war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
I have heard of Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm a few times in the past six months or so. Today I finally decided to read the Wikipedia page and figure out how it works. Really neat. Uses the fact that you need `k` points to uniquely
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by war1025 6y ago
> There are lots of pros out there who don't know what they are doing. Often these pros are also the ones that are easiest to find because the ones that know what they are doing are in high enough demand that they go mainly off word
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by war1025 6y ago
This is a concern I've had. If I told one of my coworkers that I use `pass` [0] to keep my passwords encrypted and synced into an online git repository, they would know what that means. My wife would have no idea. So then it's not
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by war1025 6y ago
> I can only think of financial stuff and those already have beneficiaries and whatnot specified when I set them up. My financial accounts are probably the main things. I don't know that I have any beneficiary stuff set up on them.
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by war1025 6y ago
So hijacking this a bit: What do people have set up in case of more an "unexpected death" situation? I have basically all information someone would need to access any of my accounts in a password repository, but I don't have
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by war1025 6y ago
> Sooo many eggs in one basket I guess the question is whether they are encrypted or not, or how they are otherwise protected. I keep personal info in my password store. I figure if that file gets compromised I'm pretty screwed anyw
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by war1025 6y ago
Just printing money is a great way to end up with runaway inflation and a worthless currency.
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by war1025 6y ago
Indeed. Stupid comes in many flavors.
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by war1025 6y ago
I concluded a long time ago that most of the response to Coronavirus boils down to "security theater". There is a subset of the population that wants to be told that whoever is in charge is "doing something." Compliance
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by war1025 6y ago
> this is especially true during wildfire season Curious what if any effect that would have over here in Iowa. I would guess negligible, but we do get high-level haze occasionally when there are wildfires in Canada. > If you purchase
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by war1025 6y ago
A thing I really wish would catch on is people actually leaving their windows open to get proper ventilation of their living spaces. Air purifiers seems like a great idea, but if the outside is the safest place in terms of the virus, bringi
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by war1025 6y ago
I do it because it's the easiest way to link to something without ruining the flow of the text.
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by war1025 6y ago
It's a perfectly adequate screen size for most things. The only place I run into trouble is if I try to do anything work-related on this laptop because our web design team designed our web app on large, high-density displays. Every web
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by war1025 6y ago
> Couldn't you just use your phone as a mobile hotspot? At the time I had a 2010-era dumb phone which I only got rid of because Verizon said they were turning off the towers for it at the beginning of this year.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Did yours have a particularly old Wi-Fi card in it? From lspci: 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) I don't know whether that is an old card or not. I think the lapt
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by war1025 6y ago
I went to a job interview a year and a half ago where part of the interview was to give a walkthrough of my solution to short "homework" problem. Got there and tried to connect my laptop to their wifi network. No dice. My laptop (
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by war1025 6y ago
In case it wasn't obvious from my post above, the Lincoln Highway referred to in both my post and the parent post is the same highway [1]. The part I thought was interesting is I assumed it would have the same number designation across
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by war1025 6y ago
> there are still people who refer to Highway 40 as Lincoln Highway This is interesting to me because here in Iowa, the Lincoln Highway is "old Highway 30". In the 60s they rerouted Hwy30 about a mile south of the existing Linc
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by war1025 6y ago
> But then you have to answer the question of what makes you happy. Self-introspection and awareness are helpful basically always, in my opinion. If you don't know what you want, you'll never be satisfied.
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by war1025 6y ago
I remember when I was in college trying to figure out what to shoot for in life, I had the realization that if you shoot for "more" it's a goal you'll never reach. There is no end to it. But if you shoot for "enough
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by war1025 6y ago
I also still use Xorg and can't really think of a scenario where I'd switch.
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by war1025 6y ago
> The same goes for Wayland, by the way Wayland happened mainly because they could get to 90% of Xorg functionality easily and ignored the fact that the last 10% would take over a decade to achieve parity on.
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by war1025 6y ago
It's done by the window manager, which is integrated directly into Wayland. The tight coupling of the two is a semi-contentious issue.
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by war1025 6y ago
Most companies will be small / medium. There isn't any shame in that. For many people the end goal of being employed / building a company is "keep a roof over my head and put food on the table". The desire to "
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by war1025 6y ago
I think most of this usually boils down to "I feel that I am a great engineer, so all great engineers must have the same career path that I have"
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by war1025 6y ago
True, but deaf people are able to communicate quite effectively with sign language. So it's not like hands are completely worthless for communication. Plus, in certain cases the "hard to see" is an advantage.
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by war1025 6y ago
Looking back through his comment history, the "cult" he is referring to is the Mormon church.
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by war1025 6y ago
What is the current development status of Pypy? I haven't heard much about it in the past couple years.
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by war1025 6y ago
So then this suffers from the same issue that for instance public education does: A focus on the bottom tier to the detriment of and middle and top. The bad outcomes are potentially very bad, so society disincentivises single income househo
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by war1025 6y ago
I can't make heads or tails of this and am hoping you could elaborate so I can understand what I'm missing.

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