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by colmmacc 2y ago
Massive fan of age and congrats on its success!! On size padding, I know you've patiently listened to me before on this, but I'll always take a chance to advocate for an approach like PURBs ( https://petsymposium.org&#x
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by colmmacc 2y ago
My understanding of encrypted search in FHE is that there can be multiple copies of the same search key, and that search keys aren't simply in-place encrypted versions of themselves - as encrypted fields in a database are - but are map
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by colmmacc 2y ago
The lookup has to come from your phone, which implicitly discloses you. Encrypting the caller-id symmetrically or asymmetrically wouldn't get privacy, because the receiver would have the decryption key. Hashing it, even with a seed, wo
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by colmmacc 2y ago
I think here the query exposes who called who, which isn't as enumerable. By encrypting the query homomorphically on the client, the answering service has no knowledge of what number the lookup is for, and so Apple can't build a d
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by colmmacc 2y ago
I started writing s2n the day after Heartbleed and the first lines of code were for the stuffer interface. A stuffer is a buffer for stuff, and it's like Java buffered I/O for C. You can get a flavor from reading the header: http
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by colmmacc 2y ago
For robust rollback you need an encapsulation of the full dependency closure that can be rolled forwards and backwards atomically. These days containers are a decent enough solution for that. Anything changes means everything changes, at th
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by colmmacc 2y ago
I'm beyond skeptical that this competition regulation prevents Microsoft from say ... having Windows roll back to the last known version of a driver/extension after a failed boot (or several). Or from having a hyper-minimal super-
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by colmmacc 2y ago
Over 20 years ago now I wrote a state machine around readline that meant you could use it as a multi-line editor. Not "multi-line" as in a single line can wrap, but a true editor that lets you move up and down, but is windowless.
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by colmmacc 2y ago
You can do time-based binding. Many TLS/Quic 0RTT take this approach; where the signature is only valid for a second or so. It's not as good as a real strike register, but probably ok for this kind of environment. Of course the ba
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by colmmacc 2y ago
It's one thing for customers phones' wifi issues to be a problem, but it's an even worse problem if the scanner itself needs reliable connectivity. That makes me wonder if there is some kind of delegated deterministic derivat
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by colmmacc 2y ago
The medium is the message. If we detected a modulated signal in gravitational waves, it would be like an Iron Age tribe receiving a 100 foot tall perfectly polished stainless steel statue with ornate inscriptions and pictograms. It would be
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by colmmacc 2y ago
My first year of working at AWS was in the "DUB1" site, which was part of the Digital Hub (a tech and incubator space). As it happened ... Amazon's small office was in William Sealy Gosset's old laboratory, right beside
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by colmmacc 2y ago
The Shannon limit is constant if you assume reasonable but idealized SNR values for the medium, and gives you a real "law of physics" upper limit ... typically still many orders of magnitude beyond what we can transmit today. But
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by colmmacc 2y ago
This is engagement farming, pure and simple, and has ensured that a very very broad audience is now aware that OpenAI has this kind of functionality. Even if there ends up being some kind of monetary settlement ... I bet this works out as a
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by colmmacc 2y ago
One of Feynman's lesser known works is his lectures on computation. https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Frontier... Feynman is not as expert on the topic as he is on his core research, but his gift for
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by colmmacc 2y ago
The iPad updates are 'meh', as is the whole line-up. This comes after the Vision Pro launches to a fizzle, and resorting to a massive share buy back to hold the stock value. In the last week I've seen more articles about Tim
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by colmmacc 2y ago
I'm probably breaking HN etiquette here because this is only barely related but your comment reminded me of the time that Gayle King asked Ron Johnson, who had taken over as CEO at JCPenney after building the Apple retail store networ
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by colmmacc 2y ago
I was a long time listener and donor to KUOW. My intention was to support local radio, hopefully get some more community pieces, and so on ... and that matched the donation drive pitches. When they decided to use their cash to empire build
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by colmmacc 2y ago
Twin Perfect has over five hours of Twin Peaks explanation on YouTube ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM (there are follow on videos too). As a long time Twin Peaks viewer and Wrapped in Plastic subscriber, it
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by colmmacc 2y ago
Many artists do feel that all interpretations are equally valid and that they don't want to stomp on that. But when Lynch expands on this, he often connects it to mystery . Most of his works have a strong sense of surrealism but there
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by colmmacc 3y ago
"Blind Man's Bluff" is a great book about the work of espionage submarines and includes many anecdotes from other boats that were based at Kitsap. Tapping cables is definitely something that's been done through history,
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by colmmacc 3y ago
As a former two-time Tesla owner, and current VW ID.4 owner, the R2 looks like a really good car. I wish it supported Apple Car Play, but it looks awesome enough that I might overcome that. Rivian are also teasing an even more compact R3:
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by colmmacc 3y ago
I've always assumed that the number of SKUs is so that retailers can have a (relatively) unique model and avoid price comparisons. Like mattresses.
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by colmmacc 3y ago
It's just a dumb mistake. All it takes is a "next layer header length" field. It would have been very simple. You don't even really need that, and as proof, take ICMP ... which was designed as part of IP ... actually doe
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by colmmacc 3y ago
You're not shooting the messenger. I signed off on this strategy. In our case, quite a number of customers lock down their IAM policies with IP address based permissions. They have rules like "This account can be used only from ou
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by colmmacc 3y ago
$ dig AAAA ec2.us-east-1.api.aws ... 2600:1f70:8000:a0:41d7:f53b:34f4:5798 The EC2 API is available over IPv6. AWS services that support IPv6 for their APIs use the .aws TLD and the SDKs and CLIs know how to invoke that wh
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by colmmacc 3y ago
Another nice reason is that AWS-LC includes rewrites and optimizations that make it faster than alternatives, especially on Graviton.
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by colmmacc 3y ago
You're right, I'm being misled by the United photo. Even if all 4 of those nuts were loose and the bolts came out, there'd still be the upper holding bolts on the plug itself.
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by colmmacc 3y ago
An important piece of context is the bolts found loose on a United plane: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fm... there are three visible on the right in that photo. These bolts don't have a cot
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by colmmacc 3y ago
You say to use SHA2, but TFA says to use SHA3 or Blake. I think your recommendation is the better one, but I feel like teasing out why because it's interesting. Firstly ... the NIST recommendation TFA links doesn't just recommend

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