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by brohee 10y ago
It does say. Small staff of 1.5 people paid by philanthropist...
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by brohee 10y ago
Rejecting addresses with a plus is to me a strong incompetence clue, so unless somehow unavoidable between two choices I chose the one allowing a '+'. Sometime I even fire a mail explaining people rejecting '+' how and w
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by brohee 10y ago
The article could have been better citing RFC 2550 "Y10K and Beyond" which despite being a joke (April 1st) RFC provides a completely universal date format (can describe any date present and future, with as much precision as you w
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by brohee 10y ago
Apple is not paying VAT, it's collecting it. VAT is explicitely paid by the end user...
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by brohee 10y ago
Some gems in here SD2520 Introduction to Database and XML with jQuery 4.5 credit hours This course introduces fundamental concepts of database technology and applications. Topics include object-oriented relational databas
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by brohee 10y ago
Astronomy is actually the field where amateurs make the most useful contributions, and amateurs/pro collaborations are actually a thing. Close enough to astrophysics?
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by brohee 10y ago
I'd wager that the goal wasn't so much speed (which is very rarely the issue) but security. It was way too hard to program a constant time AES implementation without AES-NI.
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by brohee 10y ago
IIRC Curve25519 was introduced in 2005, possibly earlier but the earliest reference a cursory search finds is https://cr.yp.to/ecdh/curve25519-20051115.pdf from November 2005. This "analysis" just isn't
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by brohee 10y ago
I didn't see numbers, but the two sides looks like they'd only be about as wide as a car lane, so not as wide as a tram lane, and the vehicule is possibly higher capacity than a tram...
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by brohee 10y ago
To add to that, it's likely a huge performance gain because doing it on the stack instead of allocating on the heap improves cache locality quite a bit.
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by brohee 10y ago
The SIMD crate is still unstable so not usable with the stable compiler, that's the only reason. It should take very little time to convert it to Rust.
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by brohee 10y ago
> wouldn't 20 y/o open source software as prevalent as FreeType have optimized those code paths? The tradeoffs that made the most sense 20 years ago are not those that would lead to the fastest implementation on current hardwar
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by brohee 10y ago
DB exist on more than servers, e.g. in an embedded environment... You find sqlite in the oddest places... One could imagine finding mongodb there too, with bonus data corruption...
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by brohee 10y ago
Well the Austro-Hungarian leadership sure lost its power, and they were some of the most responsible for the war.
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by brohee 10y ago
Well, I would say : - practical (using a manageable amount of paper, and/or common items like a chess board, playing cards or dominoes...) - fast enough (encrypt say at least one word per minute, pretty sure manual RC4 doesn't qua
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by brohee 10y ago
You could likely be fired for sending confidential company material to IBM. You only have their word that they don't abuse it...
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by brohee 10y ago
Oh AFAIK there is only one and you get to see quite too much of it considering you cannot really fight it, and the running from hiding place to hiding place...
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by brohee 10y ago
As much as I loved the art direction, which I can only qualify as terrific, I greatly disliked the "running from closet to closet" gameplay...
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by brohee 10y ago
Right before the theft they would have said "off course", so sure their code was perfect... They made it abundantly clear the truth was in the code, and that men justice was an obsolete concept.
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by brohee 10y ago
Any (presumably buoyant) entity actually offering that possibility?
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by brohee 10y ago
Compcert doesn't qualify as a large program?
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by brohee 10y ago
Doesn't require a Google login for me...
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by brohee 10y ago
Surely you mean the US and the UK? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... http://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-forgotten-security-guarantee-t... France wasn't a signatory.
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by brohee 10y ago
The motor is behind the driver on a Smart car...
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by brohee 10y ago
Handover is a solved problem, so not that much of an issue. The article skims on some technical limitation tho, IIRC the number of simultaneous calls that could happen simultaneously in the continental US was in the low thousands, dunno if
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by brohee 10y ago
Google Play Store says between 50 and 100M installations...
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by brohee 10y ago
The scale at which Uber operate is laughably small compared to real logistic companies like Maersk...
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by brohee 10y ago
Only in Europe maybe. The Millau Viaduct ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct ) was also on time and on budget, despite needing a few groundbreaking advances... Without public money even...
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by brohee 10y ago
>> no less than 27 power cycles were required to get all systems functioning between initial startup and takeoff. These power cycles varied in degree – from “cold iron” resets, where the aircraft had to be shut down and then restarted
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by brohee 11y ago
In many disciplines, authors do the typesetting, the publisher only really handle the peer review coordination (reviewers themselves are not paid)...

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