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You misread. I'm saying his reasons for filing are in question. NIST probably was being dishonest. That's not the reason there is a lawsuit though.

If NTRU Prime had been declared the winner, would this suit have been filed? It's the same contest, same people, same suspicious behavior from NIST. I don't think this suit would h…

This definitely has the sting of bitterness in it, I doubt djb would have filed this suit if NTRU Prime would have won the PQC NIST contest. It's hard to evaluate this objectively …

This is great news! For far too long, Website owners have been collecting data on their users at no benefit to the users themselves. When website owners try to collect data on thei…

Do you talk with regular people, outside of the tech bubble often? If money were really the problem, Walmart employees would jump at an opportunity to work at Costco or any of the …

Same here. Ironically it's rising rent and gas prices that will force people back to work, rather than pay bumps because bills still need to be paid.

This is lazy explanation that's easy to agree with if you don't think very hard about it. Two reasons: 1. A shitty job at $15 an hour is equally unappealing at $16 an hour. Someone…

> I hate how it forces to you create a module everytime. This affected me recently, so I have sympathy for the author. Trying to upgrade an older project I had to the module system…

When this came out, someone in my dorm made a mock of it on our whiteboard. With a few extra lines, it looks like a fat guy bending over. People always look for a human shape in wh…

Step 1: have a lot of friends. You can usually spend a little politcal capital to get your first few users/customers by talking to them directly. For products that are targeted tow…

Very timely; I found out yesterday that the UPX program (EXE specific compressor from many years ago) was made by the same guys who made LZO. I had this realization that there is a…

You'll need to go back earlier than 15 years. ConcurrentHashMap and friends were added in 1.6, but String.intern has been in there since the beginning. Since Java shipped with Thre…

Independent of Apple, I think we need an industry wide of saying "I'm not an idiot, this bug report is real". I've been on both sides (in a moderately used OSS project). The main p…

Make sure to read between the lines. It only looks like a busy loop. Remember, the OS can pause and preempt your thread at any time. This is a real and likely event.

One of the things that made linearizabilty click for me was thinking in terms of happens-before: volatile int a; a = 1; print(a) // Could this print Zero? Even assuming only one pr…

https://go.dev/play/p/xolc9oPwA0C Interfaces don't have a zero type, which means that we can't have an atomic.Value which stores Shape. Atomic Value would be much easier to reason …

That's why I opened with "Look at the implementation". Go is unable to store the type and the pointer at the same time, so it warps what "atomic" means. Pretty much every other lan…

Sorry to say, but these hit close to home for me. A lot of the synchronization paradigms in Go are easy to misuse, but lead the author into thinking it's okay. the WaitGroup one is…

From 2006 to 2014 I owned my own platform. Several actually. But I turned them down after it became a lot of work to maintain. At the time, it wasn't so obvious the web was dying, …

The best lossless format is the one you can decode back to the original image. When evaluating them, there is an implicit assumption that the decode step will happen a short time l…

We hope these are Futures; it sounded like GPs farmer may have Forward contracts. If this is the case, it would make more sense for the Farmer to bail on the contract if prices get…

The JVM still doesn't know about generics. The explanation you provided is entirely at the compiler (javac) level, and the JVM is still oblivious to it. There is no special dispatc…

I was under the impression she hadn't had any good hits leading up to the end of 2020, and enough misses caused her to lose favor. I can't really think of any great Netflix origina…

I generally agree with you, though I would say now we are finding out if it's sustainable or not. Remember that for the past 2 years, TV Studios have been on lock down and the only…

Consumers want high quality, entertaining content, at low cost, with little commitment, at any time. Prior to Netflix, there wasn't such an intersecting product. Now, Netflix has l…