scorpionfeet

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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Sadly a reoccurring problem with lots of white rock and roll “heroes” from Aerosmith to Led Zeppelin to Iggy Pop to Lynyrd Skynyrd to The Cars to The Stones…
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
That’s why we have “reading”. Literally the first paragraph. So in this case, pretty easy to separate.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
I”ve been installing Linux desktops for decades (mostly Ubuntu, but in the day: Suse and RedHat, and Qubes, and FreeBSD and NetBSD, Nix, Arch, etc…) I always check out the latest LTS release of Ubuntu. I tried Mint and didn’t see a huge dif
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Not if you are coming from windows and are not a tech nerd. I don’t want to end up being tech support for some non techie I coerced into Linux. It is nowhere near as seamless as zealots like to believe. Been having this discussion since 199
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Same here. Back in 1999 buying something of a yahoo market website was a crapshoot and you didn’t know what was going on till you got it. I have no issue with overzealous updates. But after that; go away! I know you exist.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Weren’t sanctions lifted last week?
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Bank has its own Authenticator app. That’s how.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
So: worse than the Obama treaty. Got it.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Didn’t express concerns. Just vaguebooked.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Voodoo shipped with tomb raider. That was its defining game Diablo II wasn’t even a 3d game. Many problems on this page.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
This is exactly how customers who do threat modeling see PQC. HN can armchair QB this all they want, the real money is moving fast to migrate. The analogy to a small atomic bomb is on point.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Unapproved by the company.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
YES! Immense waste of money. But I’m one out of hundreds that avoided a corporate iPhone for years. I hate it.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
My company corporate card requires an app because it has an Authenticator to access the website. I tried the ole “but I only have a flip phone” and they said there was no other option. The bastards forced my hand.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
Merzbow. Keep by fidget brain occupied with pure noise while I get real work done. OPs playlist requires too many faculties used in coding.
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by scorpionfeet 5mo ago
One could argue the 17 solution summary is actually correct? Why should an os be limited to just one way of doing things. I don’t believe my own words 100% but it is a thought that maybe diversity is the eventual outcome. Ubuntu and MacOS a
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Andressen has demonstrated he is past his prime; he is no longer relevant. We should stop giving his opinions space.
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
My first article was published in Dr Dobb’s in 1992!
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Can you instead compare the mission critical code of Artemis instead of the email client? How many KB is the flight controller?
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
A few thousand years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Alkalinity softens the husk of legumes. Look up nixtamalization. It’s what the Aztecs invented.
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Oh good point. Thanks. I don’t think about cryptocurrency at all. But yes the sigs are now 4.6k. Thats a huge block. Yeah that sure throws a wrench into blockchain. But the alternative is that blockchains based on ecdsa go away. Seems like
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
One small nit: “it cannot have an FPU added (that is not the case with Cyrix 486S…)” This is mostly true but the 486SX can be paired with a math coprocessor via the 487SX, but the 487SX is actually a full CPU that disables the SX, not a ful
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Key is 2600 bytes for mldsa 87. Your fav icon is 10x bigger than that. Verify time and encapsulation is a few hundred microseconds for one verify and encaps. Your scary proportions are minuscule in practice. Even cortex m class can handle i
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Y2K Oh wait: thousands of programmers started working on this in the early 90s so that there would be so few failures people thought it was a scam. The entire financial and government infrastructure was based on ecdsa until the shift to pqc
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Can you explain the reference? It whooshed me.
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Chill bro it’s just a joke. Sensitive.
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
Because some people are natural followers and won’t do anything unless there is a nice safe herd doing it. In this case we actually need a herd to push back against authoritarianism. And if people don’t feel empowered until they feel safe t
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
One at a time. Just because you can’t stop all crime doesn’t mean you don’t try to stop any crime. What is it with HN bros and their love of fallicies?
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by scorpionfeet 6mo ago
“if you read the article” Now why would anyone do that when the headline already supports their uninformed opinion?

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