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He also built the company, not the rockets. In a different thread here on HN, some of the SpaceX guys were commenting how he actually had very little understanding of rockets, unde…

Is there a 'rick-rolled' meme but with blockchain?

This was the immediate and exact same thought I had the moment I read the first sentence of the post. Then I stopped reading. Clearly this was not an engineering decision, and pass…

Like on Hacker forums? :)

Encryption is not for the poor.

Damn, this hits so many nails that it's got to be one of the biggest HN posts in a while.

He does that all the time where he posts a link and quotes one or two paragraphs. It's also meant for the fanbase to comment on the post.

He was Charles I of Spain and V of Germany. Still good ol' Charles but different major version numbers; motherfucker inherited quite a bit of land. https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/10…

The government publishes infection rates at the county level. The county's health department may also have guidelines that differ slightly from the general nation-wide ones. If the…

No, "not having evidence" isn't the same as having evidence against. That is exactly the point that I made above. And where does it so clearly state in the website that second part…

They don't recommend because they don't see clear evidence in outcomes. See my EMA link below. This doesn't make the recommendation any closer than recommending not to.

This case is simple for me: I'll always follow EU/Canadian healthcare guidelines before US ones by a very long shot, unless there is an immediate problem in my local community wher…

Because only the US seems to have this guideline. Canada and the EU are not recommending boosters to the general population as pointed out above. It's similar for the flu; afaik, t…

ECDC/EMA seem to have similar guidelines: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ecdc-ema-update-recommenda... e.g. "At the moment, there is no clear evidence to support giving a second…

Do you use any public libraries for those backend servers, or is it all home-grown? Curious what's at play.

How exactly do you make the Dreamcast/PSO connect to one of these servers?

Great to see a C/C++ CPU-based implementation that runs on a variety of platforms. Most other ASRs seem to be either abandonware, a whole bunch of Python that only runs on PC, and/…

My assumption is that it's not just the syntax, but that their compiler does the right thing. Though someone said it's based on LLVM, so who knows how much control they get.

It's constant time in that it always takes the same amount of time regardless of the extent to which the two strings are equal. It is a different concept than constant time in comp…

I know, right? The strongest theoretical crypto is a one-time pad, often presented in its XOR form in the first chapter of every crypto book. But hey, if Google says math comes fir…

Didn't they originally claim to never show ads in search given that it is in direct opposition to search results quality? Back in the days when Pagerank was hot.

I think the point behind "constant time" here is that the comparison always takes the same amount of time, and not based on how many characters in the two strings are equal, to pre…

The Destruction of Abel, Jeremiah 27:14.

At this point you can't trust any 'cloud' camera regardless of who makes it.

Uber probably isn't the best example given that the company prided itself in being 'fucking illegal', but your point generally stands. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/10/uber…