sterlind

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by sterlind 4y ago
it's been useful for me as a way to talk through my ideas. like rubber ducking with a disturbingly-intelligent duck. what's really nice is I can describe an algorithm and it will generate and run through examples. and often works
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by sterlind 4y ago
even with disabilities, you can usually exercise. I can't run or really walk, but my upper body's gotten strong from pushing my chair. I've found my health is better (physical and mental) in walkable cities than in suburbs, e
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by sterlind 4y ago
assume there's an xkeyscore query logging Tor connections within the US. that's easy for the NSA to implement, and seems like something they'd do, and would capture all users directly connecting. now, a foreign VPN isn't
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by sterlind 4y ago
the scenario I'm describing is "You -> VPN/SSH -> Tor" and your link says it's a fine idea.
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by sterlind 4y ago
they shouldn't be, but there's a practical difference in how often your house gets raided by FBI agents. if a Tor user uses your exit node to email a bomb threat or access child porn, it's your source IP that shows up. the FB
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by sterlind 4y ago
iirc IC still mostly uses burner shell companies for IPs, at least for running ops. Tor is fine for innocuous browsing but Tor exit nodes will stick out like a sore thumb in the victim's logs or IDS.
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by sterlind 4y ago
a closer look maybe, but unless they break Tor they'll only have a close look at your timing traffic. if you're worried, you could use a popular VPN to connect to Tor - using a VPN is less interesting. also, P2P app developers cou
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by sterlind 4y ago
it's more likely they do this to combat spamming. accounts created by Tor are more likely to be used for spam than for legitimate discussion, since Tor evades IP reputation. I'm sure you could email @dang and ask to be un-shadow-b
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by sterlind 4y ago
if it's detectable by an AI, you can GAN it into erasing its detectable writing style.
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by sterlind 4y ago
a couple of algorithms deep in the core infrastructure of Azure: the cluster scheduler for placing VMs (published as "Protean"), and a color-constrained shortest path solver for route planning in the WAN. amazingly I once failed a
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by sterlind 4y ago
oh wow. you were adamflowers? did you just get out of prison? glad you have no regrets, I can't imagine how much serving that much time must suck.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Just because you can pop a shell doesn't really make Android a Linux distro in my book. I'm not an Android expert by any means, but apps don't use glibc do they? And I doubt sound goes through ALSA or PulseAudio, or that you
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by sterlind 4y ago
entrapment is a very narrow defense. see this handy comic for an explanation of entrapment: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633 basically, it's only entrapment if the informants put some kind of unreasonable pressur
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by sterlind 4y ago
vouched. you're shadowbanned fyi, you might want to email dang.
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm not sure WikiLeaks itself had RNC documents, but please correct me if I'm wrong. WikiLeaks got its DNC emails from Guccifer 2.0, which seems to have been a front for the Russians. I found a story saying that the Russians had R
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by sterlind 4y ago
ah, but which objective morality should I choose? Talmudic? Sharia? Christian? Karma? Mormon? there's so many standards, I can't make up my mind! should I follow the golden rule? is pork okay? can I have sister wives? what castes
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by sterlind 4y ago
saying a11y is a nice-to-have is like saying Unicode is a nice-to-have. if you cut Unicode support, the only thing you'll personally notice is lack of emojis, but Chinese/Hindi/Russian speakers won't be able to use it at
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by sterlind 4y ago
in Mathematica at least, you can use TraditionalForm to format your equations like maths. and what's more, you can edit things in that form without dropping out of it. you can also make palettes for commonly used symbols and such. it&#
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by sterlind 4y ago
from your own link: > The abolition of slavery in 1833, and the entitlement of slaves to remain in the colony in which they were freed, meant that many freed slaves had continued to work the plantations. so slaves worked the plantation
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by sterlind 4y ago
a good example of this is Fibonacci heaps. on paper they're great, but they result in egregious pointer chasing, while radix heaps are less flexible but can be backed by a contiguous array. weirdly, in all my recent algorithm work, onl
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by sterlind 4y ago
Drag shows, i.e. drag queens. Popularized among hets by Ru-Paul's Drag Race, where "yas, queen!" is a frequent catchphrase.
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by sterlind 4y ago
the actual Verilog source is incredibly small. I would have thought that implementing a CPU, even a toy one, would take more than 500 lines. is this normal for hardware?
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by sterlind 4y ago
Are you on team "collectively bear the costs" or team "remove accomodations?" Because one of the two parties always looks to cut government spending, and most voters don't care about the disabled. I'd vote for
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by sterlind 4y ago
you don't have to pierce the veil. the newspaper is still free to publish whatever content it wants, including ads. it just has to pay a tax if it wants to accept money for it. I would word the law very generally: an X% sales tax on an
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by sterlind 4y ago
What a charmingly brilliant hack! Shuffle the lockboxes for one bit, resulting in a 50% chance you correctly guess both values, then boost the security into being infeasible to attack using secret sharing. I've been wanting OTPs for a
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by sterlind 4y ago
That has more to do with the census sucking. There's no option even for Indian! So if you grew up in Bangalore, your options are "white" or "asian" I guess? What if you're an Australian Aboriginal? or a recentl
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by sterlind 4y ago
Saudi Arabians are Arabs, and Arabs are a Semitic people, along with the Jews. Hebrew and Arabic belong to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, which likely originated in the Middle East/Northern Africa. Not that lan
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by sterlind 4y ago
uh.. the Saudis aren't white. but yeah, the juxtaposition between the Web 4.0 buzzword-laden website and the Saudis' history with executing people for sorcery, punitive amputations, treating women as property etc. was rather jarri
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by sterlind 4y ago
sophisticated tradecraft has this air of magic to it. it's subtle and it fools you, it breaks our abstraction of "this device does X" by making it do Y, exploiting the details of the mechanism we gloss over. another example i
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm assuming that the law is written such that it applies to ingredients which are both psychoactive and have no reasonable culinary value. so sodium benzoate is okay (no psychoactive effect) and hazelnut is okay (use as a flavoring),

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