n0nc3
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Comment · 6 years ago
If you are doing anything more complicated than gluing a pair of APIs together, it is very likely that the marginal value of work past 60 hours is negative. Reaping what you coded during a 3am espresso binge is rarely a happy experience.
But yeah, if all you are trying to do is build out Facebook before some other social network gets there maybe it makes sense to pull 100 hour weeks.
Comment · 6 years ago
Rules to one of the mentioned lotteries. [0] It looks like prize counts are fixed in advance, so any information about redemption changes odds. Blacklight also shows that the lottery website is riddled with trackers, so it is possible they are inferring redemption from advertising data.
[0] https://hoosierlottery.com/getmedia/33f6f7bf-f0e6-4265-bcbe-...
Comment · 6 years ago
An axiom of cryptographic tool design: there are no advanced users. Designs that ignore the axiom will always create dangerous failure modes.
Comment · 6 years ago
Why can't America build anymore? Is this a cultural problem, or a failure of public policy?
Healthcare, rail, aircraft, automobiles, shipping, pharmaceuticals, and now semiconductors. We can't make any of these things at scale anymore.
They turned GE into a financial institution. They sold Bell Labs off in pieces. Boeing can't safely update 1990s vintage air frames to accommodate modern engines. And yet, the market is on a tear. This is not sustainable.
Comment · 6 years ago
Not just a court case though, an investigation or a "psych eval" are enough to ruin someone. Take a look at Russ Tice.
Also, read Ronan Farrow's piece from the New Yorker last week. They targeted a straight-laced DOJ lawyer with >20 years of experience. These organizations are out of control and pose a very serious threat to our freedom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Tice
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-a-cia-cove...
Comment · 6 years ago
"Former JPMorgan colleagues describe the environment as Wall Street meets Apocalypse Now, with Cavicchia as Colonel Kurtz, ensconced upriver in his office suite eight floors above the rest of the bank’s security team." [0]
What really scares me is the number of people that adopt this strange Panglossian view dismissing every abuse of power as a one-off that cannot possibly reveal widespread systemic failures.
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...
Comment · 6 years ago
Given that its already deployed in academic contexts, I suspect that the more invasive employers are already using it. Finance, defense, etc.
Comment · 6 years ago
There's a link to another article about the hardware at the bottom. There are good entry points for overcoming the SDR/DSP learning curve for this article to make sense.
Crypto enthusiast since reading "Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2".