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by robryk 10y ago
> increases suicide risk in one's family twofold What is the baseline here? Could you provide a source?
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by robryk 10y ago
My first guess is that it should be (because addition on FP gives the nearest representable value), but I'd also guess that any small differences here are irrelevant. I wonder how many of those optimizations (e.g. maybe this exact one)
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by robryk 10y ago
> (...) not Signal's weird "link your phone up to your MacBook" solution What are the properties of this solution that you dislike?
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by robryk 11y ago
If the OP uses PGP only for signing and signature verification, it's not privacy he's after. If the OP uses PGP for encryption, then his conversation partners use it too, and thus can't use gmail, outlook or yahoo (I am under
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by robryk 11y ago
All of those costs, except for heap allocation related ones, are roughly per-function-call costs. If a function gets inlined, an optimizer can get rid of them. Also, don't some link time optimizers help with pessimizations related to c
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by robryk 11y ago
How does this work with the option of shipping the kits as gifts to someone?
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by robryk 11y ago
> trying to uncover government wrongdoing GP's point seems to be that it's pointful to avoid association of that phone with any news organization at all in such cases.
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by robryk 11y ago
Similar laws exist in many European countries and Poland is very likely to pass one soon. I guess that the ostensible reason for introducing this is to help against terrorism (it is in Poland). I fail to see how this should help in any way:
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by robryk 11y ago
It'd be hard to imagine how that should work on filesystem level (if I can't read contents of any directory, how do I figure out which directory do I add a newly created file to?). OTOH, on the file contents level this seems very
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by robryk 11y ago
This might depend on the country you're in. E.g. Polish law allows sharing of copies of works such as books between people who know each other (the exact condition is more involved, but boils down to essentially this).
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by robryk 11y ago
> that's kidnapping, in fact Nitpick: false imprisonment, not kidnapping (kidnapping requires movement).
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by robryk 11y ago
> For LZ algorithms, the dictionary made when compressing the first version would be reused for subsequent "versions" of the same document. So sort of a static dictionary, but specialized for what you're sending. Ah, so yo
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by robryk 11y ago
So how does it apply to e.g. keys to backups of Apple devices if the device was bought out of China and then used in China?
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by robryk 11y ago
What do you mean by a codebook? Something like a static dictionary?
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by robryk 11y ago
If the researcher didn't try to find what he could do with those AWS keys, they would likely be still valid. It's conceivable that some other people have found them too and did the same the researcher did, only kept everything to
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by robryk 11y ago
Seems that most time for grep was spent waiting on disk. This underlines the reason look may be significantly faster: actually reading the bad lines may take time.
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by robryk 11y ago
> It baffles me that there are still so many services that try to 'automagically' intuit which language someone wants to have a service in, instead of just simply .. asking. There's a simple explanation for that. Adding a
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by robryk 11y ago
Some browsers used to send a default Accept-Language that specified English without asking the user (and, IIRC, even if the UI language of the browser was different). Thus, many sites still ignore those particular values of Accept-Language.
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by robryk 11y ago
> Nor is the tobacco industry responsible for nicotine's addictive effects. Devil's advocate: this is not the main problem with tobacco industry. The main issue is that other components of tobacco smoke are carcinogenic.
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by robryk 11y ago
Every (almost every?) letter is operated by a different organization, so I'd expect the setups to be different.
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by robryk 11y ago
I suspect that this might have been a botnet showing off to its potential clients. This may explain withholding of the domain names queried (not to give advertising to the botnet).
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by robryk 11y ago
> Though, deploying parachutes may have marginally reduced the risks to a passing boat. Didn't it fall in the range safety exclusion zone, which ships were warned away from?
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by robryk 11y ago
This is a reasonably detailed simulator of a thermal power plant.
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Mi Central(telecable.es)
1 points by robryk 11y ago|1 comments
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by robryk 11y ago
So, every entry is either stored in memory or will be emitted again. This is very different than in Bloom filters (though, admittedly, you can't do better than that on this problem).
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by robryk 11y ago
> It also seems that regexes can't express accepting expressions like AB where A is accepted by itself (considering AB is accepted), which in the DFA is implemented by sending it to the initial state B* does that.
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by robryk 11y ago
Well, you can repair your car's mechanical brakes yourself now. If you disable them (accidentally or otherwise) and render the car unsafe, the results of that are your responsibility. Is there a reason why software modifications can&#x
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by robryk 11y ago
> and no, artful dodges like "The mechanic will set it up, and the owner can push the button" are unlikely to fly What about selling/renting devices that the owner connects in some obvious way and pushes a button?
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by robryk 11y ago
Certs are published in certificate transparency logs, which would make the hostnames public.
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by robryk 11y ago
An interesting usecase of wildcard certs: when I do not want to publish the hostnames I am using. Sandstorm[1] uses unpredictable hostnames as one mitigation against various cross-origin attacks -- if the attacker doesn't know the doma

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