jancsika

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by jancsika 3y ago
> When at a previous company I set up an SSH CA, we found an SSH MITM within 3 days (though benign; an ISP-provided modem/router was resolving all hostnames to itself when the WAN was down), and the user was planning on just accepti
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by jancsika 3y ago
> So this is why lawmakers still sit down with Apple. And the generous lunches. I have to say, this sounds trivially false, and I don't think I'm nitpicking. Lawmakers sit down with Apple because Apple has an enormous amount of
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by jancsika 3y ago
Someone definitely correct me if I'm wrong, but the success of the fingerprinting workarounds here seem to boil down to the following choice wrt handling oscillator anti-aliasing in the Web Audio API spec: "There are several pract
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by jancsika 3y ago
> But I'm 100% that fake research and cheating is rampant in all of natural science everywhere in the world, and I myself had spent 6 months of my life in a lab trying to reproduce fake results from a previous researcher in my lab.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Nothing to do with solving the problem efficiently. Unless you were solving world hunger or fast homomorphic encryption, this guy's promotable event sounds like it's way more impressive than whatever technical desiderata you
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Here's the chicken and egg problem again. Back when git had their chicken-and-egg problem, there were hundreds if not thousands of FOSS project members independently starting threads on mailing lists about how and/or when to
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by jancsika 3y ago
> For some people who have been able to work through their own trauma, the processing may have been wordless, barely conceptual, not at all based in logical processing or traditional talk therapy. That's a good point, and definitely
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by jancsika 3y ago
> One of their success recipes is to code up the various specifications directly, which is - today - the best way to go about this. Would love to read more details about this, or have a link to a video where he describes and follows the
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by jancsika 3y ago
This being HN, it's worth noting explicitly: All humans, including children, live with irrational tendencies which they never become fully aware of, much less fully control. Moreover, our hardware/software is probably many order
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by jancsika 3y ago
There are some funny lines from They Might Be Giants' "Women and Men" that run along the same lines: Women and men have crossed the ocean, They now begin to pour Out from the boat and up the shore. Two by two they enter the j
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by jancsika 3y ago
Is there a name for a cartooning style where the creatures seem to always be drawn as wide as possible? I remember a few animators for Sesame Street who did the same thing. It was always striking. Larson seems to also give them tiny heads f
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by jancsika 3y ago
> It's as if something can finally fill their bandwidth, keep up with their thoughts, and answer those questions in real-time. There's a problem with your line of thinking. E.g., I remember the epiphany when I realized that a p
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Some fungi can survive the conditions of space, which is pretty incredible. It is literally incredible, and the title is misleading. The fungi was in some kind of box that was filled with a lot of CO2, a little O2 and H2O, and other st
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by jancsika 3y ago
> No, you, the consumer, cause that pollution. Substitute "contribute to" for "cause"
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by jancsika 3y ago
> (non-open cellular modems/wireless chipsets) > barely functional > insanely priced > I'm just not seeing anything reasonable being produced. It's not reasonable to offer an affordable phone that also runs an ope
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Except they exterminate bugs for you as a free service. Yes but as the majority of hobbyist exterminators must be aware, most of them steal their extermination service. Who cares if the people who exterminate for a living get paid? Is
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by jancsika 3y ago
My quick and dirty interpretation after skimming that article: he misrepresented a hashing algo to non-technical people who didn't understand that a) it's a one-way function and b) even if it weren't, multiple inputs can stil
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by jancsika 3y ago
Has anyone made a kind of interactive post-Orwellian censorship sandbox? Seems like LLMs should make this possible. E.g., the user posts a trivially true thing and the LLM starts to reply with falsehoods, half-truths, concern trolling, etc.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Why is the studio hoarding access to this film that probably stopped making them money decades ago when they could just lease out the streaming rights and make something of it? Just wanted to say that's it's surreal to be mak
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by jancsika 3y ago
Yes, with the caveats that young people also romanticize the past, and old people also romanticize the future.
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by jancsika 3y ago
I'm just talking about that scrumptious little contest winner. For example, not wanting to fudge around with allocation while iterating is palpable to anyone who can read C. That contest winner probably squeaks by. But perhaps on t
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Your friends’ kids won’t talk about you. They likely will if the kids witness how their parent treasures that friendship. By your own logic, even. What could "value their families first and foremost" possibly mean if the love
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by jancsika 3y ago
Suppose that all browsers hide javascript-inside-svg behind a preferences checkbox that's turned off by default. What on the web breaks? Most of the scripting related to SVGs I've seen are SVGs controlled by javascript in the cont
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by jancsika 3y ago
I just took a look at Meacham's 2008 winner. After skimming your paper I believe it makes it through your countermeasures unscathed.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Such a great cover for the bug: the simplicity of the approach doesn't require reallocation. Also, the author could claim they inspected/analyzed the visual output and the redaction appeared flawless. At least, I assume most image
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by jancsika 3y ago
Two alternatives: 1. Design a machine that uses air streams to eventually dehydrate the outer faces of the bread, then shoots puffs of pre-fabbed soot/butter mix on the result. Bonus: market for add-on soot/butter packs. 2. Design
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by jancsika 3y ago
It's not the 4 pound savings they are paying a premium for. It's the ironclad guarantee that the carbon fiber bike won't gain that 4 pounds back in the coming weeks and months. :)
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by jancsika 3y ago
> You need to be in it for the long run and you need to be utterly dedicated to make this really work. There also has to be an escape hatch to make this work. E.g., Linus can say that the __is_constexpr preprocessor hack is the product o
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by jancsika 3y ago
> If they don't think its flagged fast enough then helping flag it faster/better it seems an entirely reasonable thing to do. Be the change and all that. I'm quite pleased to know that the Asahi Linux team-- one of the mos
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by jancsika 3y ago
> The best way that I can think of it is that it's similar to playing a sport where you have moments to change your trajectory and movement to accomplish what you want. If I had to speculate I'd say a lot of people have the exp

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