RainyDayTmrw

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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
In reference to [1], for today's lucky 10,000 (which is itself in reference to [2]). [1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/ [2]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Thanks for the information. This sounds like something I would use HKDF for. But, to your point, it's nice to be able to build the design with a fewer number of primitives, and likely more performant, too.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
This particular piece has been shared near me several times, in the context of this recent AWS outage, the previous big AWS outage, non-AWS outages, and others. Every time, I feel like I'm in vague agreement with the author, and at the
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The edit window passed, so let me add: where and why one would use an extensible-output function in particular.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The nice thing about Blum-Blum-Shub or Blum-Micali is that they come with a proof of security. Even then, they tend to be impractical, due to performance and side channels. This one is missing the most important part, the proof. Indeed, a s
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I freely admit, this is "smell" based speculation.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Can anyone share real-world examples of where and why one would use these, please?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
This smells like self-dealing on the part of A16z.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Is there a parser ambiguity/confusion vector here?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I thought the same. Although, perhaps we have too few hatchways, and too much surface area inside each.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
After a few dumb accidents involving header pins, I've come to the conclusion that exposed male header pins on my desk are a hazard.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
As this is a tech forum, I expect that the name that stands out is Radio Shack, and I do agree that that story is tragic. For me, as a long time New Yorker, the other name that stands out is Modell's. They were, for quite a long time,
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Kinda tricky. Last time this came up, the consensus was that approximately nothing commercially available supported RVA23 at the time.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The unemployment rate statistic is a bit misleading, because people who drop out of work permanently don't factor into it.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
That's surprising. Why is there such a comparatively large number using 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Windows?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
In most enterprises, the choice isn't Github vs Buildkite, it's Github vs Github plus Buildkite. That's what makes it so hard to pay for a separate CI vendor that costs more, when your source code hosting vendor already bundl
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I evaluated Buildkite at a previous job, and I came to these conclusions. 1. Buildkite is probably the best commercial, off-the-shelf CI system right now, in terms of providing all the correct building blocks at the correct level of abstrac
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
If you do it correctly, you've reinvented Fisher-Yates[1]. If you do it wrong, you've reinvented this unnamed, broken algorithm[2], instead. But the issue in the article isn't application of pseudorandom numbers. It's se
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Juggling all the fragments inside the database, garbage collecting all the unused ones, and maintaining consistency are all quite challenging in this use case.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
One of these is not like the other. Go is also garbage collected. Embedding a garbage collected language inside another means you have two garbage collectors fighting each other.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
There's an Android app called GPSLogger.[1] It does exactly what it says on the tin. Runners use it to track their own progress. Photographers use it to geotag their own photos. The thing is, GPS access as a permission is a bit scary.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Human failures have some, but not total, correlation with each other. A big fear of autonomous driving is some severe failure with total correlation - the whole fleet does the same dumb thing at the same time, in the same place, and/or
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
There's a word for the job of gathering requirements and refining ambiguity, but people might not like that.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
What are some believable but wrong proofs of FLT? Wikipedia also claims that there were historically a lot of them[1], but doesn't provide examples. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Prizes
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Looking at the years involved, this was before widespread adoption of digital photography. The explanation hints at the use of film, but doesn't go into detail. The colors are reminiscent of film. It's pretty fascinating to me. On
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
It was new-ish, and it barely caught on, only in some digital camera lines for some brands (Nikon and Sony). If anything, plenty of prosumers were annoyed that they now had to buy new cards to use the second slot. The rollout was also bad.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The limitation in doing anything interesting with this type of AI is always going to be that the simulation has limits on accuracy and fidelity, and you reach the limits of the simulation before you get anything interesting, and the AI ends
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I've heard this a few times. By what mechanism do the investors do the forcing, assuming that the company is early enough that the founder aligned board is still in the majority?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
That doesn't fix the fundamental potential for abuse, moral hazard, and accountability sink[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine

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