archgoon

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Comment · 2 years ago

Do you mean that Bloomberg should have used a different title or Hacker News should have modified the title?

Comment · 2 years ago

Ah, but that's a beauty of it. If you encrypt with ECB you can't be decrypted by a federally compliant organization!

Comment · 2 years ago

Yep! That is it alright.

Here's a talk from an llvm conference with the details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjliNp0_00

Comment · 2 years ago

So fun fact, if you compile

  int sum(int n) {
      int sum = 0;
      for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
          sum +=i;
      }
      return sum;
  }

clang, with -O2, will turn this into the polynomial (n+1)*n//2. It can also do similar transformations for multiple loops.

https://godbolt.org/z/so6neac33

So if you do a brute force solution which could have been reduced to a polyomial, clang has a shot of doing just that.

Comment · 2 years ago

Microsoft and Apple preceded the dot com bomb by several decades. (Microsoft 1975, Apple 1976)

Amazon was a company that was around and survived the dot com bomb (founded in 1994, roughly around the time of the beginning of the bubble) [though its stock took about 7 years to recover]

Facebook was post dot com bomb. (founded 2004)

Comment · 2 years ago

It is this argument, about what benefits the jaguars themselves bring to the farmers, that is unfortunately lacking from the article.

Thank you for the additional context.

Comment · 2 years ago

I don't get it. The article's title is that the ranchers have become allies to jaguars and pumas.

But nothing in the article supports that view. What has changed are cattle ranching practices that reduce the opportunity of attack. Everything that the article talks about is "How did cattle ranchers adapt to an ever present threat of pumas and jaguars without killing them (for reasons that are not well discussed beyond a reference to a government mandate)" rather then "We're best buds now!" or even "We have found utility in the jaguar and puma population that benefits us".

It seems the adapted practices are beneficial on their own, but it sounds like they would be beneficial without jaguars and pumas.

Comment · 2 years ago

Trump is notoriously transactional. If the unions continue to play ball, he might apply leverage in their favor.

Comment · 2 years ago

Do they actually provide applications the ability to access raw camera data? They don't allow that on the Occulus.

They can only rely on 3p devs if they allow access to the hardware.

Comment · 2 years ago

Step 1 of reverse engineering anything: Figure out the make and model of the thing. ;)

"Employee badges" can be implemented in a number of ways, from simple broadcasted rfids down to having secret challenge responses that aren't breakable without going down the jlsca route since the secret is on the device and never leaves it.

So, step 1: figure out what exactly the model your 'employee badge' is using and what protocol it uses. There's probably some marking on it that should give you the manufactuerer at least.