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by goalieca 6y ago
Trained scientists are capable of reading any article with a healthy dose of skepticism and does not need to be reminded of this for any paper. All papers have limitations and just because it is published even in a prestigious journal does
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by goalieca 6y ago
I hit _vouch_ for this article because as much as I think we’re all tired of covid articles, this is really about the topic of censorship, cancel culture, big tech/social media, and the politicization of science and academia. I think t
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by goalieca 6y ago
That’s more than I ever got. One day I was waiting outside my supervisors office to ask a question and he had left the country for a month or so. I didn’t even know.
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by goalieca 6y ago
Unlike a zero day, there still remain a number of important factors (haha) to actually break a large number. But crypto systems are special because they rely on trust. The mere sign of weakness is sufficient to kill that trust. A sufficient
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by goalieca 6y ago
I am not an economist, but I know that a deflation can be bad for the economy. People are encouraged to wait rather than spend because the price will be lower if you can hold out a little longer. This can become a positive feedback loop whi
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by goalieca 6y ago
There’s really no true seed unless you have some sort of quantum system. Many are based on sources of noise and are actually somewhat slow. Small IoT devices often have poor generation. A fast source of high quality numbers available to eve
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by goalieca 6y ago
It hits -20 all the time where I live and many/most people in the neighbourhood park outside. Modern cars with healthy batteries absolutely will start.
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by goalieca 6y ago
There were no subreddits. There was a sizeable programmer user base that was somewhat academic about Haskell and lisp. I was a grad student at the time and I learned a lot about Functional programming. I remember the political discussion w
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by goalieca 6y ago
Survey monkey is completely broken without js. I did a survey this afternoon on it. Considering it looks like a few radio buttons and simple forms.. I just don’t understand.
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by goalieca 6y ago
std::shared_ptr<void> foo(nullptr, [&bar] (void*) { printf(":) %s\n", bar); }); the downside is having to write nullptr instead of just the closure. Something like this really should be part of the standard.
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by goalieca 6y ago
Browsing a directory of essentially static artifacts is really slow in nextcloud. Git isn’t the best place to store binaries and assets and we tried nextcloud as an alternative since we are already hosting it.
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by goalieca 6y ago
I’ve had a miserable time with Putting Google in a container and switching over SSO.
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by goalieca 6y ago
I’m in awe of something like Debian where entire mirrors have been served on ancient computers with reasonable performance. Perhaps there is a configuration issue, but at my work it is one of the slowest services aside from jira. I actually
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by goalieca 6y ago
> You can't compare plain SHA256 with PBKDF2. But you can. It’s literally just N times the hash. Typically the number of iterations is chosen to be somewhat slow on the server that derives it. But a specially designed rig can execut
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by goalieca 6y ago
Elliptic curves are also quite simple. Computing a public key boils down to point addition with a modulus. The private key is a byte string and the quality of it only depends on the random generator. It’s trivially fast to generate 32 bytes
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by goalieca 6y ago
> RSA is half a century old and it's still up to date by modern standards. In fact nobody has came up with anything better. RSA is currently a minefield of gotchas and few security companies even get it right. Just generating a good
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by goalieca 6y ago
Pbkdf2 itself is not the best for the same reasons why sha256 was listed. I do agree that argon2 is better.
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by goalieca 6y ago
Unicef and others have compiled reports but they have gotten very little press coverage for instance. There's many stats and models there. >An additional 6.7 million children under 5 could suffer from wasting in the next 12 months.
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by goalieca 6y ago
> We can make up little myths about how we romantics are obviously more passionate, work harder because it's our dream, are more deeply engaged, and so on. This comment stuck out for me. There’s no shortage of people who “love their
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by goalieca 6y ago
I’ve used ddg for about 5 years. I find it works about as well as Google. I think Google works worse than it did about 10-15 years ago and that this is just a reflection of the internet itself becoming crappier.
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by goalieca 6y ago
Many of our homes are heated with gas furnaces and gas water heaters. Works well into -40. I never even thought got about it.
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by goalieca 6y ago
> Even though the environment of r/unpopularopinion encourages users to freely express their opinion, the dominant population of this community is young white males, and only the opinions representing them are supported by general u
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by goalieca 6y ago
Reddit also has purchased up/downvotes (through click-farms/bots), opaque moderation, and the real-time public display of these promote mobs and groupthink even if it were actually organic. I don't think for a second their al
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by goalieca 6y ago
So next step for cloudflare is to provide a cloud.
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by goalieca 6y ago
Windows font rendering is just awful. It still feels so like 20 years ago with XP running cleartype on a low dpi monitor
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by goalieca 6y ago
Reddit is a tool for promoting groupthink and is quite easily controlled. Some of it is organic where the mob mentality is grown through upvoting and downvoting independent thoughts and unpopular opinions. Some of it is brigading and bots f
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by goalieca 6y ago
Reddit seems even better than Facebook at owning your mind.
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by goalieca 6y ago
My old isp used to inject ads and other warnings into plain http traffic. I think it’s generally considered a good posture to be defensive and have privacy as default. Time has shown that information is power no matter how boring you think
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by goalieca 6y ago
I remember that gentoo site. At one point I installed gentoo precisely because there was a seemingly huge difference in Pentium 3 code vs i386 that every other distro seemed to be tuned for. Also cutting out bloat seemed to relieve ram pres
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by goalieca 6y ago
Strongly disagree. The laws may be unjust and immoral and civil disobedience may just be the cure. How many were arrested and imprisoned during the civil rights movement or to abolish the slavery? Democracy is very messy and people who over

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