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by hdevalence 4y ago
For reference, a typical CR2032 has 0.1g lithium metal content and ~0.6Wh capacity. https://data.energizer.com/pdfs/cr2032.pdf
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by hdevalence 4y ago
Wikipedia lists the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawaymax size as allowing at most 26.5’ of draft, while the Ohio-class submarines require 35.5’. So treaty aside, it seems probably not physically possible, even tho
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by hdevalence 4y ago
You can go buy them for $100/kWh on batteryhookup.com right now if you want.
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by hdevalence 5y ago
Your interpretation of "a group you are a member of" as referring to formal membership in the Rust Foundation specifically, rather than membership in the Rust community generally* seems like it gets at one of the issues in dispute
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by hdevalence 6y ago
At the end of the day, balance sheets always balance, every transaction has two sides, and privacy for only one side of every transaction is impossible.
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Major Vulnerabilities Discovered and Patched in Realtek RTL8195A Wi-Fi Module(vdoo.com)
12 points by hdevalence 6y ago|6 comments
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by hdevalence 6y ago
In this case, simply fixing the problem would have taken the same or less work than writing the quoted paragraph.
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by hdevalence 6y ago
Schnorr signatures (e.g., Ed25519) are just another kind of digital signature, there's nothing that makes them more challenging to use.
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by hdevalence 6y ago
> Unfortunately the ed25519 curve is probably not really the best choice there for a primitive to optimize due to the cofactor being an extraordinary nuisance for other applications outside of plain signatures and key agreement. Luckily
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by hdevalence 11y ago
> The fourth amendment was not written with strong encryption in mind The fourth amendment, and other constitutional issues, were discussed via encrypted mail. It's not like strong encryption (strong in the sense of 'beyond co
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by hdevalence 11y ago
Why would the Theia collision mean that we're at the lower bound of mass for a habitable planet? What does the moon do that would be compensated for by having a larger planet?
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by hdevalence 11y ago
Why do we think they haven't been stolen? Why do we think that the OPM was the first or the biggest or the most valuable attack, and not just the biggest one that happened to be noticed? The fact that a BLM officer lost his firearm do
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by hdevalence 11y ago
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
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by hdevalence 11y ago
Really? Interesting. We spent some time discussing multiplication by block decompositions in my 100-level linear algebra class -- is this really uncommon?
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but if you had to pick an American school that Toronto would be 'our version of', Harvard is probably a better bet than Columbia: > from 2000 to 2004 U of T professors produced more publications in the field
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by hdevalence 12y ago
See, for instance, http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html for a writeup by djb on a possible way to exploit this in practice.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
It does not sound like a decent idea. 'Decent' is not a word that fits with 'deceptive practices', 'impersonation', or 'extortion'.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
I would count Iraq as a conquer and pillage situation -- see, for instance, _Pay Any Price_ by James Risen.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Do you have any recommendations on material to read on the subject of choosing optimal data structures / algorithms for a particular microarchitecture?
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by hdevalence 12y ago
I'm confused. Are you saying that the MIT Tor node is at Lincoln Lab, or are you suggesting that anything MIT-affiliated is tainted because of LL?
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Secure communications require encryption AND authentication. Full stop. You can't unmix them.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
There's also DJB's CurveCP.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
There's a difference between "User X browses Wikipedia" and "User X browses Wikipedia articles about topics A, B, C" where topics A, B, C could be anything user X doesn't want people recording them reading abou
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Your question was answered in the parent comment: the users paid, and competition drove the fees to zero, i.e., the costs are now paid by the banks.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
I don't see anything on that page that couldn't be done with, say, InDesign.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Since you're here, care to comment on: > “He’s a guy that we’ll track for the rest of his life and he’ll have no idea we’ll be watching him,” the same Whisper executive said. Is that a quote that the Guardian invented from whole clo
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by hdevalence 12y ago
More eyeballs have a good track record -- for instance, since bash is Free Software, many people have looked at it, which is why there have been no recent critical flaws in bash discovered by automated fuzzers.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
That may be true, but the meat of the contention is that Whisper are tracking their users' locations, even when those users asked Whisper not to . The accuracy of the tracking is a bit of a red herring: Whisper is tracking their users
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by hdevalence 12y ago
One difference is that the Qt source code is also covered by the KDE Free Qt agreement (linked in a sibling comment), which basically acts as a poison pill to ensure that no future owner of Qt can pull an Oracle and close off development. F
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Of course, removing accountability means that much more often than not, the single unified goal is 'the value of my Swiss bank account'...

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