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> I think this is a pretty small point to get hung up on. The rest of her article is perfectly reasonable. The above isn't the only place that betrays her lack of understanding, th…

Essentially, yes; all of quantum key distribution (QKD) is generating a secret key which can then e.g. be used as a one-time pad. The novelty here is that we can do it with much fe…

> My naive security architect view is, I get the impression the people doing quantum engineering and those working as cryptographers have a very narrow overlap. You probably aren't…

> QKD is no replacement for asymmetric cryptography since it requires exchanging a secret key before the communication can take place. Your general point about QKD "promises" vs. p…

> Would it be accurate to say it is scaled back to the level achieved by classical (non-quantum) cryptography? Not quite. Classical cryptography of course requires the additional a…

> I always read perfect secrecy as a term of art with some technical meaning. That's indeed the case, but I fear the subtle technical definition here is usually one of the first th…

First author of one of the preprints mentioned in the article here (theory in Paris/Geneva/Zürich/Lausanne, experiment in Oxford) – happy to answer any questions! I obviously speak…

There isn't anything special about functions; the original article does not describe this correctly. Rather, the big conceptual difference is the point at which the expression is e…

Physicist here too. What exactly do you disagree with? The parent comment is sound – thermal imaging cameras typically under-read on shiny metal surfaces. Their emissivity/absorpti…

Reproducible in Firefox 67 on macOS as well. "DOWNLOAD" is only in one line for very wide windows, and for my default half-screen-wide window size (960 px), the main body title ren…

There seems to be something very strange going on with the way you are building LDC. On the machine I am typing this message from [1], building DMD using DMD in optimized mode take…

Nope, not photoshopped. It's a single exposure; the apparatus is illuminated using flashes. The latter made lighting the shot in a controlled fashion a bit easier than if I had use…

Photographer here. The amount of attention this has received has caught me a bit off guard – this is really just a somewhat pretty picture of what is a standard technique in physic…

There are some advantages to having access to a human-readable representation for the symbol name, for example because not every piece of binary tooling out there necessarily also …

> it'd be the same amount of effort without as-fast-as-possible. While the first part is perhaps somewhat subjective, the second is just wrong. D allows you to get to the same bare…

> D is arguably in the same bucket as Swift, and partly as Go. I don't think it's very useful to compare and contrast it against Rust. It is easy to claim how things "arguably" are…

It's a lambda expression ("closure"/"anonymous function"/…) that doesn't capture any outside state (see e.g. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda ).

> Rust and Go .. made better design choices that made them more popular [citation needed]

D can interface with Objective-C just fine. The Apple-provided tooling will indeed be more convenient for the developer , but the result the end user sees will be a "high quality &…

Do you depend on the C runtime as well?

We LDC developers of course hope that you will continue to use LDC for all your non-x86 and high-performance needs. ;)

> https://godbolt.org/g/IQ0O06 (And, of course, the entire main() disappears on -O1 and above: https://godbolt.org/g/FAWtak. )

Just to clarify: LDC master is on 2.073.2 right now (the latest DMD release), with a 2.072.2-based release imminent, and work towards 2.074.0 (currently in beta) already underway. …

LDC dev here. All the credit for this goes to Ilya Yaroshenko for the expertly crafted implementation and the LLVM developers for efficient low-level code generation (inlining, reg…