shriphani

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by shriphani 1y ago
I carry a few pens with me - different color ink for different days of the week - so I can see how much I wrote in a single day. Started doing it after I read about Neil Gaiman's writing habits.
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by shriphani 2y ago
bitcoin proof of work is not as impacted by quantum computers - grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup for unstructured search - so SHA256 ends up with 128 bits of security for pre-image resistance. BTC can easily move to SHA5
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by shriphani 2y ago
I still have all the CDs from the shipit program - such a great project.
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by shriphani 2y ago
Yeah I think you are correct that the protocol isn't safe from traffic analysis.
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by shriphani 2y ago
sender specifies recipient but the signal server cannot tell a group-chat message from a non-group chat message.
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by shriphani 2y ago
Examples of things you can do with ZKPs: - Anonymous credentials (this is what Signal does) - maintain an encrypted blob representing a group chat (members list etc all stay encrypted and Signal cannot tell who is in a group chat). A normal
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by shriphani 2y ago
He was a towering intellect - there's this book I got as a gift: https://www.amazon.com/First-Scientific-American-Benjamin-Fr... He was an towering intellect and positively influenced any situation he was placed in - t
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by shriphani 2y ago
would love to see some pics of your work. Since you seem to know about Japanese craft techniques - do you know what sort of adhesive is used in Japanese gold leaf application? I am not able to use bole or animal hide glue due (vegan) but wa
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by shriphani 3y ago
Thank you very much for your work Rich. I've seen your talks in person a couple of times and really admired the immense clarity of thought in every one of your ideas. And thank you very much for giving us Clojure - lots of fun memories
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by shriphani 3y ago
LV is a very solid brand. I used them a lot but once I discovered Japanese tools I did a total switch and won't look back. Lots of Japanese stuff is entering the US market and the tools are very serviceable - I can easily take apart an
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by shriphani 3y ago
isn't there a 20k per week withdrawal limit?
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by shriphani 4y ago
I love clojure but do a lot more Rust now. I feel the language leadership is from the information-systems universe - thinking about databases, schemas that sort of thing - and I feel the language and tooling are very good for those sorts of
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by shriphani 4y ago
I draw and carve by hand - I don't like to use power tools (except drills).
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by shriphani 4y ago
Besides day job (which I am excited about), I've been working on honing my zen buddhist woodworking skills this past year and taking on more complex projects. This is a torii gate that has been in progress for a while: https:/&#x
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by shriphani 4y ago
One of the greatest writers in history. An actual literary genius. He (and maybe Mark Twain) have this ability to write sentences that burrow deep in your head and stay there forever. A sample: "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise
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by shriphani 4y ago
ios
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by shriphani 4y ago
My garage door shook for a bit but I got none of these alerts. I'm on tTmobile, do I need to sign up somewhere ?
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by shriphani 4y ago
the pki does make life easy - ethereum address as a global unique id + seed phrase around for recovery + integrate this thing with the rest of the ethereum ecosystem (e.g. other apps can require ownership of an account on this app by lookin
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by shriphani 4y ago
- Ethereum's PKI allowed an e2ee messenger app to be built w/o a phone number https://twitter.com/dwr/status/1575248197454135296
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by shriphani 4y ago
The bit about turning a dockerfile into a rootfs. A docker image is just a tarball of tarballs. We do something like this: - you can dump the image using `docker save <name>`. - you can then get a list of the tarballs in this image by
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by shriphani 4y ago
One of the greats - Kurt Vonnegut - on this topic: "A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300997-ok-now-let-s-have-so...
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by shriphani 4y ago
It could be that the deep bench of high quality content is not there on reels yet. Most of the power user base of ig (horology, woodworking, crafts, fine arts etc) knows how to take high quality pictures and need to adapt to making videos (
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by shriphani 4y ago
Amazing project! Great tribute to one of the greatest timepieces ever made.
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by shriphani 4y ago
There's a substantial Karen presence in MN now (I think these are Burmese refugees and not from the Thai side of the border). Wonder what those areas were like pre-internet and pre-social media. Do you have a blog post or pics somewher
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by shriphani 4y ago
I've been using dialoguer [1], indicatif [2], and colour [3] for the rust ecosystem. Really high quality libraries: [1] https://docs.rs/dialoguer/latest/dialoguer/ [2] https://github.com/
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by shriphani 4y ago
Scapy is an exceptional library that I enjoyed using for a recent project. However, I felt that the focus is entirely on capturing and analyzing traffic. If you want to manipulate the packets then the API is a little unsuited for that (for
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Speaking Clocks(en.wikipedia.org)
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by shriphani 5y ago
I second this idea - perfect candidate for SIGBOVIK http://sigbovik.org/
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by shriphani 5y ago
People routinely run their own servers. A great example is bittorrent where the incentive design forces people to run actual file servers on their computer. People will run servers on their computer if it is (i) motivated the right way, (ii
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by shriphani 5y ago
yup, several wallets already do this. Argent for example lets you nominate guardians: https://support.argent.xyz/hc/en-us/articles/360022631412-Ab... ghayes also referred to this.

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