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1. 8521.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Was there a COBOL search light bat signal? Because there should be.
2. 8522.▲
   by api 7y ago

   It's been renamed several times as things like complexity science, forked into spinoffs like artificial life and dynamical systems theory, and it crosses over into game theory quite a bit. The whole field is fascinating, but it's
3. 8523.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I think technological progress in modulation might be a really good explanation for the "great silence." Advanced aliens could be all over the place, but if they're really advanced their transmissions are low-power, direction
4. 8524.▲
   by api 7y ago

   She's a Democrat from the district including SF. She could eat a baby on live TV and still win. It's like being a Republican from a heavily rural Texas or Utah district. Congressmen and senators from hard single party regions are
5. 8525.▲
   by api 7y ago

   It's a bad faith argument. They don't care about pedophiles. You're right. It's usually a teacher, neighbor, pastor, uncle, etc. "Stranger danger" is mostly BS unless you live in a really dangerous neighborhood
6. 8526.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Have we started looking for modulations like this with SETI? A signal would have to be quite loud to be ordinarily detectable, but someone might embed e.g. digits of Pi into an ultra-wide spread spectrum transmission that could be detected
7. 8527.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I am willing to entertain the idea that postmodernism has been misunderstood, but I still consider that a bit of an indictment. If a few people misunderstand you, it's their failure. If everyone misunderstands you, it's your fai
8. 8528.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Okay, yours is the first answer that made any sense. It's also the first time I've ever seen anyone claim that postmodernism is specifically speaking to anthropologists about how to approach anthropology. In that context it&#x27
9. 8529.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Could ISPs threatened by 5G be involved? Just something I've wondered.
10. 8530.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I'd say I disagree with almost all of: "(1) an elevation of text and language as the fundamental phenomena of existence, (2) the application of literary analysis to all phenomena, (3) a questioning of reality and representation, (
11. 8531.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > I realize that criticizing a theory based on its adherents is puerile I disagree that it's puerile. I think looking at the makeup of the adherents of an ideology and the result it seems to have when played out is very important an
12. 8532.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I keep seeing this retort but I never see anyone explain where those who criticize postmodernism are wrong nor do I see a clearer explanation of postmodernist ideas. I just see content-free dismissals like "middle-brow" and re-ite
13. 8533.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Why does nobody use it? I've never heard a satisfactory answer from LISPers. "People are dumb" is not a satisfactory answer.
14. 8534.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I've heard this called a "pool pissing attack," as in peeing in the swimming pool, and it's already been done to some block chains, which contain CP and other illegal stuff. One mitigation I've used in one project i
15. 8535.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Curious if you can provide any links to exactly what you need. 2FA is obvious but what kinds of policy languages are you thinking of? There are numerous variations out there.
16. 8536.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It does dynamically allocate, though it always checks for success. It could be refactored not to but so far we haven't targeted devices small enough to worry about a megabyte or two of RAM. There are also checks in place to guard aga
17. 8537.▲
    by api 7y ago

    ZeroTier's core is only about 30k lines of code including quite a lot of verbose multi-line comments, crypto, C++ cruft, and boilerplate. Core functional code implementing ZT is probably roughly 2X the size of Wireguard. How in the hel
18. 8538.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Maybe we'll realize through this pandemic that a huge number of existing jobs are bullshit and totally unnecessary and finally start transitioning to a basic income.
19. 8539.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > in many activities, people tend to go to the greatest lengths for even the smallest gains It's a show-off / machismo thing. In our own field I'd relate it to the culture of extreme workaholism. If you are working 100 hou
20. 8540.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Personally if I were gasping for air I'd take my chances with something built from a garden hose, duct tape, and parts from Home Depot.
21. 8541.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I've wondered whether people may be blinded by the big sexy conspiracy theories and not looking at simpler more likely options. The simplest of course is that Oswald did it, but there is at least some evidence for a second shooter from
22. 8542.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I've seen stats to the effect that negative articles get thousands of times more clicks than positive ones. We probably have a bad news bias for evolutionary reasons. It might make us less happy but more likely to live long enough to r
23. 8543.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I still often see "worked at google" or variations as a credential.
24. 8544.▲
    by api 7y ago

    For reference seasonal flu is around 0.1% and also increases with age, so Covid-19 is at least 6X as deadly as the flu. This article also doesn't mention lasting effects. I have seen reports of people with bad cases being left with lun
25. 8545.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Reminds me of a joke about conspiracy theories: "How do you know if a conspiracy theorist is right?" "They haven't found the body."
26. 8546.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Another reason IMHO that this site has maintained its relative quality is the policy of effectively banning memes (whether textual or visual) and not embedding images from links or allowing them to be attached. Someone needs to do a deep
27. 8547.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Yeah I wasn't saying that because it's obvious. I was just saying if you really want to DIY crypto it's not that hard to do better than dumb ECB.
28. 8548.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Those cost more.
29. 8549.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Yes you can construct an IV from other state, though it's not ideal. Another good fit might be modes designed for disk encryption as those are designed for cases where you can't pad (e.g. disk blocks). There's also AES-GCM-SI
30. 8550.▲
    by api 7y ago

    This looks like either incompetence or intentionally weak crypto.