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marquis-chacha | 6 years ago | on: PureScript 0.13 Release

The typical octal literal syntax I've seen uses a 0 prefix. This gives rise to quite a few gotchas, as most people think of leading 0's as being non-value-changing. Maybe 0o12345670?

marquis-chacha | 6 years ago | on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

Sorry I was unclear, uMatrix still exists, and I used to use it on Firefox, but now I get a message:

uMatrix could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled.

marquis-chacha | 6 years ago | on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

I tried to switch just now, looks like uMatrix doesn't work in Firefox? That's a blocker for me... I've spent a lot of time creating a ruleset on uMatrix, not looking to try recreating that.

marquis-chacha | 6 years ago | on: Glass Enterprise Edition 2

The way I see it, if the adversary is able to remotely access my computer to the extent they're hacking the firmware, my webcam being turned on is the least of my concerns. In my eye, taping the webcam is akin to ROT13'ing my private keys.

marquis-chacha | 6 years ago | on: Tesla’s Autopilot was engaged when Model 3 crashed into truck, report states

I have a fair number of "shall not be infringed" friends (pro 2nd amendment, perhaps to a fault. I make no judgement calls here). An argument I've heard from them goes along the lines of: "yes, we could perhaps reduce things like school shootings and accidental gun deaths with stricter anti-gun legislation. But that comes at the expense of our American freedoms, and a couple of lives simply isn't worth it."

Which sounded pretty harsh to me at first, but when you think about it, thats effectively the same as the HN narrative: "yes things like the PATRIOT act could reduce terrorism, but it comes at the expense of our American freedoms, and a couple of lives simply isn't worth it."

And now for these cars: "yes removing Autopilot could reduce car crashes, but it comes at the expense of our American (?) freedoms (maybe freedom to drive/technically innovate/something else entirely), and a couple of lives simply isn't worth it."

One additional trend I haven't personally witnessed, but I hear about, is that when in some freak accident "a couple of lives" includes the life of someone who one of these gun guys, PATRIOT guys, or car guys knows, their opinion flips.

marquis-chacha | 6 years ago | on: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

youtube probably doesn't save the originals (though they could in some cold-storage tape drives, perhaps). But even still, it's not difficult to imagine that there may at some point exist a compression algorithm that can be applied to existing compressed video that could change a couple bits around in whatever encoding scheme you've chosen. Depending on the file type, that could be enough to corrupt the whole thing.

Sure you can get around this by adding ECC, but that isn't implemented here.

marquis-chacha | 7 years ago | on: Vim.wasm

Makes more sense for that process to move to the editor than for the editor to move to the browser. That way you keep all your plugins and whatever other context the same regardless of what you're doing.

marquis-chacha | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft Gives Paint the 11th Hour Reprieve It Deserves

My favorite application of Paint will probably always be The Big Lez Show [1], a 4 season long animated series drawn entirely in Paint, culminating in two hour-long films. Its not for everyone (Australian druggo humor), but if you are in a niche which would appreciate that, its definitely worth a look.

It makes brilliant use of the medium: the creator, Jarrad Wright, started making the show in high school on his school-provided laptop, and as the seasons progress the viewer witnesses Jarrad's progression as both an animator and a story teller. Eventually Jarrad embraces the medium to the fullest extent possible, bringing Paint into the storyline in an absolutely mind-blowing meta-animation sequence.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/guitarfingerz2112

marquis-chacha | 7 years ago | on: Applied Category Theory

Oh right, "Lattice" is the word I was looking for. It's been too long. Would that be considered a subset of category theory, a precursor to it, or another field that it somewhat "unifies"?
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