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by debatem1 7y ago
So, I don't understand this perspective at all. Help me get it. It seems to me that speaking a language is a skill. I know from my own experience trying to learn a second language that it isn't an easy skill for many people to acq
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by debatem1 7y ago
Hmm? With CTR you usually just want to fill a long buffer with the appropriate counters and then shove it all through the accelerator. The resulting stream can then be used until exhausted by whatever higher level primitive you're work
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm super confused. Let's back up a step. Most accelerators come in one of a few flavors: 1/ They implement the expensive parts of a primitive for you and let you chain them together. This is how AES-NI and the ARMv8 crypto e
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by debatem1 7y ago
The original claim was that these parts were rare because of ITAR. They aren't rare, and ITAR doesn't have much to do with where they're present or absent. Shifting the argument to a different point about a specific accelerat
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by debatem1 7y ago
Having helped build a product based on Google cloud print I can only say I'm not sad. At the time it had a ton of political backing, and so we were kind of compelled to use it despite the fact that 1/ it was a nightmare from an au
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by debatem1 7y ago
Not that I know of, but they're so cagey on details for those parts I wouldn't be surprised if it did and they just hadn't documented it. Certainly lots of quasi-similar boards like the espressobin have them (which I like bet
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by debatem1 7y ago
The RPi 4 SoC does have crypto accelerators, specifically for HDCP. It does not have the ARMv8 crypto extensions.
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by debatem1 7y ago
This is just moving the goalposts. First it was "crypto accelerators are rare because ITAR", now it's "crypto accelerators are rare because they don't buy you much". Neither is true. Crypto accelerators are ex
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by debatem1 7y ago
This just isn't true. Nearly every SoC you can buy today has hardware accelerators in it, from STM32s up to Xeons. You have to be looking at really tiny, generally pretty old micros before you literally don't have any. On top of t
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by debatem1 7y ago
The underlying idea is differential fuzzing. It's useful and can often be surprisingly effective, but is pretty obvious in application. It's disappointing to see the author bury it under such obtuse language.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Given how difficult it is for a small band to make money, I don't think anyone who really cares about music should be telling folks to stay home.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Note that I didn't say that. I said that there were multiple reasons why it wasn't "insane" that people play live music loudly, and that if you wanted to cuddle the speakers you would need to wear earplugs. I also noted
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by debatem1 7y ago
I mean, this is true of most products. I don't get a suit of chainmail with the purchase of a kitchen knife, after all. Responsibility for not cutting myself-- whether that involves protective equipment or not-- is on me. Besides, I&#x
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by debatem1 7y ago
Don't buy the crappy foam ones, especially at the price they sell them for at venues. They make good ones that are intended for exactly this use case (earasers, eargasm, etc etc etc) and do the job really well. You can often find the
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by debatem1 7y ago
I do exactly the same thing with the earasers and some of the other brands, but haven't tried hearos. Just my two bits, but I don't think the different brands are all that different. Some seem a bit bigger or smaller, some cost mo
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by debatem1 7y ago
You should probably try larger venues, where reason #3 is on your side. The problem with small venues is that often you really need a lot of volume on guitars, vocals, etc to get the mix right with the drums, and then there isn't any s
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm a fan of metal and small venues (something of a double whammy for getting too much volume in one place) and I just can't recommend earasers and similar enough. Literally life-changing. I often wind up going to see live music t
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by debatem1 7y ago
No, it isn't. There are three related reasons why. First, we don't exclusively experience a concert through our ears. The reason people use words like "thumping" to describe bass is because it's felt as much as hear
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm a tech worker and I'll be voting Warren. Technology really does have the power to change the world and the lives of the people in it profoundly. It is important to recognize that some of those changes are areas of public inter
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by debatem1 7y ago
I assume that virtue signalling works much like normal POSIX signalling, except that a process must already be woke to send or receive such a signal. The implications for power management are troubling, to say the least.
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by debatem1 7y ago
A lot of the time I agree. I don't think I've ever had a need to opine on the merits or demerits of the filibuster at work. But "should we deploy in China, knowing we will have to hand over data on possible dissidents?"
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm on board with this right up until the end. I'm a security guy and have been a privacy person. My job is often to advocate for the customer over the immediate desires of my employer. There's no pretending that doesn't
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by debatem1 7y ago
I had exactly the same reaction. But,I will say that my creality has been a bucket of pain, to the point where I almost exclusively use my prusa these days. So perhaps that's reason to hope this is more than just a crappy bargain basem
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by debatem1 7y ago
Are you advocating for remilitarizing Germany, an American invasion of Europe, or a second amendment right to Hoovers? In any event, definitely don't vacuum up ammo. It's bad for the vacuum at a minimum.
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by debatem1 7y ago
This is a difficult argument to counter; for instance, are you sure that signal can't decrypt your messages? If so, do you remain sure knowing that they can update the app? As a security person I really can't think of any service
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by debatem1 7y ago
I think this advice is given in the right spirit, but is potentially completely wrong. I agree that it's extremely important to work in high-performing teams, or at least teams that are really good at something. That's true whethe
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by debatem1 7y ago
I feel like anything that can throw more than a few pounds nearly 1000 feet has to be good for something. I kind of want to make one out of square section steel now-- I'm guessing that at 20 feet and 2000 or so pounds you could get qui
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by debatem1 7y ago
It's basically an ad hoc attestation mechanism. In your case, it would be as if the TSA hashed your hard drive and you had already been compelled to give them a copy of it which they could analyze at their leisure. They could only tell
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by debatem1 7y ago
Isn't that possibly self-explanatory? He could play the lower level because it maximizes his profits. Better players might bluff better or mask their tells.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Glass curtain walls are many things-- lightweight, easy to prefabricate, etc. You can make an excellent claim that they belong in the repertoire of any builder. But to claim they represent progress or civilization is just silly. The point o

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