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Ionized radiation is dangerous to mammals because of the potential DNA damage that we are so bad at repairing. Plants on the contrary tolerate much more damage. To the point that w…

Just an FYI if you don’t know already: the free/public version of PlantUML makes the diagrams available to everyone able to enumerate the URLs. For that reason, we use a self-hoste…

Sure, it is possible theoretically. However, most relevant regulation (IEC61508, ISO26262, DO-178X) requires that systems controlling machines in automotive, rail or aerospace have…

Horses for courses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I do development and DevOps on it. Sure there are some intense workloads that I probably couldn’t run, but it works just fine as my daily driver. I als…

If you replaced the T400 because it felt slow, maybe it’s just a software/OS issue. The hardware on Thinkpad T-models should last longer than just 5 years in general. My daily-driv…

> Modern industrial agriculture relies heavily on two crops per year on the same land Depends on how you define modern industrial agricilture I guess. From https://en.m.wikipedia.o…

It is stated just above the quoted text. Basically a lower-than-expected response to reward anticipation and a higher-than-expected response upon reward delivery. I.e. the typical …

I am not sure I get the point here. Do you want just one standard for symmetrical encryption? How should e.g. a C++ program know how PHP encrypts something through “encrypt_message…

Schneier’s book? I can fully recommend that. It comes at the solutions from a practical point of view instead of the theoretical one.

I get your point, thanks for clarifying. I don’t agree with you for various reasons. I learnt all I know about crypto from online resources. It’s perhaps a question of taste, so le…

Just a small comment/opinion on the inscrutability of crypto: Crypto relies on number theory and a complexity theoretical assumption that N!=NP (i.e. that there exists one-way/trap…

> I may be misinterpreting here, so please do correct me I meant to say that being open source doesn’t automatically mean you can use the software commercially, hence the need for …

This is modus operandi for many acquisitions in the field of proprietary software. If you have been in the business for a decade or two, you’ve seen this play more than a few times…

I have used statistical models of volatility to improve execution prices. It doesn’t require very advanced modeling to estimate a probability of e.g. getting filled at midprice (sa…

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