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thysultan··on Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
We don't negotiate with crypto terrorists — Nvidia
thysultan··on Fetch API has landed into Node.js
Deno's is probably written in rust via the tokio rust crate. This version of fetch in NodeJS is written in JavaScript. It would probably get upgraded to C++ in due time once it's mature enough.
thysultan··on Evaluating front end frameworks and not choosing any
Why are they using preacts gzip size(3kb) and not React's gzip size(~36kb).
thysultan··on A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website
Accidentally started an honeypot for amateur assassins and assassin connoisseurs.
thysultan··on Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
You're better of using some service in China that does log ip's if you're not living in China(not being part of the five eyes anglo sphere is the goal) and vice versa if you are living in China. Security via sovereign obscurity.
thysultan··on Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018)
Young minds have less systematic tunnel vision.
thysultan··on Why pigeons mean peril for satellite broadband
sprinkling a few dead pigeons around the feet of the device as a warning to would-be trespasser is the darwinian end-game in all of this.
thysultan··on Why pigeons mean peril for satellite broadband
Embed a pressure sensor that detects when a pigeon parches on it, then activate the electrocution mechanism of foreign biological organisms, also known as EMFBO.
thysultan··on Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
Sounds like a win for Russia, new fertile area for farm land, more co2 presumably accelerates this thus providing new warm water ports across the arctic.
thysultan··on Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?
We're already doing this with recent booster shots. So i think it's perfectly reasonable to also giga-vax.
thysultan··on Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?
>Getting a booster shot every few months for the next 10 years is always going to be the best option — Every Vaccine CEO

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thysultan··on Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)
It's not functional programming, it's functional languages that go bat shit crazy with the amount of symbols they use that'd make looking at heliographs a refreshing pass time.
thysultan··on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
All that expansive "privacy" marketing undone by a single move.
thysultan··on What if JavaScript had a synchronous async flavor?
Then this is not related to async/await but regardless even then JavaScript has always had the ability to change the writability of properties such that trying to change a property in an object will yield a no-op with Object.defineProperty, and now with newer features like Object.freeze and private properties.
thysultan··on What if JavaScript had a synchronous async flavor?
That is false except for the case that x is a global variable, no outside function can change the value of x, only in-scope procedures can do that.
thysultan··on Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
Only the holy experts can divulge the realm of gods that is benchmarking and reveal to us the results. How—to do we beseech them o wise one?
thysultan··on A critique of Safari's influence on the web
>but on iOS you can't use anything else

This is a good thing, you need a monopoly(iOS) to fight against a monopoly(Chrome).

thysultan··on For developers, Safari is crap and outdated
Safari is un-intuitively an anti-monopoly browser, and as long as it exists to that end, it will be a force for good in the browser space.
thysultan··on Too much coffee can cause brain to shrink, raise risk of dementia by 53 percent
Any study that concludes with ~50% is random noise.
thysultan··on MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule
It's entirely possible if we can move to general all-photonic computing in the next 5 years.
thysultan··on EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax
It's called TPT aka The Pleb Tax.
thysultan··on British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
Oh you mean that, yeah that's not a computer, that's an electronic heat generator.
thysultan··on Designing a better strcpy
You could store two 32 bit fields and cast the second to a pointer when needed, and the first treat as a length.
thysultan··on U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing
The fact that it need not be nuclear, complicates their possible response because

>“Russia will perceive any ballistic missile launched at its territory as a nuclear attack

and based on recent historical data in ukraine, it's not beyond the states course of action to not do anything of consequential note, and instead opting for token gestures.

thysultan··on U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing
HTF(how the fuck) is Taiwan going send missiles beyond its own airspace let alone over China's to blow up the three gorges dam?

If China is serious Taiwan will be encircled with s-400's in little islands(artificial or otherwise) surrounding it before the first shot is ever fired, at which point the conclusion is already a forgone tale.

When it does happen the rest of the world(by which i mean the U.S) will be pre-occupied with domestic issues, cyber space issues and possibly another pandemic.

Not to mention the backdrop of the fact that the U.S launching missiles to China might trigger the MAD doctrine of Russia because missiles heading in that general direction might as well be heading to Russia, or be assumed to be as much.

>“Russia will perceive any ballistic missile launched at its territory as a nuclear attack that warrants a nuclear retaliation” - Russian military chief warned last year after round of reforms

Ergo the U.S president at that time will leave Taiwan out to dry instead of risking World War 3.

We're living in interesting times.

thysultan··on Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
I much prefer less "chrome" so i like the new safari re-design, if it was me i would have just reduced it to just having a keyboard shortcut(cmd + f) that pulls up a spotlight like search that has the url and a list of the tabs you can arrow down on.
thysultan··on What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015)
Buy seeds, and seal them with little sprinkles of wisdom like fortune cookies in places that would be accessible in the aftermath, the new inheritors of the earth will regard you as a prophet or god when they re-learn the ancient art of farming.
thysultan··on The Swiss reject key climate change measures
>car fuel levy, tax on air tickets.

Non of which would have done anything but raise prices for the aforementioned, it was just a swiss politicians hustle to try and tax citizens masqueraded as "climate measures".

thysultan··on NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
They're not outraged, they are just making fun of them for getting caught.
thysultan··on M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
Sounds like a killer feature. They're going to announce this at wwdc21.
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