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by tveita 11y ago
The traditional, non-vegan alternative would be lamb's intestines.
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by tveita 11y ago
> America is not for nothing the land of opportunity The U.S. has low social mobility compared to other developed countries. What claim does it currently have on being the land of opportunity?
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by tveita 11y ago
The port numbers are used to identify connection. If you make two connections to a web server from the same machine, the packets for each stream are separated by the source port of the client. If you got rid of the port numbers, you wouldn&
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by tveita 11y ago
I've written some toy compilers, and I can at least say: 1. compilers have bugs 2. it really sucks not knowing if a bug is in your code or in your compiler 3. it sucks not having a source-level debugger Anyone can write a si
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by tveita 11y ago
> His situation was akin to you waking up one day and finding, out of nowhere, a letter in the mail telling you to come in for a 6-month jail time. That's a complete misrepresentation. A reasonable person might expect there to be co
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by tveita 11y ago
I don't think the correlation is in serious dispute. I'm no dietitian, but going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat_and_cardiovascul... I don't see evidence for the "distinct and growi
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by tveita 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem "Because acknowledgement of message receipt can be lost as easily as the original message, a potentially infinite series of messages are required to come to
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by tveita 11y ago
Strong language for a piece of financial news. > ... crash ... horribly wrong ... clear warnings ... catching fire ... vengeance ... violent ... epicentre ... horribly wrong ... drama ... capitulation ... a lot of pain ... crash ... acci
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by tveita 11y ago
Keeping bad content off your own site is just good old-fashioned moderation. Most forums will delete stuff like this - I assume HN would too, and no one bats an eye.
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by tveita 11y ago
HTTPS link: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg93416....
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by tveita 11y ago
More to the point, they don't need to use Bitcoin at all.
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by tveita 11y ago
It's a frequently touted feature by Bitcoin supporters - e.g. the Winklewoss twins have focused a lot on micropayments in their pitch. I agree with you that they are wrong, though.
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by tveita 11y ago
scrypt cracking is still embarrassingly parallel even if it's hard to run on a GPU. I understand the term "asymptotically more" to refer to big O notation, where constant factors like that are ignored.
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by tveita 11y ago
> scrypt is asymptotically much more expensive to crack. How so? The cost of password cracking generally scales completely linearly, is there an attack on bcrypt that makes the cost sublinear? I would agree that scrypt probably has a bet
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by tveita 11y ago
Simple function annotations like def foo(x: int) -> str: ... have been available since 3.0, and editors like PyCharm already use them for typechecking. For new PEP 0484 features like generics, MyPy supports Python 3.2 and up, but
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by tveita 11y ago
The main purpose of the async/await keywords is to help the programmer reason about what can happen when. Having calls be implicitly parallel makes it difficult for the programmer to predict what could be happening elsewhere in the pro
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by tveita 11y ago
The Python standard library comes with support for a lot of common network protocols - TLS, HTTP, SMTP, etc. I'm wondering how this will be handled in async. Will everything need to be reimplemented as separate async implementations, o
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by tveita 11y ago
AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 work in roughly the same way. They both use the key and nonce to produce a pseudo-random sequence of bits. A small part of that sequence is used as an authentication key to make the message authentication code
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by tveita 11y ago
This obviously depends on culture, but I think the majority of men and women marry a partner with the same socioeconomical status as themselves. The highly-visible counter-examples tend to come from fields with high gender imbalance, like y
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by tveita 11y ago
Aaron Swartz was not a MIT student. From the MIT report: "Aaron Swartz was neither a member of the MIT staff, nor an enrolled student nor alumnus, nor a member of the faculty. He was a regular visitor to the MIT campus and interacted w
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by tveita 11y ago
Well etcd started out using the goraft library, so this isn't always true, but I can think of some reasons I'd prefer to have the quorum as a separate system: Writing it as a service lets you implement it in once in a high-level l
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by tveita 11y ago
This does not appear to the case in PHP 5.6, even for most strings with '==' gotchas: <?php if ('0e24') echo 'true'; else echo 'false'; outputs: true As far as I know the only strings
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by tveita 12y ago
Assuming the rules were consistently enforced: Users find apps for their iPhone on the App Store. There are no other app stores for the iPhone. Users do not visit an app's web page before they install it. Users will not find anything w
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by tveita 12y ago
I think it's pretty clear Apple expects you to not add support at all, since you can't advertise it anywhere users will see it anyway. It is a tool for controlling the behavior of both users and developers by using their control o
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by tveita 12y ago
Attackers will always prefer passive attacks over active attacks, though. There is no reason to give them that convenience.
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by tveita 12y ago
Properly configured JACK should already achieve single-digit millisecond latency on Linux.
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by tveita 12y ago
That reminds me of this study, "Walking through doorways causes forgetting": http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2011.571... Even if you return to the same place, the context switche
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by tveita 12y ago
It didn't work out all that well even for Socrates.
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by tveita 12y ago
Besides being unrelated to the Popehat article, I don't see anything wrong in that post. What makes it an obvious DEA astroturfer?
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by tveita 12y ago
I didn't mind much that TextSecure removed the SMS feature, since I didn't use it anyway, but I think the removal was badly handled. I'm glad someone is catering to the users who used this feature, it gets more eyes on the co

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