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11671.
by api 9y ago
QCs won't appear overnight. We will see someone demonstrate a small-scale QC that is too small to usefully break real world crypto. As soon as that happens, there will be a rush to migrate everything to post-quantum crypto. Anyone not
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by api 9y ago
I've also reached this conclusion, but I find it curious. The fact that many CAs are Turing-complete and given the meaning of that, it is theoretically possible to model anything with a CA. Yet CA models have never proven useful. One p
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by api 9y ago
Not necessarily, but the signature algorithm would have to change. Block chain itself is based on hashes, which are already quantum hard. QC will not break SHA256. However addresses are based on ECC crypto, which would no longer be secure.
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by api 9y ago
I suspect it's the opposite. TensorFlow in source will never be as fast as the TPU cloud with custom processors, so it won't be as suitable for serious high volume production stuff. It's more like a hook into the TPU ecosyste
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by api 9y ago
Implied here is the emergence of a new business model: developer powerful custom hardware that you do not sell, but only make available as a service in the cloud. This way you get multiple layers of lock-in.
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by api 9y ago
For much of the last 20 years, the opposition party was constantly threatening to impeach the sitting president. It's a symptom of just how unbelievably divided things have become. Personally I think impeaching Trump would be a strateg
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by api 9y ago
I really fanatically loathe Rube Goldberg machine software. "Once you've installed Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis, make sure your Ruby version is newer than 2.0 and your NodeJS version is newer than..."
11678.
by api 9y ago
My question is kind of "sure, but so what?" It seems to me that lots of politicians have sketchy foreign ties. The Bushes have their Saudi partners and the Clintons have the Chinese. I think this is a bad thing and ought to be unc
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by api 9y ago
Try Gogs. It's less feature rich but it works very well and is an absolute breeze to deploy.
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by api 9y ago
Run your whole system in RAM with periodic backup to "slow" SSD?
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by api 9y ago
You are largely correct. Brands are very hard, especially in established markets. But brands don't employ people.
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by api 9y ago
I was thinking about this a few weeks ago: is it illegal to run a Ponzi scheme if you openly advertise that it's a Ponzi scheme?
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by api 9y ago
Default passwords on things that are on by default is "full stop" bad. This is on the same level as passwords in clear text e-mail.
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by api 9y ago
We really should make it illegal to pay ransom. The only ultimate solution to this problem is to eliminate the incentive.
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by api 9y ago
That's an extreme example. There are many less extreme ones. If you trust a self-selected random sampling of "people," I suggest that you participate in a jury trial... or just read some YouTube comments. Government assistanc
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by api 9y ago
Unfortunately this would mean such services are segregated by race, religion, culture, and location. It also leads to extreme abuses. In feudal times support was often available in exchange for a night with your wife, daughter, or child.
11687.
by api 9y ago
"Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither." Knowing history that's usually what they get. WannaCry used an OS vulnerability that would have existed regardless of how locked down user space is.
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by api 10y ago
In other news, crank-to-start mode is broken on the Tesla Model S.
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by api 10y ago
This is why the US isn't a democracy, and shouldn't be. It's a republic. Democracy is one check in a system of checks and balances.
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by api 10y ago
About nine months ago we made the decision to go with RethinkDB for our infrastructure in place of PostgreSQL (at least for live replicated data), but if this existed at the time we'd have seriously taken a look. We're pretty happ
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by api 10y ago
Choosing technologies based on first-hand review and first principles rather than things like Gartner magic quadrants, big company brand recognition, feature lists, and "serious" sounding names is a competitive advantage that star
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by api 10y ago
All sales and marketing tends to incentivize over-promising, especially if selling to an audience who are not domain experts.
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by api 10y ago
To do away with the walled garden approach would require a robust, scalable solution to the malware and spamware problem. For most non-pro users, a walled garden is awesome. You can actually use a computer without it becoming progressivel
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by api 10y ago
Seattle will have to follow suit after Vancouver.
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by api 10y ago
I haven't heard that one. I have heard that it is a proxy war against Russia or China, but I'm not sure that makes sense either. Russia in particular has tons of oil and doesn't need any from elsewhere. The only thing that ma
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by api 10y ago
War in the middle east is ruining the West. I don't understand it and I don't buy the oil explanation. With the absurd cost of these wars we could just buy the oil, or pay for megaprojects to replace it with gas (even gas to liqui
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by api 10y ago
Yes it does. The secondary C++ allocator is doing its own pooling on top of the primary allocator.
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by api 10y ago
This is correct. Glibc malloc works fine, though jemalloc is faster in highly multithreaded code and seems to be slightly more memory efficient.
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by api 10y ago
(Original blog author here.) That's a nice idea, and we've considered "minus minus"ing the ZT core as part of an embedded port. But code like this that shleps a lot of structures around and works with JSON is eye gouging
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by api 10y ago
It's a known issue according to what I've read. It's never been fixed. This may be due to the fact that it's hard to trigger and reproduce.

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