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by jstrom 2y ago
This paper produces a good result: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2007/ph210/otey2/ . If you game is OK sounding synthetic, I've had good results simulating a string plucked off center, decay eac
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by jstrom 2y ago
I wish comparisons like this would include unicode coverage. I have code that uses the symbols, arrows, etc. to avoid needing image assets. Or some non-English text that need accented characters or the CJK glyphs.
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by jstrom 4y ago
The Cypress PSoC might be of interest. It's a combination FPGA and microcontroller, the low-end demo boards with USB programming get as low as ~$10. Though most of what you can do with the FPGA would be covered by built-in timer/
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by jstrom 5y ago
You can theory-craft a non-malicious justification: Insurance trusts Dr. Hibbert will perform the procedure without complications and has negotiated a fixed price of $1K. Insurance doesn't trust Dr. Nick and believes any procedure he
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by jstrom 5y ago
I usually filter by "Retailer: Walmart.com" for any common and/or name-brand item (and price/shipping is usually better than 3rd part sellers anyway). You still have to take your chances for more obscure items, but at l
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by jstrom 5y ago
My experience with HW HSMs has been that the FIPS process is so expensive that companies are only willing to put out a new FIPS-certified version once year. Also the certification itself seems to be more concerned with high-level security
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Ask HN: What to use for prototyping metal structures?
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by jstrom 7y ago
We typically assume that loans are taken for some immediate use (rather than just having cash on hand). Thus you get the following scenario: Bank loans $money to person A. Person A uses the $money to buy from person B. Person B deposits
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by jstrom 8y ago
If you attempted to sell those treasury bonds now on the secondary, you would have to accept the same $99 the shares of VFITX are worth. The immediate, liquid value is the same either way. (You need a common unit to comapre in instead of
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by jstrom 9y ago
Isn't that the logical approach to teaching it though? Start with the base case, analyze how it functions, then start looking it how it changes when you remove an assumption. Similar to how physics starts with perfectly elastic point-
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by jstrom 10y ago
If I'm reading the post right, it's stricter than that: > ...distrusting certificates whose validity period (the difference of notBefore to notAfter) exceeds the specified maximum. I.e., a certificate valid from 1/2015..1&
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by jstrom 10y ago
I can't speak specifically to SHA-1/2, but typically the criteria for the standards takes into account lower-end hardware that must be able to execute the algorithms with limited memory and processing (especially embedded systems)
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by jstrom 11y ago
At the last place I worked, we were looking for an entry-level developer and routinely turned down computer science graduates. They knew their theory, big-o, algorithm names, and such, but could not code at all in any medium. (And we were
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by jstrom 12y ago
That's not necessary malicious on the part of the power company. At a previous job, we built a system for a company that prepared batteries through multiple charge/discharge phases. During a discharge, the power was pushed back o
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by jstrom 15y ago
This strikes me as a far more important consideration than the loss of revenue or potential harm being discussed in the other topics. Blacking out Google's front page will reach 38 Million (or 12% of the population) [1]. Compare that to th