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My grandfather used to work on telephone field network boxes (e.g., the big boxes full of messes of wires in residential areas). One job was to look for outliers in the network, an…

This looks like the sort of bug I'd write back when I used mutexes to write I/O routines. These days, I'd use a lock-free state machine to encode something like this: NOT_IN_CACHE …

You might also be interested in JOL/Overlog, which was the predecessor to Bloom: https://github.com/tcondie/jol We built quite a few prototypes on top of it. The language implement…

You can guarantee termination by limiting bit precision, but it is more interesting to limit the set of operators your program uses instead. For instance, you might have an operato…

We really need a global carbon credit system (with stiff tariffs for countries that do not participate). Cut net greenhouse emissions by a few percent a year until net emissions ar…

I still don't understand how you come to the conclusion that the attack won't work. The bolded text in the blog post reads "the middle relay will pick a different exit relay", and …

I read this explanation a few times, and am afraid I still don't understand why Tor is not vulnerable to this attack. Let's say I'm an attacker that provides enough bandwidth to co…

There are two effects at play. If you're reading a multiple of a flash page at a time, then you can get random bandwidth to match sequential. Under the hood, decent SSDs actually r…

Hi. First author of the bLSM (Yahoo) paper here. You've pretty much nailed it: The trick is getting latency and volume at the same time. If you're willing to wait an hour to look a…