JL2010

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Comment · 8 years ago

Of the variants of the attack that can leak privileged memory, AMD is only impacted if a non-default kernel configuration is enabled: "BPF JIT"

Comment · 9 years ago

I can't seem to find any information on how or if this was disclosed to AT&T. Does anyone know how the blogger proceeded here?

Comment · 9 years ago

> "cops are disproportionately killing black kids", then that was disproven

Was that disproven? The studies that I've read have shown disproportionate police shooting fatality rates among African American men, especially in the unarmed case when adjusted for population. [1]

The unarmed case is the one I pay attention to the most as I think that it (mostly?) filters out cases where shootings were justified.

I'd like to keep an open mind so I welcome any reading that has disproven the disproportionate argument.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...

Comment · 10 years ago

Yes, they have pre-built images for RPi: http://www.minocacorp.com/download/

Comment · 10 years ago

I'm on the slow ring and recently received it. They have a blog here which details each of their releases on each of the release "rings": https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/tag/windows-insi...

Comment · 10 years ago

For me, the full-measure solution would be to provide a native port of Visual Studio for Linux. I understand that this is not practical on many, many levels, but if Microsoft were to ever take on that herculean effort they would win me over in terms of my choice for dev tools under Linux.

For now I'll have my Windows stuff in Windows and my Linux stuff in my Linux partition. I do look forward to checking out the linux-in-windows (dynamic syscall translation) feature soon though.

Comment · 10 years ago

I have a new XPS 15 and you can completely disable the touchscreen in the BIOS. I did this pretty much the first week I got the machine.

Comment · 11 years ago

Has anyone spent a lot of time with VS Code? I tried it a while back when it was first announced and have not found a reason to re-visit it yet. At the time it felt like a sublime-text alternative instead of an IDE (was it always positioned to be just an editor?) Always great to see more options though.

Comment · 12 years ago

I've been having some good discussions about this exact topic lately. I'm glad you brought it up.

After mulling it over with some friends, I think it would be awesome to have a community gathering where the principles of its "teachings" are based on respect for the earth, each other, and critical thinking.

Instead of typical weekly worship, it could be replaced by something like "Science Sundays" - where folks can bring their kids for a lecture and experiment that the family can do. If one can find enough local individuals who could serve as advocates then I think something like this is possible. Although, I don't what spark it would need for it to reach critical mass.

The closest thing that we've identified as such a group is the Maker community. One problem that we've had in these discussions is that any time we try to add structure to the idea (ie, a common reference book, hierarchy) we immediately realize that it sounds like it would be mistaken for a cult. :( http://abstrusegoose.com/31

Comment · 12 years ago

What they're saying is that their underlying hardware has been selected such that it can be used with the Arduino programming environment to target it as if it were a regular Arduino. So it is compatible with Arduino software and tools.

Comment · 12 years ago

Rdio is probably one of the bigger success stories for Xamarin/Mono You can see a list here: https://xamarin.com/apps

Comment · 13 years ago

I wish that first chart extended back to say... 1996.

I think it would have given a better scale to indicate how much the rise of the internet has effected traditional mail delivery.

Comment · 13 years ago

Disclosure: I'm an XBox hardware engineer and encourage you to try the new kinect before writing it off. It is completely re-engineered with new time-of-flight technology that achieves orders of magnitude more precision than the last gen. This is not some BS hardware hype either, it translates into better real world use cases. I've never had to wear any special clothes or paint my walls... it just works for me. It will also work in nearly pitch black environments.

I think the hardware/software co-design for this particular peripheral was done phenomenally well, and MS has had some time to refine its use cases and integration into the system. I'm really excited to see where this goes.

Comment · 13 years ago

Those are typical names for academic papers, check out pretty much any conference's list of accepted papers for similar verbosity.

Comment · 13 years ago

"You don't have to have a certain surname to get into Waterloo. You'd be much better off just scoring well on the Fermat Contest. When nobody gives a shit what you have, and it's what you do that gets you places, you tend to be more modest."

Well put. UBC grad here, living and working in the valley now but if I ever wanted to raise a family I would think strongly about moving back to Canada purely for the great accessibility to quality public education.