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I carry a few pens with me - different color ink for different days of the week - so I can see how much I wrote in a single day. Started doing it after I read about Neil Gaiman's w…

bitcoin proof of work is not as impacted by quantum computers - grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup for unstructured search - so SHA256 ends up with 128 bits of securit…

I still have all the CDs from the shipit program - such a great project.

Yeah I think you are correct that the protocol isn't safe from traffic analysis.

sender specifies recipient but the signal server cannot tell a group-chat message from a non-group chat message.

Examples of things you can do with ZKPs: - Anonymous credentials (this is what Signal does) - maintain an encrypted blob representing a group chat (members list etc all stay encryp…

He was a towering intellect - there's this book I got as a gift: https://www.amazon.com/First-Scientific-American-Benjamin-Fr... He was an towering intellect and positively influen…

would love to see some pics of your work. Since you seem to know about Japanese craft techniques - do you know what sort of adhesive is used in Japanese gold leaf application? I am…

Thank you very much for your work Rich. I've seen your talks in person a couple of times and really admired the immense clarity of thought in every one of your ideas. And thank you…

LV is a very solid brand. I used them a lot but once I discovered Japanese tools I did a total switch and won't look back. Lots of Japanese stuff is entering the US market and the …

isn't there a 20k per week withdrawal limit?

I love clojure but do a lot more Rust now. I feel the language leadership is from the information-systems universe - thinking about databases, schemas that sort of thing - and I fe…

I draw and carve by hand - I don't like to use power tools (except drills).

Besides day job (which I am excited about), I've been working on honing my zen buddhist woodworking skills this past year and taking on more complex projects. This is a torii gate …

One of the greatest writers in history. An actual literary genius. He (and maybe Mark Twain) have this ability to write sentences that burrow deep in your head and stay there forev…

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My garage door shook for a bit but I got none of these alerts. I'm on tTmobile, do I need to sign up somewhere ?

the pki does make life easy - ethereum address as a global unique id + seed phrase around for recovery + integrate this thing with the rest of the ethereum ecosystem (e.g. other ap…

- Ethereum's PKI allowed an e2ee messenger app to be built w/o a phone number https://twitter.com/dwr/status/1575248197454135296

The bit about turning a dockerfile into a rootfs. A docker image is just a tarball of tarballs. We do something like this: - you can dump the image using `docker save `. - you can …

One of the greats - Kurt Vonnegut - on this topic: "A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300997…

It could be that the deep bench of high quality content is not there on reels yet. Most of the power user base of ig (horology, woodworking, crafts, fine arts etc) knows how to tak…

Amazing project! Great tribute to one of the greatest timepieces ever made.

There's a substantial Karen presence in MN now (I think these are Burmese refugees and not from the Thai side of the border). Wonder what those areas were like pre-internet and pre…

I've been using dialoguer [1], indicatif [2], and colour [3] for the rust ecosystem. Really high quality libraries: [1] https://docs.rs/dialoguer/latest/dialoguer/ [2] https://gith…