ZephyrP

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by ZephyrP 6y ago
my account is a year older than yours and I've never been asked by shadowy interest groups to astroturf, do you have any tips to improve my account's brand appeal?
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by ZephyrP 6y ago
For the purposes of entropy, you need only consider 10 valid choices for each symbol of a phone number so it's closer to 33.21 bits (10 * (log(10) / log(2))) and smaller still when discarding impossible area, trunk & subscribe
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
I think Cisco certifications, even the CCNA, are suspended from scrutiny by many, even in disciplines famous for their cert-skepticism like infosec. There exist other prestigious certifications, but they generally lack the reputation for se
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
purchasing a corporation with the intention to liquidate it's assets for profit, often found seated next to "leveraged buy out" & "pharmaceuticals price hike" in the American Lexicon Association.
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
plenty of other languages do so, but it's both unfairly diminishing to the parent & questionably correct to refer to it as "basic type safety stuff"
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
If you compile with `-Wall` GCC will emit a warning for failing to exhaustively check enum values inside a switch statement (I don't remember the specific underlying feature flag name, sorry). EDIT: It's called `-Wswitch`
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
I actually just happened to be hanging out downtown and found myself at a convention for people devoted to answering just that question! DeltaFOSB is a gene transcription factor and is the precursor for the development of all forms of what
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
There's a case to be made for alternatives to MIT Scheme. A good example of this is the exercises where you might employ the OOP system that SICP describes like the constraint-solver or metacircular evaluator but realize that you could
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
JSON is a syntactic subset of Javascript in ES2019 [1]. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-json-superset
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
Good eye, `input` should be replaced with `result` when building the subkeys within the loop. Here's a working implementation: function feistel(ctr, lr, ll) { let result = ctr; for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
You can draw the cards in a random order by using the output of an accumulator fed to a block cipher as an index. The fixed output size of a block cipher does entail extra work in filtering numbers outside the range you'd like, just as
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
BEAM doesn't do everything containers or a container orchestration system can, but in view of my relatively short time as a regular Erlang programmer (definitely less than 10 years), the spirit of tidepod's point accords with my e
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
I once asked a deaf programmer how technical concepts were communicated. He explained that most non-practitioners would use finger-spelling but that a parlance among deaf programmers existed to convey a variety of technical terms. I vividly
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
He's making reference to Steve Yegge's riff on Eric Kidd's post, which kicked off the whole "Are Xs acceptable Ys" blogpost template.
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
I work at a threat intelligence firm which provides services for aggregating desktop antivirus engines & specialized malware detection tooling; I've submitted dozens of public and manually constructed compression-bombs for analysis
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
When considering a small number of possible operations, I've found the optimum way to work this is to simply enumerate all binary expression trees of increasing length and determine if some valid assignment exists for any of them.
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
This is a description of what lead to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/5h23u3/... If you want more information about the vulnerability and mechanisms of exploiting it, project mem
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by ZephyrP 7y ago
I found two remotely exploitable 0days in the Erlang VM with the use of a SAT solver. They can trivially break lots of hash algorithms. You can also find bitwise equivalents to functions which you wouldn't naturally expect to be easily
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
so performance is ability plus the contribution of all other factors that are not ability. tough to argue with that one.
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
The lectures are good but I think the book is really unparalleled in it's original format. It stresses building the intuitive sense of deep structure, which I think other formats would have difficulty communicating. I personally though
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
> I'll bite: argument from authority can be reversed - if Brian didn't mess up the language design, these sort of "code drivels" wouldn't have appeared i dont know, awk has its faults -- but blaming it for C?
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
I always wondered about the C tutorials Brian Kernigan mentions in his talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUkrR7ZfTA ) , many of the examples seem intentionally designed to be incorrect by some trickster spirit. Now I
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SARD: Thousands of Reference Programs for Software Assurance(nist.gov)
3 points by ZephyrP 8y ago|0 comments
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
Are there any credible cases of an individual coming forward with damaging state secrets or leaks that Wikileaks had refused to publish?
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
I had almost exactly the (almost the exact?) same experience. I was 12 when I picked up a "Head First Java" at the library. The first chapters on for loops and variables were a breeze, but after a few more the book started a new
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
Erlang absolutely does have this 'in common', and it makes this faculty known every time you start up the Erlang REPL. In fact, I think there's a case to be made that it may have the most refined implementation for scheduling
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
I get where you are coming from (although, in the case mentioned above at least, an order of magnitude faster places it within 150% of the speed of Java). I think you're only scratching the surface of Erlang here though. I believe &q
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
The benchmark game's "results" peg some toy programs in Erlang an order of magnitude faster than Python 3. Of course, you probably foresaw another classic interpreter-speed justification coming from a mile away, but.... There
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
Reading this comment (and the many like it) I get the feeling that something essential must be getting left out when we're speaking of the "far-off mass-deployed self-driving tech". Mostly because it directly contradicts my d
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by ZephyrP 8y ago
There exists an Erlang unikernel (of sorts): http://erlangonxen.org/

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