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by bmm6o 12y ago
So why don't posts like OP's seem as absurd as mine? I think the Fine Article does seem absurd. And while he doesn't come right out and say it, I think he would agree that in hindsight his approach was absurd. The whole s
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by bmm6o 12y ago
there may be some hash functions for which H(concat(a, a)) = F(H(a)) If H is secure then F is not computable. If they can do a trick like this then their hashing is no good. Another possibility would be Yeah, you can approach it like a
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Null values don't go away, it's just that reference types aren't by default nullable. Your function can still return null (if you really want it to) as long as that is indicated by the return type. What you can't do is
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by bmm6o 12y ago
The most common way to avoid timing side channel attacks is to write the procedure in C or ASM in such a way that there are no data-dependent differences in execution path. You've probably seen e.g. the memcmp that doesn't exit e
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by bmm6o 12y ago
"Random sleep" does not in general mean "sleep until the next timer tick". The best fix is making the function constant time, if you can achieve this with a sleep that makes the operation always take exactly one quantum
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Both, unless I don't understand the distinction you're trying to make. The problem is that the law of large numbers is on the attacker's side. If the attacker gets N tries his statistical power goes as sqrt(N), which means t
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by bmm6o 12y ago
If there's timing information leaked by the implementation then non-deterministic interference by things like GC pauses (CPU load, network traffic, etc) are noise that raises the work effort of the attack but does not in general make i
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I thought I remembered this being called the "fourth man" or "fifth man", but the Googles aren't turning up anything relevant.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Ah, I didn't realize you were coming from an environmental/sustainability angle. Fair enough. Though if that's your concern I wonder if it's more practical to get people to shift their consumption to more sustainable s
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by bmm6o 12y ago
As "someone who doesn't eat sushi and avoids ordering tuna", how do you even have a dog in this fight? What does it matter to you if other people enjoy sushi (or even supermarket "sushi")?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I'm intrigued enough that I would try it if you had an Android app. What's the business model?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Well, it's obviously path-dependent. The US has fairly strict labeling laws now, but you can probably imagine the arguments for not allowing alcohol content to be advertized could be part of a compromise when you're emerging from
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by bmm6o 12y ago
If you know they have plans to fix it, it would be helpful if you would say so.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
How does the "grace period" work in practice? Is it really a set amount of wall time?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
What's the usual amount of time between filing an S-1 and announcing the details of the IPO?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> They wouldn't be very difficult to tax, you could easily tax them by looking at how much they cost to provide, divided by the number of employees receiving them. Services all have a price tag. I meant more that the second-order ef
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Benefits like those would be very difficult to tax in a practical way, and would definitely have undesired consequences. The better your work environment the more the company withholds from your check? No thanks. Health insurance is entir
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I don't know about LJ, but I get the impression that Reddit released the source just out of the desire to be "good OSS citizens", and not out of any hope that it would directly benefit the company. I would be surprised if th
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Meta question about ranking - why is this article so high? Right now it's #39, 12 pts in 17 hours. It is above an article with 43 points in 16 hours and one with 324 in 22 hours. For a while yesterday it was near the top of the front
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by bmm6o 12y ago
That's the way the market is moving, but that doesn't mean we have to like it or accept it. Society is not some race to the bottom to be the last person to starve to death in the gutter. A lot of hard-won labor victories (overti
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by bmm6o 12y ago
We had one when I was a kid. It really moves the air through the house and can be effective in the right circumstances. Also, it's awesome to fly paper airplanes into.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Read the article, please. My implementation of a liveness analysis scales poorly with function size. It allocates a huge bit matrix (vector of bit sets) for liveness computation. This grows quadratically with the function size, which means
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Sure, you'd want to be compensated for time and risk, but on the other hand you don't want to saddle the company with a ton of debt. It depends on how much money you're talking about. Either way, the point remains that it s
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by bmm6o 12y ago
What does "years of repressed memories and emotions" refer to here? You can't repress memories and emotions you don't have.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It's an uninformed defense of a fundamentally incorrect position; no wonder most people here disagree with it. People here know that a language is syntax and semantics, he seems to be arguing that semantics aren't important, or t
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I agree, that part of the post at least seemed on-topic. I guess it was collateral damage, maybe there's a lesson to be learned. (Note, I didn't up- or down-vote)
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Complaining that it refers to the "wrong" football adds nothing to the discussion.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> "I don't like his position so he should lose his ownership" That's certainly an unbiased translation :rolls eyes:. If you want to have a good-faith debate, you should avoid tendentious re-writes of your interlocu
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by bmm6o 12y ago
The riff predates the song. According to the NPR piece it's been in use to signify oriental culture since at least 1930.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It's not zero-sum. It can be a sound investment for the company and also beneficial to the employee. The company shouldn't tout its good working environment if it positively impacts the bottom line? That's an odd stance.

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