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601.
by yarg 4y ago
FHE @ plain text speed? Absolute bullshit. > You choose the encryption standard in use for the database, from AES, DES, 3DES, Blowfish, Twofish, Skipjack, and more. That seems very wrong ((as far as I know) those standards are not in any
602.
by yarg 4y ago
Menthol feels cold, chilli feels hot. Kids can notice at least that much.
603.
by yarg 4y ago
Not entirely. The IRA bombs are designed not to be disabled, whereas that's not a concern with a dropped bomb. With the older bombs degradation of the explosive needs to be considered.
604.
by yarg 4y ago
With great power comes great responsibility.
605.
by yarg 4y ago
Codesmell sure - and a case for refactoring, but I wouldn't go as far as to say bug. But I wouldn't expect that to be the common use case - I'd generally expect that the caller would just be implicitly importing and using the
606.
by yarg 4y ago
MIT has done just that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132152 .
607.
by yarg 4y ago
Is there that much overhead in using a general block cypher to build a stream cypher?
608.
by yarg 4y ago
It'd be nice if you could inline the Tuple description into the method signature. There's a bit of unnecessary overhead in having to externally declare and import the return type. public [K key, V value] getElement(int index)
609.
by yarg 4y ago
Sure, but most people see $1,000,000,000 and think only of the incomprehensible abstract - they see huge; they don't see what the value means. They certainly don't see the amortised cost across the decades long operation of a high
610.
by yarg 4y ago
I really don't think that you want null in a modern language, at the runtime level there will eventually be a zeroed out reference field - but a programmer shouldn't have to deal with that. So I think we largely agree. (I left exa
611.
by yarg 4y ago
There's not really a nice way of implementing the syntax without changing the language. Although perhaps they could resolve this with magic imports? import java.lang.magic.optional; public class Foo{ public static vo
612.
by yarg 4y ago
I've alway felt "billion dollar mistake" is unreasonably hyperbolic. In retrospect it would be very nice to have a language level ability to define something as optional, and require existence checking for such values; But it
613.
by yarg 4y ago
Spooky action at a distance doesn't need to be a thing. Retroactive causality implements the same functionality without requiring information to propagate faster than c.
614.
by yarg 4y ago
SQL is a language that dates from a time before modern development tooling was even conceived of. Code completion is impossible when selecting a.foo from fuck knows where. I don't even think it'd be that hard to support a more mod
615.
by yarg 4y ago
We're hoping we're the dominant host, but we've also seen that that's not always the case.
616.
by yarg 4y ago
Douglas Adams' biscuit story: http://www.math.toronto.edu/beni/bERNARDO_nOT_fOUND/fUNNY_sT... .
617.
by yarg 4y ago
What do you mean by "regular expression"? Because they're generally not regular. If you mean a parser for a notation expressing regular grammars, then it only takes a couple of hours to knock out a recursive descent parser (i
618.
by yarg 4y ago
Well the first thing that we'll need to do is compute this in terms of actual resources, rather than money - which is a tokenised abstraction from value, and arguably an inflated one. So the raw material and energy requirements to leav
619.
by yarg 4y ago
It's not just what it targets (when compared with Cas 9 and 13), but how it responds. Basically, it just goes ape-shit, which sacrifices precision in order to maximise local damage.
620.
by yarg 4y ago
This is less "I could melt the sun with my laser eyes" and more "the new features of the next generation of this field tested technology are likely to lead to significant innovations".
621.
by yarg 4y ago
So Cas-9 and 13 are hitmen for DNA and RNA sequences respectively. And Cas-12a2 is a berserker with a hair trigger. Whereas the others clear the cell of invaders, this guy pulls a Samson and brings the walls down.
622.
by yarg 4y ago
Dawkins invalidating the notion that the eye is irreducably complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwew5gHoh3E . Showing quite clearly how incremental beneficial change leads to the development of complex features. But it
623.
by yarg 4y ago
There's something dirty about the fact that we have to hope that one day we'll be able to install our own operating systems on a linux device.
624.
by yarg 4y ago
He wasn't asking about that - as far as I can tell - but rather about read-only cheating. Which would let you know what your opponents are up to, without impacting state.
625.
by yarg 4y ago
They could just put braille bumps on keyboards.
626.
by yarg 4y ago
Electrical. Probably very naïve of me.
627.
by yarg 4y ago
This once again has me wondering about quantum dots - wondering if quantum dots can be used for refrigeration (there're papers as far back as '93). I figured they'd have to be infrared, and then I got distracted by the diffic
628.
by yarg 4y ago
Is 'cotton' racist as well? How about 'train'? I heard that they used them in the holocaust.
629.
by yarg 4y ago
Patent law should, but does not allow for independent derivation. It also fails to do anything about patent thickets.
630.
by yarg 4y ago
In the case of Spring what I wanted was adequate dependency injection. I was dealing with having to support releases across multiple historical branches, and wanted to separate the core and business logic to allow for easier support on the

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