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by kkaranth 8y ago
For anyone else who was wondering why SMS is insecure for 2FA: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/18/16328172/sms-two-factor-a...
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by kkaranth 8y ago
As someone who understands nothing about quantum computing, what are some good resources to begin learning? Hopefully with examples/code that I can run.
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by kkaranth 8y ago
Nice read! I have 2 questions: When calculating K, the author says “It can be shown through the use of trigonometric identities that:” and proceeds to show a formula. How exactly does this happen? After calculating K, the author assigns it
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by kkaranth 8y ago
This is great, I'll be using this instead of "watch nvidia-smi" now. What exactly is "Mo" in the memory column? PID USER GPU TYPE MEM Command 2324 ubuntu 0 Graphic 1Mo 0.1% /usr&#
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by kkaranth 8y ago
The Game Engine Black Book by Fabien Sanglard[1] is a wonderful book that talks about some of the engineering challenges and tricks employed by id software to get Wolfenstein 3D working. [1]: http://fabiensanglard.net/Game_E
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by kkaranth 8y ago
I've found that almost all the results I get from Google these days point to some "big site": pinterest, quora, wired, verge, etc. Often, these sites are behind a paywall/login wall, and the content isn't very good
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by kkaranth 8y ago
Later in the same article: > It’s meant to only run when the driver is between rides. Once a passenger hops in the car, the projector is shut off — because, well, no one wants a projector blasting light in their face on the way to their
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by kkaranth 8y ago
Indeed, I've used randn() wherever a normally distributed random number is needed. This is computed using the Box-Muller method.
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by kkaranth 8y ago
The real problem was that the shell got slower over time. If that was fixed, the choice of Wayland vs. X wouldn't bother me.
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Generating random points inside a sphere(karthikkaranth.me)
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by kkaranth 8y ago
The slowness was very apparent for me too. I used to keep restarting the shell (Alt F2, then r) to get it back to normal speeds(this doesn't close the running applications). In Wayland, they removed this shortcut. I've since switc
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by kkaranth 8y ago
Very interesting. I can see this being useful as a learning tool for musicians.
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by kkaranth 8y ago
> Sometimes I use javascript to write music Could you explain what you mean by this?