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by timdierks 9y ago
The font is open-source, available here: https://github.com/aftertheflood/spark
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This Font Makes Sparklines Out of Numbers(fastcodesign.com)
4 points by timdierks 9y ago|1 comments
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by timdierks 9y ago
Never mind, this was an error in the https://regexcrossword.com/playerpuzzles/595e5542d2433 version, which has a (.) where it should have a \1 in row 2 (thanks to @angry_albatross).
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by timdierks 9y ago
I believe column E is under-constrained; a solution with column E = "YYYY " or "OOOO " passes the tests, but is clearly not what's intended.
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by timdierks 9y ago
There's little to no reason to downplay risks in the prospectus, so the statements of material risk are always doom-filled. (Prospective investors don't take such statements as final, but failure to disclose a possible risk has a
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by timdierks 9y ago
MP3 audio is usually encoded at rates in the hundreds of kilobits per second (topping out at about 320 kbps). You can get pretty good audio quality at 128 kbps, and adequate voice mono quality at 64 kbps. Thus, 64 to 320 thousand bits per s
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The Perfect Heist: Recipes from Around the World (Sandia National Lab Report) [pdf](prod.sandia.gov)
1 points by timdierks 9y ago|0 comments
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by timdierks 9y ago
Roger G. Johnston worked in security at Los Alamos and Argonne National Laboratories and collected this set of maxims (funny but painfully true) in 2009.
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Security Maxims (Johnston, 2009)(drive.google.com)
1 points by timdierks 9y ago|1 comments
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by timdierks 10y ago
This is the right math if he's stuck there for 5 years, but his opportunity cost is lower if he can exit the role earlier if the company isn't trending towards the exit he wants.
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by timdierks 10y ago
Nest cameras work over WiFi (as far as I know). Presumably you can defeat them with a spark gap or a microwave you've jimmied to run with the door open. Vulnerabilities against technical hackers sending hand-crafted artisanal Bluetooth
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by timdierks 10y ago
Let's say an human with height 170cm and hip width of 85cm (these are between the averages men & women) gives a rectangular area of about 1.4 m^2; the head and legs aren't as wide as the hips, but this doesn't include the
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by timdierks 10y ago
Jack Handey is an actual person, the writer of the one-liners GP refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Handey (I'm not sure if he recorded the voiceover performance or not). Al Franken is a different actua
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by timdierks 10y ago
@mar1, I've forwarded your interest in finding a job to our security recruiting lead. We don't have a relevant office in the desired location, but happy to discuss. Feel free to reach out, my email is dierks@google.com.
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by timdierks 10y ago
Red Plenty (by Francis Spufford), a novel about economic planning in the USSR, is an excellent read and characterizes the information problems at the core of the failure of central planning.
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by timdierks 10y ago
"70 cents [in revenue was enough to] put me on the Mac App Store Charts". No different from "100,000 downloads made me #1 on the list".
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by timdierks 10y ago
Strongly disagree. Mom and pop businesses get owned all the time and close as a result (see Krebs On Security for cites). The economics of online attacks mean that even smallish targets are not obscure enough to be safe. Disclosure: I work
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by timdierks 10y ago
Did you mean for this to be somewhere else?
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by timdierks 10y ago
Nope, real-world solutions to monitor air ducts and other spaces that need to be open but which shouldn't have people in them.
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by timdierks 10y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13375535 . I work on Cloud KMS, happy to answer questions.
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by timdierks 10y ago
While I understand the rationale for the meme (I, too, was a Google Reader user), I think you will find that Google's ongoing support for Cloud APIs is robust. Any potential cloud platform customer has to decide if they want to depend
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by timdierks 10y ago
I work on Cloud KMS at Google, AMA.
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Introducing Google Cloud Key Management Service(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
6 points by timdierks 10y ago|3 comments
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by timdierks 10y ago
What would you have it do? Solving the general dataflow problem so you identify out-of-bounds array accesses at compile-time is impossible (equivalent to the halting problem), so would it really be worth investing in identifying in finding
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by timdierks 10y ago
You can share folders; also, check out Team Drive. https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/21/google-opens-up-its-new-pr...
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by timdierks 10y ago
Why would you think StackOverflow doesn't care about ad revenue? They both run ads and want to make money by helping recruiters reach logged in users.
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by timdierks 10y ago
In utf8, these characters are all encoded as two bytes. So this encoding makes the byte count twice as long, it's no more efficient (in bytes) than hex encoding.
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by timdierks 10y ago
Charge-only Mini USB connectors are a different question. They're possible to build, but non-compliant. Charge-only USB C cables are part of the standard. The difference is that you can only blame cable confusion problems on the standa
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by timdierks 10y ago
This is pretty, but it's all statistical outliers; every highlighted spot is a small city where random fluctuations above a low baseline are most likely to generate seemingly-impressive spikes in query volume.
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by timdierks 10y ago
Interesting because the value of intangibles like software is a huge distortion on accounting "book value" under GAAP: more than half of US company spending is on building intangible assets which have zero book value on their bala

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