FreakLegion

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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
They are an alternative to 2FA. Which means they aren't 2FA. If they were 2FA, they wouldn't be an alternative to 2FA. They'd just be 2FA. Anyway, passkeys and FIDO broadly aren't the same thing. You can read the defin
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
That's not what two-factor means. Forget about passkeys -- if you use a password manager, and that password manager has a biometric lock, your accounts don't thereby have a biometric lock as a second factor. The transitive propert
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
Passkeys are meant to replace passwords. Not being second factors is the point.
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
What you're describing isn't a pump and dump, but in any case what Jane Street did wasn't a pump and dump or what you're describing. It also had nothing to do with market making. India's market trades options much,
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
This particular gift is also problematic because Horowitz is an investor in Flock, and Horowitz's family foundation is spending money on Flock that will in turn increase its value, which benefits him as an investor. Of course lawyers w
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
It works because the original filter has suboptimal settings. An optimal filter of that size and number of items would set 5 bits per item and have about a quarter of the false positive rate. The 2 bits per item in the blocked filter is sti
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
That struck me as an odd choice, too. On average there's no difference in false positives, but the smaller the blocks, the more likely they'll be saturated. Since there are 6 leftover bits in the hash anyway, there's no cost
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
Brandon Lee and Paul Walker come to mind. A year delay or more isn't rare, I don't think.
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
Magnus has always been unhappy with the format of the WCC cycle. He first skipped it in 2011, when he was already the top-rated player but not yet champion ( https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-quits-world-champ
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
It isn't a slump at all, really. He had his first kid in December. He's preparing for the Candidates in March. Weekly chess.com tournaments are just, you know, going to be relegated to streaming content for a bit.
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
Are you referring to the odd individual game? Magnus beat Lazavik pretty badly in the SCC and knocked Sindarov out of the Freestyle final.
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
That wasn't their point and is orthogonal to their misunderstanding of the GitHub issue where, again, no threat is being made. But in any case services do get to decide, because the service runs on someone else's computer, not you
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
You're on a tangent from the discussion you're replying to. Individual services get to decide requirements for their users, but that's not at all the same as "banning" KeePassXC from the entire ecosystem. Like, ther
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
Let's be specific. Who is "they"? Who do you think is threatening to ban KeePassXC? A mid-level Okta employee? The whole FIDO Alliance? Brother, there's no conspiracy here. Attestation requires a trusted third party, sam
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
I'm replying to this post, but your other posts throughout the thread have similar misunderstandings. User presence tests are an anti-malware feature. The point is that a machine can be compromised without letting bad guys log into you
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
You said: > This is electionist cope. The elections are decided in a handful of states with narrow margins. And the other guy's point was that the backlash against Trump is significant enough that this time around elections may no
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
Taylor Rehmet just won a Texas senate seat by 14%. It was a 31% swing from the results in that district in the 2024 elections.
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
You did do pretty well! I don't think the final result was ruined at all. Not many people will notice things like his pants only being brown in the first image, or their eyes only having whites in the third image, or his jacket sometim
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
The images are AI-generated. This makes them automatically bad in some people's view, but I think they're reasonably fitting here. With a little bit of work (e.g. attention to consistency between frames, blending into the site bac
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
It's a probabilistic cache. Standard Bloom filters can't add items indefinitely, and also can't evict old items to make room for new ones. Thus, rotating. They should've just used a cuckoo filter.
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
The Counterfeiters is great! "A Travesty Generator for Micros" doesn't ring a bell, so thanks for the pointer. If it wasn't collected in Mazes or Historical Fictions it'll be one of the few things of his I hav
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
Paraphrasing Coase: If you torture the poem long enough, it'll confess to anything. The most insightful book on The Waste Land, I've found, is the early drafts and revisions of The Waste Land ( https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
He's a delightfully arch character, really. His penchant for camouflage is why Pound nicknamed him Old Possum. I can't recommend Hugh Kenner enough on the modernists. Eliot is one of the main characters of The Pound Era , and the
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
> It's nothing to do with the scale being small or large if you actually read her research studies You appear to be responding to the words 'global' and 'local', which are terms from mathematical optimization a
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
Unions don't inherently prevent you from negotiating your own terms, keep talented people from raising to new levels, or prevent the removal of people who should have been fired long ago. There are some unions that have these problems,
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
No, Ostrom's law doesn't disprove anything. No, that's not why she was awarded the prize. Ostrom accepted that there's a real problem, and that historically it has led to catastrophe. Her contribution was to see that in
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
I browse from hckrnews.com and read comments with showdead enabled, so I see both flagged/dead submissions and flagged/dead comments. Flagging isn't abused in a measurable way at either level.
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
The tragedy of the commons is in fact modeled as a game in the game-theoretic sense. It's called the CC–PP Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%E2%80%93PP_game . bob1029 wrote that "You can have 100% of part
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by FreakLegion 8mo ago
Compare them over the last 5 or 10 or 15 years. Since VXUS's inception the S&P has outperformed it by over 7x.
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by FreakLegion 9mo ago
Powell could still head the FOMC, which sets the federal funds rate and elects its own chair. It would be a hilarious rebuke of Trump and whoever he appoints.

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