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by munin 8y ago
From my direct, personal, experience, it goes something like this: "Don't you want better tools?" I'll ask "Of course!" the programmer replies (note sometimes this is a conversation with myself) "but I don
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by munin 8y ago
> Why doesn't autocomplete help me based on the adjacent problems others have solved? Doesn't the Facebook editor / autocompleter do that? I guess it's not available to anyone outside Facebook? > Why can't I c
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by munin 8y ago
I think the big win is that now instead of every IoT company trying to figure out how they can update endpoint devices, the company that has been doing endpoint device updates for 20 years will give it to you as a service if you use their p
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by munin 8y ago
> I'd argue neither Washington nor Lincoln initiated hostilities Why did Lincoln resupply Fort Sumter? If he did not want to initiate hostilities, he could have evacuated it.
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by munin 8y ago
"Battle of Wits" by Stephen Budianski "Colossus" by Jack Copeland "Between Silk and Cyanide" by Leo Marks
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by munin 8y ago
If society celebrated math and science, there is a huge cast of heroes to draw from that period to tell an amazing range of stranger-than-fiction true stories. When you read the real story, Cryptonomicon seems comically small minded in comp
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by munin 8y ago
There was an alliance between the Polish, French, and British to work on the Enigma problem. Rejewski made a simple assumption about the connection between the keyboard and the rotors that turned out to be correct. The British did not think
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by munin 8y ago
The McDonalds drive through doesn't require any prep work and is super cheap. I see tons of people load up on Egg McMuffins with sausage at 6-7am on their way to work.
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by munin 8y ago
bacon with your waffles? hot dog for lunch? meat lovers pizza for dinner?
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How Do You Explain the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cloud Security?(highscalability.com)
4 points by munin 8y ago|0 comments
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by munin 8y ago
> Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, electrical linemen, welders Also a shelf life, just how much abuse your body can take.
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by munin 8y ago
It's hard to blow the whistle anonymously, people seem to react poorly to anonymous accusations. There is even an amendment in the US constitution that mentions this. And even today on the Internet, if there is reporting of anonymous a
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by munin 8y ago
> Now why, instead, are we now so dead-set on being so goddamn serious all the time? What happened to simpler times where things like "error: ‘long long long’ is too long for GCC" were the norm? What happened to simpler times
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by munin 8y ago
> 2) null-result publication is useful in and of itself, sometimes. I want to believe, but try getting a null result peer reviewed.
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Evaluating Empirical Evaluations (for Fuzz Testing)(pl-enthusiast.net)
1 points by munin 8y ago|0 comments
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by munin 8y ago
> and they give you a (complex, hard to fake) badge Unless they run out of those, then they just give you a paper card that you wear on some string or something.
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by munin 8y ago
I'm also a grad student. We do know what good research looks like, that's not the problem, at least not directly. We're both told "go do good research" and then we go and each write one paper. The government then sa
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by munin 8y ago
> Scientists optimizing for what is likely to be published (read: what is likely to earn money), sacrificing elsewhere. Maybe if we payed them enough so that they don't have to do this to survive, then we wouldn't have this iss
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by munin 8y ago
Same author wrote _True Names_, which pre-dates the internet and yet nails a bunch of internet crime concepts (it's not about black ICE it's about someone doxing you, etc). Some sci-fi authors had a vision of the future, Vinge wen
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by munin 8y ago
I think the argument is something like: you could understand what invalid curve point attacks are, and once you did, you could look for them everywhere, and if you did that, you would have found this error as well. The math behind invalid c
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by munin 8y ago
Nice! Some perspective: the existing, Federal competition in this space is the NSF GRFP, which is about $165k over five years, instead of $100k for one year. Obviously if you win the Shannon Fellowship for two years, you are coming out ahea
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by munin 8y ago
I wish more people knew this! There's a very middle-brow response to "well we've got system A, and system B, so obviously the combination will be better than A or B alone!" but this doesn't need to be the case. Peop
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Venezuela President Maduro 'survives drone attack'(bbc.com)
58 points by munin 8y ago|63 comments
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by munin 8y ago
Adjuncts aren’t employees.
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by munin 8y ago
> Teaching high school I looked into this in my state. Getting your foot in the door as a teacher in a public school would require someone with a PhD in say, mathematics, physics or computer science, to go back to grad school for a maste
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by munin 8y ago
> The support for radare is abysmal and not even merged mcsema takes a CFG as input, so really someone just has to wire up radare to emit that CFG and it will just work. I don't seen an active PR to merge that in for radare. Control
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by munin 8y ago
I would really love to talk to you about this, we are working some on this for a project related to converting C to a safe C superset.
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by munin 8y ago
> If the concern is leaks, defense contractors like Galois might be able to get DARPA to change that policy. I don't think any one thing at either the DARPA or Galois level can change this policy. It's a question of whether or
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by munin 8y ago
I didn't say it wouldn't be difficult, I said it would not be impossible. How badly do you want the money? How badly do you want to do the project? If the answer is really badly, then, from personal experience, you will put up wit
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by munin 8y ago
It's good to set the record straight on the relationship between c2rust and corrode. I was wondering that myself. Galois should give some credit back - that's free for them. It sounds like an accident not to. I'm sympathetic

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