderation. I seem to have points whenever I log in these days - probably the effects of c2 metamod because I do read ACs and mod up interesting posts. But they rarely turn into interesting discussions because a drive-by post by an AC doesn't generate reply notifications and if they don't care enough to register they probably don't care enough to come back and have a discussion.
It has some features by default that really need to get added into Windows 10.
If I set Windows Defender to be off - I want it off - do not re-enable it on a timer. If I do not want the machine to update - do not forcibly reboot it. If I have edited the registry to avoid it rebooting after an update - do not edit it back in behind my back.
When I am running a machine in a closed environment and I only want it to change / update / reboot at desired times I don't expect Microsoft to "know better" and do it anyway. Also, it would be nice if SLI worked properly instead of over-reporting VRAM to games and causing crashes because of "memory leaks"...
So - some small-scale engineering issues that amount to "don't write shit code". None of which is advanced crypto.
1. Fixed IP address - don't care if it gets spoofed as long as the signature verification prevents the new code being executed. 2. Protected against buffer overflows is not advanced crypto - it is basic programming. 3. Secret keys needs to remain secret - this is not advanced crypto, this is logistics. 4. Implementing the signature check correctly is why there is a spec. 5. Side-channels - yes this does require some advanced crypto, but there are two mitigating factors:
A. Nothing leaked from the target device will compromise it if the signature scheme is public key. B. There are no side-channel defences that work anyway - nothing currently protects against properly done DPA or fault injection.
Designing and proving the correctness of a MAC is advanced crypto. Implementing the code to run one is not.
It's a good article, but he does not make the argument that you say. He says that teaching C first filters out a lot of bad programmers, not makes good programmers. These are not quite the same thing.
If a school wants to make good programmers then they shouldn't teach C first as it is a horrifically bad language for learning. Joel makes the argument that it is good for testing ability. Python is actually a good first language for learning. Maybe C as a second language to learn about memory and pointers. Probably Haskell as a third language to open their minds a little.
The OP seems to understand the difference between easy/hard and simple/complex. There are more than two cases. The volume of detail has an affect on the difficulty of a programming problem, but it is not the same affect as when there are difficult details.
If an abstraction is clean, and has zero leakage then it is fine to not understand what it is hiding. I don't know of any such things in CS, but sure in theory it would work.
So you have presented no evidence, and you claim that because I don't see the evidence that you have not presented it is a mental issue? Must be one of the bad ones like "logic", or "reason". Be thankful that you do not suffer from them.
Oh no - I think you misunderstand. I follow your logic as a suggestion that it could be interpreted that way. But I don't see any evidence that you have presented that forms an argument that is what has happened. Could you reflect on the difference, perhaps?
Ah ha. Yup. So don't actually argue against what I've written - just throw mud to try to discredit my views. Hmmm, bit similar to the previous two messages, eh? Maybe the "secret evil conspiracy" is actually just a common form of retardation?
Same tactic from an AC immediately after the sockpuppet is criticised for it. Do you guys follow a flowchat? It must be a lot like working in a callcentre, no?
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No, it is not. But you believe it is. That is interesting more in what it says about you, and your obsession, than what it says about the issue.
The weird thing about racists is the way they need to inject their views into unrelated topics.
It sounds strange in our digital world based on whole bytes, but those odd half-byte encode naturally onto vinyl and add warmth and feeling to the intonation.
Is it a form of adaption? I couldn't understand the 700C samples on the first few play throughs, but after 5 repetitions they made sense.
It's almost as if the wisdom of crowds does not apply when most people would produce a bad estimate....
If you have a small address space then you need to write code that manually pages / caches the working set for an algorithm from storage. If you have a large address space then you use an interface similar to mmap and address the large dataset directly. It makes the code easier to write, and means that the paging / caching can be handled in hardware, where there are opportunities to speed it up.
PhDs are ten-a-penny in these parts. Most of the students that I knew back in grad-school spent half their lives on slashdot, a lot of the audience here is similar. If somebody claims to have a PhD in nuclear physics - sure why not, just like assholes, everybody's got one - but I'd still want to know what they think about the challenges in scaling stellerators up to commercial production.
