kevinnk

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by kevinnk 10y ago
You saw a full 128 bit collision on real files? They were right not to believe you...
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by kevinnk 10y ago
In his pre-trial, Ross denied ownership[1] of the server that the coins were found on (for obvious reasons - the server also ran the Silk Road). Since no one claimed ownership, the FBI was free to auction them. [1] This actually turned out
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by kevinnk 11y ago
No? The purpose of the title should be to describe the content of the article. If reporting what Pegg said exactly makes the title misleading there's no reason to quote him. Even if you wanted to use his words exactly I would have put
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by kevinnk 11y ago
It should be - changing "wikipedia" to "fan wiki" would be far less misleading.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> We've been farming the old-fashioned way for thousands of years with exponential increases in population. If that's not the definition of sustainability I don't know what is. Just because a technique is sustainable at p
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> Snapchat doesn't have a good way to monetize their user base though. It's probably going to be a difficult problem for them, especially with their inflated valuation. They've already started monetizing and seem to be doi
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Hm, I'm still not sure I understand. > The point is that in a synchronous design the delays have to be multiples of a clock cycle. Not really, you can pretty much always do rebalancing between stages so that you end up with a multip
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> In contrast, in an asynchronous design, as far as I understand it, you don't have a clock at all. Instead, the result has an additional "ready" signal associated with it and, whenever the result is ready (a data dependen
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> I can assure that in college no T.A ever meant it as a form of motivation. I (unfortunately) did this as a T.A. in college. Despite being well versed in the material and caring quite a bit about trying to teach I used the "this is
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Are you referring to https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/30tudk/psa_... ? That was a normal subpoena (without a gag order), not a NSL.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
My school had closer to 400 students per grade than 1000, but it still had pretty defined cliques that people categorized into nerd/jock/popular kids/whatever. Additionally, bullying was still common, it was just mostly non-p
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by kevinnk 11y ago
I would definitely consider myself a nerd and I never got in a fight or physically hurt. I can't think of any friends that did either. The vast, vast majority of violence that happened at my school (and we had a fair amount) was betwee
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by kevinnk 11y ago
I graduated from a large public high school in middle America about 5 years ago. There were quite a few fights/acts of physical violence, virtually zero of which was directed at "nerds". If TV show style bullying ever existed
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Oh, yes good catch. The 2600k is (12991 - 8520) / 12991 = 34% slower. That's what I get for not rereading before posting...
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by kevinnk 11y ago
The 2600k cost about $350 new in 2011. For the same amount of money you could get a 5820K which is about 1.5x faster than the 2600k (or to put it in your terms, the 2600k is 52% slower). Still probably not worth it, but I looked up the numb
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Both mechagodzilla and TheOtherHobbes have pretty much covered my response. The only thing I wanted to add was that you're acting incredibly defensive to essentially a request for context. The 9:1 speedup you quoted doesn't exist
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Compared to what? What does ordinary code mean? VLIW has been around for a while (Itanium is probably the most famous "general purpose" example) and has failed to gain traction outside of GPUs and DSP (ie not "ordinary code&q
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> For example, both x86 and arm date back to the 80s. Modern x86 and high performance ARM cores are almost unrecognizable compared to processors in the late 90s, much less the 80s. (Also, ARM was founded in 1990, not the 80s). > While
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by kevinnk 11y ago
You actually hit on the exact reason; your change is significantly harder to parse. C++ allows you to alias typenames and variable names, so you wouldn't know if `int foo(T);` was a declaration of a function that take a type `T` or a f
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by kevinnk 11y ago
I believe maxxxxx is asking about the ability to import and use classes from a DLL directly, without needing a class definition. As far as I know, in standard C++ this isn't possible.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Ah, I understand. Currently in C++ you cannot inspect class members or call methods without a class definition (i.e. the class header file). For the most part, the C++ standard doesn't really consider the object layout "in scope&q
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Do you mean link as in "linker"? Or are you asking if it's possible to do "using LibX" like in C#? You can already do "using ClassX", but yeah, the package management story in C++ isn't great. There&#
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Gotcha. I agree that there are a lot of potential security issues present on the iPhone, and if I was a terrorist (or my name was Edward Snowden) I would definitely act as if they were already hacked by the NSA/FBI/whomever. Howev
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Sorry, maybe I should have been a little more specific. I was looking for a primary source that shows this part: "FBI talked about how they couldn't beat iPhones but NSA had them in the leaks & was parallel constructing to F
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Could you be more specific? I've followed the NSA leaks with some interest, but not particularly closely, so I'd be really interested in seeing the actual presentation/document/whatever. For reference I've googled e
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> They pulled the same stuff in the past where FBI talked about how they couldn't beat iPhones but NSA had them in the leaks & was parallel constructing to FBI. Do you have a link to a leak that shows this? I couldn't find
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by kevinnk 11y ago
I'm not an expert but I'd imagine the biggest advantages are: Faster travel within the city itself. Easier to move in and out of the city. Reducing rush hour traffic on local streets.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
At least the way I've heard it, the doctor problem is given as an answer to the question "Why don't we test everyone for HIV/cancer/horrible disease X?" See for example the discussions people had when the Ameri
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Data rate in the US is something like 11kbps. So you'd have to be really patient.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> Does the processor predict that the string copy loop will never terminate, and keep buffering string copy instructions until the buffers are full? Pretty much. "Textbook" branch prediction isn't really dependent on the a

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