IncRnd

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by IncRnd 11y ago
Yea. I don't think many argue against abstracting complexity into more easily understood orthogonal modules. But some of these modules aren't abstracting complexity. They are ludicrous. They are nonsense. They are a symptom o
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by IncRnd 11y ago
Static dictionaries are used frequently in data communications to "break the bounds" of Shannon's theorem. See static Huffman coding in fax machines.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
All that would do is move more work overseas.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
That's a red herring. Java only appears as fast as C++ for workloads that don't require speed, e.g. human time vs. computer time.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
If that is how you calculate probabilities, what happens between 4,000 and 9000 years? Are you undead for 5,000 years?
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by IncRnd 11y ago
Are you unsure of the answer?
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by IncRnd 11y ago
A container may be "good enough", but running within a container generally doesn't give the same security posture as running within a virtual machine.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
>> Threat model wrapped in tin foil? I don't understand what you mean, are you suggesting paranoia? That term likely means one of two things: guarding against a particularly capable attacker or paranoia for others
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by IncRnd 11y ago
There are also tax consequences for switching corporate structure. The laws may have changed from when we did a few switches between LLC, S, and C, but those were far from only tedious. There was a lot of money we suddenly became liable i
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by IncRnd 11y ago
I see why merkel was upset with the US spying on her...
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by IncRnd 11y ago
I like the distro, too. Though, the patten you mention is very troubling. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
There was no jumping the gun. LM is a technical forum, at least to the degree that the should know the difference between a cipher and a digest. Regarding your other point, just because someone uses an algorithm doesn't mean that it i
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by IncRnd 11y ago
There is no reason to store an encrypted password outside of proxying to another system. Where was the key to the stored password? This forum looks poorly designed from a security perspective.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
That isn't a threat model for this but speculation that this is a mitigation of a threat in twitter's threat model. It isn't clear what threats the design of this system guards against or that much thought was given to the t
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by IncRnd 11y ago
Closed-source doesn't change the central issue, which is that the FBI does not have Apple's code signing key.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
That is not a problem of low taxes but a problem with the desire to spend without end. The US keeps hitting record highs of tax receipts.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
Ah, I see that my comment could be read that way. What I meant was the construct of donations for deductions and later benefit is what those foundations do.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
>> It's the equivalent of me donating most of my salary to a >> "charity" created for the purpose of paying my mortgage. I >> don't think many people here do that, or would consider it >> if th
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by IncRnd 11y ago
What is wrong and immoral is that a single company is considered immoral for not paying an additional $2,400,000,000 in taxes.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
>> Well, that's the overhead of selling closed-source devices. Closed-source may be a pet-peeve of yours, but it has nothing to do with any of this.
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by IncRnd 11y ago
>> If this is the endgame, it's good that computers exist. >> Without Twitter, the public might believe absurd lies. >> Nowadays, the lies would have to be pretty nuanced to >> have an effect. I completely dis