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by robryk 7y ago
I am confused by the threat model here. It seems that we want to assure (among others) confidentiality of the data the user is inputting. However, I don't think any of the planned data input channels would be hard to eavesdrop on from
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by robryk 7y ago
Yes, assuming you can find all the old chart toppers (and that this term has a consistent meaning over the whole time interval you're looking at). If, understandably, you have some gaps in old chart toppers, you need to assume somethin
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by robryk 7y ago
For virtually any kind of art newer artworks will be on average worse than _surviving_ older artworks: the older artworks have undergone a selection process that weeded out the less popular ones. This is IMO a more fundamental problem with
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by robryk 7y ago
How do you keep your constant costs (e.g. mistakes and omissions insurance) down?
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by robryk 7y ago
> And you want to tell me with a straight face that users will do their own crypto foo instead and validate hashes? Your Keybase client (for whichever platform) will perform the verification for users you follow. There is no need for any
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by robryk 7y ago
I wonder why speech-based IF games are essentially nonexistent, given the popularity of podcasts and existence of speech-only computers (e.g. Alexa).
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by robryk 8y ago
I'm confused about the terminology here. Is Certificate Transparency a blockchain in the meaning in which the article uses the word?
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by robryk 8y ago
E.g. Poland Reference: https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faqs-o... I think this reference is partly inaccurate; I was under the impression that the legality of the original copy doesn
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by robryk 8y ago
Disclaimer: not a lawyer. In some countries there are exceptions to copyright for non-software that allow making copies for use of friends.
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by robryk 8y ago
It seems that you're arguing for a different functionality of the implanted chip than the original article. Original article supposes that the implanted chip was used to modify the boot process of the BMC in such a way that the BMC loa
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by robryk 8y ago
This requires assuming some pronunciation for Latin, so the problem of choosing standard patterns devolves into choosing the standard Latin-alphabet language. (Assuming pronunciation for Cyryllic is can be done approximately correctly -- th
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by robryk 8y ago
I've just learned that vaccinating people suffering from AIDS makes any sense at all (that their immune system benefits from it); thanks. Do you have any pointers to a more extensive treatment of that topic (it's hard to search fo
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by robryk 8y ago
That spot was the "aft field joint" according to wikipedia. According to the diagram linked[1] that is distinct from the case-to-nozzle joint. [1] https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsr
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by robryk 8y ago
> The O ring was a necessary pressure valve (...) Do I understand correctly that you're saying that the O-ring would be necessary even if the SRBs were constructed as a single long tube, instead of segments that are assembled togeth
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by robryk 8y ago
Gwern has released such a piece of software: https://github.com/gwern/archiver-bot See also http://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs for a description of their usage of it.
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by robryk 8y ago
Some background: Apollo Command Module had an apparently similar arrangement of parachutes. In the case of Apollo CM, two out of three main chutes had to be properly inflated for the landing to not likely cause a significant injury. In case
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by robryk 9y ago
I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least a way to deal with large-scale account hijacking, where the hijacker deleted lots of hijacked accounts' content.
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by robryk 9y ago
Slightly OT: where is it so weird to ask a pharmacist for advice? In places I've lived in it's either reasonably typical or not typical but within the realm of expected things.
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by robryk 9y ago
You can put the untrusted VMs in the cloud, to get better isolation between them and more important stuff. This, e.g., is a way of preventing two colluding VMs from communicating.
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by robryk 9y ago
What fundamental frequency? If your signal is a mixture of frequency you care about and some other random ones, the random ones will generate lot of discontinuity if you tune the period to the interesting one. Also, if you're slightly
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by robryk 9y ago
Yes, although not with very low-resolution images (8x8 or 16x16), because then you run out of frequency gap between interesting frequencies and ones that are contributed to by the windowing function. EDIT: Another facet of the same issue vi
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by robryk 9y ago
The claim that vertical and horizontal lines in the transform's output are caused by natural tendency to have vertical and horizontal edges seems doubtful. I suspect they are caused by discontinuities between the left and right image b
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by robryk 9y ago
When you do a Fourier transform of sound, you'd usually apply a windowing function: multiply the sound with a function that descends continuously to zero at the boundary of the "window", so that there is no discontinuity ther
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by robryk 9y ago
You could check if the MX records still point at your service, or, better yet, send a test e-mail to that domain every so often and see if it reaches your service.
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by robryk 9y ago
Would you mind sharing what would you use such a thing for? Counting events or timestamping them?
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by robryk 9y ago
I doubt that this is an isolated incident. I've directly seen a few cases when content that was unpopular with a large group was removed for ridiculously false reasons and heard of various FB groups trolling each other by getting each
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by robryk 9y ago
I remember something similar in Taiwan in 2008. The ostensible reason was that they want to have a thermal camera pointed at people's faces so that they can see if someone has a fever. I don't expect that face recognition was the
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by robryk 9y ago
Yes. This is a tradeoff between a chance of catastrophic failure (fire fed by fuel from the storage tank) and "normal" failure.
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by robryk 9y ago
> the generator could be below the tank level This is what anti-siphon valves are used to prevent: they are valves that open only when sufficient suction is present in the fuel line leaving the tank. Thus, when the line breaks or the pum
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by robryk 9y ago
The particular failure mode you're talking about is reasonably easy to reliably remove: all fuel piping should be under lower than atmospheric pressure. You accomplish this by installing suction pumps next to consumers (and install add

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