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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Fan fact: Shugart is today's Seagate, the name was changed because the founder, Alan Shugart Shugart, had two companies, one for HDDs (Shugart Technology) and another for FDDs (Shugart Associates), both named after him. Later the FDD c
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
That pqRSA paper by DJB is a joke, but it's mathematically correct and an interesting thought experiment - RSA really becomes post-quantum when you use a 1 TB key because it outgrows what Shor's algorithm can scale at that point.
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
At least don't make it worse. Every time a new program uses the name "Z3", Konrad Zuse rolls in his grave. Using it for a single program shows homage and dedication, using it twice or more is excessive.
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Yes, all HIGH severity vulnerabilities (even MODERATE) have lead time. e.g. see https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2021-Febr...
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How I deciphered a Robert E. Lee letter (2016) [pdf](moscow.sci-hub.se)
2 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago|0 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Imagine if computer engineers have a religion of burning down and rebuilding the entire computer architecture every 20 years, hardware and software, from scratch. Everything will be cleaner, and the problem raised by Jonathan Blow [0] can b
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Elliptic Curve Cryptography still has an excellent theoretical security record, and will likely keep its record until the advent of quantum computers. Also, trustworthy digital signature is actually not too difficult even given the doomsday
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
I noticed HN user fractionalhare has made a comprehensive reply to my questions, but it wasn't posted as a reply to me, so now it has fallen to the bottom of the page. You can see it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
1. Claus-Peter Schnorr, a well-established and reputable cryptographer, publishes a paper and claims he found a new algorithm for integer factorization, which is faster than the best known algorithm today (Number Field Sieve). 2. If it&#x27
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
If my understanding is correct, Schnorr converts the integer factorization problem to lattice problems: SVP and CVP. Then he claims he had an efficient algorithm to solve this particular instance of SVP and CVP, thus RSA is destroyed. But,
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Project Gutenberg Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago|0 comments
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Computer Modern(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago|0 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
I'd love to read a post-mortem.
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A noinline inline function? What sorcery is this?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago|0 comments
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Densely Packed Decimal(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago|0 comments
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He traveled to a hospital to set up its computers. Weeks later, he died there(nbcnews.com)
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
You missed its context. In real mode, the interrupt enable/disable status is controlled by the global CPU flag, in bit 9. If you saved the entire FLAGS register when interrupt was enabled with "pushf", and later you use &quot
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Under PAE, each process is still limited to a 4 GiB address space, but the total usable physical memory is extended beyond 4 GiB. Unfortunately, PAE on Windows is a sad story. Unlike what the knowledge base said, in practice, you cannot use
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
And this: > Example 36: One program deserves a special award for the code that gets executed when you save a large scenario. It frees a data page, then allocates and frees bunches of more memory, and then a while later, goes back and tou
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
> Maxim 6: Just because you’re a Windows application doesn’t mean that you have to be compatible with Windows. This one is more hilarious. pushf cli ... five instructions later ... popf ; BUG! Does not enable i
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Summary of maxims: You can print out these two pages, fold than up, and keep then in your pocket. Well, maybe not, since nobody is really interested in writing MS-DOS-based games, anymore. But if you did, this would have been a handy guide
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How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 (1995) [pdf](ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com)
98 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago|44 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
> Idiots don't write bot scripting operations. My personal experience is: an army of bots is useful but the effectiveness is limited. The key is to activate and mobilize a group of crazy people, by influencers or bots - real human
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Marketing tech startups is (almost) an official purpose for Hacker News. I don't mind, as long as it's still largely community driven.
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
> would turn into serving up cute cat videos Cute cats, per se, is not the problem. Did you know the "Cute cat theory of digital activism" [0]? Literally, the first online cat meme posters imagined the freedom and productivit
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Not just electricity, but basic physics. Don't forget the Kepler architecture, named after the astronomer Johannes Kepler, and the Fermi architecture, named after the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi (although the same physics is importa
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Superhighway Valley. A good name to show its historical root on the Valley's current iteration of life.
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
+1 for Silly Con Valley. It's a quite accurate name for its phony startup culture (no offense to real startups).
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Note to other readers: It requires 2 hours to read. This is a timeless classic from Wired, written by Neal Stephenson in 1996. I love this article not only because of the article itself, but its enthusiasm and energy from the age it was wri
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago
Silicon refinery and wafer production are highly specialized industrial divisions. Most fabs don't produce their own wafers, although some of the biggest players have their own subsidiaries. * TSMC / WaferTech subsidiary https

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