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by pjscott 12y ago
It's easy, and requires no modification to TinySSH. See here: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html
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by pjscott 12y ago
The usual problem with DJB's implementations is not that they're incorrect or slow or insecure -- far from it! -- but that they're awkward to integrate with the rest of the world, may require weird build configurations, and a
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by pjscott 12y ago
That sounds way too obvious for them not to have tried on a large corpus of (search string, correct result) pairs. If it actually gave better results, do you really think they wouldn't do it? I understand wanting to vent about the magi
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by pjscott 13y ago
This is usually a small price to pay for guaranteed O(n) matching speed. (Kudos to the author for doing the Right Thing here.)
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by pjscott 13y ago
Because you mentioned Dinosaur Comics, I suppose someone needs to find a relevant one and link to it. Like relevant xkcd linking, except less mainstream. http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=166
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by pjscott 13y ago
I think the rule of thumb is that articles containing statistics are guilty until proven innocent. There are just so many ways to get a wrong answer that fits a convenient narrative, and so few right answers.
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by pjscott 13y ago
A loud public witch-hunt also counts as a Wrong Thing, so this doesn't really tell us much about what happened one way or the other.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Using the AES-NI instructions completely gets rid of the attack on AES, and hopefully future ciphers will be designed from the start for side channel resistance.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Adam Langley has some thoughts about how to do this, and some numbers, here: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/04/29/filters.html
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by pjscott 13y ago
Well, the original plan was to use several :-D smileys to convey the well-deserved breadth of my grin, but when I typed them all out they looked tacky. ... Ah, to hell with it. A modified Falcon 9 rocket stage did a powered landing for the
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by pjscott 13y ago
As of about an hour ago, this flight has also shown that they can successfully do a powered landing of the first stage. This has been one hell of a good day.
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From L3 to seL4: What Have We Learnt in 20 Years of L4 Microkernels? [pdf](nicta.com.au)
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by pjscott 13y ago
I thought the same but was not excited, because Calibre is almost completely perfect already. If anybody reading this ever wants to convert ebooks from one format to another, or turn web pages into ebooks, or any such thing, definitely chec
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by pjscott 13y ago
In that case, I stand corrected.
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by pjscott 13y ago
I don't think John Carmack, of all people, has to worry much about his salary.
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by pjscott 13y ago
I have another hypothesis: "benevolent dictator" leadership leads to higher variance of outcomes -- more huge successes and more huge failures. And you usually don't notice the companies that have been driven into the groun
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by pjscott 13y ago
I realize it must be shocking to see functional programming language geeks solving real-world problems in a pragmatic way. :-) Seriously, though, they wanted to move a large PHP codebase over to a better language, at the scale of a multi-bi
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by pjscott 13y ago
It's bizarre that this is still something we have to worry about.
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by pjscott 13y ago
At the time this article was written, AEAD modes were apparently still too new, and their implementations too untrustworthy: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-24-encrypt-then-mac.... At the moment, the best-suppo
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by pjscott 13y ago
Microsoft Research is one of the best CS research labs in the world.
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by pjscott 13y ago
> look You look around the article, and see real news of someone quitting, and a few incensed tweets. Around these things lie a vast and billowing cloud of baseless speculation, which smells uncomfortably of sulfur and bile.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Those benchmark ratios are not comparable across languages. The C code compares running time with a very standard mergesort. The C++ code compares with std::stable_sort. The Java code compares with a standard mergesort -- very similar to th
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by pjscott 13y ago
Don't be so sure. If this turns out to be a cost-competitive way to get internet access over the last mile (or last several miles) to customers, then there's some real money to be made.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Satellites can listen to radio signals and take photographs. As for the third complaint, about airspace, I suppose you're right: a few exotic aircraft do fly up 20 km or above, so these could interfere slightly with aviation. So, presu
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by pjscott 13y ago
Are you implying that increased internet access would somehow reduce the diversity of media people are exposed to? That has not been my experience.
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by pjscott 13y ago
I'm not sure that government regulation makes that sort of thing less likely, especially in some of the more corrupt countries in Africa. If I had to pick a method of providing net neutrality and preventing eavesdropping, I wouldn&#x
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by pjscott 13y ago
Then let me amend my statement: I have not heard any mention of this being free from a credible source. And yes, I've looked.
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by pjscott 13y ago
You're aware of satellites, right?
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by pjscott 13y ago
I don't think that this, or Google's balloon project, are supposed to be free. Cheap, sure -- they have competitors on the ground. But for something like this to stay aloft, they'll need to charge enough money to at least hav
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by pjscott 13y ago
How is this better for people than a company that just moves packets around? I mean, government regulation and oversight are presumably means to an end, rather than goals in themselves, so tell me: in this case, what advantage do they offer

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