kevhito

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by kevhito 10y ago
No, you are right, I was perhaps too harsh. But it takes some modesty and humility to pause and consider why the system ended up the way it has, and why the elder's are resistant to change. The author shows no sign of modesty or hu
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by kevhito 10y ago
I am very thankful to be in a department with almost zero nasty internal politics, and I've heard real horror stories from people I trust about how nasty things can get. So thanks for providing more context. It's hard to tell from
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by kevhito 10y ago
Hi, although I'm new here and all of you have been teaching here for 20 years on average, let me tell you why everything you have done with the curriculum is terrible and should be completely rewritten in my style. And of course, I&#x2
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by kevhito 10y ago
> All university departments are filled with miserable gossips. They are also filled with people who think their own vision and priorities for the intro programming course, operating systems course, networking course, "entire"
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by kevhito 10y ago
I agree with this. But research isn't everything. And there are at least some hints and signs that this person doesn't know how to get along with colleagues. > I worked really hard to bring an exciting and rigorous operating sy
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by kevhito 10y ago
Title should not be "scraping from my cell" but "scraping from any tracfone account without needing credentials". I'm not even sure you can call this [1] a vulnerable API... it just plain public, with no authenticat
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by kevhito 10y ago
I apologize. I didn't mean to suggest we should design for a "typical human" (even if such a thing existed or could be well defined), and I agree that we should design for a range of user abilities. I was trying (poorly) to d
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by kevhito 10y ago
I think my comment rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, and for that I apologize. Actually, I agree with almost everything the replies argue. My point -- which I did didn't make well -- was that I think using the word "disabled&q
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by kevhito 10y ago
... as compared to the known, ongoing and serious contamination of the environment due to coal plants, of course. Do you have a citation for the CFL concern? I'm not expert in this area, but my quick checking only reveals this [1]: &gt
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by kevhito 10y ago
No. Because you (and WHO) are consistently leaving out the obvious -- all of this is in comparison to "typical" human abilities. According to that definition, everyone living in a northern climate becomes disabled each winter, sin
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by kevhito 10y ago
As soon as I saw the title, my heart sank a little, knowing that comments like this would soon follow. At least there aren't yet any comments about their looks or why its okay to track them down and harass them because it's just p
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by kevhito 10y ago
Because Turing completeness? But certainly, there are no doubt emotions, habits, moral concepts, and even "thoughts" that are thoroughly foreign to humans. Not impossible, just foreign.
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by kevhito 10y ago
I was responding to this assertion: > all encryption methods prone to brute-force attacks The chance of succeeding within our lifetime with a brute-force attack against modern encryption is far less than one in a trillion. So in your wor
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by kevhito 10y ago
And if you go that path, "theoretically" an attacker might simply guess your password on the first try when attempting to log in as you, so password "storages" and "brute-force" has nothing to do it.
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by kevhito 10y ago
There are reasonable issues that could be raised about various meta-data leaks with full-disk encryption. For example, in a completely naive per-file encryption scheme, the (approximate) file sizes would be visible. But I don't think &
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by kevhito 10y ago
They need to notify the winner(s) somehow?
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by kevhito 10y ago
Is there something particular about your mom I should take away here? Or moms in general? Or women? Or older people? My mom, like yours, would have no use for dev tools -- because she's just not interested. And neither would my brother
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by kevhito 10y ago
I was getting ready to point out that Hillary really has a large lead, even if the day-to-day talking heads insist on making this and every race/issue seem as if it is 50/50 split. Then I checked 538.com [1]: they have her at 60%
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by kevhito 10y ago
The resistor-vga trick is one I use somewhat regularly. When traveling to give a talk, I sometimes like to practice my talk with powerpoint's "presention mode" in front of me. You can't easily get that mode without a sec
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by kevhito 10y ago
I agree that "lock" is a really poorly chosen word here. The explanation and diagram with a canal lock on that page is... unusual. It's a cutaway diagram of a physical canal lock, re-purposed as an mathematical graph (with x
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by kevhito 10y ago
And my students have calculators so there is no need for them to know basic arithmetic.
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by kevhito 10y ago
If out of bounds errors were undefined behavior, lifting the bounds check out of the loop would be legal. But in go, it isn't an error. It is equivalent to panic(), which can be caught. If the caller recovers, they should see the parti
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by kevhito 10y ago
In C/C++, out-of-bounds memory access is in undefined behavior, so the compiler can assume it is a nop, so it is dead code and eliminate it. In go, out-of-bounds array/slice access is equivalent to calling panic. So _ = a[i] isn&
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by kevhito 10y ago
It's even worse. The longTimer has fired, and it sent a message on the channel just as it was supposed to. When Reset() is called, it causes a second firing and a second message. Here is the code, corrected to illustrate. The output
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by kevhito 10y ago
Even the opening sentences are wrong: > VOLTAGE is to electricity what pressure is to water: the more you have of it the more oomph you get. That is why electrical power lines work at high voltage. No. Losses in transmission lines are pr
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by kevhito 10y ago
> 3. You don't leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in software to preserve backwards compatibility. It is better to break software briefly than to leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in it. I know nothing about FreeBSD updat
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by kevhito 10y ago
This is correct, and key to making this zero knowledge. But "accumulate" isn't quite the right word, I think. During a single round, by itself, Peggy reveals literally nothing about the actual solution -- no information wha
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by kevhito 10y ago
As a reluctant admin for a half dozen odd home and work systems, and having just dealt with a few clean reinstalls, the /etc/motd issue bit me too. It also reminded me a bit of the horror that grub configuration has become. When I
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by kevhito 10y ago
You may have a point when it comes to mm vs. inches, etc. But my post was about logarithms vs. cross-sectional area vs diameter vs. circumference. Does your point still hold?
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by kevhito 10y ago
I think they mean it only uses the "data" (MB) portion of your usage, not the "voice minutes" part. As long as they keep below a few MB per month, the cost for RingPlus will be very low. Example, they give you a trial wi

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