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by voidmain 7y ago
gpg is widely agreed to be a train wreck, but age is not generally suitable for encrypted backups because it doesn't offer any form of authentication (so an attacker can replace a backup with a malicious one).
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by voidmain 7y ago
My understanding was that prior to Friday, CDC Atlanta's comically limited RT-PCR capacity was backlogged even under the "see-no-evil" testing criteria, and that approximately no other labs were able to do tests (since valida
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by voidmain 7y ago
Some clarification based on what I've been able to put together (caveat: I'm not an expert in this area) The CDC developed a testing protocol (crudely, a set of 3 conserved RNA sequences of the virus to chemically "grep"
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by voidmain 7y ago
The guidelines for testing were so absurdly stringent because there was almost no testing capacity in the US, despite their being hundreds of labs with RTPCR equipment, because the CDC screwed up their test kits and the FDA used emergency p
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by voidmain 7y ago
P=BPP would contradict the extended Church-Turing thesis. Quantum computers can definitely be simulated by classical ones (with an exponential slowdown) so the CTT, which says nothing about performance, is not threatened by them.
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by voidmain 7y ago
That is why you don't use SHA-256 (or other plain hash function, which is designed to be fast ) as a password KDF (which needs to be slow).
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by voidmain 7y ago
The next step after that will be machine vision based transformation of the rendered output. I think as long as end users can keep control of the browser and computing device hope is not lost. There is also the option of actively attacking
128.
by voidmain 7y ago
...speculation attacks, and outright bugs in TSX, and the fact that even when everything is working it's a timing mechanism that VMX can't intercept. I really hope it becomes architectural (and gains a bit for HLE)!
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by voidmain 7y ago
Can we please have an architectural MSR to disable TSX?
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by voidmain 7y ago
It sounds like the camera was sending match results using a blocking send or write call, and no one was reading them, so once the total size of match results exceed the total size of socket buffers the camera software blocks and stops worki
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by voidmain 7y ago
Browsers could safely pull a list of very commonly requested, content addressable resources from various CDNs and pre cache it (independently of any request). That would even help with first request latency, and for mobile (where bandwidth
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by voidmain 7y ago
How far does "non turing completeness" really get you in this context? It looks easy to write a program in this language that will take longer than the age of the universe to evaluate and whose result can't be represented ex
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by voidmain 7y ago
The technical solution to tracking pixels isn't to disable remote image loading, it's to load all remote images when receiving the mail over smtp, and embed them in the mail. That way the sender gains no information whatsoever tha
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by voidmain 7y ago
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems [1] An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly as the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order addi
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by voidmain 7y ago
When I took this class many, many moons ago, the close equivalent of the "cache lab" was graded not on the number of cache misses but on the cache hit ratio . When I pointed the problem with this metric out to a TA he blew me off
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by voidmain 8y ago
A neural network of neural networks is... a bigger neural network. Having two or three layers of nonlinearities per "neuron" doesn't do anything qualitatively different. There are probably lots of huge differences between NNs
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by voidmain 8y ago
If you are at all concerned about confidentiality (as opposed to just integrity) properties, you need to defend against speculative execution timing attacks ("Spectre") and other uncooperative timing channels. Language based secur
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by voidmain 8y ago
Regarding testability, what kinds of properties do the tests actually assert?
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by voidmain 8y ago
Yes, the "fixed" (multimap) version looks to have the Halloween Problem [1]. As this illustrates, const correctness is no substitute for understanding of iterator invalidation and data structure invariants in C++. As another exam
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by voidmain 8y ago
The New York Times somewhat ironically won't let me read this article in private mode. "You're in private mode. Log in or create a free account to continue reading."
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by voidmain 8y ago
Gifts to charity can only be deducted up to 50% of AGI. Gifts of appreciated assets only up to 30%. If you are giving to private foundations, the limits are even lower. It is possible to carry forward excess deductions for a limited time, b
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by voidmain 8y ago
Not at all. In a code path where the compiler reasons that x is definitely INT_MAX, it could simply omit this code, leaving y uninitialized and nondeterministic.
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by voidmain 8y ago
> Where do you see a problem with this type of response? "It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind."
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by voidmain 8y ago
I might not have time to continue this discussion. Try this: If standard vesting terms make you nearly indifferent to your co founder leaving, or to being fired, then they are perfect for you and you should definitely go for it. Otherwise,
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by voidmain 8y ago
If you let it cool, it would stop fusing. The fusion power wouldn't magically go up.
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by voidmain 8y ago
If you think that what the corporate documents say is the only or most important possible form of commitment between founders, we probably have very different philosophies about business and probably life. To give a related example, I&#x27
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by voidmain 8y ago
Obviously, yes, if you keep going back to the well, eventually someone will betray you. And vesting will make a founder breakup easier (if the company can survive without the founder, and if it hasn't already been long enough that they
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by voidmain 8y ago
Yes, if you want to be able to walk away with a clean conscience, you should definitely have vesting. That's not what everyone is going for.
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by voidmain 8y ago
I've co-founded four companies with seven distinct co-founders, raised angel and venture funding, and had two very successful exits. I've never had vesting for any founder at any stage, and never had cause to wish for it in hindsi
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by voidmain 8y ago
I wonder if this would be a good candidate for the basis of a persistent ("functional") data structure? O(1) pointer changes for insert/remove is a good sign, since pointer changes tend to become space overhead in a persist

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