snuze | 6 years ago | on: As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)
The broken windows theory introduced by Wilson and Kelling.
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snuze | 6 years ago | on: The Internet's Old Guard
People care about privacy up to a point. The majority of people (myself included) are apparently willing to give up their privacy if it means not having to pay for email service, or other information (search results, news).
snuze | 6 years ago | on: Tesla Q2 2019 Letter
As someone in the industry (with domain knowledge), I can tell you that you are oversimplifying the problem and ignoring Tesla’s advantage and leadership in this space. Other manufacturers have to account for legacy systems/designs, it is not as trivial as you make it sound.
snuze | 6 years ago | on: Tesla Q2 2019 Letter
“Tesla has spent a lot of resources reinventing car manufacturing and yet they can't produce a vehicle that meets their needs.” Where are you getting this information? Design and manufacturing influence one another. None of the “leaders” in automotive space outsource their design or manufacturing. You need to control and master both to compete in this space. Perhaps you can take the Apple route and outsource the labor (Foxconn), but Apple still controls much of the manufacturing process such as introducing friction-stir welding to shrink the iMac or introducing unibody aluminum machining to the MacBooks and iPhones.
snuze | 6 years ago | on: Debugging Firmware with GDB
There are certain software bugs that cause undefined behavior. Debugging tools such as GDB can only get you so far in identifying and solving such bugs. That’s where static analysis can help.
snuze | 7 years ago | on: BSD vs. Linux
If the jail cell is as comfortable as the unlocked room, there is absolutely no difference—until you try to leave. Any sane distribution should come with built binary blobs—and an option to rebuild them at will. But forcing you to build everything from scratch is pedantically impractical. But what do I know, I only do this on regular basis at work!
snuze | 7 years ago | on: BSD vs. Linux
You don’t trust binary blobs? But do you read through all the source you compile? If not, there is little difference.
snuze | 8 years ago | on: Computer latency: 1977-2017
There are gaming keyboards with 1000hz poll rates.
snuze | 8 years ago | on: The United States of Toxins
> the market will by itself weed out companies doing excessive environmental damage
Do you have any data to support this fairytale?
snuze | 9 years ago | on: I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Although unlikely, they might be interested in seeing it turned on to make sure that it's a functional telephone.
snuze | 9 years ago | on: I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
You should have nothing to worry about. Just follow directions and be cooperative. The people at the border get off on authority. Don't give them a reason to harass you.
snuze | 9 years ago | on: Living in China’s Expanding Deserts
I would like to see research of which nations stand to gain the most due to climate change. My guesses are Russia and Canada. Perhaps in the future, Canadians will want to build a wall to keep out Americans, assuming they don't want that already. ;)
snuze | 12 years ago | on: Official press release on the Silk Road arrests
Does anyone know any details regarding why the moderators are each being charged with "one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking"? I cringe at the thought that this is only because they happened to commit crimes using a computer.
snuze | 12 years ago | on: Gates calls Ctrl+Alt+Del command a mistake
These days I much prefer CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
snuze | 12 years ago | on: If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
Is religion not an authority structure?
snuze | 12 years ago | on: If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
That reads to me as an atheist statement, yet C.S. Lewis was a Christian apologist according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
snuze | 12 years ago | on: The Losers of WWDC
What phone do you use, sir?
snuze | 12 years ago | on: Mac Pro
Yup, I've run OSX as a vmWare guest on Windows. It's possible and it works.
snuze | 12 years ago | on: Mac Pro
Thunderbolt was co-developed with Intel.
snuze | 13 years ago | on: Facebook, One Year Later
Technically, Facebook was around since 2004 and open to anyone over 12 since 2006, so she jumped in about 5 seasons in.
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