namkt

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by namkt 4y ago
He also built the company, not the rockets. In a different thread here on HN, some of the SpaceX guys were commenting how he actually had very little understanding of rockets, understandably. But the credit goes to him regardless.
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by namkt 4y ago
Is there a 'rick-rolled' meme but with blockchain?
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by namkt 4y ago
This was the immediate and exact same thought I had the moment I read the first sentence of the post. Then I stopped reading. Clearly this was not an engineering decision, and passwords should be trusted to no one but competent engineers an
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by namkt 4y ago
Like on Hacker forums? :)
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by namkt 4y ago
Encryption is not for the poor.
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by namkt 4y ago
Damn, this hits so many nails that it's got to be one of the biggest HN posts in a while.
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by namkt 4y ago
He does that all the time where he posts a link and quotes one or two paragraphs. It's also meant for the fanbase to comment on the post.
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by namkt 4y ago
He was Charles I of Spain and V of Germany. Still good ol' Charles but different major version numbers; motherfucker inherited quite a bit of land. https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/10728/carlos-i-de-espana-y-v-d.
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by namkt 4y ago
The government publishes infection rates at the county level. The county's health department may also have guidelines that differ slightly from the general nation-wide ones. If there is an uptick of infections in the local community an
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by namkt 4y ago
No, "not having evidence" isn't the same as having evidence against. That is exactly the point that I made above. And where does it so clearly state in the website that second part? And of course it's ok, but that does
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by namkt 4y ago
They don't recommend because they don't see clear evidence in outcomes. See my EMA link below. This doesn't make the recommendation any closer than recommending not to.
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by namkt 4y ago
This case is simple for me: I'll always follow EU/Canadian healthcare guidelines before US ones by a very long shot, unless there is an immediate problem in my local community where the US guidelines make more sense.
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by namkt 4y ago
Because only the US seems to have this guideline. Canada and the EU are not recommending boosters to the general population as pointed out above. It's similar for the flu; afaik, the EU recommends flu shots for ages 60+, not for the ge
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by namkt 4y ago
ECDC/EMA seem to have similar guidelines: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ecdc-ema-update-recommenda... e.g. "At the moment, there is no clear evidence to support giving a second booster dose to people
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by namkt 4y ago
Do you use any public libraries for those backend servers, or is it all home-grown? Curious what's at play.
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by namkt 4y ago
How exactly do you make the Dreamcast/PSO connect to one of these servers?
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by namkt 4y ago
Great to see a C/C++ CPU-based implementation that runs on a variety of platforms. Most other ASRs seem to be either abandonware, a whole bunch of Python that only runs on PC, and/or solutions that send all your audio to someone&#
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by namkt 4y ago
My assumption is that it's not just the syntax, but that their compiler does the right thing. Though someone said it's based on LLVM, so who knows how much control they get.
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by namkt 4y ago
It's constant time in that it always takes the same amount of time regardless of the extent to which the two strings are equal. It is a different concept than constant time in complexity analysis. What's even more confusing is tha
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by namkt 4y ago
I know, right? The strongest theoretical crypto is a one-time pad, often presented in its XOR form in the first chapter of every crypto book. But hey, if Google says math comes first...
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by namkt 4y ago
Didn't they originally claim to never show ads in search given that it is in direct opposition to search results quality? Back in the days when Pagerank was hot.
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by namkt 4y ago
I think the point behind "constant time" here is that the comparison always takes the same amount of time, and not based on how many characters in the two strings are equal, to prevent a timing attack. "Constant time" is
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by namkt 4y ago
The Destruction of Abel, Jeremiah 27:14.
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by namkt 4y ago
At this point you can't trust any 'cloud' camera regardless of who makes it.
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by namkt 4y ago
Uber probably isn't the best example given that the company prided itself in being 'fucking illegal', but your point generally stands. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/10/uber-investig
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by namkt 4y ago
Signal uses (or used?) SGX for remote attestation, which presumably lets the client verify that the code running on the server is a build of the OSS code and not a modified version. But I don't know the details or if this is reliable.
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by namkt 4y ago
I'd really like that one where you give it a ref sheet and out comes a 3D model, or at least a baseline to tinker with in, e.g., Blender. I think NVIDIA was doing text-to-3d recently, but it did so from a single image and I'm not
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by namkt 4y ago
I would have thought that allocations in managed languages like Go/Python would have been the "fast" part of the processing. Isn't technically the GC that's slowing you down, and not the allocation per se? For one-s