Your argument about honest / open / productive doesn't really work. I can take it at face value that you personally behave that way. But this forum is not the result of a single poster, however much some people may try. It is the aggregate of many different posters so we have to talk statistically about the ouput of ACs in general. People who claim they never read AC posts probably don't do that much moderation. I seem to have points whenever I log in these days - probably the effects of c2 metamod because I do read ACs and mod up interesting posts. But they rarely turn into interesting discussions because a drive-by post by an AC doesn't generate reply notifications and if they don't care enough to register they probably don't care enough to come back and have a discussion.
That's interesting, I may have to experiment with blacklisting it in the router and see what effect it has.
Awwww bless. I hope you had a good christmas.
It reboots because Microsoft used forced reboots on a timer, after forcibly downloading updates, after forcibly switching those setting back on.
It has some features by default that really need to get added into Windows 10.
If I set Windows Defender to be off - I want it off - do not re-enable it on a timer.
If I do not want the machine to update - do not forcibly reboot it.
If I have edited the registry to avoid it rebooting after an update - do not edit it back in behind my back.
When I am running a machine in a closed environment and I only want it to change / update / reboot at desired times I don't expect Microsoft to "know better" and do it anyway. Also, it would be nice if SLI worked properly instead of over-reporting VRAM to games and causing crashes because of "memory leaks"...
So - some small-scale engineering issues that amount to "don't write shit code". None of which is advanced crypto.
1. Fixed IP address - don't care if it gets spoofed as long as the signature verification prevents the new code being executed.
2. Protected against buffer overflows is not advanced crypto - it is basic programming.
3. Secret keys needs to remain secret - this is not advanced crypto, this is logistics.
4. Implementing the signature check correctly is why there is a spec.
5. Side-channels - yes this does require some advanced crypto, but there are two mitigating factors:
A. Nothing leaked from the target device will compromise it if the signature scheme is public key.
B. There are no side-channel defences that work anyway - nothing currently protects against properly done DPA or fault injection.
Designing and proving the correctness of a MAC is advanced crypto. Implementing the code to run one is not.
(BTW, I was the crypto guy for many years).
What is the advanced crypto for?
1. Check a known IP for updates.
2. If a new one is found download it.
3. Verify the signature against the public key stored in the device.
This only requires public-key crypto (from a standard library) and a basic signature scheme from a standard. Why is anything advanced required?
No body wants to mess with microsoft AIs - they're all closet nazis.
It's a good article, but he does not make the argument that you say. He says that teaching C first filters out a lot of bad programmers, not makes good programmers. These are not quite the same thing.
If a school wants to make good programmers then they shouldn't teach C first as it is a horrifically bad language for learning. Joel makes the argument that it is good for testing ability. Python is actually a good first language for learning. Maybe C as a second language to learn about memory and pointers. Probably Haskell as a third language to open their minds a little.
The OP seems to understand the difference between easy/hard and simple/complex. There are more than two cases. The volume of detail has an affect on the difficulty of a programming problem, but it is not the same affect as when there are difficult details.
If an abstraction is clean, and has zero leakage then it is fine to not understand what it is hiding. I don't know of any such things in CS, but sure in theory it would work.
You have to switch it on first...
So you have presented no evidence, and you claim that because I don't see the evidence that you have not presented it is a mental issue? Must be one of the bad ones like "logic", or "reason". Be thankful that you do not suffer from them.
Did you infer some sort of negativity and assume that I had implied it? Gosh, I think that is a demonstration of your homophobia rather than mine.
Oh no - I think you misunderstand. I follow your logic as a suggestion that it could be interpreted that way. But I don't see any evidence that you have presented that forms an argument that is what has happened. Could you reflect on the difference, perhaps?
You have not made an argument that sending out these notification is consistent with their political biases or their economic self-interest.
Please do so, it would be interesting to read.
Ah ha. Yup. So don't actually argue against what I've written - just throw mud to try to discredit my views. Hmmm, bit similar to the previous two messages, eh? Maybe the "secret evil conspiracy" is actually just a common form of retardation?
Literally receiving the Kock?
Same tactic from an AC immediately after the sockpuppet is criticised for it. Do you guys follow a flowchat? It must be a lot like working in a callcentre, no?