MattPalmer1086

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by MattPalmer1086 4mo ago
Oh what are the pros again, I seem to have forgotten what the sunlit uplands were supposed to be like...?
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
It's a good philosophy, but I always cringe when I hear it. Only because I once worked with someone who would always proclaim they were going to tackle the hardest thing first. Real ego play, from him at least.
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Right - I have that turned off. I don't see any of the things the OP is complaining about.
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
There's certainly a whole lot of "it was never the coding that was our value" articles about right now. I agree that they represent a degree of self delusion to an extent. But it's also a useful examination of where y
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
When I worked in the civil service we were trained to use that phrase to any query, no matter how innocuous (unless we had permission to give more info). You may think that not issuing a categorical denial is suspicious, but generally speak
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Completely agree. I used to take walks during the day to think through problems. I was put on a disciplinary for not being at my desk enough. I did challenge it, saying walking helps me think, and asked whether they paid me to type or sol
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Giving up is not a strategy. Regulations are painful in that they obviously reduce economic productivity, but not having any at all is pretty much guaranteed to be a disaster. For example, allowing poisonous chemicals in your food supply or
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or a serious point. Obviously people who have retired and based their entire life plan on making that work have many fewer options than those who are still working. You are arguing that nobody can plan
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Your solution is?
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Yeah, just tried it. The AI summary disappears and you just get search results. Result!
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
I'll add my congratulations too. I work in info sec - I've always been interested in password cracking and hashcat specifically, but have never had the time to devote to really dig into it. I'll check it out. Well done!
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Similar for me, although I did not realise I had gone under. I counted to ten, and when I reached ten I opened my eyes and was in a different room and the surgery was over. Very weird!
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Yep, sounds boring!
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
The break even for home solar is too long for me also. Every now and again I look at it, and even with subsidies it's gonna be about 12 to 15 years before I see any cost saving.
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Ok, a fair point, but ultimately in the context of what is happening to Cuba, a semantic one.
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
And if pretty much any other country in the world threatened tariffs if they traded, most countries would be "meh". The US is the global superpower and a vast player economically. Pretending that what the US does here is the same
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
I mean, lower taxes are better for everyone, right? Let's just set them to 0% and see what happens - utopia awaits /s.
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Just anecdata, but I just got a Lenovo T16 with AMD. Graphics is just painless, everything works with no issues. My old system with an Nvidia card running the same O/S keeps running into weird issues. It mostly works, just needs a
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by MattPalmer1086 5mo ago
Yep. I started out using ANTLR for one project of mine. I ended up spending loads of time fighting its syntax to do really quite simple things, and it was slow! I probably wasn't holding it right. In the end, I wrote a simple lexer
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Reusing the same prompt several times is something I've started doing too. The contrast is often illuminating. In one case, it made a thoroughly convincing argument that an approach was justified. The second time it made exactly the
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Not really, Cold Dark Matter is part of LCDM, the main cosmological model. Whether hot or cold, I'd like to see a solid prediction made for it confirmed subsequently by observation.
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Not sure why the downvotes just for asking a question. Dark matter (well, LCDM) has predicted many things which were proven false, e.g. that big galaxies assembled through merging with smaller ones over long periods of time. JWST shows us
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
As far as I know, dark matter hasn't made any testable predictions which were subsequently proved correct. It's an infinitely tunable hypothesis that can be retro fitted to new observations, since it has many tweakable parameters
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
A nice point!
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Kerkhoff's principle is not about security in general, it is about the design of cryptography. Assume your opponent knows everything about how your crypto system works. Your security then lies in the keys and not knowledge of the met
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Phew, thought I'd missed an important development there! The 3 makes the difference :)
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
As far as I know, cracking 3DES is still not trivial, and requires a very large number of operations and/or a very large amount of data. But can just about be done in some situations. If you have any link to trivially cracking it on yo
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
If you're a CTO, have a post quantum strategy: know what crypto you use and where it is, plan to migrate to post quantum secure ciphers over the next decade or so, or sooner if possible. If you're a lowly engineer, not very much
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Interesting article. I love it when maths gives us some beautiful visuals too.
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Thanks, I get it.

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