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by i2km 6mo ago
Please keep this slop off HN
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by i2km 6mo ago
It’s turning into a bit of a grift now. So many crypto agility “consultants “ popping up with their slop graphics. Never mind the fact that even if a relevant quantum computer is built it will still cost the user millions of dollars to brea
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by i2km 8mo ago
> but the Chinese play long games And yet they got themselves into a demographic death spiral
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by i2km 8mo ago
Re displacing freelance translation, yes - it can displace the 95% of cases where 95% accuracy is enough. Like you mention though, for diplomatic translations, court proceedings, pacemaker manuals etc you're still going to need a human
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by i2km 8mo ago
This is going to be the concrete block which finally breaks the back of the academic peer review system, i.e. it's going to be a DDoS attack on a system which didn't even handle the load before LLMs. Maybe we'll need to go ba
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by i2km 8mo ago
LaTeX was one of the last bastions against AI slop. Sadly it's now fallen too. Is there any standardised non-AI disclaimer format which is gaining use?
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The Great Code Decoupling – The Coming AI Bifurcation in Software Quality(i2km.com)
2 points by i2km 8mo ago|1 comments
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by i2km 8mo ago
A blog post looking at developments in the translation market and projecting them onto the future of software engineering. TLDR: software is already bifurcating into low-grade consumer slop where AI lowers expectations, but serious B2B and
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by i2km 2y ago
One whole technique not mentioned in the paper or comments is bitslicing. For non-branching code (e.g. symmetric ciphers) it's guaranteed constant-time and it would be a remarkable compiler indeed which could introduce optimizations an
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by i2km 2y ago
Actually, the link you provide seems to support the parent comment's suggestion, rather than detract from it. The previous comment was suggesting making sure that every code path takes the same amount of time, not adding a random delay
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by i2km 2y ago
1984 could only ever have been written by an Englishman
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by i2km 2y ago
You get the hell out and emigrate. I did so last year. It's not going to get better chap
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by i2km 2y ago
A quick rule-of-thumb: if 'military-grade encryption' is mentioned, the author likely has no domain knowledge. Further the article claims that SPNs are used in RSA... which is completely wrong and indicates no domain knowledge. Th
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by i2km 2y ago
So, if the method was to substitute the batteries for ones containing explosives, then how were they triggered simultaneously? Wouldn't this also require some additional HW/SW in the pagers to trigger the devices? Otherwise, if it
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by i2km 2y ago
Also curious that any mention of confidential computing is avoided throughout the piece
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by i2km 2y ago
The adoption of advanced cryptography has struggled for decades. It’s a long-running cause of frustration to cryptographers, i.e. “why do we keep on developing more and more advanced schemes yet the real world doesn’t use them?” This sentim
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by i2km 2y ago
Simple answer: no. The economy of SE England is largely comprised of: 1. Shuffling money around 2. Socialist-level ponzi government spending 3. A combination of property flipping and high-end property overseas sales used for tax evasion Inn
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by i2km 3y ago
As my modest contribution to the battle against SUVs/crossovers/other bloat, I am attempting to popularise the term ‘bimbo box’ - the credit of which belongs to Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
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by i2km 3y ago
Gröbner bases are powerful but do not scale. In doctoral school I spent some time applying the state-of-the-art methods to trying to break lightweight symmetric ciphers. The idea was that the system of polynomials generated from a number of