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by daeken 14y ago
The truly sad thing about the state of console security for the past few generations is that as they lock them down more, it becomes significantly easier to play pirated games than to use homebrew content. With both the Xbox 360 and the Wi
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Microsoft's Crazy IllumiRoom: More Details About a Real-Life Holodeck(gizmodo.com)
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by daeken 14y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but Kerbal Space Program is the best piece of software I've seen in the past 10 years, hands down. I've been playing it for the past few months and I'm absolutely hooked; it's Lego for space -- how can you go wrong
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by daeken 14y ago
I'm amazed that this runs wholly on the CPU. Seriously tempted to build a WebGL demo using similar concepts, with the addition of lenses and other optical geometry. It'd be tough to beat this in terms of the sheer cool factor, though.
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by daeken 14y ago
It's a lambda. Saying x => foo(x) is the same as lambda x: foo(x) from Python.
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by daeken 14y ago
Er, it's an open source HTML5 game that runs perfectly in Chrome (just spent the last 20 minutes playing it in Chrome on OS X). What does this have to do with IE?
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by daeken 14y ago
Really interesting article on using information theory to narrow down suspects of crime: http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity
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by daeken 14y ago
> It’s up to you whether you’re confident enough in the passphrase’s complexity to continue trusting any credit-card numbers you’ve used with Linode. I trust Linode's security and their password complexity is almost certainly sufficient
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by daeken 14y ago
> I get that serious emulators invest effort in making dispatch fast, and that a naive for/switch loop is not the fastest way to dispatch instructions If you're the kind of masochist that enjoys optimizing dispatch loops (hi, you're not
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by daeken 14y ago
> it stands Magic The Gathering Online Exchange, a website where you can trade children's playing cards. I'm not sure if you did it to drive the point or not, but Magic: The Gathering is by no means "for children". The average age of p
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by daeken 14y ago
Even if it's 100km off from Tehran, it's still quite far off from the UK, where it was originally stolen.
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by daeken 14y ago
> references to the P in LAMP being Python or PHP LAMP originated with 'PHP' as the 'P'. It's also by far the most common, for better or worse; 1.4M hits for 'linux apache mysql php' versus 50k for 'linux apache mysql perl' on Google
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by daeken 14y ago
You can do this with bit field structs in C: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node13.html Super handy when you're dealing with oddly packed int representations and such.
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by daeken 14y ago
Oh, wow, I've never seen the variant that breaks ECC; that's really quite awesome. Time to read some papers!
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by daeken 14y ago
> Everyone already knew going into the vacuum of space was bad. That line of thinking leads to a complete lack of actual science. As the article points out: going into the vacuum of space is nowhere near as bad as is conventionally t
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by daeken 14y ago
In Chrome, go to about:gpu, and look for the line: WebGL: Hardware accelerated If you don't see that, then WebGL isn't enabled for you, probably due to a blacklisted card/driver. That's the most likely cause.
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by daeken 14y ago
People tend to equate asymmetric crypto with the likes of RSA; systems where the efficient factoring of large numbers is a death sentence. But there's a whole slew of other asymmetric cryptosystems without such properties, e.g. elliptic-cu
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by daeken 14y ago
Wikipedia has a fairly decent list of quantum algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm Shor's algorithm being one of the standard examples of where quantum computing completely crushes classical computing.
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by daeken 14y ago
The post was indeed edited; the original quote is in my parent comment. > Certainly many are, if not most. Otherwise, why are they buying bitcoin? To store value? To buy drugs and passports? Not, I suspect, to buy electronics, for which
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by daeken 14y ago
That's a large part of why I'm thinking it'll happen. There's something "different" about $200 when people talk about the rise of Bitcoin; that number just makes people uncomfortable. I don't think it'll rise much beyond that, this time a
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by daeken 14y ago
The time estimation is based on the number -- just based on the rate of increase, I'm probably not far off. The number, though, is complete guesswork, purely based on discussions I've had with people about BTC's current rise; no evidence i
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by daeken 14y ago
ASIC miners won't make it out into the world fast enough to drop the average time between blocks dramatically. At least, it seems very unlikely to me; the difficulty will just slowly go up to go along with the new mining power. (For those
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by daeken 14y ago
That sentiment may be common, but it's by no means universal. Even if I suspected a crash were coming (which I do -- end of this month or early next month, after it hits $200-225), that wouldn't affect the fact that I'm buying, simply the
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by daeken 14y ago
> We are convinced that nobody is buying Bitcoins right now to sell it for a profit before the music stops (in which case it would be a bubble). I'm not sure where they got this impression. I've been buying BTC explicitly for this purp
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by daeken 14y ago
You have this completely backwards. MD5 is safe (relatively speaking) as the hash part of a signature as there are no known viable pre-image attacks against it at this point. For password storage, it's broken simply because it's fast , a
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by daeken 14y ago
IKVM runs JVM code on .NET, not the other way around.
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by daeken 14y ago
I was in CT (just outside NYC) when Sandy hit. My area was out of power for about a week, and I remember sitting outside on our porch just after the storm started dying down, looking around and seeing... nothing. I hadn't realized just ho
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by daeken 14y ago
I've been using Checkvist for everything task-wise for years; can't recommend it highly enough. The API is also super easy to use, if you want to integrate it into your dashboard and such.
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by daeken 14y ago
I think you're completely missing the point of asm.js. It's not possible to build small portions of your app with this really (no JS object access, no strings, etc), and it's not intended for that either way. It's really just a way of com
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by daeken 14y ago
> For that we will always need a great native system + very fast native programming languages (like C\C++) When you're talking about graphics, this really isn't true at all. 99% of what matters there happens on the GPU, not CPU, and th

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