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There is a clear reason - to make them uncomfortable. Nobody forced them to work there, and it is obvious to everyone what kind of future they are building there. If you exchange your soul for a good paycheck, this is just what you get.

The alternative is "Oh, you work at Schutzstaffel? That's cool!". That he has done is morally correct.


It's trivial (if you know what you are doing) to load kernel drivers from userspace by abusing windows bugs. If you trust a program to run in userspace, then it already has all the keys to the kingdom.

Welcome to windows security.


Strange, I can do the same in Linux.

Welcome to GNU/Linux security.


Good that you've managed to read the first sentence. But it would have been better if you've also read the second one where he explicitly said "I created the account just for my Oculus Quest 2 and don't post anything on it".


Am I supposed to take the word of someone whose Facebook account was banned for violating community standards at face value?


Guilty until proven innocent with absolutely zero data. You're doing well, keep going.


>They didn't even feel the need to use TSMC 7nm

They just couldn't get enough wafers. They tried to force TSMC to lower the prices and it backfired.


How did it backfire?


"White is unambiguously the correct answer."

Hmm, isn't sun wavelength actually closer to very very bright green?


The spectral peak is blue-green but the emission is relatively even along the visible light range, so if any color is perceptible it's only a very slight tint. The atmosphere scatters blue light more than other colors so direct sunlight viewed from Earth at noon is even more balanced and pure white.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_spectrum_en.sv...


The sun is not a monochromatic source. It's an incoherent, broadband source. The power spectrum distribution of those wavelengths pretty-closely follows the black body radiation curve. If you had a monochromatic source at that peak it would look green.



My understanding is that the spectrum follows the black body radiation curve with a temperature of approximately 6000K. Peak color is green. White is closer to the truth IMO because it is a combination of multiple colors, but still misses the mark because how does "white" contain UV, radio waves, infrared of very different magnitudes?


The color of something is not defined by its peak radiative frequency. I can easily create a spectrum that has a peak in blue but looks red, by having a lot more red overall but not at one frequency.


The sun doesn't emit a single electromagnetic wavelength; the light it emits instead broadly falls on a, uh, spectrum, including wavelengths that are either too large or too small to be perceived by our eyes.

It makes the most sense to call that white. Although, the wavelength of peak intensity is a green.


Looking from ISS it's pretty much white. It's gets yellow to orange when filtered rough the atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8bBQun8p7U


Good AR is much harder than VR. So it makes sense to tackle VR first.


The pictures in the article don't work (at least for me). Here is the wayback machine snapshot where everything displays correctly.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160718172225/http://gernotklin...


>because the players were human

It's a very compelling story, but that wasn't actually the case. The real reason was the flawed design. People just had to kill everything for the materials because of the way equipment was implemented.


I think one YouTube comment named another good reason: The animals were too easy to kill.

"The problem is obvious. The animals were too easy to kill. Imagine trying to chase down a real rabbit or deer with a sword. You will never catch either one and if by some chance you corner them the deer would actually stand a chance of beating you."


Mmo designers are very constrained in their game mechanics because they always have to deal with players that will exploit every possibility to grief. This unfortunately leads to things like extremely unchallanging encounters for random matchmade groups as any group will have players trying not just to get a free ride but actively trying to get the party to fail the objective.


Humans are actually special. We are smarter than any other animal on earth and have culture. Human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe, so even on that scale we are pretty special.

And it simply makes no sense to just throw away millions of years of evolution. Your nihilistic worldview is very naive.


Nihilistic it may be. But please don't equate nihilism and nativity.

"And it simply makes no sense to just throw away millions of years of evolution" - Why not?


To put it bluntly, because the road constant progress and improvement can potentially unveil the meaning of existence of the universe. Nihilism is naive by definition, just because you don't know the meaning, doesn't mean that there is no meaning at all.


If you really want to, you can "manufacture" high resolution timer pretty easily with thread spinning.


I suppose then "adding timing noise" here would also require making sure instructions don't have fixed and dependable execution times, because then you can just manufacture a clock by incrementing a number and knowing how many clock cycles the increment is. So an increment cannot be a known number of cycles. It does sound messy.


Adding random delay makes timing attacks more costly by not impossible. Any random noise can simply be filtered out by performing the attack multiple times and averaging the measurements. This even works over the network with milliseconds of random delays.


But then you'd have to increase execution times, and here we are ...


That's true of course. So basically adding timing noise is equivalent to adding artificial slowdowns. The only upside I suppose is that it might solve all timing sidechannel attacks in one go. So it's not 3% for one and 4% for the next and so on. It's a one time cost to disable timing as an attack vector.


Adding randomness doesn't solve the issue, it just slows it down somewhat. Fast operations are still going to be faster on average, etc.


I am excited. Can you give an example? Also, if there is any use for it in system software for it?


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