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by blame_lewis 6y ago
Mostly Electron. I don't like it either, but Electron is a fact of life now. While you don't have to join in on that as a developer, you still have to be aware that 95% of users will have no idea that their instant messaging appli
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
Yes, but in the real world there are a lot of opportunities for implementation failure.
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
AES is one of the few that has a pretty good shot at it, yeah. SHA-2 has had its margin eroded significantly over the last 10 years. I'd feel nervous about using it in security-critical applications now , never mind 20 years down the
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
AES is one of the few that I'm pretty confident will be around for a while. RSA already has a lot of caveats to its use and they will undoubtedly grow. In my completely uneducated opinion, it's even odds on RSA vs ECC first.
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
I don't think that's an unpopular opinion. 20 years is a long time in cryptography, and it'll be surprising if more than a handful of current cryptoprimitives live that long.
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
They can easily be remotely disabled if there's any suspicious activity, ie to any other server than the telemetry backend.
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
I've noticed that Coke Zero bottles that were left out in the sun lose most of their sweetness and taste awful. Maybe there's some photosensitive compound in the sweetener.
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
There are IoT SIMs available on most major carriers, which are intended for economical occasional low-data usage on large numbers of devices. They're popular in GPSes among other things. 5G is looking to reduce the cost of them further
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
> In my experience with language design, a little bit of syntactic sugar can have transformative results. Promises/async functions in JS and C# do absolutely nothing that you couldn't do without them. But they've had a str
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
Googling for "julian assange paranoid" will give you some examples. I'm hesitant to point the finger at a specific example, because I wasn't thinking of one in particular.
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
> I seem to recall a whole bunch of people arguing that Assange wasn't going to be extradited to the United States once they extracted him from the embassy. At the time a fairly extensive collection of polemic was written that liber
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
In many interpersonal relationships, a trauma response causes you to become more liable to ending up in the same situation, not less. Do not underestimate how many people end up reliving their trauma over and over because they can't
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
This looks absolutely brilliant.
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
I'm pretty sure there is more extensive literature involving the exact types of degradation that is characteristic to the disease, but I do not think I'm competent to cite it correctly. I'd imagine this process isn't so
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
Asterisk. I meant in the long term. In the very short term, hospital can be an option, but asylums no longer exist in first-world nations. Our treatment systems simply do not currently have an effective long-term way of handling patients th
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
> I am very hesitant to use this when a drug can be prescribed (with knowing bad side effects) can be applied. It can seriously mess someone's life up. This is why it's so important to understand that psychiatric treatment must
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
Thank you for that! I hadn't seen it before. I'm a little nervous about the idea of coming to conclusions about individual outcomes based on national surveys of self-reported diagnoses. It seems like there are vast opportunities f
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by blame_lewis 6y ago
This is a really dangerous and misleading way to look at bipolar. The disease proper of bipolar disorder is progressive and degenerative. This progression is accompanied by structural changes in the brain [1] as well as biological changes i
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by blame_lewis 7y ago
Australia speaking. We get a buttload of spam calls from China (in Chinese, no less).
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by blame_lewis 7y ago
There's evidence that classical (5-HT2a agonist) psychedelics can have a permanent impact on a person's openness score (as part of the Big 5): https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/unique-everybody-els.