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In reference to [1], for today's lucky 10,000 (which is itself in reference to [2]). [1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/ [2]: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Thanks for the information. This sounds like something I would use HKDF for. But, to your point, it's nice to be able to build the design with a fewer number of primitives, and lik…

This particular piece has been shared near me several times, in the context of this recent AWS outage, the previous big AWS outage, non-AWS outages, and others. Every time, I feel …

The edit window passed, so let me add: where and why one would use an extensible-output function in particular.

The nice thing about Blum-Blum-Shub or Blum-Micali is that they come with a proof of security. Even then, they tend to be impractical, due to performance and side channels. This on…

I freely admit, this is "smell" based speculation.

Can anyone share real-world examples of where and why one would use these, please?

This smells like self-dealing on the part of A16z.

Is there a parser ambiguity/confusion vector here?

I thought the same. Although, perhaps we have too few hatchways, and too much surface area inside each.

After a few dumb accidents involving header pins, I've come to the conclusion that exposed male header pins on my desk are a hazard.

As this is a tech forum, I expect that the name that stands out is Radio Shack, and I do agree that that story is tragic. For me, as a long time New Yorker, the other name that sta…

Kinda tricky. Last time this came up, the consensus was that approximately nothing commercially available supported RVA23 at the time.

The unemployment rate statistic is a bit misleading, because people who drop out of work permanently don't factor into it.

That's surprising. Why is there such a comparatively large number using 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Windows?

In most enterprises, the choice isn't Github vs Buildkite, it's Github vs Github plus Buildkite. That's what makes it so hard to pay for a separate CI vendor that costs more, when …

I evaluated Buildkite at a previous job, and I came to these conclusions. 1. Buildkite is probably the best commercial, off-the-shelf CI system right now, in terms of providing all…

If you do it correctly, you've reinvented Fisher-Yates[1]. If you do it wrong, you've reinvented this unnamed, broken algorithm[2], instead. But the issue in the article isn't appl…

Juggling all the fragments inside the database, garbage collecting all the unused ones, and maintaining consistency are all quite challenging in this use case.

One of these is not like the other. Go is also garbage collected. Embedding a garbage collected language inside another means you have two garbage collectors fighting each other.

There's an Android app called GPSLogger.[1] It does exactly what it says on the tin. Runners use it to track their own progress. Photographers use it to geotag their own photos. Th…

Human failures have some, but not total, correlation with each other. A big fear of autonomous driving is some severe failure with total correlation - the whole fleet does the same…

There's a word for the job of gathering requirements and refining ambiguity, but people might not like that.

What are some believable but wrong proofs of FLT? Wikipedia also claims that there were historically a lot of them[1], but doesn't provide examples. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle…