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Arbitrary rate means you can set it up so that you don't have to worry about it in practice. If I served a site where people could check if their passwords lea
by twawaaay 4y ago
Arbitrary rate means you can set it up so that you don't have to worry about it in practice.
If I served a site where people could check if their passwords leaked I would not worry if one in a million viewers got a false positive.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoAs I said, "not worrying about it in practice" isn't "the same problem." If that is hard to wrap your mind around, you can suppose a fine of $1 billion for every wrong answer.
- twawaaay 4y agoEngineering is all about tradeoffs. In real life things never work 100% reliably. Not being able to do tradeoffs disqualifies person as an engineer. plonk
- lern_too_spel 4y agoAlgorithms are about correctness. Being incorrect disqualifies an algorithm as a solution to a problem.