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a99p

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About a99p

information technology enthusiast

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    Comment #46816475

    The problem with your idea is that when designing a programming language you are creating something meant to be replicable. If you obscure part of the language within a black box, …

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    Comment #46816126

    You can use many obfuscation techniques and sleight of hand tricks (like those stated below) to make it very hard to superficially analyze. If you over obfuscate, you run the risk …

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    Comment #46815404

    AI adoption and investment is incestuous. Many major customers and investors of Microsoft are themselves heavy proponents of AI, so they need increased AI adoption to justify and s…

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    Comment #46798317

    > And even if there are, the largest pool of candidates, the better. More competition is not inherently "better" nor does it necessarily yield greater innovation. Trying to impose …

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    Comment #46791781

    VeraCrypt has been tried and tested but it appears to perform poorly on modern NVME devices due to inherent limitations in its TrueCrypt based architecture. As a Windows FOSS alter…