CHY872

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by CHY872 12y ago
I think a lot of people here have missed the point a little. It's very easy to subvert E2E encryption of this sort, because no Whatsapp user has any way of verifying that they're talking to another Whatsapp user beyond the Whatsap
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by CHY872 12y ago
There are other things. For example: Teslas improve general efficiency considerably by (for example) using regenerative braking, which will be utilised in normal driving but not if you're travelling up a big hill on a freeway. Furtherm
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by CHY872 12y ago
Probably not. There are many small wine producers that will only produce a few hundred cases of wine each year. Despite being scarce, this wine won't be specifically valuable unless it's good or otherwise unique, because it's
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by CHY872 12y ago
I don't think that holds weight. The federal government employs nearly 3 million people, and of course some of them will lie to better serve their interests. You'd reasonably expect this. You see racists making similar arguments a
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by CHY872 12y ago
For test case generation, I'd argue that you want the opposite of a time initialised random number generator. You'd want a deterministic seed for your random number generator, so you can repeat if required.
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by CHY872 12y ago
What things would you move off hardware and into software? Typically the reason why we produce something in hardware is because it's infeasible to do in software. This is because of the costs mentioned.
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by CHY872 12y ago
That could also be overturned by a future congress
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by CHY872 12y ago
Does it though? Does it really?
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by CHY872 12y ago
I'm sorry, but if you have a DSP background you should at least be able to give a better explanation than 'trust me'. I have a really tiny DSP background (a 3 week lecture course), but specific questions that would help convi
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by CHY872 12y ago
Vertical scaling can take you a surprisingly long way
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by CHY872 12y ago
The point at which you need to scale horizontally is (for most applications) when you hit data scale in terabytes. When this is the case, you probably have enough money to hire someone who knows what they're doing with databases in ord
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by CHY872 12y ago
> And then save time because you can be sure that the proofs you write are correct. For better or worse, we both know that's not required to be a successful mathematician. I remember reading a presentation from a guy advocating mech
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by CHY872 12y ago
Well, the author's point is probably still generally correct - in almost all fields proofs are not presented from axioms, and you could easily go your whole life as a mathematician without encountering such a proof, except perhaps by a
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by CHY872 12y ago
Well, not really. You'd absolutely destroy the NSA's experience and domain knowledge, setting back its operational capabilities by a matter of decades and basically put the Russians and the Chinese in the driving seat. It's n
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by CHY872 12y ago
It's not much water. If you have a field of corn 700m by 700m, it needs that much water to grow.
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by CHY872 12y ago
I think (not sure) that I disagree with what he's saying. Groups seems like a product designed to be as easy and obvious to use as possible - all these confounding features would make it harder to use for a large number of people. It s
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by CHY872 12y ago
Yes, exactly right - so it makes his conclusions sound fishy. I don't think anyone's trying to say that Linux is so special and glorious (beyond BSD).
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by CHY872 12y ago
This isn't quite right - we don't in general really care whether we're allocating optimally (for example, if we have 16 registers we don't care if we can potentially allocate to 10), and heuristic based approaches are pr
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by CHY872 12y ago
Ok, so we can view register allocation as being a case of graph colouring; create a graph where the nodes are your 'virtual registers' and there's an edge between two nodes if those registers are both live at the same time. T
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by CHY872 12y ago
This sort of thing leads to finicky rulings everywhere, though. For example, if I build an airport, I probably will have to compulsorily purchase a bunch of land from people and demolish their homes. I must purchase the land at the market p
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by CHY872 12y ago
> Haha I can think of a few leaders of other nations who might enjoy this power. In Britain we essentially go by the philosophy that parliament represents the people, and parliament is the highest authority in the country. If the governm
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by CHY872 12y ago
Postgres can do it. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
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by CHY872 12y ago
Mmm, I'm not so sure. If you read the Bluetooth 4.0 spec [1], it's very obvious on page 1047 (numbered 801 in the pdf) the exact advertising format, with its block of bytes for sending data. Sending a UID would be exactly what you
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by CHY872 12y ago
I was doing an internship at a big semiconductor company the summer announced iBeacon. They had something very similar in the works (presumably started about the same time as Apple), and called them beacons - they certainly worked by exactl
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by CHY872 12y ago
Here's an interesting one. They only email contributors when they have over 0.005 BTC sitting around. So any contributor who over their lifetime is donated less than 0.005 BTC is never told that the money has been given to them. So we
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by CHY872 12y ago
This will factor in, but you can't make such sweeping statements - many parts of different stacks have their own intrinsic advantages. Certainly, a silicon valley company of 10-20 employees will likely have costs of over $1000 a day -
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by CHY872 12y ago
Big names mean nothing. You are not Google, they have very different requirements to you and their scale is much larger than your startup will ever be. Microsoft aren't stupid - the costs they charge for Azure are largely competitive,
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by CHY872 12y ago
Yes, and that is very, very possible. In any case, doing that would give you some relatively painful quantisation error, which is why the HDR approach works better.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Over the summer I got an UberX from Sunnyvale where the guy who showed up was in a VW Toureg, a fairly snazzy car with a glass roof etc etc. Apparently he was a fairly successful electrical engineer with someone or other who was wondering w
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by CHY872 12y ago
In the UK, I'm the director of a company. I'm the director because there (according to my accountants) needs to be someone with the title of 'Director'. I don't do much directing, but apparently I'm in charge o

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