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by kyboren 6y ago
> [...] organizations that don't tolerate whistle blowing become more compartmentalized to force whistle blowing into a more deniable narrow scope, which of course means the same organizations increase their inefficiency. This is th
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by kyboren 6y ago
Alternatively: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf input3.pdf [...]
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by kyboren 6y ago
> _Desktop_ Linux is absoultely not under attack whatsoever. Is that actually true? For example, we know NSA targets sysadmins and sysadmins use desktop Linux at much higher rates than the general public. Relatively few people use deskt
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by kyboren 6y ago
> Ethically challenged software engineer working for a major tech company Well, at least you know yourself, but I don't appreciate this attempt to normalize your moral bankruptcy and ridicule others who haven't sold and don&#x2
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by kyboren 6y ago
This situation looks absolutely absurd to me, but it does appear that you can send an application by fax. There are plenty of services out there that will allow you to send a fax from a web browser. Keep in mind that most American companie
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by kyboren 6y ago
> but they would only need a very weak link to some foreign agent to allow wide scale surveillance. Hell, a Canadian protester would fulfill the criteria. My impression is that this is exactly why DHS wrote the Intelligence Report "
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by kyboren 6y ago
> Because the right to free speech is working out so well for American politics these days. I am unconvinced that the state of US politics is a consequence of a more permissive environment for speech. > I'd wager you're talk
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by kyboren 6y ago
> This won't stop illegal use of course, but will stop anyone interested in their privacy It won't stop much on the long term. Techniques like chaffing and winnowing[0] can be used to provide confidentiality while preserving p
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by kyboren 6y ago
Indeed, velocity has decreased sharply. I also do not think hyperinflation is likely, even if the economy recovers quickly. But I do expect to see asset price inflation.
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by kyboren 6y ago
Not surprising. The money supply has increased sharply: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
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by kyboren 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from, and I appreciate the constraints of embedded system design, but this is a pretty extreme scenario. Management should seriously consider whether the 0.01c saved on that 8Mb chip is worth the design
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by kyboren 6y ago
Unfortunately, that they don't is also our problem.
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by kyboren 6y ago
It very well might be good for the copyright holder. There is obviously a benefit to buzz around your content, and piracy helps generate that buzz all the same. It's not cut and dry. What's more, brands like UFC have other ways
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by kyboren 6y ago
> Google has been bleeding the media dry. I don't think that's a fair characterization. Would you say that Ford bled blacksmiths and carriage makers dry? Technology moves on. Newspapers are dying because their business model
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by kyboren 6y ago
Why don't you just say it in plain English: You want cash reparations. At least you did in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24005344 > It's not good for America's stability to let the ra
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by kyboren 6y ago
> How do you secure it, back it up, and bequeath it to people on your passing? Keep the private key, mnemonic, seed phrase, etc. only in your brain and perhaps your will, potentially split into pieces that are kept in the physical contro
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by kyboren 6y ago
> The difference is they don’t have a guaranteed buyer for their debt like the federal government does with the federal reserve. That is no longer true: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/muni.htm On
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by kyboren 6y ago
Well, that's an explanation for why FPGA compilation flows take so much time, but it's not a good explanation for why the software is so crap. I think partial reconfiguration is really sexy, but it's been around for a long ti
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by kyboren 6y ago
> Like considering dumping memory content on a PC and reinject it on another with different RAM layout and devices and complaining the OS and programs can't continue running? Is that a sane expectation? Even worse; it's more li
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by kyboren 6y ago
For sure. FPGAs are probably not the answer that most people are looking for. FPGAs are but one point in the trade-off space, and they're not one you jump to "just because". > [...] there are useful nearby technologies t
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by kyboren 6y ago
> The rebuttal to your objection is always tools like "HLS" Yup. I know HLS has gotten a lot better recently but my impression is that, somewhat like fusion, HLS as a first-class design paradigm is always a decade away. > FP
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by kyboren 6y ago
Browsing over Tor, I cannot read the article. Instead the entire page source is: Banned ...
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by kyboren 6y ago
If implemented properly, it's totally possible that security is not reduced for that user. However there are at least three problems with it: 1) When not implemented properly, it is treated as an alternative authentication mechanism,
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by kyboren 6y ago
GPUs work great for accelerating many applications, and it's true that that reduces interest in FPGAs. For applications that map well to GPUs, you're absolutely correct that the higher clock speeds (and greater effective logic ar
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by kyboren 6y ago
To add another data point, consider this email Twilio sent, announcing that they are now forcing all users to use 2FA by October 12th: > [...] a 2FA verification code sent to your phone (via a call, SMS message, or an authentication app
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by kyboren 6y ago
> I found that the difference between faculty members at the same institution can be immense. Absolutely! > This is why I think it's smarter to give doctoral students more freedom and flexibility in switching faculty. The school
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by kyboren 6y ago
They are not currently using ASICs, so ASICs are presumably not a good fit for the application. Maybe the NRE costs are too excessive given the very small volume, flexibility/updateability is essential, TTM is too long, something else
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by kyboren 6y ago
No need to send anything. Just sign a message with the corresponding private key.
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by kyboren 6y ago
For their handset SoCs, sure. But the real prize appears to be the base station market. As I understand it, Huawei's base stations are critically dependent upon Xilinx FPGAs. With those no longer available to them, Huawei is in a di
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by kyboren 6y ago
> the further implication of my comment is that societies are locking up their most entrepreneurial and productive members for creating too much value This view seems flawed to me: "creating value" for the drug dealer by selli

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