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by tux3 3y ago
Congratulations to Mozilla for making it through this era! "The hate of men will pass, and CEOs leave, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as CEOs leave, liberty will never perish." Today
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by tux3 3y ago
There are interesting failure cases on the website, like the login page kicking me out to the front page reliably a few seconds into typing my email. I wouldn't trust it with my data, but I like the entrepreneurial spirit from OP.
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by tux3 3y ago
>"You also can’t point to any individual lung cancer patient and say “smoking caused this person’s lung cancer”." >Article loses all credibility at that point. Lol. I don't think the people with lung cancer secondary to
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by tux3 3y ago
I think the current QA process is a deliberate outcome. If you invest drastically less in testing and mark some hardware configs as unsupported, eventually these hardware configs break. Like with anything, lack of care leads to degradation.
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by tux3 3y ago
Something bothers about some of the special cases, but I can't quite describe it .
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by tux3 3y ago
In some orgs, people never run a bisect. Not once a year. They go as far as squashing out swaths of history into big un-reviewable blobs. Once code has been merged, they never look inside a past commit again. In spite of isolated (desperate
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by tux3 3y ago
tl;dr: SSE4.2 is required now. No runtime detection, no software trapping/emulation. Hard crash for very old hardware.
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by tux3 3y ago
That's fair. Thanks.
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by tux3 3y ago
Neat that it can also work as draft00/kyber v3 =) How hard would it be to support a fast Kyber 90's mode, without SHA-3? (I suppose you would have to break the abstraction for that one).
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by tux3 3y ago
>Lightweight: Proton is a single binary (<500MB) Okay, uhm, does this mean the 500 MB is the memory consumption footprint? No way someone is shipping a giant 500 MB binary hunk, and the selling point is that it's lightweight? But
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by tux3 3y ago
You're going too far. De Saint-Exupéry had a reasonable idea. Simple things should be simple, complex things should be exactly as complex as they are. If you pick an arbitrary number, you are limiting yourself only to simpler ideas.
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by tux3 3y ago
Bad. Do not take the bait. You don't keep you shirt clean by joining the mudfight.
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by tux3 3y ago
Sounds like the Wi-Fi Alliance is making your life complicated! From the makers of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), the latest "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 7" update is sure to bring your business up to enterprise-quality standards of security
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by tux3 3y ago
Thanks! Did not know they added FEC, that makes more sense :)
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by tux3 3y ago
I think they meant it the other way around. They wanted to talk about abelian groups, and here specifically a cyclic (abelian) group. It would be silly to talk about a cyclic group that is specifically abelian, all cyclic groups are abelian
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by tux3 3y ago
The PCIe standards kept moving to longer codes, and nowadays they're able to do "1b/1b" (no header at all)
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by tux3 3y ago
This is an invention from the middle of the last century. The two patents describe a device with 4 leds, a temperature sensor, and a processor. The invention of the pulse ox was innovation. Putting it on a portable device and increasing the
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by tux3 3y ago
Yep, the term you might be thinking of is "clock domains". This is good if you want different parts of the chip to run at different frequencies, potentially saving a lot of power & gaining perf where needed
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by tux3 3y ago
So, when I talked about the length of the path in number of transistors, I oversimplified a bit. The length of the path would be measured in nanoseconds (or even picoseconds). That number depends not just on the number of transistors, but a
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by tux3 3y ago
This one's not because of heat, but because signal had to go from the beginning of a stage, through several transistors, to the end of the stage So the transistors switch fast individually, but the speed of the chip is limited by the s
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by tux3 3y ago
It really depends on the text, it doesn't have to be just a list of theorems and definitions. Some intuition can be conveyed through text, or geometry and visualization. A good explanation can make things click. I think you may be righ
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by tux3 3y ago
It does a little more than zilch. Exercise is important. Reading is also important. If you want to learn fast, you need a balance of both that works for you. Some people will spend months grinding hard problems on their own in a single chap
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by tux3 3y ago
It depends on how many files you have, but also the file size. My understanding is that IPFS splits files into 256kB chunks with a content ID (CID), and then when you expose your project, it tries to advertise every CID of every file to pee
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by tux3 3y ago
How does this compare to IPFS? I personally found IPFS very disappointing in practice, so I'm very hopeful for a successor. (The promise of IPFS is great, but it is excruciatingly slow, clunky, and buggy. IPFS has a lot of big ideas bu
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by tux3 3y ago
ICO's pricing of spam doesn't seem very well thought out. For one, there's a lack of enforcement on this tax. Many customers get away with sending spam while evading payment. ICO is in the business of selling forgiveness, so
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by tux3 3y ago
The best ones are the first to propel themselves away when it gets bad: they have options
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by tux3 3y ago
You can always smuggle unsafe past the compiler, it can't stop you even in principle. The totally safe transmute is at runtime, so an instrumented compiler cannot detect it (halting problem is in the way). You'd need runtime instr
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by tux3 3y ago
But then, every so often, people do the whole trip in reverse starting from sandboxed Javascript on a locked down phone or console and putting together an exploit chain all the way down to kernel-mode assembly shellcode We add layers upon l
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by tux3 3y ago
Patents are also very broken, the patent trolling ecosystem is the demonstration of that. Copyright is several times too long, but making it more like patents wouldn't help at all. On the contrary.
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by tux3 3y ago
That's not the first thing people might worry about, but this will also be a pain for archives. When slop floods the library faster than it can expand, who will want to maintain that. I don't think we have good enough sorting and

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