jfindley

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by jfindley 8y ago
To be fair, cockroachdb is very approximately spanner minus TrueTime. If you really know what you're doing you can get moderately close to the same stack, but of course you won't get the same network, etc.
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by jfindley 8y ago
Comcast is more or less limited to customers where it currently has cables in the ground - which is a subset of the US population. To grow its customer base, it has to lay more cable, or enter into agreements with existing cable operators.
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by jfindley 8y ago
I don't see any strong correlation here. To me it looks like it was dropping from about Aug'16, and this blog has merely drawn a line for the US election and called it a story. Based on a quick google search, the US is only numb
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by jfindley 8y ago
Last time I looked, the SQL layer was really slow. I know they invested a ton of effort to improving it, but I don't think they ever really cracked the problem and I think you're likely better off with CockroachDB, as mentioned
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by jfindley 9y ago
I guess that's fair - thanks. I'd previously stayed away from scrypt as a password hash because of these attacks (although I've used it a bunch as a KDF for other things) - but on reflection I think you're probably righ
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by jfindley 9y ago
I was slightly surprised to see scrypt so high up the list, given its vulnerability to cache timing side channels. Is this because you think the side channel isn't that important, or that getting the params for argon2 right is complex
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by jfindley 9y ago
I'd love to hear the backstory. Who on _earth_ goes looking for vulnerabilities in beep?!
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by jfindley 9y ago
PhaseOne sell a 100MP IQ3 B&W digital back, which is basically exactly what you're after. The quality of this is brilliant - I've seen some really astonishing work out of it - but it might be out of price range a bit - you&
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by jfindley 9y ago
At a guess, being able to easily augment sunlight in parts of the world that get few hours of sunlight during local winter. Sun shines through when it's there, LED takes over when not. However in practice I don't think this would
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by jfindley 9y ago
Interesting. Here (UK) fixed broadband is much better than that for latency. I ususually see 8-11ms on fixed broadband (DSL-based), yet my ping on 4G is generally more like 40-150ms, with lots of spikes.
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by jfindley 9y ago
I would really like details on latency. Bandwidth is all very well, but it's high latency that is so often the real limiting factor in browsing performance. I live in a rural area, and my wired connection is very slow (~ 12Mbps). 4G
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by jfindley 9y ago
For businesses without very strong tech teams but with a need for lots of VPN accounts, cisco webvpn has long been popular, as it does all the things well that the things you mentioned don't: It has good stories around user management
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by jfindley 9y ago
That's a different issue, though. In your example, the company is actively doing something malicious, and accepting the fine for getting caught as part of their costs. Other than the threat of a really huge fine (or worse sanctions),
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by jfindley 9y ago
Are there yet any credible theories for why we see so few of these? AIUI, if we're correct about how planets form, there should be far more of these than we're seeing. Is it that we're probably wrong about how planets form,
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by jfindley 9y ago
Hmm "fast" logo maker - sure, it's fairly quick to use, but is speed of creation really what people optimize for when creating a logo for their <whatever>? I feel like you'd be better off emphasizing ease of use fo
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by jfindley 9y ago
Some CI setups benefit from a one-repo-per-service approach, as it makes it easier to figure out when an individual app has changed. In orgs where everything is in one giant repo, it can be difficult to establish what subset of your applic
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by jfindley 9y ago
> Camber isn't a magical trick to get more grip; it's a way to restore grip that would otherwise have been lost because of uneven tire loading in a corner. In a straight-line drive situation, the load is already ideal; the cont
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by jfindley 9y ago
> Agreed, but they don't need to be. Remember, the magic number here is ~1.4G, for a 1.9s 0-60. The Pilot Sport Cup 2 – a track-friendly R-compound tire used in the webcast car and in the videos – can pull close to that on a skidpad
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by jfindley 9y ago
I agree, I think this is another case of "well it works on our computer" pre-release specs that will turn out not to get close to real-world performance. The 0-100mph is very suspicious but I think the 0-60 time quoted is simply
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by jfindley 9y ago
I am definitely not a physicist by any means - as I understand it, the problem with hydrogen fission is not the amount of energy released but rather containing it and keeping it running stably for long periods of time, whilst using it to he
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by jfindley 9y ago
Many of the most important issues (e.g. current crisis in Rohingya) are in environments where there is no such thing as absolute truth. To pick one example, in a conflict, it's very rare that any two independent sources can even agree
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by jfindley 9y ago
It's easy to come up with reasons why something won't work. But, usually, it's more productive to start with the understanding that other people are smart too, and that they may have thought of these problems. In this partic
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by jfindley 9y ago
> this guy's rants sound to me like a super demanding, high-end user. Yes. He is. He's a respected professional photographer, and most of his readership are also serious photographers, with many pro or semi-pros among them.
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by jfindley 9y ago
On pro cameras, at least, although they have plastic outsides it's pretty strong plastic, and the actual chassis of the camera is cast alloy (usually magnesium-aluminium). A nikon D3/D4/D5 will withstand a huge amount of abus
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by jfindley 9y ago
It's not RICO. https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-... Unfortunately, there's no law I'm aware of that's going to help you here - although there /possibly&#x2
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by jfindley 9y ago
IANAL, but I think you'd find it virtually impossible to show $1000 of direct, material damages as a result of having your information leaked[0] and to the best of my knowledge this is the only sort of claim that small claims courts al
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by jfindley 9y ago
He acknowledges this: "This RNG construction certainly isn't new but I don't recall ever hearing a good name for it ..." However many other kernels don't do this, and I think this article is written to convince non-
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by jfindley 9y ago
Appreciate that hosting isn't free, but having some sort of $0 plan would greatly drive adoption, at fairly little cost. I personally would be unlikely to launch a product that cost me a monthly fee just to run, even with zero paying
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by jfindley 9y ago
To be fair, while I do agree with you, sha-2 512/256 is an especially confusingly named hash. A _lot_ of people naturally read it as sha-2 512 or 256, which it is not, but thing/otherthing is a common enough pattern that the conf
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by jfindley 9y ago
RFC 6066 specifies that you can only have one certificate in an OCSP response - as with intermediate certs you need to be able to respond with a chain, this does not work. RFC 6961 defines a multiple response capability, but my understandi

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