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by smolder 2y ago
They do think they own every computer they have code on. This is modern computing. Your hardware is an extension of "the cloud", if you let MS, apple, or any other big co into it.
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by smolder 2y ago
What do you think an algorithm is? This weird criticism is kind of a "tell", for what it's worth. Ciphers are algorithms. This is unnecessarily combative. I'm disappointed by your posts in this thread, because they'
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by smolder 2y ago
It's been years, but I recall that, for example, when you know every piece of plaintext starts with " https://www ", or perhaps know the full contents of particular messages, it may become some degree easier to brut
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by smolder 2y ago
Proof that you don't need to be super-human to build something useful, also demonstrated by your freshman CS student anecdote.
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by smolder 2y ago
Again you're mistaking my point. I know enough to know what I don't know and the risk involved in doing any serious crypto work, that I can't solo build libraries to protect financial transactions or whatever willy-nilly. It&
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by smolder 2y ago
That project wasn't for school.
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by smolder 2y ago
All I'm reading here is more of the same scare-mongering. I don't casually implement cryptosystems to be used in critical situations, and I wouldn't attempt it without a serious amount of research. But "never do it yours
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by smolder 2y ago
The arrogance and elitism is wild. I never said people shouldn't use libsodium.
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by smolder 2y ago
It wasn't 'an algorithms class' but grad level cryptography. We did implement boxes as a project and were graded on them. Where do you think people learn this stuff? Super secret cryptography school? I even used it. I previou
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by smolder 2y ago
The stuggle was real in the early web with getting companies to do proper password storage and authentication but the fact that seasoned professionals turn to auth0 or okta (and have been bitten by this reliance!) nowadays strikes me as a l
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by smolder 2y ago
I honestly think it's a meme born of propaganda. 'Don't roll your own' is good advice a lot of the time when there are hardened libraries at your disposal, but who does it serve if less people know how to build useful
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by smolder 2y ago
I went and re-watched the PBS Spacetime episode on neutron star collisions, and while he didn't address this specifically (at least in that episode,) there was an animation that seemed to show beams emitting from the poles. I think it&
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by smolder 2y ago
Listen guys, I don't even drink water, just liquid cheese, and after my daily cheese cleanse (don't ask, too graphic,) I feel great. People always ask where I get this sharp cheddar cologne, but the scent comes naturally.
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by smolder 2y ago
If I said "free dogs" does it mean I'm giving away dogs for free or are demanding that they be freed? Maybe referring to dogs that have escaped captivity? It doesn't hurt to disambiguate, particularly in the context wher
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by smolder 2y ago
Because it is a national security operation designed to spy on everyone
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by smolder 2y ago
Your argument against electron being a memory hog is that chrome is a bigger one? You are aware that electron is an instance of chromium, right?
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by smolder 2y ago
Better in concept than execution, for sure. I feel bad for the people that actually drew their frames competently.
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by smolder 2y ago
I thought the article was interesting and informative even though I won't recoil at use of the term. Getting upset at the authors opinion is just as useless as getting upset about the thing they complain about, but boy do these comment
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by smolder 2y ago
You seem to be assuming "the amount of rice consumed" is high, but are you taking into consideration that the average portion may be small?
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by smolder 2y ago
Marathon 2 by Bungie also had weird non-euclidean maps with overlapping sections in the late 90s I think. I miss the customizability of that game. Early bungie works were up there with early blizzard or early valve. They sold a tool for fun
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by smolder 2y ago
Acknowledge splitgate 2
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by smolder 2y ago
I'm saying that the democrats lost because they keep taking corporate/oligarch money and are at odds with the values of the people who would otherwise support them. They aren't the party that supports the little guy anymore,
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by smolder 2y ago
Unfortunately there is no party of "the working man" since the citizens united ruling opened the floodgates for legal & private bribery, and arguably before that. Bernie Sanders, whatever you think of his proposals and views g
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by smolder 2y ago
I was recently browsing FB for the first time in months, and didn't see a peep from fact checkers, despite all the garbage-tier content FB is forcing into my feed including things like "see how this inventors new car makes fossil
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by smolder 2y ago
We just need a browser plugin to auto-email webmasters to request access, and wait for the follow-up "access granted" email. It could be powered by AI.
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by smolder 2y ago
Usually ones that are written in a slow language, do lots of IO to other webservices or databases in a serial, blocking fashion, maybe don't have proper structure or indices in their DBs, and so on. I have seen some really terribly per
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by smolder 2y ago
It's still used in some projects. I remember seeing a deep dive into a net zero lodge (for vacationing) someone built just a few years ago that featured all of those: solar water preheating & PV on the roof, as well as heat pump HV
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by smolder 2y ago
"Every user would check that option" is obviously incorrect. When given the option not to share information, a great deal choose not to. I won't pull a percentage out of thin air, but peoples tendency towards "deny"
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by smolder 2y ago
Well, I didn't mean it as an insult. More along the lines of our innate biases that take work to overcome, or maybe the optical illusions that the human visual system is prone to.
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by smolder 2y ago
I think it was FUBAR before Pat came back. That was always going to be a tough ship to right. I'm not sure how much you can credit him with stumbles and successes since, but at least Arc is looking decent with the most recent release.

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