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by robryk 4y ago
Your reference for [1] just states that bypassing the turbine is a thing, not that it's normally used. First, reactors are in a stable equilibrium when operating, so one will actually increase their power by increasing the rate at whic
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by robryk 4y ago
The header compression in http2 has atypical requirements placed upon it: contents of different headers in a single request must not impact each other's compressed size[^], lest an attacker able to manipulate one of them can use that t
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by robryk 4y ago
> Isn't the earth's eccentricity incredibly low? (To the point that human-noticeability or non-precision-machinability are out of the question?) It's one-percentish, and causes the length of time between equinoxes to be s
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by robryk 4y ago
I don't get how one can get realistic modeling of eclipses without taking into account the eccentricity of Earth's orbit around the Sun (it not only minorly affects the distance, but more imporantly it causes the angular speed of
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by robryk 4y ago
Why is the delivery service concerned about the food quality at all? Post office is not concerned about quality of products it ships and I don't see anyone expecting it to be.
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by robryk 4y ago
In that case it's hard to say which deaths are "caused by government". If a government could have imposed a policy that prevented them, are they caused by government? Should we balance that against side effects of such a poli
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by robryk 4y ago
I can't imagine how a society in a world where $DEITY would strike down anyone who tried to create a government would look like; I don't know what they'd use for coordination and whether it would be more or less vulnerable to
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by robryk 4y ago
What are you comparing with (both for government and for criminals)? In case of criminals it's easier to imagine a similar world where just criminals don't do crime; however, that comparison fails to take into account indirect eff
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by robryk 4y ago
In this setup we want to be able to decode a cipherstream with holes into a plainstream with holes. This is very much possible with CTR-MAC, as long as MAC is done on some finitely-sized segments.
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by robryk 4y ago
When talking about expected magnitudes of loss due to fraud, it's much more useful to talk in terms of relative (as opposed to absolute) magnitudes.
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by robryk 4y ago
As long as you simply transmit the count in the packet this is not an issue. You mostly have to do that anyway, because packets can be reordered and you want to stitch them together in order (with holes).
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by robryk 4y ago
CTR with no authentication is strictly better than EBC with no authentication in that case. Similarly, CTR-then-MAC (with MACs being e.g. per packet) is strictly better than EBC-then-MAC.
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by robryk 4y ago
Surprisingly in some jurisdictions it does. At least in cases related to criminal defense in Poland the existence of a attorney-client relationship is protected (obviously if it comes to trial, it's eventually revealed, but it's n
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by robryk 4y ago
> And even if it were true, so what? Last I checked Tesla didn’t have software which can perfectly emulated a human agent. GP was arguing against: > The feature is impossible to implement with the sensor suite that comes with the car.
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by robryk 4y ago
This note makes it very obvious that customer's evaluation of the expected timeline might impact their purchase decision. In my non-expert opinion Tesla puts itself on notice that any false statements that might impact that evaluation
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by robryk 4y ago
> Passengers would in fact have a lower chance of injury in a car crash if they were wearing helmets. I once thought so. Someone pointed out that helmets might make whiplash worse (because they extend the head backward, so will change th
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by robryk 4y ago
I have very little doubt the effect's real. Note though that getting base rates from one place and getting rates of accidents from another is usually a bad idea: they will have various ways of measuring the rates, so will have differen
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by robryk 4y ago
> The author was trying to stress the importance of wearing a life jacket, I don't think they need to get into statistical robustness in their summary paragraph for something that is so _obviously_ correct. Then don't provide s
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by robryk 4y ago
This is exactly my point. Without knowing how common {wearing helmets in cars, wearing PFDs in kayaks} is, the statements imply nothing about safety benefits of either, and yet that one was presented in a way that suggests that it does. Wha
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by robryk 4y ago
> Of those people that die, over 80% of them are not wearing a life jacket or Personal Flotation Device (PFD). Making this statement in such a context borders on statistical misconduct, because it ignores base rates: Consider whether you
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by robryk 4y ago
I'd guess that the context model (based on last 1-2 bytes) can be used to separate opcodes and their parameters.
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by robryk 4y ago
UNDO makes sense if the server is keeping a bag of responses. For example, ActivityPub has an Undo action that points at a previous action punished by the same user. You use it to unfollow, unvote, unfavorite, etc. Obviously, handling of Un
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by robryk 4y ago
If the human is doing the traction control job, they know how far from the edge of the envelope they are (because the difficulty changes). If it's a computer doing that, it's hard to communicate that to the human (iiuc we don&#x27
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by robryk 4y ago
Switzerland had that, but abandoned the distinction in 2019: now there are no transmission restrictions on Swiss licenses. Source: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmittei... , grep fo
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by robryk 4y ago
The UK authorities agree with you: if you pass the exam with a manual car you can use both, but if you pass it with an automatic one, you can only drive automatic ones.
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by robryk 4y ago
In snowy conditions you don't actually want all the torque available: then you'd want to control the torque applied instead of the power delivered when starting to move (similar to placing a restriction on the top torque by shifti
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by robryk 4y ago
Would int foo(int x, int y) { return x+y; } compile? After all, this function can be called in a way that causes UB.
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by robryk 4y ago
TBF putting a reverse proxy that does authn and rejects requests that do not authn correctly in front of everything (except for the login pages) is nearly as good: the exposed area is then login page, reverse proxy, and the authn login in t
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by robryk 4y ago
> It's a great argument against the scale that cloudformation has, and regulation would help. Agreed. It's very annoying that such services like ddos protection have an ever-growing scaling advantage (because the sizes of ddos
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by robryk 4y ago
Sure, you want to optimize for total length. However, you don't have any meaningful restrictions on turn radius, which do exist when you want to build a road and which make building a road around holdouts oftentimes impossible.

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