wolf550e

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by wolf550e 5y ago
Isn't money spent on education mostly teachers' salaries? So high GDP per capita just makes education more expensive, not less expensive. If education spending was mostly electronics, then higher GDP per capita would have been goo
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by wolf550e 5y ago
Besides loading resources which was mentioned by sibling comment, some websites still rely on submiting forms cross origin, even with cookies! XMLHTTPRequest is not required. iframes exist, so the user doesn't even have to see their br
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by wolf550e 5y ago
ISO8601 strings are sortable and are not numbers.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
You will be able to decrypt a file produced by age. All the cryptography there is standard, you'll have a compatible library in whatever language you'll use in 20 years, if you think the first party Go and Rust implementations won
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by wolf550e 5y ago
"Low 8 figures" is more like $25 per year, and that's a single service. Across all services it's more.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
You meant to write "You cannot reduce your costs"
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by wolf550e 5y ago
https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
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by wolf550e 5y ago
I think texture compression is always lossy, so it's not directly comparable to this or to PNG. So I don't think it exists. See ASTC and BC7. Texture compression can be very advanced: https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com&#x
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by wolf550e 5y ago
The researcher that leaves the military takes with them general skills in reverse engineering and exploit development, but they cannot use specific 0days they know about from their military service. The specifics of everything done in the m
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by wolf550e 5y ago
That is correct but irrelevant. When I reach a landing page that mainly has text content (whether it's a news article, a blog post, a company's "about us" or a product's features list/matrix or something else),
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by wolf550e 5y ago
CMOVs were terrible on Pentium 4 but ok on PPro, Pentium M, Core, Core 2, Sandybridge, Skylake, etc. Also ok on Atom and on AMD chips.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
The Bible certainly doesn't think the people of Tyre and Sidon were the same people as those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron and Gath. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithobaal_I and https://en.wikipe
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by wolf550e 5y ago
A joke about "developers whose main language starts with a "p"", meaning presumably perl, php and python. I guess in this context, ruby and JavaScript are also languages starting with "p".
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by wolf550e 5y ago
Some languages that had the misfortune to be developed while people thought UCS-2 would be enough define string length as number of UTF-16 code units, which is not even on the list because it's not a useful number.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
Your itch scratching costs $4.1B per launch according to NASA OIG: "We also project the current production and operations cost of a single SLS/Orion system at $4.1 billion per launch for Artemis I through IV, although the Agency’s
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by wolf550e 5y ago
zstd is from 2015.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
openssh and openssl don't have shared code and are incompatible protocols on the wire, even when they use the same cryptography (e.g. X25519-Ed25519-ChaCha20-Poly1305).
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by wolf550e 5y ago
It's unlikely a different die (silicon chip), so the usual number of cores and usual size of caches, and it's unlikely that AWS gets a secret x86 instruction unlockable via msr or something like that. It's probably just const
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by wolf550e 5y ago
JPEG removes fine detail by transforming 8x8 pixel squares into the frequency domain using a 2d discreet cosine transform and quantizing the coefficients. It also optionally subsamples the chroma. The other things JPEG does are reversible.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
7zip uses lzma, a much more advanced and slower format than RFC 1951 DEFLATE used in zlib/gzip/png/zip/jar/office docs/etc
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by wolf550e 5y ago
C extension compatibility?
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by wolf550e 5y ago
Marc Stevens who broke sha1 has said he doesn't think sha2 will get broken any time soon. See https://twitter.com/veorq/status/1128273048367398912
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by wolf550e 5y ago
Scroll down, XXH3 is 59 GB/s using AVX2 while meow is 58 GB/s in their benchmark.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
How does it compare to XXH3? https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash https://github.com/rurban/smhasher#readme says XXH3 is 16GB/s while meow is 17GB/s.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
You don't become a slave, but you give up control of the project and you basically become a volunteer employee of Microsoft. If someone does pay you for your work on that project, then it's not so bad. If the project was your pass
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by wolf550e 5y ago
@dang This was reported and discussed 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704298 The important thing to know is that the NIF is about nuclear weapons design (verification of modeling software used for nuclea
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by wolf550e 5y ago
They were all Jewish. Jews are over-represented in Physics Nobel prize laureats, not just Hungarian Jews.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
I think it's like LZO or LZ4 but with tiny window, so the compression is not great.
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by wolf550e 5y ago
This is the summary: https://youtu.be/hrA-Exd_qI4?t=3221
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by wolf550e 5y ago
The argument is basically this: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/12917/24949

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