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by grog454 3y ago
My claim as that we don't need to cover math before we tackle cryptography, and my reasoning is that there is more than one way to approach a topic. Here's a discussion of cryptography that has 0 occurrences of "ring"
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by grog454 3y ago
> Part 1 > Mathematical Background > Before we tackle cryptography we need to cover some basic facts from mathematics. Nit: we really don't. This reminds me of how dry and uninspired the cryptography and cryptology (less so) c
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by grog454 3y ago
> but overall it performs a valuable economic function Can you explain what that is? > To understand this requires understanding markets very deeply Apparently you aren't the only person on this forum who does. Are we just suppos
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by grog454 3y ago
Because you'll end up with pros great at cranking out un-maintainable MVPs.
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by grog454 3y ago
Coming from mobile indie games, I was thinking ads (which I now realize steam doesn't allow) and mtxn. Despite whatever moral qualms people have with this type of monetization I can say there are many multiplayer games that would not b
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by grog454 3y ago
> Coupled with the fact that I would have realistically grossed less than $4k How many concurrent players did you have on steam? This seems low unless the only monetization you're thinking of is a purchase price.
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by grog454 3y ago
> You can make a shitty game in one sitting using today's tools; I've done so a bunch of times. My games all suck but they are games with art, music, sound, and gameplay that people can play and enjoy briefly. I'm skeptica
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by grog454 3y ago
> imagine if you built a restaurant serving food you get from Hello Fresh Seems like a flawed business strategy. Ex: I currently use AWS, Linode, and Vultr for different regions and services for a single app. Avoiding vendor lock-in isn&
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by grog454 3y ago
> Generally speaking (I'm not a fly.io customer) at this point that phrase WORRIES me as a customer of any service. Any time I read an announcement like this I refresh my knowledge of competitors and make a mental note that it might
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by grog454 3y ago
> Where do my Workers run? Don't know, don't care Glad that works for you but for my game servers edge computing is not ideal and generally currently not even applicable.
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by grog454 3y ago
This is a strange take that seems best described as "raciphobia". It's not "bs" to ask whether or suggest that a creative work was inspired by a stereotype. There's the creator's intent which can't re
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by grog454 3y ago
This makes me wonder how we went from Wright brothers to commercial flight. Despite being the longest Wikipedia article I've ever seen the Wright Brother's wiki doesn't seem to cover it. Maybe it's a poorly defined quest
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by grog454 3y ago
Some people can't tell the difference between 17 ms of latency and 68 (4 frames at 60hz), while some can't bear it.
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by grog454 3y ago
Overtime or another job? If five fast food workers can prepare 100 meals in the time I can prepare 1, there should be some monetary savings shared with me (the customer) unless my time is truly worth close to 0. That's how economies of
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by grog454 3y ago
Split keyboards can help with wrist positioning but not finger travel, both of which can contribute to wrist problems.
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by grog454 3y ago
I use Dvorak for keyboards and qwerty for thumbs. Keeps them both in muscle memory to some extent, so it's not too painful when I'm using someone else's keyboard.
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by grog454 3y ago
If you ever have non-deliberate anything in production there's a non zero chance you're doing it wrong.
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by grog454 3y ago
Why does HN automatically strip "How"?
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by grog454 3y ago
I agree in general that they're often misused, but "just" and "simply" do have a place. Specifically in place of "only" or "instead", or to set up a subjective comparison. A: I'm going to do
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by grog454 3y ago
> China's Three Gorges Dam slowed down the Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds per day [2]. That's actually not a big deal because the rotation has variance all of its own from tides, weather, etc I'm confused, how
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by grog454 3y ago
So Apple's app review process never made it out of internal beta. That explains a lot.
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by grog454 4y ago
> Just make everyone pay for not just their consumption, but also for the damage it is causing on top. Problem solved. More like problem stated. Determining true ecological impact is not trivial even if you ignore all the perverse incent
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by grog454 4y ago
One of the most important things we can teach kids today is how to teach themselves. I wouldn't have graduated college over a decade ago without Wikipedia and there are far better resources now.
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by grog454 4y ago
> It died in 2018 on a camping trip when I let it trickle-charge on a Solar Panel. Did the battery die or the whole phone somehow?
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by grog454 4y ago
> remind myself that knowing the name of something is not knowing about something You and Feynman both: https://youtu.be/px_4TxC2mXU
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by grog454 4y ago
Code and case summaries couldn't be much different. With code you get compile time validation, run time validation, (hopefully) test validation, and you can generally look at a block of code and say "seems like this should work&qu
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by grog454 4y ago
Are there server circles? I'd guess they talk about intel and AMD more than Apple.
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by grog454 4y ago
> In the end, a hammer is a hammer. If it hammers well, what difference does it make how it got that precise shape? "Hand made" has been a selling point since things were first made by things other than hands. Example: "Th
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by grog454 4y ago
What makes it a copout? I've had friends choose the resign option. I've been fortunate enough that my resignations didn't involve ultimatums.
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by grog454 4y ago
> software engineers (or working in the field), have the power to not implement these features when our employer asks us to do it. Realize that you're statment is a euphemism. What you really mean is we have the choice between imple

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