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I have seen https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2023.00314 as an example. > Despite the limitations in size and speed of today’s quantum computers, our algorithm provid…

I'm not even there for my employer. I have compiled a list of ~20 different inventory/CBOM solutions and I cannot even fathom how to move to the next step other than picking a few …

Man, the CBOM is such a pain. There is no standardised format yet (let alone efficient tools for crypto discovery), nobody knew what it was one year ago but now every client is ask…

There has been a lot of new stuff over the last few years. For instance, breaking RSA or ECDSA is requiring much fewer logical qubits than previously thought, and thus fewer physic…

Y2K devs had it easy, they knew the bug would arrive and when. The problem with PQC is not that nobody knows when a CRQC (cryptographically relevant quantum computer) will appear, …

Don't quote me on this but I once heard that in the EU you always need to confirm purchases, ie. you cannot have the Amazon 1-click system. But in general, yes, having a confirmati…

Pretty sure this is wrong. Code pénal, art. 434-25, translated with deepl. "Any attempt to publicly discredit a judicial act or decision—through actions, words, writings, or images…

My point is that flashy presentations already were an issue before the rise of LLMs. The evaluation of a hackathon relies on presentations and subjective opinions rather than pure …

10 years ago I won the only hackathon I participated in (not by choice). The jury was especially impressed in our report with the AI section. That part was a bunch of technobabble …

Seems like the blog succumbed to the HN hug of death (`Actioning this file would cause "jbkempf.com//blog/2026/dav2d/" to exceed the per-day file actions limit of 160000 actions, t…

You usually do secret sharing in a finite field because computers don't like real numbers. The size of your share is a point (x, y), x can be small (typically log n in case of n pa…

What I write down is usually a quite literal dump of my brain. I have a problem, and rather than keeping it in my head, I write it down, and force myself to continue writing about …

I mean, the example you link is probably an engineer doing their job of signalling to hierarchy that something went deeply wrong. Of course, the lack of action of Facebook afterwar…

A long time ago I read "the good Brahmin" from Voltaire: https://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/4411/ Basically, the story goes that the good brahmin, for all his wealth and in…

You can defend a lot of atrocities by arguing "for the greater good" and comparing to uchronic hypotheticals. I could as well argue that without Rome, the greek democracies would h…

Agree. I tried the first 3 examples: * "Rubber bouncy at Heathrow removal" on Google had 3 links, including the one about SFO from which chatGPT took a tangent. While ChatGPT provi…

None of these were in your initial law. Furthermore, karma is also addictive.

You have banned Google, Reddit, and HN.

Oh, I know that strong emotions increase engagement, outrage being a prime candidate. I have also no issue believing that FB/TikTok/X etc aggressively engage in such tactics, e.g. …

Sooo... Should we ban Google too? It is also ordering the contents of its research results with algorithms. Similarly, HN and reddit order the contents of their front page with som…

Websites use ready-to be used cookie banners provider by their advertisers. Who have all the incentive to make the process as painful as possible unless you click "accept", and ess…

Cookie consent popovers were the deliberate decisions of company to create the worst possible compliance. A much simpler one could have been to stop tracking users especially when …

> As I understand it right now, HME is a weaker form of encryption, but perhaps still strong enough to be a worthwhile tradeoff for the use cases being discussed. Exactly. Homomorp…

I mean it seems clear that Meta did not pirate the content to watch/read it. However, I guess according to the ruling you could pirate anything you want (but no seeding), produce a…