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by detrites 3y ago
pos[x, y, z]?
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by detrites 3y ago
The problem is they have been tracked on radar, multiple times and even the same event independently on different radar as well as other instrumentation. Doesn't prove Greek Gods, but possibly not Earth's tilt in this case.
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by detrites 3y ago
So, you think it's impossible for the US to have maintained the integrity of any of its classification levels above public, for more than a few months, and also impossible it could have done so for decades for anything secret at all?
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by detrites 3y ago
This seems like a bad take. If aliens can traverse lightspeed distances with sufficient ease to stop here, it seems trivial they'd also be able to analyse comparatively primitive sensor technology and navigate out of range to avoid ide
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by detrites 3y ago
Make the landing page a clean experience with no alteration of standard scroll behaviour. It's unusable for me, so as a demonstration the first thing it tells me is: I can't trust any of it will function well. Instead, were I to d
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by detrites 3y ago
For me, and I guess for programmers in general, as presumably anticipated by the author, the concept of floating point numbers as a pure construct without having to cram them into n bits was easy to grasp, even relaxing. Perhaps that was th
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by detrites 3y ago
Well if you know of a simple way to target - reliably - a high-quality crypto lib that can access any underlying OS entropy source to generate a decently random number, with WASM, please inform us of it here; it'd be great to know. Tho
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by detrites 3y ago
Thank you, where did you find that page? I'm still looking. The github at least is linked at the articles end and has this: https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor/releases
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by detrites 3y ago
I don't think it does change things. There's only going to be a certain percent of people who want to do bad things. It would fluctuate surely, but historically it doesn't appear availability of new technology affects it much
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by detrites 3y ago
Swap out the "twitter.com" in the URL for a nitter instance of your choice to see it sans recommendations, ads etc: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
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by detrites 3y ago
So then why wouldn't they do a better job, to avoid detection as "propaganda to suggest that your enemies do propaganda"? Seems likely it's propaganda to suggest that your enemies do "propaganda to suggest that your
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by detrites 3y ago
The parent is correct, and maybe we're somewhat at cross-purposes here. I'm not criticising the model, I'm criticising the way it's presented. I find it's common in older texts to present a model as if it is reali
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by detrites 3y ago
Baha! What? It's a topic I'm interested in, like everything I comment on. I'm not sure how that's "working really hard". Interests I choose to engage in are a joy and relaxation. Is it not that way for you?
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by detrites 3y ago
Developers should never end up in a situation where they feel the best cryptography solution is to "roll their own". That's likely what happened here. And the situation needs to change. It doesn't matter where in the sta
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by detrites 3y ago
Sure, but major banks failing one after the other might not exactly promote confidence in ones bank deposits.
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by detrites 3y ago
Plenty people would absolutely grab a folded-in-half iPad out of the trash. Scavenging parts for one (eg, a flash chip...). The drilling in this case is to destroy data, not to stop someone investigating. There can be great legitimate reaso
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by detrites 3y ago
Yes, a terrible decision - but still a decision left up to any developer in a similar position - which, with the trend to WASMify things may well happen again in other projects, until it's better addressed at the source. Honestly, it&#
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by detrites 3y ago
Which bank? SVB? FRB? You raise an important point though: crypto is not for the faint-hearted. "Be your own bank" has exactly that much responsibility attached. Many don't fully appreciate that.
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by detrites 3y ago
The flaw here was in a dependency introduced by targeting WASM, and could apply to any project of any kind relying on random number generation for a cryptographic purpose. It is not a "crypto-currency" specific problem.
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by detrites 3y ago
Well, that's a bold move.
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by detrites 3y ago
I started this comment thread, so I'm quite confident I know what it's about. It's specifically about the fact that the article makes no mention of a simple, important aspect of the underlying reality it's modelling. It&
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by detrites 3y ago
Sure. Let's meet again on this site in about 7 or 8 billion years, maybe 9. I'm sure it'll become crystal clear.
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by detrites 3y ago
I don't know. This is an English-speaking site. From the Cambridge Dictionary definition of the English word "bible": > a book, magazine, etc. that gives important advice and information about a particular subject: Vogue
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by detrites 3y ago
Well, now you know how not-religious people feel about "their" word.
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by detrites 3y ago
> in reality
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by detrites 3y ago
Yes.
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by detrites 3y ago
> Satellite orbits can be any of the four conic sections. This seemed to leave out something important. All "orbits" are in reality, spirals. Away, or toward things they're orbiting. Seems like it should be made clear at t
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by detrites 3y ago
Doesn't the specific "pad standpoint," qualifier at the beginning of the statement mean to make clear that the pad will be ready in 6-8 weeks, not the rocket? Otherwise, why prefix with it?
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by detrites 3y ago
Models in this context are just a big list of numbers. The numbers will have a native "type", for example 32-bit floats. These are numbers like 0.7373663777 or -1.000003663. The 32-bit float type can represent something like 4.3 b
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by detrites 3y ago
You both seem right. While the base criticism is correct, the emotion attached to it is only an impediment. Python+ML seems apparently in a "move fast and break things" phase. We should expect rough edges and be calm if we're

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