SAI_Peregrinus

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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
> If you don't know that the coin is weighted, the probability is 50%. No, if it's weighted it's not 50%. Your prior probability is 50%, but neither a Bayesian nor a frequentist would claim the true probability is known
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Probably partly with how they started. Pyenv is meant to manage multiple versions of Python. Rustup is meant to update Rust. It's possible to have multiple versions of Rust installed (not just stable + nightly, but multiple versions of
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Downvotes are "ignore the troll". Their whole purpose is to hide comments that don't substantively contribute to the discussion. Replies are (or at least can be) "dogpile on them until they realize they're wrong&quo
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
It's a single emoji: "Family: Man, Man, Girl, Girl". Sequence is "Man, Zero-Width Joiner (ZWJ), Man, ZWJ, Girl, ZWJ, Girl". Picked because I looked up "Man" and "Girl" first, and just repeating t
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Without the miners bitcoin transactions are impossible. Its value is entirely due to the mining network's activity.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Not OP, but it's a declarative configuration system, so an existing declarative language like Prolog would seem to fit naturally. Declare the relations between packages, the constraints that must be satisfied, and let the compiler perf
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Not UTF-8 characters, UTF-8 code points. UTF-8 characters (more properly "extended grapheme clusters") can be of any length. " " is one character, 25 bytes long (0xf0,0x9f,0x91,0xa8,0xe2,0x80,0x8d,0xf0,0x9f,0x91,0xa8,0
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
> You never came across a recipe that called for 200g sugar and 400g flower, for example? Not in any American recipe book or web site. It's always by volume. This makes baking extra difficult.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Prep time doesn't include chopping or measuring ingredients. You need to have the ingredients ready before the prep time starts. This is stupid, but people are used to it and like faster recipes so more and more of what should be prep
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Security questions can be used to reset your password. They are backup passwords. They should be treated as such: randomly generated and stored in a password manager. Different for each account. Any decent password manager will have a &quot
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Phase 1 &2 data. 1 is mostly safety checks, but it involves several dosing profiles (typically starting low) to get a safety profile. 2 tests dose response and more detailed safety. 3 tests efficacy using the dose profile determined by
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Likewise for Ars Technica. They're a specialized source covering technical topics, and they're almost always quite good at it.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Revocation doesn't really work well. Attackers only have to DOS the connection to the revocation list, and then they can use the revoked certificate freely. The revocation checks fail often enough that browsers don't even show a w
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
And that's part of the problem with git! It requires you to get a mental model of how it works internally, but only part of how it works internally is important, and there are terminology conflicts. So people get incorrect ideas about
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
> After all, the shortest distance between two spacetime events isn’t a straight line any longer. That's wrong. It's still a straight line, just along the geodesic of the local spacetime. It looks curvy if you bend and flatten
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
This argument assumes that companies are unchanging. Apple will never become greedy and use their increased control to raise prices, never stop caring about security and only use the system for market control, etc.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Yes, though I find I want far fewer tabs on Mobile than I do on Desktop.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Auto Tab Discard[1] does it automatically after a time. Tabs can be set to not get discarded, eg when form elements with changes are present, media is playing, tab is pinned, or just whitelisting. https://addons.mozilla.org/
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
A certificate revocation request signed by the private key is proof of private key compromise. Anyone issuing such a revocation due to knowledge of compromise of the key is notifying the issuing authority of the compromise. If a key is us
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Tabs store context (history, cookies, container, etc, with tree-style tabs also parent & child tab relations) that bookmarks don't. I'm not sure about Safari (since I don't use a Mac) but on Firefox you can set up tab dis
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Why does there have to be a "good guy"? Can't there just be a bunch of different bad guys?
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Fume extractors are for the flux fumes, not the (nonexistent) lead fumes. You need them whatever type of solder you use.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
And you can even do both. Decision tree to get to a smaller problem space, then NN on the output. You end up with a bunch of neural nets, each of which performs better than a single monolithic net due to solving a simpler problem.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Except that they're talking about per-user pepper, so 16 bytes per user, in addition to the hash & salt. It's not a sensible tradeoff.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
15$/hr * 40 hr/wk * 50 wk/yr / 12 months/yr = $2500 MRR. Assumes 2 weeks unpaid vacation. And that's assuming $0 expenses, so all revenue can go into your own crap salary. $1k MRR is $6/hr, below minimum w
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Problem: if the user is directly signing with their ID key, then that vote is identifiable as having come from that user. Votes MUST be anonymous. There are ways to get around this, but votes must not be attributable to individual citizens.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Only assuming the attacker doesn't get the "pepper". Since the password hashes should be kept securely, if you've got a way to keep the attacker from getting to the pepper you should just store the hashes there instead.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Probably short for "infrastructure playboy", I suspect they're thinking of the sort of person who tries to make a text editor starting from a k8s cluster out of containers running in VMs on AWS.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
> MD5 is known to be very insecure and you should never use it for real world password hashing. Instead, you would use SHA-512, SHA3 or another highly secure algorithm. No, you should use a (poorly named) "password hashing algorithm
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Same. I like using the tools for any personal projects, and it's worth the price for the individual use subscription.

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