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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Where else are you going to go? I don't know, but I'd start with getting buy-in from any interested country with an emphasis on not too much from any one. Where it's physically located is irrelevant, the issue is the cle
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by diogenes4 3y ago
The issue is not AES of course, it's the NIST being associated with a government that can't be trusted when it comes to developing reliable and trustworthy encryption schemes. They've clearly demonstrated this time and time a
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by diogenes4 3y ago
This is all nice and well, but it doesn't actually address the inherent untrustworthiness of a state-associated (and known to be penetrated) organization.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Because your options are Beijing or DC What kind of mental contortions do you have to go through to think like this? It comes off like gung-ho ignorance at best, and reeks of some of the most obvious american military propaganda I&#x27
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Why does anyone take a US-based seriously as a standards authority? It seems like a transparent conflict of interest.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Sorry, opposite of what? You seemed to have inserted causation where none is implied.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> It's obviously true for prestigious universities This is a hard argument to make when the use of the gentleman's c is more widespread the more prestigious the school is. Driven students certainly attend prestigious institutio
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> They need to establish market dominance quickly It's not clear there's any more of a long-term market for this any more than there is for compilers. I'm kind of scratching my head trying to figure out where this assumpti
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> It's obvious major regulation was needed, and not just for pedestrians. Wait why would your impulse be to regulate pedestrians at all? The street doesn't even seem that dangerous without high-speed vehicles.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> The wonderful part about AI is that the whole world’s problems are up for grabs. Most of the world's problems aren't technological, unfortunately for us in tech. There's little it can do against the momentum of capital t
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> The "cut" you're getting is dwelling in a building where you own near zero liability for its upkeep No, the liability is rent. I'd happily take upkeep just to avoid a parasitic middleman that adds no value. People g
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Organizations that insist on using workflows like git send-mail and mailing lists not only drive away a significant number of potential contributors, but they also form a weirdly religious culture that fetishizes needlessly painful pro
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> I have thought about using Google Meet to record my desktop, I've heard the editor in that is pretty good, and you can stop, start, trim/edit & share in Google Drive or share further with a link. Surely loom can't be
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by diogenes4 3y ago
YMMV of course but it is straightforwardly useful in my experience.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Microsoft and Intel could literally do this today on existing hardware by trapping unsupported instructions and then having the OS scheduler promote the process but they don't because it takes so stupidly long and requires an imme
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Seems more daoist than related to enumerating steps of an algorithm.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Isn't buying a house with money you don't have just describing the institution of mortgages? And yes, I would love to own a house. I just can't get the mortgage without meeting irrelevant and onerous criteria.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Most people can;t afford mortgage. In most places they'll rent you a $500/month place but won't let you take a mortgage for $500/month Nit, but they can afford the mortgage fine, the problem is they're denied i
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by diogenes4 3y ago
It's not really possible in today's austere political climate, but I think the parks should be free for everyone. Especially as entrance passes to many parks are already rationed, the economic benefits of continuing to charge are
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Or are the people who are predisposed to living a stressful life with fast ageing more likely to choose privately rented homes, and taking away that option wouldn't actually help them? Why would people living stressful lives choos
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> In the US, the latter is virtually nonexistent. I generally agree with this, but it's worth noting the places that do have public housing have notably lower homeless rates when compared against drug use rates. Furthermore, most
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Turns out that paying off someone's mortgage without getting any of the cut really sucks.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Apple just released a phone that does 2000 nits outdoors, and similarly the MBP can dip into its 1000 nit sustained HDR brightness rating for SDR content if in direct sunlight I imagine that the goal is to have the sunlight itself prov
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> It seems the belief that a conflict with China is inevitable is becoming more pervasive. An actual kinetic conflict would result in a complete destruction of the world economy and WWIII. You can't take these people seriously witho
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by diogenes4 3y ago
This is a well-discussed issue with c memes, not a widespread issue. Even in c, jump tables are a safer alternative.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> I have a funny feeling we won't learn to treasure our own planet until we find out how much work it is to live on another. Optimistic! I have a feeling we won't learn to treasure our own planet until we fail to reach anothe
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> The GPL/LGPL isn’t IP in the same sense as Disney’s character portfolio or corporate patent trolling though. Sure, these licensing terms are meant to protect against said evils. They would also be unnecessary in a world that disca
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Not really relevant to networking, but I firmly believe hash tables (and hashing) had a concrete starting point within recorded history, which appears to be January 1953.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> derivative work What a ridiculous concept. IP needs to die an ugly death.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> it's sources don't quite back up the claims. I'll admit that FEMA isn't exactly cited in a way that's possible to corroborate, but presumably they're estimating a worst-case scenario and not a median- or

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