Aaron1011

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by Aaron1011 8d ago
In this case, there was already an existing Lean statement of the problem in the formal-conjectures repository, which they re-used: https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler/blob/8937a8f4...
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A filesystem corruption bug breaks loose(lwn.net)
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by Aaron1011 8y ago
> And tape is very secure, with built-in, on-the-fly encryption What exactly is this referring to?
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by Aaron1011 8y ago
I believe you're think RFC 6018: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551
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by Aaron1011 8y ago
I thought that the issue with /dev/urandom was that it wouldn't block when read shortly after startup (when the entropy pool wasn't yet initialized).
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by Aaron1011 8y ago
> That's enough to turn a dollar into 16 billion in 5 years. I think it's actually 1.6 trillion
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> It doesn't matter in practice if the content is still accessible when the browser tells people that accessing it is dangerous. It certainly does matter. There's a fundamental different between people being discouraged from ac
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
Displaying a warning to users doesn't make sites "inaccessible".
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
I was referring specifically to the author's claim that deprecating HTTP and displaying a warning to users is the equivalent of "rendering large parts of the web inaccessible" and "massive book burning".
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> Also, if Google succeeds, it will make a lot of the web's history inaccessible. > It's like a massive book burning, at a much bigger scale than ever done before. How on earth did the author reach these conclusions?
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> I'll ignore the irrelevant marxist talking point Which part of the parent comment was a "marxist talking point"?
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
A government can imprison people for horrible reasons, but still not have the worst radio.
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> As of now, text rendering methods are missing and for security reasons you cannot read back pixels from the canvas. Does anyone have an idea as to what those reasons might be? I've heard of JavaScript access to certain CSS feature
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
That's to be expected. The idea behind my script is that the URL is encoding the unix time of the first visit to that URL. By starting at the current time and working backwards, the first HTTP 200 you come across should be the current
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
I tried that, but found that guessing backwards from the current time works better: https://gist.github.com/Aaron1011/2595f8699ade9d4df16398a68e...
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
You and the lawmakers opposed to that bill certainly seem 'allowed to say' whatever you want on that subject. Let me be more clear: What does this have to do with 'What you can't say in Silicon Valley ', or 'a
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
How is this related to the parent or OP?
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> Look, things like murder or pedophilia are unabigiously evil If by 'murder' you mean 'unjustified killing', then that's trivially true. If, on the other hand, you just mean 'killing', then it's f
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> That is censoring and shutting down the argument. Who are you to make that call? If people aren't allowed to state that 'behavior X makes person Y unethical', then how are we supposed to determine what is 'objective
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> You don't find it bad that a bunch of people, based on their own non-objective oppinion What is an 'objective opinion'? > get to ruin someones business and/or career? Are you saying that it's a bad idea for
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home. > Restricting speech leads to r
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
From Comcast's RFC that's linked in the thread: > R3.1.1. Must Only Be Used for Critical Service Notifications > Additional Background: The system must only provide critical notifications, rather than trivial notifications.
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
I can't seem to find a definition of "Partial disclosure" on either the website or the IETF RFC draft.
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
Morse code: "translation"
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
18: - .-. .- -. ... .-.. .- - .. --- -.
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
Based on the white paper, "Blueborne" is really a collection of distinct vulnerabilities in various implementations of the Bluetooth protocol. This is in contrast to something like the 'Over the air' vulnerability ( http
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
From the white paper: > Despite this, the Linux Kernel is lagging behind in implementing some modern mitigations in its default configuration. Both stack canaries - which protect against stack overflows, and KASLR (kernel address space l
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
Part one of the three-article series: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tase...
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> I don't trust people who are more code-savvy than I am (that's most people) not to insert or exploit weaknesses in open-source software or other open code That applies to closed-source software as well. With (popular) open-so
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by Aaron1011 9y ago
> Suppose, for example, that a student’s top choice school is hugely popular. But their number two to five schools are only slightly short on places. Then it could make sense to register for the number two school in the first round. They

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