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by jnwatson 4y ago
Breaking RSA and ECC is commercially relevant.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Inflation isn’t caused by too much money. It is caused by too much money velocity. That’s why the last huge injection of money in 2008 didn’t cause inflation. Folks sat on their money and didn’t spend it. Raising interest rates isn’t abo
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Meta has spent $30 billion on Reality Labs so far. To put that in perspective, I’ve seen an estimated cost of setting up a small colony on Mars to be that much. Even to get a conservative 10% ROI (super low for the level of risk they are ta
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by jnwatson 4y ago
By pure coincidence, I just visited Kunstmuseum today in The Hague that has a large Mandria(a)n exhibit, so the following is fresh on the mind. It took Mandria(a)n 30 years of professional painting to arrive at his spaces and lines. He was
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I love the idea that you can make sharing your birthday with a third party a violation of the TOS.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
If one could solve the app validation problem with OS enforcement, Apple and Google certainly would have already. (Though both have made incremental progress). They spend a huge amount of resources in the app review pipelines. In particul
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I wonder what programs like FIRST Lego League will do. That was an amazing experience for my kid.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
NNs are decision trees only if all the activation functions are step functions, which makes sense intuitively.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That's the entire point. Your bank doesn't want you to run their software on your potentially vulnerable hardware.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Many folks prioritize preventing practical in-the-wild blue pill attacks over preventing the theoretical DRM use case.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Don’t shade on Domino’s. They have worked hard on getting from least-common-denominator pizza to halfway-Ok pizza.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Huntsville had the highest per capita Ph.D for a while due to operation paperclip.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I definitely understand the social aspects of WFO. I do miss it sometimes. The tipping point for me though is the environmental cost. All those workers shlepping their body to and from work is a tremendous cost to the local and global env
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It is a fool's errand to try to evaluate the net societal impact of a particular technology, even with perfect predictive power. Looking back, what technology would you have retroactively stopped? Tetraethyl lead? Perhaps. Nuclear?
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by jnwatson 4y ago
There isn't a good reason for high bandwidth hardware RNG. You seed a PRNG with a slow HW RNG and you're good to go.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The device itself isn't useful, but the design could be incorporated into systems that need a better source of early boot time entropy. Lots of embedded systems don't such a source, though it is getting better as more SoC vendors
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You can (and are required to in certain environments) test for basic failures in your hardware RNG. The AMD bug was bad not because of the bug, but because it was obvious they had no built-in-test functionality.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You're confusing free "products" that Google puts online with actual for-money items. The vast majority of startups' products fail, especially in the hardware realm. I'd pick a Google hardware product to live a lot
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That list is so bad it is disingenuous. Because Google chooses to stop making a device doesn't mean it is "killed".
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by jnwatson 4y ago
If this were from a startup, no one would be saying the same, but because it is Google, folks want to ride the bandwagon. Microsoft has cancelled thousands of products, but nobody says a thing. Yet the number of hardware products Google has
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Indeed. I met my girlfriend on a relatively novel dating site called The League. It was recently purchased by Match.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I’m in very close to the same place you are, except full custom loop. I’m not sure I can go back to air cooled, but the cost in time for a new custom loop is non-trivial. The fact is, other than gaming, and then, only at the upper end, the
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Yes, H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine had two species of humans.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I see the opposite. Even if interest rates don’t rise more, we’re talking about a tripling of the service cost relative to GDP. That is going to put pressure on budgets for sure.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Current average maturity of US debt is about 5 years. So, it won’t happen immediately; interest payments will gradually rise over the next several years.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It isn’t exactly home networking, but Ubiquiti’s stuff has good VLAN and firewall capabilities.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
We have very educated guesses. The primary difference between 2008 and now with respect to monetary policy is money velocity. Increasing money supply is a necessary but insufficient condition for inflation. In 2008, much of that money sat
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I humbly disagree. The problem is that a single can grief, smurf, boost, and otherwise ruin the game for 9 other players, and then immediately create another account. It is a huge problem in League of Legends especially at the lower ranks.
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Or even more likely, management changes their mind. It is obvious that Google is battening the hatches for a recession. Economic conditions looks worse than just a few months ago. They’ve already reduced their Area 120 investments. This
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I've done several Python 2->3 transitions, and the amount of effort looks to be in the same order of magnitude described in the post.

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