worried_citizen

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by worried_citizen 11y ago
I expect dual_ec to live with us for quite a bit longer, despite the fact that the NIST stopped recommending it. It's just a matter of applying the right leverage to US companies. "Meets all NIST SP800-90 standards" "Mee
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
> That appears to be an understatement. Square, which filed to go public Wednesday, said that it has lost a grand total of $71 million from processing Starbucks payments over the past three years. This partner overall sounds better for s
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
I can't say if a TRNG has a better chance, but I don't think I'm leaping too far to say a broken, predictable RNG has a _worse_ chance of winning.
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
Do you have a source for this? I'm extremely curious. Random number generation is a fun problem.
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
I recently purchased a OneRNG trng and decided to give it a chance at guessing the right number with its quantum-noise super powers. Reading from it overnight produced 24 million guesses and no winner. Though several were just one number of
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
Web crawling is just like most things: 80% of the results for 20% of the work. It's always the last mile that takes the most significant cost and engineering effort. as your index and scale grow you bump into the really difficult probl
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
Can someone help me understand why the author of the python library chose to raise an exception on verification failures as opposed to returning false?
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
AFAIK all of the smart TV apps worked but wouldn't let you sign-up or stream.
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
Along the same line of questioning what's to stop Netflix from packing up bags and moving to GCE/Azure?
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
Fedora and centos are effectively the same OS with different release goals. You should be able to do anything on either unless you need truly cutting edge.
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by worried_citizen 11y ago
Honest question, what are commercial interruptions like in India? Here in the US it's almost unbearable once you get used to Netflix/SVOD. Streaming has permanently changed what I'm willing to watch and commercials are a kill