smitherfield

But, let's assume for the sake of argument that your analogy is the correct one. You know where they assume that if you don't let the police search your house, or if you don't answer police questions, you must be guilty? China.

So, we can just as easily judge the Chinese government by another heuristic: The Golden Rule

Comment · 5 years ago

I think a useful concept with this is the legal doctrine of adverse inference.[1] If one of the parties to a lawsuit conceals or destroys important evidence, it is assumed that that evidence would have been unfavorable to the party which concealed or destroyed it.

So, while we may not be able to know for sure how COVID-19 originated, we can certainly draw an adverse inference from the behavior of the Chinese government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference

Comment · 7 years ago

"Or have everything you do on the web be phoned to Google, to improve your advertising experience."

Chrome already does this.

Comment · 7 years ago

Speaking of, why both -ansi and -std=99 [sic[1]]?

[1] should be -std=c99

Comment · 7 years ago

All the discussion ITT so far has been about the concept or hardware implementation of full-memory encryption. I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts about the proposed API.

Comment · 7 years ago

Yeah, that's one of my biggest pet peeves when looking at other people's code (along with unnecessary dynamic allocations in general). One of the reasons I perhaps irrationally still prefer C++ to Rust is the pervasive use of dynamic arrays of known static size in the latter's documentation, and how it makes fixed-size arrays much less ergonomic to use than dynamic arrays.

Comment · 7 years ago

Why wouldn't an implementation along these lines be performant?

  template<typename... Ts>
  class SoA : public tuple<vector<Ts>...> {
          // ...
          template<size_t... Is>
          tuple<Ts&...> subscript(size_t i, index_sequence<Is...>) {
                  return {get<Is>(*this)[i]...};
          }
  public:
          // ...
          auto operator[](size_t i) {
                  return subscript(i, index_sequence_for<Ts...>{});
          }
  };