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by wolf550e 7y ago
A mainframe is not a supercomputer. Science is done on clusters of x86 chips and Nvidia gpus with custom interconnect and Linux. A system that runs a bank or an insurance company and wants good availability can be built in one of two ways:
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by wolf550e 7y ago
I use separate requirements-to-freeze.txt and requirements.txt, so that I maintain only list of direct dependencies (no transitive dependencies) and only pin versions when I know the code won't work with the latest version, but pip fre
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by wolf550e 7y ago
What is wrong with virtualenv, pip and pip freeze?
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by wolf550e 7y ago
His blog post: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
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by wolf550e 7y ago
When only white land owning men could vote?
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Why didn't they contact the authors of AES-SIV and AES-GCM-SIV to review their idea?
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by wolf550e 7y ago
That's mostly bullshit. NSA is just saying "don't start a multi-year project to upgrade from RSA to NIST P-256 because you will not be finished with that upgrade before we'll ask you to upgrade to a recommended PQ crypto
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by wolf550e 7y ago
It's still a distributed system if clients connect to the closest server, speed of light latency between servers exists, and the system deals with consensus between servers, even if the design assumes network partitions never happen.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
The software package has a name and the command line tool (executable) has a name. They are not the same. https://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#What_is_cURL
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by wolf550e 7y ago
whitepaper: https://www.cerebras.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cerebras... I don't expect good yields from a chip that takes up the whole wafer. They must disable cores and pieces of SRAM that are
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by wolf550e 7y ago
This explains why nvidia.com has terrible TLS [1] config while all their other domains are ok [2] (in particular, the domains hosting the driver downloads as ok [3]). 1 - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=n
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Hebrew had over a million speakers even when it wasn't anyone's native language. It was known to Jewish men who studied in a cheder as boys (those who did not continue to higher studies/seminary in a yeshiva), the way I think
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by wolf550e 7y ago
simpler file formats are less fraught, though they have fewer features.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Beware opening sqlite files from untrusted sources. https://research.checkpoint.com/select-code_execution-from-u...
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by wolf550e 7y ago
The default (relatime) is to update atime only once every 24h, so it's negligible for many workloads.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
The issue with the majority
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by wolf550e 7y ago
For example: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1160613095523225600?s=19 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20171450
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by wolf550e 7y ago
There is no way to securely share a Windows install with untrusted users. Use real VMs.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Your OS or an app talking to their mothership can and do use cert pinning. What about all the millions of websites? A rogue/compromised CA will be caught by certificate transparency and distrusted. Also, as 'tptacek noted, you hav
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by wolf550e 7y ago
The self signed cert will need to be rotated from time to time, without being signed by previous cert because e.g. private key was lost or because private key is known to have been compromised. How will your browser, connected to cafe wifi,
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by wolf550e 7y ago
TLS only says you're having a private conversation with a server, not how trustworthy it is. Maybe you're having a private conversation with the devil! TLS protects you from active attacker at your internet cafe wifi or small ISP
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Their daily task list will change. They might cancel some kinds of training and some kinds of cleaning during wartime.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
I guess managed bug bounty programs
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by wolf550e 7y ago
We have an example of how navy shifts work on HN by 'genkimind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101464
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Who has a better track record?
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by wolf550e 7y ago
SSNs don't have a checksum like credit card numbers do (or like national identity card numbers do), because the SSN is not meant to be used the way it is used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
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by wolf550e 7y ago
When the vendor provides a patch before the 90 day deadline, do you want P0 to never disclose the bug or to wait a month after patch was released, or what? I think you're complaining that P0 don't give users enough time to patch -
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by wolf550e 7y ago
> the CPU won't look ahead 200 instructions to find more parallel stuff to execute CPUs do: > Intel increased the reorder buffer by over 50% from 224 entries in Skylake to 352 entries in Sunny Cove. Likewise, the amount of inflig
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Eric Lawrence (PM on Edge, previously on Chrome, previously author of fiddler) showing screenshots of documentation that explains all that, and saying it's been documented this way for 14 years: https://twitter.com/eric
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Double ratchet using Curve25519 and Ed25519 signatures is not at all the same asymmetric cryptography as PGP.

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