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And how would you deal with an URL to the HTML itself?

Is DRM required for streaming services you describe to exist?

I've been thinking about a hypothetical CPU that has explicit cache and RAM access. It's pretty close to OP's alternative universe.

What would happen is people would write wrappers for such a system so that you could think about your RAM in a linear way. And you're now doing what a Haswell CPU does.

Of course, this approach has advantages for specific tasks Let's say, we want to implement constant-timing crypto primitive and put all of the required data in cache. We can now do it.

This would also help with implementing an efficient VM, OS primitives, or many other interesting things. But it would not change the way people write C/Rust/JS/Python.

Of course, it's a useful model for your performance, and you can now think about cache misses as "internet download", and synchronization primitives as "LAN share", etc, etc.

And, of course:

http://blog.memsql.com/cache-is-the-new-ram/

In a 4-dimensional space, 1-dimensional knots are trivially untied, because you can pass strings through strings by "lifting" the string into fourth dimension (strings can "pass through" each other).

As a matter of fact, yes, planes can be tied in knots.

Here's a page from "Knotted Surfaces and Their Diagrams" by J. Scott Carter: http://i.imgur.com/2rIKJ8E.png

A much better way to mitigate XSS/HTML injections is not using string functions to generate HTML.

CSP prevents an attacker from executing scripts, but the attacker can still corrupt your HTML.

No, because "warp drives" in the sense of "Alcubierre drive" requires negative mass, which is not observed anywhere.

I must say that I find the lines confusing. I don't understand what they mean.

I think it would be nice to have a complete memory lookup written down step by step in text form. e.g.

    we're trying to look up the address 0xAA in virtual memory,
    the current page table pointer is 0xBB,
    therefore we're reading directory entry from the address 0xCC
    the directory address contains (...)
    etc.

I am yet to see an example that makes me say "this JSON file does not represent the data very well, I wish they used XML instead". Representing HTML/XML does not count.

Very cool!

Is it possible to modify the algorithm to use vertex color instead of triangle color? It is possible to do interesting stuff like Homeworld 2 backgrounds.

http://simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-backgrounds/

If you host SVG file on the same domain as the main site, I can give a direct link to the SVG file and your browser will execute arbitrary JavaScript in that context.

I see a big security problem with SVG: browsers allow executing scripts in SVG files in site security context, so you have to check for a lot of script execution vectors in SVG before you allow uploading user files.

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/4aa9e1/includes/...

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/4aa9e1/includes/...

Face to face meetings?

A video depicting a glider moving in metapixels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

See also, Gemini, self-replicating ship going the path of universal constructor: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Gemini

Not a question, but some suggestions:

- Make sure you're streaming in low-delay mode. I've seen some people stream with 8 second delay, but I don't know how they do it.

- Count `Ctrl-C` and similar combinations as a single keystroke

- Save states

God bless the poor VM.

I wonder if it's possible to do a similar thing for codegen. i.e. generate more efficient code based on SMT solver and CPU model.

I'd like to note that IO does not give a guarantee of impossibility of extracting keys.

AFAIK, the definition of IO is: we have two programs that perform the same computation. After we apply IO to both programs, we cannot figure out which obfuscated program corresponds to a particular original program.

However, there is a flaw: programs encrypting data with different keys are performing different computations.

So IO definition does not claim that IO is able to hide the key.

> 5. ...maybe if we build a big enough quantum computer we can overflow the universe's buffer.

Except black holes are a thing.

> I use the patent to sell a product

Let's say that you are a patent holder for an über-toaster.

If some company is making über-toasters using your patent, you can stop them from using your patent for their profit. This is what patents for.

If some other company is buying used über-toasters, fixes them and re-sells them, you should not be able to stop them from re-selling fixed über-toasters.

Fuck academic paywalls, here's a pdf.

https://mega.nz/#!510ngJYY!S2_PGUIrprdnc5Byf5y1MNIbonm9-v3Y2...

Don't forget bash replacement

https://packages.debian.org/stable/dash

There is another pathfinding algorithm with smaller pre-computation step and comparable (if not higher) speed. It allows you to do benchmarks on various maps, and it compares itself to other algorithms. I also think it's simpler than JPS.

http://mikolalysenko.github.io/l1-path-finder/www/

I think I understand where is this coming from. You are used to "aesthetically pleasing" GUI elements. The thing is, people want their task done -- mail being delivered, route being found, notes recorded. Anything extra is a cognitive load for the user. The UIs I like the most have minimal amount of visual elements.

I'd like to compare the shift in style of the GUI from http://www.knifepurveyor.com/images/content/larry%20fuegen%2... to http://www.bestchefknifereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/.... A typical housewive would prefer to buy the second knife because it's easier to use and wash. It's also cheaper.

Here's a crazy thought: we already have a common denominator -- IPC.

You can write part of your program in Java and other part of it in Python. But the cost of transmitting messages is considered too high most of the time.

Here's one of the reason not to install antivirus software: if a malicious adversary finds a vuln in the AV or hacks C&C servers, you have a nice backdoor you installed to "protect" yourself.

Somehow, I shudder when thinking about meta-programming and DSLs in Java.

Hypothetically, if any weakness is found in Curve25519, what happens to NaCl users?