NobleSir

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by NobleSir 10y ago
ah yeah, I actually use a macbook and surface pro 2 at the same time as pictured: ( http://imgur.com/a/fqf3P ) combined specs are actually similar to a new mb pro (combined 512 gb ssd, 16 gb ram, ~4.7 pounds), and cost i
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by NobleSir 10y ago
for whiteboarding: onenote on surfaces? (which syncs almost real-time) This is what I use, for those kind of things, as someone working remotely
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Well, I wasn't there so idk about that, but it looks like 3/7 of the "most important announcements of build 2016" are directly related to windows 10 mobile ^[1] 1. "Microsoft is launching its latest version of Windo
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by NobleSir 10y ago
For windows, conemu ( http://conemu.github.io ) is a bit more annoying to configure than terminal.app, but works just as well, and even has the more powerful built in features like tmux. Of course you have to run something like
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by NobleSir 10y ago
4ish years ago I had an old, unupdated netbook get infected with conduit extension, which spread through the sync mechanism to my newer laptops.
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Well, I haven't used the 620, but my anecdotal experience has been the opposite. List of recent devices I own that are unbroken: lumia 521, 950, and Kyocera Rise. broken: nexus 7 (screen after 2 months), asus fonepad note 6 (screen aft
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by NobleSir 10y ago
>given up on mobile I don't know about that, they sure have been pushing a lot of new builds lately : https://www.reddit.com/domain/blogs.windows.com/search?q=bui... though I guess they did sell part of N
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by NobleSir 10y ago
So glad I pay taxes
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by NobleSir 10y ago
So, basically if you plan to compete with facebook territory as a small startup, then it seems to follow that you either (1) Have patents / use a react alternative, such as vue (note this is annoying since there is no cross-platform na
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by NobleSir 10y ago
>So, in that case, I don't feel like Facebook is really being contrary here. They are basically saying, "As long as you don't sue us for patent infringement, we promise not to sue you for any patent infringement related to
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by NobleSir 10y ago
just looked myself up through that link, and apparently, me too!
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Afaik there is lightning, thunder, raiden, and now bolt. That said, bolt looks pretty useful on first skim, and I wouldn't be surprised if it gets implemented for monero (I know the authors are the zcash authors, but on first skim look
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by NobleSir 10y ago
One downside compared to micro-usb in my experience was having my macbook stop charging after (apparently) using the wrong usb-C adapter. I don't think I ever worried about which actual adapter I used for a micro-usb device, but I gues
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by NobleSir 10y ago
>Why is okay for mathemeticians to abbreviate things but programmers? Is it because they deal in more abstract entities where the name is irrelevant? for example, xyz^2 in a piece of written math means something different than it would i
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by NobleSir 10y ago
cool, thanks
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Maybe this is a naive question, not knowing chrome well, but is the source available? Would love to play around with this..
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Eh, I don't think we should discourage whistleblowers because it's not "cool" anymore because someone else did it first..
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Ah ok I'm not necessarily so much interested in using it, but have been looking into the details of the signal ratchet recently, and was wondering what the specific changes / rationale..
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Would also love to hear a point-by-point comparison of the two..
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by NobleSir 10y ago
I see - I searched for a while and it seems (if I'm reading correctly) that right in the RFC from 1999 it says to use / check prime-ness of the modulus: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2631 so I'm still a
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by NobleSir 10y ago
For someone whose almost exclusively studied cryptography in cyclic curve groups rather than cyclic integer groups (coming from an algebraic geometry background). Maybe someone can explain to me why the modulus isn't always chosen to b
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by NobleSir 10y ago
My favorite proofs of these basic number theory facts are in Apostols, Intro to Analytic Number Theory. At best the FTA using the proof there is only slightly less than obvious (of course obviousness probably varies widely based on mathemat
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by NobleSir 10y ago
I used a script which organized latex/ screenshots of papers the first two years of my ph.d, which sounds sort if like what your talking about.. After that I switched to (premium) OneNote, mainly for the handwriting capability, which i
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Thanks I didn't know those terms.
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by NobleSir 10y ago
I'm not going to claim that "current" electronic voting machines are good, but the article makes no convincing arguments beyond an "I am a computer scientist" appeal to authority that it "couldn't" wo
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by NobleSir 10y ago
I wish.. I just spent 5 years of minimum wage grad school so my pockets are not that deep.
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by NobleSir 10y ago
This is inevitable as everyone saw what happened at the litecoin halving last summer (if you don't pay attention to such things, it was a massive spike then dump).
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by NobleSir 10y ago
As someone who just finished a ph.d. in (non-applied) math I would agree profit incentives are a large percentage of the reason - in programming, you can learn enough basic skills to make money, and then smoothly transition that to higher s
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Except email and gmail are words that are clearly related (and suggest message transference) even for someone who doesn't know linear algebra..
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Not sure I'm understanding your rebuttal - in your example are the doctors the politicians, or the providers of the voting system? If the two doctors are the politicians, then I think you are misunderstanding my point, and probably the

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