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841.
by cbsmith 3y ago
Eternal September.
842.
by cbsmith 3y ago
The chips it is being compared to are a year older. If there wasn't an advantage somewhere, it'd be an absolute failure.
843.
by cbsmith 3y ago
> Yeah this isn’t beating Tesla to anything. They beat Tesla to being certified in California as Level 3, with restrictions.
844.
by cbsmith 3y ago
I find it weird that anyone thinks even the people deciding to do the layoffs think they are a solution. They are a consequence of a problem.
845.
by cbsmith 3y ago
Like Go, but for landlords. ;-)
846.
by cbsmith 3y ago
I was very much wondering where that valuation came from, and this was the only rational explanation I could come up with. What causes me to scratch my head here is that the trespasser isn't the one causing that drop in valuation. It&#
847.
by cbsmith 3y ago
I think I still don't understand. Can you explain why it is not a hypothetical problem on a deterministic virtual machine?
848.
by cbsmith 3y ago
> It's best to think of this as an OS/distro detail; if you can reasonably expect /dev/urandom to give you insecure bits, your distro has a vulnerability. Isn't that more a function of hardware than software? The
849.
by cbsmith 3y ago
It was indeed a little... bizarre.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I'm definitely not saying what /dev/random does makes sense. ;-)
851.
by cbsmith 3y ago
But /dev/urandom will provide you with random numbers even if initialization has not completed, whereas /dev/random will not.
852.
by cbsmith 3y ago
I think I understand what you were getting at by "there is no such thing as running out of entropy". Would you say there is such thing as "not having adequate entropy"?
853.
by cbsmith 3y ago
I just checked the source code, and it appears that the entropy pool is alive and well and that /dev/random still waits for enough entropy to collect in the pool before providing more data for consumption. https://githu
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Hear hear. There is, indeed, no such thing as running out of entropy in a modern PRNG's state. Yes, of course. PRNG's are about producing random data from a seed. But /dev/random & /dev/urandom isn&#x2
855.
by cbsmith 3y ago
What do you interpret the output of `cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail` to mean?
856.
by cbsmith 3y ago
I'll have to look at the talk, but I've had first hand experience with that behaviour from /dev/random. Perhaps it has changed over time.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> This article fails to explain why someone should explicitly reach for an RNG over PRNG. There aren't a lot of cases where you need to explicitly reach for a non-PRNG over a PRNG, and if you do need it, you most likely know it. Wha
858.
by cbsmith 3y ago
In fairness, this reasoning would suggest that any new language developed 40 years younger than C and 30 years younger than C++, that incorporates advances in computer language design that C/C++ cannot adopt without breaking backwards
859.
by cbsmith 3y ago
...and to clarify, you aren't addressing a claim that I made. You're making up an entirely different claim that is unrelated to my statement. You are contending that these companies don't know their operational needs and cons
860.
by cbsmith 3y ago
> I was addressing the claim that you made. So is it safe to say then that you don't think tech companies fell for the forever fallacy?
861.
by cbsmith 3y ago
Companies generally don't require more engineers, ever. However, if there is demand for your product, engineers are a good way to make it better. If you don't make it better, that demand will go to a vendor who does. Either way, i
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Fortunately there's no industry around nutrition.
863.
by cbsmith 3y ago
No. You can have dramatic gains in revenue, increased sales, increased subscribers, etc., and less 'available cash'. What you do have is more demand.
864.
by cbsmith 3y ago
Sorry, that should read "That's a very different delusion from thinking there is something there that isn't."
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> That seems like a big claim for which I haven't seen any evidence. Umm... the entire basis for the article was that there was a belief that market conditions at the time would remain true "forever". That's a very di
866.
by cbsmith 3y ago
> Because it doesn't create unnecessary suffering for the unfortunate people who find themselves out of a job because some executive over-allocated for a particular role or department. Unnecessary suffering is going to happen either
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Hopefully, as HTTP3 picks up steam, this will stop happening. But yeah, there's no amount of innovation that can't be undone by a motivated adversary. ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> The only thing I know about prisons in the US is from what I’ve seen in movies so I’m shocked to read that inmates need to pay, per page, to access and send content like blog posts, newspapers, books, music and movies. I'm curious
869.
by cbsmith 3y ago
As an old guy, I'm really marveling out mistaken "memories" of the past that pervade our culture.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yup. It took a while for X to win out though.

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