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by hertzrat 6y ago
If someone wasn’t a cryptographer, but does occasional security tasks at work, what is the takeaway? RSA needs to be 4096 or higher now, or that similar techniques in the future might make RSA a bad choice altogether?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Automated systems blocking people for unknown reasons isn’t a world we want to live in if we could help it
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Somewhat embarrassingly, I didn’t realize that all those products were ads. I thought their recommendation algorithms were getting worse
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Interesting concept for sure. Is there a revenue model to attract top influencers? Maybe just links to a collection of Patreon-likes?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
He talks about about how privacy laws like those around contact lists are bad because make it harder for new social media companies to arise. Seems like a bad trade off for everyone but investors and for future users of The Crystal Network
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> The 66-year-old said he was worried that less established authors were self-censoring by avoiding writing from certain viewpoints or including characters outside their immediate experiences. Speaking as an occasional author, this is a
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Is the idea to make people log in to see adult material? I’m sure those logs and targeted ads will never embarass anybody
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by hertzrat 6y ago
And with the main goal being decentralization, almost the entire blockchain is controlled by a few groups of miners and hoarders. It’s as or more centralized than ordinary currency
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
MVC is good for user interfaces, but there is some inherent coupling between model and view in most games. Eg, animations. I didn’t have much luck using mvc outside of the ui. IMHO, single responsibility is the more fundamental principle an
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by hertzrat 6y ago
You’re right, they do. You add a layer on top that is in charge of worrying about those interactions, and it works pretty smoothly in my experience, but even then there can be some challenges from multiple pieces of code trying to use that
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Basically, in game dev, small differences in performance lead to a very noticeable effect on frame rate. In this case, cache misses are a big deal and their impact really adds up. ECS is a way structure your data to minimize cache misses an
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Not about ECS, but speaking of components: I’m developing an unreal engine game and component based programming has been a dream. You end up with the opportunity to create so many pieces of code that are able to be dumb and that don’t need
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by hertzrat 6y ago
None of the code/design/architecture I wrote this year will help convince an interviewer I can program. Can’t even show it to them because it breaks the apples to apples system they are trying to do with their robotic standardized
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by hertzrat 6y ago
You can’t dismiss somebody’s opinions because of the mind reading you did about their subconscious motives
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Thanks. A show hn is definitely tempting
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Your analogy needs to be reworked a bit. Information about what’s in the menu doesn’t solve the hunger problem. Headlines or summaries can solve peoples information problem. Your analogy works slightly better for Yelp actually. Apparently t
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by hertzrat 6y ago
For retail, that’s like being down 24/7 forever. Is there reason to believe that it will take more or less time in 10 years?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Well, hopefully the big scandalous hack happens early on and stops this practice before the harm it will cause is too widespread. Future headline: “Millions of student computers fall victim to massive ransomware attack after testing softwar
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I knew somebody working on an employee brain wave startup once, except it was to monitor (and help with) stress. My readings would probably be pretty high just from having to wear the thing
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Sounds better, when possible, to just avoid platforms like that
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I’ve been working on a game mostly solo now for a bit (my wife helps a bit with level design). It’s a stab at third person dungeons and dragons style play. Working on it is a lot of 7 day weeks and questions that you have to answer for your
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by hertzrat 6y ago
A lot of the software is incredible, just often with bad ux imho
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I know I may be in the minority, but I like gnome a lot.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
If the goal is to encourage the general public to use general purpose computers, then I suggest the community try to temp some good UX designers to take part in foss projects. I suspect they many UX people are not extremely informed about f
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The goal when writing code is to be pretty machine like and to keep things extremely simple. People also write dead or off topic comments. That’s why this is so hard
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by hertzrat 6y ago
If only. Humans leave dead comments all the time and I was wrong when I guessed “gpt” wrote this based on that. Being confusing isn’t reliable either unless it’s a syntax error
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Maliciously deceptive is pretty strong wording
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by hertzrat 6y ago
This is an argument against specialization. You can’t do extremely difficult things while spending 20-30 hours a week on business management, public outreach, and fundraising. Since that’s the world were living in, might it explain how our
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> in part this is a reflection of taxonomists inability to sell themselves and adapt to new tools (but note that many have evolved) What tools did they fail to learn? If we went from a state of identifying species to not identifying them

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