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by wolf550e 9y ago
yes, but both latency and throughput are "performance", and microservices worsen latency.
692.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Different incentives. Imagine a programming language team composed of a bunch of world class experts (expensive) worked on an amazing programming language that was a joy to use for millions of programmers worldwide and got a lot of academic
693.
by wolf550e 9y ago
C does not own the word "string". A string is a piece if text. It is not a byte array. Unicode strings are arrays of code points which are 21bit numbers. If the API requires fast subscript (it usually does) then they would be UTF-
694.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Don't call cryptocurrency "crypto".
695.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Arts are not meant to have predictive power. Sciences should have predictive power. The study of literature and music is the study of art. If psychology or sociology currently have little predictive power, they should be called arts instead
696.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Nonce reuse
697.
by wolf550e 9y ago
They mean "coding" in the information theory meaning of the word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_source_coding_theo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding https:&#x2
698.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Google search shows "BitSH42" is mentioned only in this discussion.
699.
by wolf550e 9y ago
they were there but gizmodo removed them
700.
by wolf550e 9y ago
you probably need to add a password to the zip file or it will be scanned too.
701.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Many people cannot visualize log scale.
702.
by wolf550e 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque_fraud#Combating_cheque_... I think all cases of writing a check you know isn't covered is fraud. The cases when you thought it would be covered but you were mistaken are diffic
703.
by wolf550e 9y ago
see https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6h08z5/google_... Google promising free license to anyone who implements AV1 would have been ok, if they patented something that is only useful for AV1.
704.
by wolf550e 9y ago
It is a standard for crypto created by non-crypto people. It is bad, don't use it. Using it correctly is harder than rolling your own stupid simple bearer token, which is very rare for standards. Using stateful authentication is even s
705.
by wolf550e 9y ago
It won't help you with handling code size so big you really want types, but one advice I would give is ditch class based views. I find that function views much easier to reason about, even if it leads to code duplication. The ability t
706.
by wolf550e 9y ago
non-AMP link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/ju...
707.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Would you have used SQlite if it had an LSM backend so the write performance would be as good as leveldb?
708.
by wolf550e 9y ago
What do people typically store in KV stores that do not have a database built on top of them? Terabytes of what? Accessed by what kind of application logic?
709.
by wolf550e 9y ago
LZ4 is good engineering work, better than Google snappy (zippy) which itself was better than LZO (both have somewhat improved by looking at each other's code since then). The current best general purpose compressor for decompression sp
710.
by wolf550e 9y ago
SES said the insurance of SES-10 cost the same as on a never flown booster. The Falcon 9 (all versions) is currently 33.5/36, and as long as SpaceX never repeat the same cause for the loss of payload, the insurers don't mind fligh
711.
by wolf550e 9y ago
https://encode.ru/threads/2648-Published-rANS-patent-by-Stor...
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by wolf550e 9y ago
She, and exactly. A 1-in-1,000,000 person (like Terry Tao) saying Math and Science need all the 1-in-10,000 people it can get and the focus on the 1-in-1,000,000 people is not helpful is not useful advice for K-12 policymakers. If 1-in-10,0
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by wolf550e 9y ago
Yes, sorry. You need to overwrite the initial value (H0) too, in the constructor. You can do that if you can touch the equivalent of the private member variables. SHA-512/256 may be used to hash a message, M, having a length of 𝓁
714.
by wolf550e 9y ago
If you are free to choose a hash function, you are free to truncate SHA-512. Truncated SHA-512 is secure, there is no need to wait to see it used in a standardized protocol to increase confidence in its security. Creating a truncate(SHA-512
715.
by wolf550e 9y ago
I guess password manager and U2F yubikey.
716.
by wolf550e 9y ago
'tptacek is using the term "white" in its US Sociology definition of "belonging to the dominant class".
717.
by wolf550e 9y ago
Yeah, that happens with TV shows. I (male) can enjoy women-oriented TV shows if I happen to watch them, but I often choose to not watch a TV show because I guess it's aimed at women.
718.
by wolf550e 9y ago
These are super interesting and I would love if you submit to HN a cool video, slide deck, blog post or paper about systems that optimize a large task across machine boundaries! But normal people consider the output of a compiler to be a si
719.
by wolf550e 9y ago
AES and ChaCha are very repeatable. :-) They also happen to be fast.
720.
by wolf550e 9y ago
"exponential" in what? You can just encrypt a counter using AES or ChaCha ([1]) to produce 2^68 random bytes from 24 initial bytes. You can use HKDF to expand 16 bytes into as many key+nonce pairs as you want, each producing 2^68

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