Genbox

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by Genbox 4y ago
This is not an example of premature optimization. It is an example of guessing at the problem and missing the mark. It is best explained by Donald Knuth himself. The full quote is: > "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time think
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by Genbox 4y ago
Thanks. That is quite horrifying.
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by Genbox 4y ago
I'm one of those security experts. I've broken more cryptosystems than I can count through security & code reviews. You would be surprised how many vendors have no idea on how cryptographic primitives work or when/how to
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by Genbox 4y ago
Anyone know of any good population based studies that quantify the real amount of people with long COVID-19?
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by Genbox 4y ago
Their offices in Moscow (Capital of Russia. Largest city), Saint Petersburg (Second largest city in Russia) and Novosibirsk (Third largest city in Russia) were suspended indefinitely in March 2022[1] [1] https://www.jetbrains.com
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by Genbox 4y ago
"Small" here being 1900 full-time employees and ~250 interns in 10 different offices[1] [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/annualreport-2022/
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by Genbox 4y ago
> It looks like your fastest FNV[3] has some issues where it repeatedly increments `p` but reads relative to `uPtr` which is not being incremented. That is entirely possible. Some hashes like the FNV-YoshimitsuTRIAD variant is not fit fo
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by Genbox 4y ago
The algorithm above is a 64bit to 32bit reduction method. It performs a 64bit mult and then discards the lower 32bit. I'm not sure if Daniel Lemire invented it as a alternative to modulo, as I've seen the method used before, but h
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by Genbox 4y ago
> You can get higher quality and throughput for short strings from a hash that uses AES instructions or wyhash, or for long strings maybe from xxhash. What would you consider a short string? The latency of AESENC is 5 if I remember corre
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by Genbox 4y ago
Yeah... and you know... a natural weather phenomenon. I thought this was about storm chasers or something.
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by Genbox 4y ago
At the moment I'm working on FastHash[1], a pet project of mine to port a few high-performance non-cryptographic hash functions to C#. I'm also trying to build FastLinq, a value-by-reference Language Integrated Query (LINQ) optimi
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by Genbox 4y ago
I recently got in a fight with GitLab of all places. I setup SSO on my self-hosted instance so people could sign-up and report bugs in my applications. I never even noticed that a bunch of accounts was created until GitLab wrote "we no
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by Genbox 4y ago
This is the good ol' Trusted System issue. I've roamed in this area before, both in terms of creating a chain of trust in crypto systems and also at a more philosophical context for voting systems. I'll decompose the issue in
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by Genbox 4y ago
"phone home" is not really the right way to describe it. The attack proposed is that a hardware wallet (being a black box) can give the hardware wallet developers information about the private key. Note that I have very little und
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by Genbox 4y ago
I was wondering when it would become the norm to call it "ducktape". It has been 3 hours and nobody has corrected it. Last week I found a 3-pack of "ducktape" in the builders market. I'm not making fun of you or try
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by Genbox 4y ago
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148318
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by Genbox 4y ago
I started my company back when news about .NET Core was first coming out (2016). I've been bitten by Microsoft before (relied on tech they eventually killed), but decided it was worth it because of the modernization they had planned. T
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by Genbox 4y ago
It is a piece of art. Functional and well designed.
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by Genbox 4y ago
I find these issues all too common among programmers. Especially with regards to MD5 and SHA1. They see a headline saying "SHA1 is now fully broken!", but in reality it is a fluff-piece on either Shattered (Google) or Sha-mbles (L
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by Genbox 4y ago
Your username is too fitting for this, so I had to check your submissions. There is a link to Cow Tools on Wikipedia. I did not know what that was. "Cow Tools" is a cartoon from Gary Larson's The Far Side, published in Octob
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by Genbox 4y ago
The more I research Singularity, the more I like it. I deep dived into all the design docs years ago and the amount of rethinking existing OS infrastructure is astounding. Joe Duffy has some great blog posts on Midori (OS based on Singulari
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by Genbox 4y ago
I find that most people are primarily driven by a need. You need food? Pick some berries. You need warmth? Start a fire. When it comes to technology - especially advanced technology like Imagen - people don't see the value because they
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by Genbox 4y ago
> nearly everyone writes code for Unix/Linux and then cross-compiles for Windows That's a very bold statement that I suspect is far from true.
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by Genbox 4y ago
Of course Microsoft only include functionality they want. Just like any other platform only include what they want. It is entirely their prerogative. Just because they don't include anything and everything other people want, it does no
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by Genbox 4y ago
> NAT is not so widely needed as it is in IPv4. If every device had a globally unique address, is there really a need for NAT?
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by Genbox 4y ago
Note: This article is about Type 1 Diabetes.
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by Genbox 4y ago
While S3 is not a CDN as such, it does have a feature called "Request payer" which means the requester pays for the request. It won't mitigate anything for public files, but it will mitigate DoS attacks through a third-party.
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by Genbox 4y ago
Microsoft developed the excellent Code Contracts[1] project. From the user's perpective, tt was a simple class called Contracts with a few methods such as Require(), Ensure() and Invariant() Underneath the hood it used the Z3 Solver[2]
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by Genbox 4y ago
Are there only 6 parts to the story? It seems to stop short of actually determining if there is malware with the software. A VirusTotal result is in no way accurate.
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by Genbox 4y ago
The paper is not a study in itself, it is a specific medical case that was chosen due to the possible link between the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and the acute hepatitis this person developed. The hepatologists found SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells (de

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