morrad

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by morrad 7y ago
> This includes the thing boxers put in their mouth to protect their teeth FYI, the English word is "Mouthguard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthguard
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by morrad 8y ago
The first radiation exposure related death was reported a few weeks ago from one of the plant's workers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45423575 Still, your point that nuclear is significantly safer from a
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by morrad 9y ago
Interestingly, according to that link Mr./Mrs. Firstname Lastname left them a reply indicating his or her support for strong net neutrality. :)
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by morrad 11y ago
> First, 10^11 P/E cycle and "practically infinite" aren't really two concepts I would associate with each other when discussing RAM. I think their point of comparison for this statistic is NAND flash. 10^11 is much
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by morrad 12y ago
Would it be possible to use this to identify people running Tor relays?
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by morrad 12y ago
As someone who regularly writes RTL for FPGAs during their day job, I like the idea, but am skeptical about the follow through. For years now, various companies have tried to make cross compilers to be able to synthesize C style code into R
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by morrad 12y ago
The shepherd of Jekyll [1] is also one of the lead developers of Octopress. [1]: https://github.com/parkr
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by morrad 12y ago
Thanks for the correction. I'm on the hardware side of things, so my understanding was that the "allowed" algorithms were actually required, and I'm relieved to hear that's not the case.
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by morrad 12y ago
Good luck convincing your competitors to not take the business you're leaving on the table with that. :(
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by morrad 12y ago
My understanding is the FIPS requires that the SSL library implements a certain suite of protocols (including the Dual EC DRBG discussed in the linked mailing list post) which have known cryptographic weaknesses.
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by morrad 13y ago
I have TWC and have had a lot of success in speeding up Youtube by blocking access to the caching servers that TWC uses. If I block 206.111.0.0/16, I can stream at full speed. See: http://www.reddit.com/r/technolog
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by morrad 13y ago
> it has an incredibly sophisticated and powerful content-matching engine that does monitor what's being uploaded, and automatically checks new videos against a giant corpus of known copyrighted works This is above and beyond the re
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by morrad 13y ago
> automation is intended to eliminate [jobs] Automation has the potential to eliminate jobs, but also has the potential to allow much more work to be done by a single person, or allowing that person to do the same work with less effort.
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by morrad 13y ago
There are better (less expensive) ways to build credit than car loans. While I don't remember the name, my wife and I built credit getting some sort of secured loan from our local credit union. The process was something along the line
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by morrad 13y ago
Tiberius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk
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by morrad 13y ago
Seeing as this is the military, I would guess that they have triple redundant systems for some things, but that still is a decent amount of computing power there.
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by morrad 13y ago
I'm late to this discussion, but as a "real pro" VHDL coder, I can at least sate your curiosity. At my company, we abstract the vendor specific implementations to have a common interface that we can then use to keep the rest