khafra

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   by khafra 15y ago

   I'm glad an excellent communicator with a solid reputation like you is going to bat on this issue. If you find yourself in doubt, just think "what would fakegrimlock do?"
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   by khafra 15y ago

   I would have called this too ridiculous to pose an actual danger before the PATRIOT Act. It points to a deeper problem, though: Lawmakers intent on passing something that a large portion of the public finds objectionable can often achieve t
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   by khafra 15y ago

   I, for one, am tired of playing Reality in fixed first-person view. I just need the LED-embedded contact lenses to get to a high enough resolution for over-the-shoulder.
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   by khafra 15y ago

   He's pre-generational, along with people like Ramon Llull and Hero of Alexandria (who, however, did not have such a heroically unusual distribution of letters in his last name).
5. 545.▲
   by khafra 15y ago

   Thanks for taking the thermodynamics-defiance out of the robot and replacing it with kinetic energy over time.
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   by khafra 15y ago

   > peak usage in most countries is when it's dark Citation needed. http://www.srpnet.com/prices/home/tou.aspx Looks to me like most of the peak hours are when the sun's out; especially in the areas where PV panels work best.
7. 547.▲
   by khafra 15y ago

   Every time I hear the inebriation metaphor applied to monetary policy, it makes me want a drink.
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   by khafra 15y ago

   Interesting. Will that improve latency, as well? I have a 50mpbs connection, but I'd be happy with a 10mbps if it didn't take 45 seconds to load reddit.
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   by khafra 15y ago

   Marshray started getting dead comments for some reason 4 days ago, but his reply to my top comment is extremely relevant: > I'm not tpatcek, but yes there's a reason why PBKDF2 doesn't do it that way. Because SHA1(SHA1(SHA1(SHA1(...))))
10. 550.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    ...and then your customer's credit card info would have showed up on an FTP server in Romania six months later.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Be careful. Tptacek may show up soon to explain in more detail why this is a dangerous direction to go, but the fact that PBKDF2 is a reasonably well-studied key stretching algorithm is the only reason I'd be comfortable iterating SHA1. To
12. 552.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    I know there's some world-class coffee in Kirkland, but that might be north-ish for most east-side tech workers.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Notable exceptions: "What would MacGuyver do?" and "What would Batman do?" work well in the right circumstances.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    It could be worse. I grew up in Seattle, and never made any friends until years after I'd moved away and finally realized it was possible.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    I agree with your conclusions, but > the onus of proof inevitably lies with the guy saying "This is what's going to happen", not the guy saying "Ehh, maybe not". I'd say that the onus lies on the one making conjunctions instead of disju
16. 556.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    Or an unsuspecting quant's source code repository. Compile, push to production, whoops! Crashed the stock market again...
17. 557.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    Disapproving of the world doesn't get you the ability to see through walls or build the Internet. Taking military funding does.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    One workable approach, which I use, is to not be notable.
19. 559.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    If it's successful enough at seeming smart, in a large range of different circumstances, how is that different from actually being smart?
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Tansey wrote a good, solid reply, but I dislike worshipping at the altar of mysteriousness. When a human or better GAI finally gets built, it won't be entirely hand-coded (although the seed for it might be). But the better we understand h
21. 561.▲
    by khafra 15y ago

    I'm hoping for a review from a real photographer's site.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    > I applaud that, but it hardly makes anyone unique. It does, at the very least, put Steve Jobs on a level no lower than that of Ernest P. Worrell.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    How does the PC make the drone 10,000 miles away fire the missiles once you take the NIC out?
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Many people complain when the ads are targetted. Google get a lot of flak about that.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    "Some people have it worse than you" is a fully general counterargument which can be applied to any complaint.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Free cloud helps (although I think that only applies to stuff you've gotten through Amazon), but even if just for the airplane use case, it'd be nice to have the option to carry a bandolier of sd cards.
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Here's an example: I use Snort, and wanted to set up Snorby because BASE is ancient and creaky and doesn't work well. It's written in Ruby, so it should be easy, right? Just get a package with the correct version of Ruby, then gem install
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Those of us who feel a bit uncomfortable and nervous when camping with friends should just stick with the minds we have, then?
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    by khafra 15y ago

    Weird. My iPhone 4 only works in portrait mode with polarized glasses, the glass turns opaque in landscape.