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A computer science veteran from Helsinki. Infosec consultant. Family man. Interested in all fields of science and humanities. Assburger, but a sociable one.

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Comment · 1 month ago

I find this interesting as a technology, as a business process, and above all as a system for managing trust on a global scale across different jurisdictions. In a sense, the credit card system accomplishes something that even the UN, international law, Interpol and military mights cannot do: it enables individuals to enter into trustworthy global agreements with minimal effort and risk, and at very low transaction costs.

Comment · 4 months ago

Reminds me of Thinking Machines and Danny Hillis. See chapter "Parsing a Regular Language" in "DATA PARALLEL ALGORITHMS" <https://rsim.cs.illinois.edu/arch/qual_papers/systems/3.pdf>.

Comment · 4 months ago

In Plan 9 you did have a real (synthetic) /net, and could do that and more from any program. You could even mount /net from another machine via 9P protocol and have an instant VPN...

9front lets you play with that on Linux.

Some Plan 9 like /net things are visible in Go libraries... (Rob Pike legacy)

Comment · 4 months ago

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1817064/bbp-formula...

Comment · 6 months ago

Reminds me when Russ Cox (Go, Google, Bell Labs) used Rob Pike's APL like Ivy to solve 2021 Advent of code puzzles:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/uccbd6/russ_cox_solv...

Comment · 6 months ago

I am especially fond of this article inventing LLMs as Markov chains.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-11/page/n129/...

Comment · 10 months ago

Who ever invented the idea that you can embed Javasript to picture files?

Comment · 11 months ago

Someone else can explain, how me pressing "a" gets to light some LEDs on my screen, and what happens in the output part of the data flow.

Comment · 1 year ago

No one mentioned Upspin? A global file namespace (URL, but better...) and protocol to isolate public data users from private governance and storage, by gurus like Rob Pike. https://github.com/upspin/upspin

Comment · 1 year ago

At least in Finland the jail sentences have been related to extreme widely published antisemitism. Fines have been given for other sorts of hate speech.

If the U.S. wants this to be allowed, it is your business. But it is ours to decide, if we want to allow nazis synmpathy newspapers advocating killing of the jew. Generally, the americans are lost in their arrogance here, as always.

Comment · 1 year ago

I don't think there has been a rock album ever since, that would have been so big, popular, revolutionary and generation defining. I guess some genius must have been there.

Comment · 2 years ago

Can you explain me, why do you need to be online to extract the private key? Can't you just steal the token, input the nonces offline, and meter timing? Then, crunch out the private key, and only then, if needed, phish the password?

Comment · 3 years ago

If this is inefficient, what are you comparing to? What is the best way to purify water or produce hydrogen with solar energy? Is there a good way? Certainly producing electricity first can't be the most affordable way?

Comment · 3 years ago

Designing better error handling in Go is an ongoing work. Proposols are being considered. Personally I don't see a big problem in real life Go code bases.

Note that there is kind of a philosophical cul-de-sac here. If you understand and expect your "errors" (= exceptional situations that prevent the program to do what we thought the user wanted) you can handle them, and they become part of your program normal logic.

If you don't understand or ainticipate your errors, or choose to neglect situations that are not really rare or are really dangerous, no amount of special language constructs will save your users.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

Comment · 3 years ago

If you browse random Go code from https://pkg.go.dev/ you will have a hard time finding that hypothetical case where most of your code is error handling chores. The problem is artificial.