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by nemo1618 8y ago
I have to disagree. Programming is certainly a craft , but it is not an art form. Programming is fundamentally a means to an end, whereas art can be an end in itself. Programming is much closer to swordsmithing. It is possible to create a
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Nebulous | Sia Core Engineer, Full-Stack Web Developer | Boston & Zurich | ONSITE | Full-time Nebulous is a leader in the burgeoning blockchain ecosystem, building software and hardware infrastructure for the decentralized Internet. Our
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by nemo1618 8y ago
k is probably omitted because it's not open-source.
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Whitney is so fascinating to me. His code is simultaneously awe-inspiring and horrifying. It's like he struck a Faustian bargain to gain programming powers beyond the ken of mere mortals, and is now cursed to write transcendently beaut
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by nemo1618 8y ago
The modern emphasis on individualism is understandable as a reaction to the collectivism of the past. But as usual, we over-corrected. So now we're entering a period of reaction against individualism. We'll almost certainly over-c
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Sure, but "isn't exposed" is very different from "that functionality is physically not present in this executable."
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A program like this has vastly less attack surface than a full SSH protocol implementation. In particular, it doesn't support the part of the SSH protocol that allows executing commands on a remote host. So the only way this will be le
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Deleting from a slice is ugly and awkward because it's slow. Go, like C, confronts you with the real cost of what you want to achieve. A builtin like 'delete(a, i)' looks like an O(1) operation, when in reality it's O(
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Check out my experiment with adding map/filter/reduce to Go: https://github.com/lukechampine/ply Ultimately I concluded that map/filter/reduce really need to be paired with a concise lambda syntax i
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by nemo1618 8y ago
To be fair, people such as GK Chesterton and CS Lewis are referred to as "Christian apologists" with no slight intended. But I would tend to agree that in modern times it carries a negative connotation, implying that the person is
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Interesting. There's also "XChaCha20-Poly1305", with a 192-bit nonce (long enough to be chosen randomly), but I don't know if this is standardized. It seems to me that using a long, explicit, random nonce is always prefe
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A Ransom Attack on Hardware Wallets(blog.sia.tech)
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Crashes are exploitable too -- you definitely don't want someone to be able to take your website offline just by sending it a malformed packet. You might not leak user data, but being DoS'd is no fun either.
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Did you consider "Fuzzbizz?" It's a truer Spoonerism, plus you get the "business" pun. Although maybe that's outweighed by it no longer rhyming. :P
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If the encryption has no authentication, an attacker could still conceivably flip individual bits, much like they can when attacking a stream cipher. Does the spec say that the encryption be authenticated? If so, where are the MACs stored?
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Pet peeve of mine: You should never take a raw screenshot of a Word doc, with its red and blue underlines, cursor, etc. Convert it to a PDF first or find a way to turn off the highlighting+cursor.
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I'd be really interested to try out a Go port of this. Given that Adiantum is a construction built from existing primitives, should I expect that it won't be difficult to port?
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No, I think your criticism is fair. "Modeled" is not quite accurate, since the term was applied retroactively to functionality that was already implemented. Still, I wouldn't call the resemblance superficial. "iota"
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They are both used to generate a sequence of consecutive integers, although Go's iota starts at 0 whereas APL's starts at 1. "Ken suggested iota for the counter and, since all three of us (Ken, Robert, Rob) had implemented AP
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Fun fact: All three of Go's creators have written APL interpreters, and Go's "iota" keyword is modeled after the corresponding APL operator.
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I copied most of the implementation from the Go standard library. The actual diff required to implement the steganography is very small: https://github.com/lukechampine/jsteg/commit/d35a0bb4e6c545d... Re-enco
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by nemo1618 8y ago
If you'd like to try doing some steganography yourself, I wrote a simple tool for hiding data in JPEGs: https://github.com/lukechampine/jsteg
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by nemo1618 8y ago
I solved all of the problems in Go. I feel like I programmed pretty quickly, but I rarely made it onto the leaderboard. I attribute this to Go's verbosity -- needing to write for loops manually instead of just map/filter/redu
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by nemo1618 8y ago
I guess I should have disclosed that I am the co-founder of Sia. So I may be slightly biased in my opinion of which decentralized storage option is best. :P
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I wish people would ask this question of IPFS more often. Storage, especially long-term storage, requires incentives! Just look at BitTorrent -- at best , you continue seeding a file after downloading it out of the goodness of your heart,
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"Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent." - André Gide
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by nemo1618 8y ago
Ha, I've been using this trick for a while, though I wouldn't go so far as to say "don't use the greater-than-sign." Honestly I just wish languages had a cleaner way to write "x is within this range," e.g.
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>Unlike physical goods which can only exist in one place at one time, it is conceivable that with a powerful enough computer, the solution could be found entirely honestly by a third party simply doing some math and stumbling upon the an
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Why on earth would you use IOTA for this? Even ignoring its ignominious history, the security paper itself acknowledges that IOTA currently isn't an "immutable ledger" at all: >at the moment the log entries on IOTA will be
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Indeed, the first I heard of it was from Y Combinator's own Aaron Iba: http://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain I think the raving is due to four factors: - It sets off every rational person's bullshit detector

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