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by bumper_crop 4y ago
You misread. I'm saying his reasons for filing are in question. NIST probably was being dishonest. That's not the reason there is a lawsuit though.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
If NTRU Prime had been declared the winner, would this suit have been filed? It's the same contest, same people, same suspicious behavior from NIST. I don't think this suit would have come up. djb is filing this suit because o
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
This definitely has the sting of bitterness in it, I doubt djb would have filed this suit if NTRU Prime would have won the PQC NIST contest. It's hard to evaluate this objectively when there are strong emotions involved.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
This is great news! For far too long, Website owners have been collecting data on their users at no benefit to the users themselves. When website owners try to collect data on their users (for any and all reasons) it just violates the pr
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Do you talk with regular people, outside of the tech bubble often? If money were really the problem, Walmart employees would jump at an opportunity to work at Costco or any of the other higher paying places. OP is claiming that because s
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Same here. Ironically it's rising rent and gas prices that will force people back to work, rather than pay bumps because bills still need to be paid.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
This is lazy explanation that's easy to agree with if you don't think very hard about it. Two reasons: 1. A shitty job at $15 an hour is equally unappealing at $16 an hour. Someone who doesn't want the crap hours, crap bos
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
> I hate how it forces to you create a module everytime. This affected me recently, so I have sympathy for the author. Trying to upgrade an older project I had to the module system meant trying to find out how to import modules which d
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
When this came out, someone in my dorm made a mock of it on our whiteboard. With a few extra lines, it looks like a fat guy bending over. People always look for a human shape in what they see.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Step 1: have a lot of friends. You can usually spend a little politcal capital to get your first few users/customers by talking to them directly. For products that are targeted towards businesses, you'll need to call up your
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Very timely; I found out yesterday that the UPX program (EXE specific compressor from many years ago) was made by the same guys who made LZO. I had this realization that there is a progeny from people who write compression stuff. In a sim
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
You'll need to go back earlier than 15 years. ConcurrentHashMap and friends were added in 1.6, but String.intern has been in there since the beginning. Since Java shipped with Threads in the standard library, (but no memory model) th
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Independent of Apple, I think we need an industry wide of saying "I'm not an idiot, this bug report is real". I've been on both sides (in a moderately used OSS project). The main problem is that the attending doesn&#x
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Make sure to read between the lines. It only looks like a busy loop. Remember, the OS can pause and preempt your thread at any time. This is a real and likely event.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
One of the things that made linearizabilty click for me was thinking in terms of happens-before: volatile int a; a = 1; print(a) // Could this print Zero? Even assuming only one program, one thread, one process, n
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
https://go.dev/play/p/xolc9oPwA0C Interfaces don't have a zero type, which means that we can't have an atomic.Value which stores Shape. Atomic Value would be much easier to reason about if it had store s
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
That's why I opened with "Look at the implementation". Go is unable to store the type and the pointer at the same time, so it warps what "atomic" means. Pretty much every other language has atomic mean "one
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Sorry to say, but these hit close to home for me. A lot of the synchronization paradigms in Go are easy to misuse, but lead the author into thinking it's okay. the WaitGroup one is particularly poignant for me, since the race detec
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
From 2006 to 2014 I owned my own platform. Several actually. But I turned them down after it became a lot of work to maintain. At the time, it wasn't so obvious the web was dying, but in hindsight I probably helped kill it. In the
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
The best lossless format is the one you can decode back to the original image. When evaluating them, there is an implicit assumption that the decode step will happen a short time later, but that's not always true. Will there be JPEG
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
We hope these are Futures; it sounded like GPs farmer may have Forward contracts. If this is the case, it would make more sense for the Farmer to bail on the contract if prices get too far out. (a.k.a. counterparty risk) That would be ba
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
The JVM still doesn't know about generics. The explanation you provided is entirely at the compiler (javac) level, and the JVM is still oblivious to it. There is no special dispatch, or optimization. At best, you could say there is
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
I was under the impression she hadn't had any good hits leading up to the end of 2020, and enough misses caused her to lose favor. I can't really think of any great Netflix originals from 2018-2020.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
I generally agree with you, though I would say now we are finding out if it's sustainable or not. Remember that for the past 2 years, TV Studios have been on lock down and the only stuff Netflix was really releasing was stuff that wa
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Consumers want high quality, entertaining content, at low cost, with little commitment, at any time. Prior to Netflix, there wasn't such an intersecting product. Now, Netflix has low quality content, but still has all the other stu
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Stupid is probably the wrong word here; "clueless"? I personally think consumers are on the verge of reinventing TV channels, with each streaming service acting like a channel. Consumers, who liked that Netflix had so much conte
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
It is small, but that's not what you should look at. The Derivative in subscribers matters way more (since Netflix is a growth company), and Russia was nearly doubling in subs each year.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
> So is that why the increasing competition from the likes of Apple, Disney+ and HBO, recent price increases and password sharing loopholes have plagued its growth? This is also a false narrative. Netflix subscribers seldomly churn.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Generally Netflix makes shows in the same country in which it operates. This has a positive interaction between the country and the company, since the shows are more identifiable to the people who would watch them in that country. While
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
> But that's a problem. Watching a whole season makes you more invested in the show, so you're pissed off when it gets cancelled. This is because consumers have been conditioned since last century to assume this is how things s

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