ZephyrP

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by ZephyrP 2mo ago
Although I'm late to the pile-on and all the good takes have grown old and gotten replies, I cannot let this grave insult against my people go unanswered. Elixir, if anything, really excels at communicating the intentions of the (occas
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by ZephyrP 5mo ago
A long-forgotten machine on a DoD network sounds like the kind of host that could serve for idle scanning or any other technique using a forged source address and a predictable dummy host; I imagine that arpwatch takes a view of network sec
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by ZephyrP 6mo ago
It's certainly not an "elitist initiation ordeal" to ask a potential crewmate to sketch a library function they've selected, what abstraction or ideas it implicitly contains, and what bearing those have on their overall
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by ZephyrP 1y ago
Change keeps coming, even when the wire format of a protocol has ossified. I've spent years in security and router performance at Cisco, wrote a respectable fraction of the flagship's L3 and L2-L3 (tun) firewall. I merged a patch
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by ZephyrP 1y ago
In the mid-2000s, I attended evangelical 'kids night'. Held each Friday at the dead-center of an unincorporated community in rural Colorado. The "cool" youth pastor who was responsible for these events told us "the
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by ZephyrP 2y ago
The pandemic killed a fantastic meetup called "Papers We Love" here in San Diego. I miss the many great people (and papers) I met through PWL, and would be thrilled to see something like it again. If not, we're just going t
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by ZephyrP 3y ago
I traveled through a town in California known for it's apple orchards. There, I ate a 'Hawkeye' apple, which was said to be an ancestor of the 'Red Delicious'. The 'Hawkeye' isn't my new favorite, but
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by ZephyrP 3y ago
of course, but an LFSR is going to be faster (provided you have a reasonable number of rounds in your Feistel cipher), have some situationally desirable statistical properties and is easier to adapt than a format-preserving encryption tec
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by ZephyrP 3y ago
Feistel ciphers are a good technique for doing just this but it's also worth noting that if all you are looking for is "produce a pseudorandom permutation of 1..N without actually shuffling a list of numbers" you can also use
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by ZephyrP 3y ago
I wouldn't call it "commonly used" but it's popular enough to be used in a number of Cisco products (and elsewhere, I'm sure).
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by ZephyrP 3y ago
In general, not really, but the most common string comparison instruction in x86_64 leaves the last character of one of the strings being compared with the other one just being a pointer into the C-style string.
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by ZephyrP 3y ago
This isn't to refute your overarching point, but even the oldest of stories, the 'Epic of Gilgamesh', begins with the titular character accused of not "leaving maidens to their warriors" , leading the gods (and peo
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by ZephyrP 4y ago
Do you see this is an expression of secular "neo-Persian" nationalism, or as part of a reaction to Iran's religious conservatives who'd read literal truth in the Quran's story of a heroic Zuul al Qarayn (whom I&#x27
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by ZephyrP 4y ago
Very neat. Do you implement option parsing in "magic getopt" or can you (somehow?) handle setting up the option string arguments used by the more familiar variants in getopt(3)?
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
Having a slew of physical theories with profound existential ramifications to choose from, why do you think the "many-worlds interpretation" is particularly connected to secularization?
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
I worked as a framer with my dad for around 4 years in the mid 2000s. We framed small residential homes in southern Colorado and although we would always carry a hammer on our belt to "align" a stud, bend flashing and drive in na
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
I got the same result as you, but in my mind the expression "twice as likely to purchase" could just as easily have meant P(C) = 2 * P(D) / 1 + P(D) (yielding 0.35824) rather than 2 * P(C) (yielding 0.32841).
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
I calculated a similar maximum horsepower to your own estimation (6.1 hp) when I used the average direct solar radiation (164 W m^2 @ 27 m^2 surface). This rose to 41 hp when using values for "a typical cloudless day at solar zenith&
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
In addition to fiction, qntm is a sharp, versatile programmer. greenery [1], their unobtrusive and generally tasteful python library for manipulating regular expressions, is also accompanied by high-quality technical writing on related to
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
> This is very untrue. While loop and a stack. >> You can still simulate > any function outside DSPACE(O(1)) can't The space complexity of the algorithm is only incidentally related to the number of unique variables requi
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
> Manifestly, recursion is never strictly necessary, and is furthermore almost always slower, or anyway no faster, than you could do maintaining state "by hand". Recursion is required in procedures like Ackermann's Funct
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
Inconvergent ( https://inconvergent.net/ ) is another stunning generative artist as well; their generative trees (browser version: https://zv.github.io/static/algorithmic-tree.html ) are especially evocat
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
I know awk (well, gawk) pretty well and I still regret not having just learned perl.
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by ZephyrP 5y ago
Extremely knowledgeable and warm person on top of that. He's the genuine next level.
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by ZephyrP 6y ago
It seems to me that once you're in the terrain of "feeling" requiring a (suitable) nervous system, you've already crossed the borders of "p-zombie" experience, having already recognized analogous behavioural an
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by ZephyrP 6y ago
I'd imagine the honor of "most efficient yield" would belong to root vegetables like sugar beets, yams or potatoes
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by ZephyrP 6y ago
>> Lee Kuan Yew lives in a giant, gated, guarded compound in the middle of the most valuable real estate in the city Didn't he die the better part of a decade ago?
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by ZephyrP 6y ago
Your opening hypothetical leaves the impression that the words which follow it were either an alternate rehearsal for a more blunt observation: "if all your wealth is deflationary, to spend is to lose deflationary currency" or a
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by ZephyrP 6y ago
> There is no reason to shit on someone's work just because you think it was a bad idea. It's already done, and it can coexist in the universe with you. If zaro is wrong (and people pounce on him for being technically wrong), B
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by ZephyrP 6y ago
my account is a year older than yours and I've never been asked by shadowy interest groups to astroturf, do you have any tips to improve my account's brand appeal?

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