JohnStrange

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by JohnStrange 9y ago
That theory would be in serious need for backup, because I can't see any connection. The pension systems will break down in countries like Germany without substantial mass immigration, that much is true, but is clinging to existing p
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Kudos to BBC for linking to actual research articles. I wish everyone was doing that. This is off topic, but I was looking for a long time for a weekly print journal with a mixture of tech news (focus on IT and CS), science news, and a sele
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
> Is it just that he's riding a fine line and not disclosing classified information Yes, at least in this talk he's very careful only to disclose what can be inferred from already public information (e.g. Snowden leaks). Peop
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Well, to be fair, a good implementation should throw some simple statistical sanity checks at RNG input during self-test and throw an error when it doesn't pass. Passing such tests doesn't indicate that the RNG is cryptographicall
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I apologize if that sounds dismissive (it's not intended to) but your post is not more than the usual vague FUD. Take a look at so-called 'professional' cryptographers and their libraries, and you'll find that practicall
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
If you know enough cryptography and are a good programmer, then you can do it; otherwise better not. The advice to not roll your own crypto used to mean that you shouldn't invent your own cryptographic algorithm. That's true, unle
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I'd say that Ada would be well-suited for this. Particularly for implementing crypto. It has a steep learning curve, though. Edit: Sorry, wrote this too hastily and want to put it in perspective. While Ada is well-suited for cryptogr
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Do you have a reference for that?
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Yes, they could do that, and in order to detect it security professionals would need access to their servers and/or reverse engineer their binary software distributions where this is applicable. Whether they do it, I don't know, b
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I'm programming desktop applications in Racket, but unfortunately for many purposes it is, as of now, too slow. Especially application startup time is painful, and text% and other essential components of the GUI are way too sluggish fo
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
That's the annoying thing. Why don't these companies say you can use it for free or for cheap until you've earned 10000 in total, and then you have to buy a license that costs less . That way you could put the money aside in
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I currently consider using it instead of C++/Qt for a major desktop application, but I'm still undecided. Lack of good Emacs support is a major downside but the same is probably true for Qt (haven't checked yet). Still I feel
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
> Outside of finance I am familiar with many tech companies which (openly or otherwise), kickstarted what are now widely known enterprises through cleverly crawling or scraping massive amounts of data. Google comes to my mind. I'm
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
That math is only correct for randomly chosen passphrases, but the rules you criticize are for user-invented passphrases. Even just adding capitalized letters to user-invented passphrases can drastically increase their security. To be fair,
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Have you really tried them? For me, mechanical keyboards are among those things in the category "You don't know what you're missing but once you know, you can't go back." Like heroin, I guess. Buckling spring probab
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
You mean superset, right?
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Why not? Because of extreme nipple fear? It would most likely be the #1 application of this technique if it worked in general.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
> However, I actually see this as a blessing in disguise because it forces these creators to look at other ways of monetization and to view their channel/brand as a business rather than just a content creation machine. Why would t
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I'm paranoid enough to only use my own password manager, but if you must use a password manager written by someone else then don't use one that runs in a web browser. Moreover, although this doesn't apply in this case, don&#x
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
LOL, reminds me of the Unbreakable Umbrella Internet classic [1,2]. Not sure if I would walk around with such an umbrella, though. I used to do a lot of martial arts before I realized that the general problem with self-defense is that mos
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
It's not about the steps only, the alleged lessons to draw from these stories are often based on survivorship bias. Successful persons often have no clue why they were successful and they also tend to overestimate the influence of thei
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
It's not that simple. Where I live and work the implementation of these policies is actually quite horrible. We're supposed to put everything in open access repositories under a creative commons license and at the same time are su
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I use the Action Day Planner which is designed with Allan's GTD method in mind. I do not follow it very closely and one problem is that I don't always have it with me, but it works better than anything else I've tried befor
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
> by this definition, lots of US soldiers are terrorists, they kill (sometimes intentionally, sometimes not, sometimes forcedly) It's this kind of sloppy thinking that makes a rational discussion of this topic (and many other contro
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
References for you and the other poster who asked: Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual Spaces - the Geometry of Thought . MIT Press 2000 (Paperback 2004). It is very easy reading. The problems of geometric meaning theory are compositionality an
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
My first point was that newspapers have not changed their reporting in any substantive ways over the past decades, so any perceived or measured increase of anxiety cannot have been directly caused by their reporting. Selectively picking new
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
They are reporting mostly negative news because "positive" news is not newsworthy, and it has always been like that since newspapers have been invented. Nothing has changed in that respect, and, frankly speaking, I'd be wary
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I kind of disagree with some of the premises in the article. I've seen an HPSG for German in the late 90s that was able to parse almost any sentence I could throw at it correctly from a syntactic perspective. The main problem for natur
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
The New York times? I don't think so. They're not pushing any crises, they're just reporting what's going on in the world. Maybe you're a bit biased.
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I think this differs from country to country then, because I'm pretty sure that in e.g. Germany a contract is not valid or enforcable without prior explicit agreement from both parties. In Germany most ToS and EULAs are void anyway, be

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