lvkv

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by lvkv 6mo ago
Do you have one or more public examples of this?
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by lvkv 2y ago
> it quite literally is the worst language to make large scale updates beating even C++ Having worked in both C++ and Rust codebases professionally, my experience has been the complete opposite. I have to be extremely cautious when makin
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by lvkv 2y ago
Unfortunately, the world is opt-out, not opt-in.
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by lvkv 2y ago
Yeah, I’ll update the README to be more specific about this. This is also why I didn’t provide instructions on how to use the tool :)
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by lvkv 2y ago
Author here. Those are kind words! I’d like to add the last part of that quote: > The page you're on right now is my mess. Now go create yours!
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"Grip Car"(teenage.engineering)
37 points by lvkv 2y ago|46 comments
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Carbon dioxide accumulation inside vehicles (2017)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
4 points by lvkv 2y ago|0 comments
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by lvkv 2y ago
As an alum of Stony Brook, I’m grateful for all Jim Simons did for the university. Aside from having been the chairman of the math department, he’s the reason we have the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, as well as the “Renaissance”
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How to Trust Again(lukas.dev)
1 points by lvkv 3y ago|0 comments
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by lvkv 3y ago
> This means it’s not possible to race data, dead lock, live lock, etc. While this statement is true when you look at fibers as a N:1 proposition Deadlocks are still possible when using fibers backed by a single thread if you serialize y
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by lvkv 3y ago
GitHub Enterprise had (has?) an interesting loophole to discover the existence of private repositories. Attempting to transfer ownership of a repository to another user was aborted if the user had a repository of the same name—even if it wa
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by lvkv 3y ago
How does Clearspace differentiate itself from One Sec, which has existed in this space for almost two years (if not longer)? I’m particularly interested in: - Is Clearspace cheaper over time? - Does Clearspace work on websites as well as ap
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by lvkv 3y ago
Do you mean “sinks” instead of “toilets”?
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by lvkv 3y ago
I think you’d like a blog post I wrote in November where I put forward an outline of what such a system would look like: https://lukas.dev/posts/how-to-trust-again/ Digital signatures, media verification, authenti
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by lvkv 3y ago
I’ve always thought of the array index operator: a[index] as syntactic sugar for the pointer arithmetic: *(a + index) From this point of view, the existence of a “backwards” index operator makes sense; the arithmetic evaluates
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by lvkv 4y ago
The trusted GPS problem might be solved by actually turning GPS upside down and having the device emit the signals instead of receiving them—it’s known as reverse or inverted GPS. I’ve written a blog post that addresses many of problems, an
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by lvkv 4y ago
One way to get a verifiable time stamp would be to show knowledge of an unpredictable but well-known thing in the past (providing a lower bound), then to create the same thing yourself (providing an upper bound). I wrote about it here: htt
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by lvkv 4y ago
Your comment inspired me to post a blog post on this very topic. You can find it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33558566
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How to Trust Again: Deepfakes, Misinformation, and a Possible Way Out(lukas.dev)
4 points by lvkv 4y ago|1 comments
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by lvkv 4y ago
Hi Hacker News, this is the first blog post I’ve ever published. I’ve been sitting on this for a while, but reading a few comments on the MIT Moon Disaster post a few days ago convinced me to post, particularly: > “What are some ways to
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by lvkv 5y ago
Link to that article: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/higher-minimum-wage-inflation...
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by lvkv 5y ago
The number denotes what section of the manual the command (or function, etc.) comes from. Aside from that, it also helps clear up potential confusion about what you’re talking about—a good example is stat(1) (the command) and stat(2) (the s