Cyphase

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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   Security fix: an integer overflow bug in the agent forwarding code. See vuln-agent-fwd-overflow. Security fix: the Windows PuTTY binaries should no longer be vulnerable to hijacking by specially named DLLs in the same directory (on versions
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   Plenty of people who disagree on all sorts of things KNOW they are RIGHT about those things.
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   Yea, I didn't mention it, but I checked when it had been added; it was 2016-12-30.
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   They have an experimental option to login without giving your credentials; I just tried it minutes ago.
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   I'm a long-time F-Droid user, but I hadn't heard of Yalp Store that I can remember; thanks for the reference!
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   Requiring Google Play Services is not the main reason Signal hasn't been on F-Droid; you can read Moxie's thoughts on the subject in these comments (and in other places): https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Sign
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   I'm not quite sure what you mean by "using python for micro benchmarks usually doesn't work". To the extent that "microbenchmarking" is useful at all, then sure it works. There are just different considerations
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   Fair point :P. I think I might have seen someone mean it like that as well in the past.
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   by Cyphase 10y ago

   That's what the top-level commenter was doing.
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    I tried this on my machine, then tried a pure Python version; I only changed three lines, to: import random ... arr = [random.randint(0, 256) for x in range(n)] ... arr = sorted(arr) Here are my times: $ time python2.7 ha
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    XKCD was also my first thought :). That's good branding.
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    Not the same link, but the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667934
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    I love that the parent comment currently has the most sub-comments on this story. EDIT: By "this comment", I meant "the parent comment".
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    I don't think the function itself matters; what's going on is that if you import it locally, the reference you're using is in the local namespace versus being in a module's namespace, which means it takes less time to ge
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    There's a difference between brushing your teeth in the same room as your toilet and storing your toothbrush uncovered in the same room as your toilet.
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    A lot more than one stone can be (and often is) at risk in an atari, and an atari situation can absolutely determine the winner of a game.
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    This reminds me of this classic StackOverflow question: Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faste...
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    That's not really addressing the point; whether or not the USPS does those things you mentioned doesn't really affect how much or little of a government agency they are. I would again point you to the "Governance and organiza
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    > .. a government agency, which many people believe the postal service to be (even though it isn't anymore). Can you clarify/defend this? I realize the USPS is not a government agency in the usual sense (it's an "inde
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    He's talking about being a VC and/or working for a VC, not working for a startup that has gotten VC funding.
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    For everyone wondering about the copyright: "© 1994 Time Warner Audiobooks" and, William Gibson isn't the one who uploaded this (unless MollyMillions is him, which I doubt).
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    Oh good, it's not just me :D. I don't think I've done it for 10-20 minutes; it doesn't take that long for me to get the effect if I'm trying (and sometimes it'll happen on its own when I just happen to be looki
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    Seriously though, anyone who could find a serious bug in Bitcoin could cash in .
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    Crossed my mind, but more people watch it / know it as a show. Thanks for mentioning that it is in fact a book series. TBIAB!
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    You're right about the anthropic principle; I wasn't clear. I've edited that sentence to clarify what I meant. As for none of this saying "anything about whether different environments may enable life", I agree; as
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    And Eros, thanks to those damn Inners.
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    This doesn't prove anything, but it's interesting to consider at least: if you look at the list of the most common elements in the Milky Way[1], 7 of the top 10 are essential for life on Earth: Hydrogen (#1), Oxygen (#3), Carbon (
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    Well yea; don't they watch The Expanse?
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    I would be very interested in seeing people experiment with more specific warrant canaries. Many of them currently are of the form, "This service has not received any of these kinds of orders at any time before YYYY-MM-DD." What i
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    by Cyphase 10y ago

    > No I don't. And as I said, you might not, which is a totally valid opinion; and I agree with your last sentence. My point was just that the costs of IoT don't erase the benefits, even if you believe that they outweigh them. A