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931.
by a-dub 4y ago
interesting debate whether encryption should occur at the network vs. transport layer. on the one hand, encryption tends to have session state, so the transport layer makes sense but on the other i often feel i'd like to see a new vers
932.
by a-dub 4y ago
i once worked on a team that was working closely with aol to develop an aol set top box. as an integration engineer i interfaced with aol quite a bit and on occasion, i'd get sent fascinating threads from their ops teams. all sorts of
933.
by a-dub 4y ago
some large companies, (i've seen ads from facebook, although i'm sure there are others), have "returnship" programs for people in this exact situation. edit: see https://www.springboard.com/blog/car
934.
by a-dub 4y ago
i don't understand all the drama. i have one whole extra thread in my inbox and it's actually rather entertaining to read. there are lots of real travesties in this world, this is not one of them.
935.
by a-dub 4y ago
that's called salting.
936.
by a-dub 4y ago
that's because it's not zero knowledge, it's password hashing. a zero knowledge proof would do something like prove a valid attestation of love, but reveal nothing about who (other than maybe membership in some large enough s
937.
by a-dub 4y ago
was it on flat roads or more challenging terrain? it was apparent that it was a very simple system that did not attempt to do any estimation beyond what was immediately visible to the sensors. so if there was a change in the pitch of the r
938.
by a-dub 4y ago
i recently rented a late model rav4 and described the experience of radar cruise (on an admittedly challenging road) to be "like having a drunk lead-footed teenager at the wheel." lots of overaggressive acceleration and decelerati
939.
by a-dub 4y ago
this is a fun hack. it would be interesting to look at some real world workloads and compare whether this sort of init once ship initialized memory image everywhere style is faster than just initializing everywhere.
940.
by a-dub 4y ago
come to think of it, i don't think there were any private multiline boards in my local toll-free calling area. it was only packet switched commercial services and shell based internet at the libraries/university.
941.
by a-dub 4y ago
hah! was just wondering what happened to monkeyradio... iirc it was one of the winamp developers who did the selecting...
942.
by a-dub 4y ago
and full blown point and click guis! of course it was made irrelevant by the fledgling world wide web.
943.
by a-dub 4y ago
you can't just go all the way from xmodem to zmodem without stopping at ymodem, ymodem 1k and ymodem 1k with batch support first. also, kermit. who remembers rip graphics?
944.
by a-dub 4y ago
for existing codebases, doxygen will produce static call graphs for c/c++ and java codebases using dot graphs that are hyperlinked back and forth to lxr style code listings (you do typically have to turn this on as it's expensive
945.
by a-dub 4y ago
see what's new in the world of stem with a dash of reverse engineering of the world around me.
946.
by a-dub 4y ago
[3] seems like a bit of a stretch to me. we know for a fact that different communities have different energy needs for moving water around based on simple geography. we also know that different communities have different electricity sources
947.
by a-dub 4y ago
sure, but don't we put lawns on roofs in cities to try and cool them down in the summer? i understand the notion of returning to existing vegetation, but these places are already irreversibly altered by the presence of humans anyway. b
948.
by a-dub 4y ago
so here's a fun question: it's become quite trendy in policy circles in california to incentivize the removal of lawns and gardens as part of water conservation efforts. doesn't removal of fertile topsoil and replacement of i
949.
by a-dub 4y ago
i want to like nix, but the inconsistent naming and use of the language was a huge turn off. all the randomly named config options and the spotty coverage of them were like fingernails on the chalkboard for me.
950.
by a-dub 4y ago
interesting, just read through the release notes. pretty cool. i think a small discussion of this (and how the agent/key handles/resident mode work) would make an excellent addition to the blog post. it was very clear how to set
951.
by a-dub 4y ago
that's how i would hope it would work, but isn't the key in this example getting loaded into the agent?
952.
by a-dub 4y ago
but wait a minute... this is just storing the private key material on the yubikey like any storage device and it is loaded and copied right off every time you use it, right? doesn't that defeat the point of using a yubikey where the pr
953.
by a-dub 4y ago
cursors result in expensive server side state. if ordering is less important an alternative is to make cardinality queries cheaper and then allow the client to request sections thereby making the scheme stateless for the purposes of the ser
954.
by a-dub 4y ago
personally i think that most all coursework should be pass/fail and exams should be designed to test if the material has been internalized or not and that's it. no little bits of trickery to try and differentiate between students,
955.
by a-dub 4y ago
i think, for the purpose of introducing the continuity of the reals, for the purpose of introducing limits, one could skip any discussion that involves constructing the rationals or building the reals from them, at least to start. instead g
956.
by a-dub 4y ago
sure. and despite all the trouble people have, their definition is quite simple. the crux of the problem is understanding continuity. if you truly understand the continuity of the reals (which is the "real" invention), limits can
957.
by a-dub 4y ago
> Some of my smart classmates could not really understand the concept of limit intuitively. that's because the way it's presented is silly. limits aren't the key idea, the continuity of the reals is.
958.
by a-dub 4y ago
good ol fsk. i've built rudimentary time-stamping schemes in this way in past. basic signal processing can be fun!
959.
by a-dub 4y ago
that's right i forgot all about service packs. in the days before continuous patch delivery. windows nt 4.0 sp #3 64mb installed ooohlala
960.
by a-dub 4y ago
wild guess: there was some sort of registration or copy protection that generated a unique machine id or cryptographic key by applying some simple transformations to the mac address. it was trivially defeated because it was easy to find wh

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