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by Perseids 13y ago
You mean, not many people use VLC? https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html#thirdparty
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On the 30C3 there was a talk about a C Compiler (actually an llvm optimization plugin) that can eliminate nearly every memory management related vulnerability by adding memory checks. The penalty is only a 100% increase in runtime. > If
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> In the end I hate Facebook for a number of reasons but it's the only reliable solution I have found so far: fast, reliable, (nearly) everyone is there. Doesn't this even more so apply to email? I don't know a single pers
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by Perseids 13y ago
For everyone else who does not know all of the abbreviations: SICP: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - """Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpr
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Studying at a university where all this and more is part of the first year education of computer scientists, I - probably foolishly - assumed basic linear algebra was common knowledge in the community. Now my interest is piqued: Which educa
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Aren't you talking about the Linux kernel? There the very last step is XOR'ing the random output with the hardware RNG. The article explicitly mentions Yarrow as a mixing and CSRNG function for FreeBSD though.
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With a cryptographic primitive like Yarrow finding this precisely right way should be infeasible, in the same way that finding a collision for a cryptographic hash function should be infeasible.
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I didn't differentiate between them, because - really - do you think the miners take a close look at the protocol the software they are using actually implements? Much less so the end users. I see the software engineers of the Bitcoin
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Whether this works or not lies largely in the way the Bitcoin software developers pitch their change. For example this cut would be much less directed if you invalidate bitcoins that are older than 3 years. Independent of the Satoshi coins
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He/She/They should, but having 4% of the total amount of a currency in the hand of one completely unknown person / organization is quite a threat to its stability. Also I would see a reward of one billion dollar as pretty exc
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> There will be an eventual cap at 21 million bitcoins, so satoshis stash is somewhere between 9% to 4% of all bitcoins. Btw: As the rules and mechanics of the Bitcoin network are enforced by the majority of clients it would be pretty si
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Alternatively just think a moment longer and realize that the lower limit of each value (10) already produces 60 and thus each must must be 10.
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by Perseids 13y ago
No no no, if you argue like this you have already chosen the wrong battleground for this debate. Your Email and meta data is not open to everyone but only to a (")trusted(") third party: to law enforcement. People (rightly) assume
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> if the stars align a certain way, "the authorities" may stop a hypothetical criminal act. But that's not the way it is perceived in the general populace. All the relevant authorities - police, government, NSA/CIA&#x
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Also - and much more profitable - you can just buy as many bitcoins as you can afford right now and sell them when they reach a value of 10^6 USD.
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With Haskell I would not be so sure. There is the 'Integer' arbitrary size data type but what is mostly used is 'Int' for efficiency reasons afaik. Compiled as a 64 bit executable this should be a 64 bit integer though.
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by Perseids 13y ago
I understand why people actually using these huge data sets see this as a bug but personally I don't agree. Consider how hard programming becomes when you have to take into account integer overflows even for a /single addition&#x2
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> Retrofitting existing infrastructure with LEDs makes no sense: we get wasteful, fragile and inefficient systems. I wholeheartedly agree and would go even further and reimagine our current illumination concepts. At the moment we mostly
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by Perseids 13y ago
If have come to greatly appreciate Lyx' [1] WYSIWYMean approach. When you are mostly writing code or plaintext markdown is great, but if you have to typeset and edit a lot of formulas using Tex quickly becomes a pain. Lyx allows you to
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I find having the list in full is great, because they need to be named and shamed, too. Each and every one of them deserves a negative business impact for signing it.
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Btw., the only reason they do, is because they are required to by EU law. It's not some last shred of the "Don't be evil" policy or something.
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> It's easy to distill these issues and hold a self-righteous opinion, but I personally find most too complex to form anything resembling an educated opinion. The problem is the other extreme of not expressing an opinion where you
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> Its not like Google requires an ID to create an account. 5 out of 7 times I've tried to create a Google accounts over the last years I was asked for a mobile number (that an SMS was to be sent to) before I could register. Given th
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> All this change is meant to ensure is that all HTTP/2.0 traffic is encrypted, not that it is all authenticated. This is a perfect example of <strikethrough>"good enough is the enemy of good"</strikethrough&
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> this would cripple an important part of the financial system. Think student loans never existing. I'd see loans more as band aid for broken social structure: "People would not be able to pay for their important medical bills
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Maybe I'm phrasing what you meant with your third sentence, but one reason the banks would have losses is that 2ct per dollar is only the average and those that could actually pay those 2ct are worth more then those 2ct. Simple example
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by Perseids 13y ago
See the video on 0:43 > New music by Ben Prunty > New content by Tom Jubert > and guest writer Chris Avellone
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Bzzt, capitalism fallacy. I fondly remember Ubuntu being a charity of Mark Shuttleworth. Not everything needs a business model. The mindset of the time is reflected in an announcement [1] of the /Ubuntu Foundation/: ""&q
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You have a point and I was a bit polemic. Nonetheless those conflicts do reach the consumer in a significant manner, for example last year, when I updated my smartphone firmware for stability reasons, all the rubber band menus vanished and
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> But isn't the point being made that this is better not looked at as a good versus bad, it's better looked at as one sort of bad against another sort of bad. The direct consequence of this would be a call to get rid of the ev

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