Comevius

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by Comevius 4y ago
I spent a long time trying to build a privacy-preserving database. The challenge is that a persistent attacker (a honest, but curious server hosting your data) can defeat the encryption by observing the access pattern. This happens because
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by Comevius 4y ago
Science is models of reality. As we gain more understanding we increase the precision of our models. When we do the previous models don't become invalid, like Newton's laws of motions are not invalid because of quantum physics, in
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I'm not an expert in climate change, but I read a lot of science paper (mostly cryptography and behavior science) and I understand how science works. I understand it's process, it's limitations. I also see the writing on the
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by Comevius 4y ago
Science says otherwise, and I'm not saying this to cause further anxiety, but the picture is crystal clear. In some ways we already did destroy the planet, the biodiversity crisis we are facing appears to be irreversible. In the last 5
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by Comevius 4y ago
Most computer magazines of any kind are defunct, their death throes lasted until around 2014. Websites naturally hold most, if not all information there is about programming. You could buy an e-ink tablet for reading.
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I would argue that the early adopters were inconsequential. They were too few in numbers to affect anything. The internet created a culture on it's own, one that continues to be a challenge to integrate into society, because human natu
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by Comevius 4y ago
That can't be true, the Wayland people are currently working on a Weston reference implementation before changing the protocol to support HDR. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/issues/4
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by Comevius 4y ago
I don't like the cryptocurrency industry, it's a scam, just like Wall Street by the way, it's all an underregulated mess, but these articles about the imminent demise of Bitcoin are cheap shots.
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You are just old and grumpy. There is a heck of a lot more use for a GPU other than gaming, including content creation, which also benefits from higher resolution and dynamic range displays, though X and Wayland can't handle HDR yet. G
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by Comevius 4y ago
Time and consequently health are the only things that matter, but killing yourself to make more than $80k a year is pointless. You need a new perpective on life. Watch Ed Helm's Cornell speech and internalize it's message. You nee
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by Comevius 4y ago
Zig is a winner in my book, because it is simple, yet powerful. It's barely opinionated, you get to invent any abstraction with it your way. You never have to pay the price for an abstraction you might not even need. It's what a s
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by Comevius 4y ago
How is this suprising? China's brand of authoritarianism (Marxism–Leninism) is based on control. The Chinese people recognize this as not just a legitimate, but effective way of doing things. They value predictability above all.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Let's not forget the nobody in the crypto industry cares about using cryptography for good, all they care about selling to greater fools. Web3 is a front, it is something that can be anything, but it's definitely the future, so ke
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by Comevius 4y ago
It's totally all the stuff Windows is doing in the background, on Linux with at least 16 GB RAM the difference between a HDD and SSD is less striking. Caching, the BFQ scheduler, and having a lean system goes far.
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by Comevius 4y ago
There is a port called FastDoom that could serve as inspiration for achieving better performance. https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom There is also the official SNES port for the faster Super FX GSU-2 chip running at 21
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by Comevius 4y ago
Information thermodynamics is what you are looking for, it's the unification of thermodynamics and information theory. Bear with me because I'm not a physicist, but my understanding is that information needs a medium, in which way
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by Comevius 4y ago
I like the optimism, but they have ways to go. Apple and TMSC never fails to deliver, but I can see Intel catching up and Qualcomm taking advantage of them now that Intel is a foundry. The future is bright for the semiconductor industry unt
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by Comevius 4y ago
Way to throw out the baby with the water. Inequality did not happen because of socialism for the rich. It happened because the winner takes it all, and the government did not do more about it. Without intervention it is natural for winners
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by Comevius 4y ago
The game has already been changed. The M1 is still a leader in performance per watt, Apple can take it's time with incremental improvements to it. It is weird to snicker at the M2 GPU for only being rated at 3.6 TFLOPS, half as much as
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by Comevius 4y ago
Not exactly how it works, steganography can produce a plaintext, picture or whatever as a cover for the ciphertext, but the cover is not going to be identical to the original. Consequently steganalysis will be able to recover the ciphertext
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I think insect variety in that case is restricted to a few species that keep thriving due to the sudden lack of predators. Like that brown marmorated stink bug that's killing the crops.
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The scientific evidence for insect population collapse is strong, but the consequences to the rest of the ecosystem can remain subtle for a long time, until they are not. A death by a thousands cut is the closest analogy. Complex systems do
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by Comevius 4y ago
Recovery codes can be stored publicly, but deniably on the internet. It would be like finding a hay in a haystack. No need to call anyone, just download a picture of a cat and decrypt it.
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Chrome uses Blink, which was forked from WebKit's WebCore in 2013. They replaced JavaScriptCore with V8.
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It's the workload and lack of control, recognition or fairness that's causing your burnout. You have to start making waves and get the job you want, the life you want. I'm not saying that you will get it, I'm saying that
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by Comevius 4y ago
I'm only familiar with Zig, but it's trying to be a more orthogonal (more consistent, symmetric) system programming language, which makes it easier to read, write and reason about. Zig is aiming to be a C-compatible alternative wi
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It's like the Mac Mini, but much slower. "open hardware ecosystem for Windows ... boosted support for new hardware platforms and technologies, such as ... CPUs including MIPS, x86, Alpha, Itanium, and x64" So this was part of
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Those old XUL/XPCOM extensions weren't really safe, and the only big loss was UI manipulation, which was kind of stupid anyway, and not at all portable. When I say customizability I mean user.js.
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Yeah, the site is really overwhelming and slow. The animations are not subtle at all, they take attention away instead of guiding it, and they made my computer's fan to spin up.
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Content is king, as my mother who ditched Netflix for an HBO subscription could tell, despite the the HBO app and website apparently being developed by monkeys hitting keys at random. She puffs about it, but as long as she can watch the goo

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