wolf550e

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by wolf550e 10y ago
Yes, Levine quoted Yglesias https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-02/quant-awa... http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/12/amazon_as_cor...
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by wolf550e 10y ago
https://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#ordereddi... > New in version 2.7.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
I thought it was only in permanently shadowed craters? If it's accessible and is concentrated enough, then you're right.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
No government money is being spent on space settlement. NASA's budget is about $18B per year. Some stuff is actually awesome and worthwhile (and cost effective) like the robotic exploration of the solar system, and a little supports Sp
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by wolf550e 10y ago
The moon has no resources to enable living there. You will always have to bring in air, water and food. Also, no current idea for something profitable to do there (Helium-3 mining is very theoretical). Some people want a moon base before a
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by wolf550e 10y ago
You can use Google to prove to yourself that either the infosec industry really exists (including skilled full time reverse engineers) or there is a vast conspiracy. Same as you would prove to yourself that nuclear submarines exist, without
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Your argument is the same one as "nuclear submarines are impossible to build because I just thought about it for five minutes and can't build one". But Electric Boat Corporation from Groton, Connecticut delivers them regular
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by wolf550e 10y ago
it is possible to be sad that the excitement is gone, even when you're relieved that everything went well.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair. A wooden hut was not state of the art in 1903.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
A compiler that did this optimization would immediately introduce a pragma guaranteed to result in constant time memcmp from some blessed source pattern. Maintainers of crypto libraries inspect the assembly when upgrading their compilers, t
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What 'rachelbythebay has been doing since 2013(rachelbythebay.com)
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Jim Butcher tells the story, in various interviews, how he started the wildly successful Dresden Files series with trying to write terrible formulaic genre fiction to prove to his teacher that it would be terrible, and ended up with somethi
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by wolf550e 10y ago
These days people use AES-CTR (or authenticated encryption modes based on AES-CTR, like AES-GCM), which can be treated as stream ciphers.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
AES is hard to implement on a general purpose computer in a way that is both fast and doesn't leak through cache timing attacks. The safe way to use AES is by using a hardware implementation, like modern x86 and some ARM CPUs. The best
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Too late to edit. I meant "does not reveal the key", of course.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
It's one key per table.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Per that argument, AES is insecure because if I know the key, I can decrypt your messages and even fake a message with valid CMAC authentication tag. Siphash is secure in the same sense as AES, HMAC and a CSPRNG: seeing many consecutive val
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by wolf550e 10y ago
The danger in your scheme is that an attacker who finds a way to see lots of keyed hash values in one hash table can flood a different hash table. You should keep a 16 byte key per hash table.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
But learning assembly programming is a valuable skill to a software engineer, and not knowing the popular ISA is not a problem - it is assumed the popular ISA will change during your career and you will cope. The skills are knowing how to i
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Who is on the committee that decides who gets the prize?
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Marine reactors need to be refueled after 25 years and that process is extremely expensive. Also, after end-of-life, the reactor needs to be stored securely, for an indefinite period of time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Some people are very productive in Django and Rails (and the like), in non-performant languages. Many sites never grow to the size where running on the JVM (or AOT-compiled Go) would save you money from fewer servers vs. more coder-hours.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Are Go's integers unbounded? If not, proving the value never exceeds the range to silent convert essentially a BigInteger into an int might be hard.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Only in the country-vs-country zero-sum-game sense. In the grow-the-pie global-economy sense, war is a broken window fallacy.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
I would agree with you if you had an article by a journalist who interviewed someone from the FAA who has read the report and provided any comments to contrast with the company's press release. But as other pointed out, your link is no
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Some journals and conferences have nothing to do with science, just want your money, and find customers in academics who need to show they were published and are willing to pay for it. Exposing a journal that pretends to have scientific rig
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Kinda. Read the details at r/spacex FAQ and the links there https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/faq/watching#wiki_i.27m...
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Come on, you know he meant the stuff that measures "Faster, Higher, Stronger" like running and jumping and throwing. The team sports and sports in which you get points for aesthetics are harder for robots, but I think they can do
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by wolf550e 10y ago
I wonder if the license for that only allows running specific applications.
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by wolf550e 10y ago
Since they have the key for their own certificate, they can man in the middle forward secret connections too (these days, ECDHE). By supporting only non-PFS RSA key exchange with TLS 1.2, they had the ability to retroactively decrypt traffi

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