Hacker News: convefefe

New comment by convefefe in "ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project"

convefefe — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:08:56 +0000

It's good to see that Apache gets native support for this, I sincerely hope NGINX will follow.

New comment by convefefe in "Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile"

convefefe — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:33:23 +0000

If you supported Edge or IE for Windows 10 Desktop then it would of supported the mobile version since both use the same platform. So you are still going to have to support this OS if you are targeting Windows for desktop and tablets.

New comment by convefefe in "VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case"

convefefe — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:57:48 +0000

James Liang engineer for VW was sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay a $200,000 fine.

OTOH Michael Horn CEO of VW and person who signed off on the emissions testing cheating walked away with a 50 million pension.

Of course, you often get no choice in what you do when upper management says 'just do it'. It's that, or asshat exec decides to wreck your career, fire you, etc, etc,

A federal judge in Detroit ... of course..

New comment by convefefe in "DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment"

convefefe — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:27:06 +0000

I thought this was already happening. Right after AlphaGo beat Lee, I remember hearing about it. Did they give up on having their AI playing SC2? I wondered if that would work, since it seemed to take turns in Go at the same speed as a normal player, I wondered if it was trying to compute the most likely winning move each turn and the late game implications of those moves. If it tried that in a fast paced game how it would deal with the speed. It obviously would need to develop a pattern of pre-baked strategies that would win it the game. Would it play the same build every round or would it realize that changing things up each match wins it more games?

New comment by convefefe in "How we made compiler warnings fatal in Firefox"

convefefe — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:41:03 +0000

Have done something similar, and it works, but ...

... the downside is that every time someone uses a different version of your normal compiler, or a different compiler, you have an unfortunately large chance of having the build fail because a new bit of code that previously was warning free is now determined to be warning-worthy.

Not a huge problem (and better than cultivating the habit of ignoring warnings), but it is a time cost that has to be paid now and again for committing to halting the build on a static analysis failure.

New comment by convefefe in "Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading"

convefefe — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:22:15 +0000

One of many typical erratum... nothing to see here, been patched months ago. Most people are unlikely to ever encounter it even if unpatched.