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Sylvan Dr and Forest View Dr are two blocks from each other.

While it can't be done server-side, this can be done straightforwardly in a signer service, and the signer doesn't need to interact with the payloads being uploaded. In other words…

Most jurisdictions make a distinction between moving violations, which are issued to the driver, and parking violations, which are issued to the car (and its owner, by extension). …

Yes, by design. One major goal is to prevent a landowner from squatting on an empty lot while their neighbors build prosperity around it. The "squatter" then cashes in, having done…

(I'm a big proponent of LVT) The two downsides I'm aware of are difficulty in transitioning to an LVT and difficulty in valuing the land. Transitioning to an LVT means that landown…

This was great in 2012. In 2022, most use-cases should be using parallelized zstd.

I'm a big fan of privacy.com: they provide me with a spend-limited debit card number that varies by vendor. I use them especially for newspaper subscriptions that make it difficult…

OP appears to be Jack O'Connor, one of the designers of BLAKE3, which is the fastest full-strength cryptographic hash function currently available. It's always nice to see practici…

PoW systems rely on the "phone a friend method" as well. When you download a Bitcoin client from a "friend", you are trusting them to honestly introduce you to the network. If you …

I'm saddened that the answer isn't "Just use BeyondCorp". Layer 7 solutions provide so much more capacity for granular AuthZ, and thereby eliminate the "soft underbelly" of corpora…

I clocked a custom Ubuntu-based AMI at 2.85 seconds for the median of 10 runs. https://gist.github.com/hashbrowncipher/17a92c6afb9642503876...

Location: Bay Area Remote: No preference Willing to relocate: No Gist: SRE with a focus in databases; additional specializations in security, automation, and performance Technologi…

> Even worse, the idea that SE is a learning process is not communicated in any of the SE textbooks I know. I think that Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985) communicates…

I saw it presented at Percona Live three days ago. As far as I am aware, there was no video.

I think it would be interesting for a member of Congress (or their staff) to operate a SecureDrop instance. Such a system might be a useful supplement to other forms of communicati…

rurban has been proselytizing against use of psuedorandom functions (such as SipHash) for hash tables for a while now. He appears to truly believe that using PRFs for this purpose …

I work for Yelp, and we use cron for purposes similar to those mentioned in this article, mostly synchronizing small bits of configuration or data that we want local to the machine…

Yep, I found a number of them, but I promptly forgot them in excitement when I found the one I actually wanted. If you want to check them out yourself, they appear to congregate in…

Defcad's DNS point-of-contact is dns@jomax.net. Meanwhile, megaupload's is ipr@ic.fbi.gov. It seems very likely that this is a wonderfully crafted hoax.

jwz's thesis, that uninformed people shouldn't vote, is overwhelmingly correct. I consider myself to be well-informed, politically speaking. Yet I voted in only 7 of 17 races on my…

From Wikipedia: Leon Chua, who is considered to be the father of non-linear circuit theory, has argued that all 2-terminal non-volatile memory devices including phase change memory…

API design requires much skill and foresight. As you said: Designing a good API is one of the most difficult skills to acquire in all of software development. However, the yardstic…

Where does a hacker put his or her savings? How much of it should be in the technology industry? Starting off with some assumptions: a) the technology industry is a juggernaut whic…