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It has definitely been that.

The tweaks were minor (smaller than for any other version revision), and mostly just the IETF marking its territory and doing something other than blessing the SSL 3.0 protocol as-…

That's me! Thanks for pulling up the quote from long ago: > "With his obvious technical skill, and his "cheat early and often" attitude, Tim could have a promising career as an AI …

I work for a FAANG and it's a violation of company policy for me to profit from privileges associated with my employment.

https://archive.md/uNduU

No, it's a symmetric system, they're just random values.

At least in NY, I don't see how this is possible because I can send in an absentee ballot and then invalidate it by voting on election day in-person. So I don't see how they can op…

As someone with domain expertise in both distributed systems and crypto, I'll say "not crypto"; it's relatively well-understood and most of the people who get value out of it don't…

https://epdf.pub/foundations-of-mechanical-accuracy.html

"Inventing Accuracy" is a fascinating history of ICBM inertial guidance. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-accuracy

When this happens, go to https://matrix.itasoftware.com and find the specific itinerary you're looking for, which will give you the specific fare codes, etc. which you should use t…

This is simply not true: it's explicitly not the intent of the GPL, and furthermore the GPL is clearly a contract which explicitly spells out its intent, not a vague document whose…

This is irrelevant. Speech-to-text costs $0.006 per invocation (for [1] https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing [2] https://2captcha.com/ , the first hit I found with the s…

The Internet is assembled out of duct tape. We apologize for the design.

Google Play Music has a cleanly integrated locker, which I love, loads of my favorite music isn't available from services. Disclosure: I work for Google, but not on anything relate…

https://github.com/github/SoftU2F

https://github.com/github/SoftU2F https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4c-...

Today's generation of software engineers maybe, but thankfully humanity is a lot bigger than that. There are huge numbers of engineers who come up with practical non-digital soluti…

Came hoping it was going to be a history of measuring length over the last few millennia.

You should seek out a flare if you can, it's much much brighter than seeing a satellite or the ISS, as impressive as those are.

The skybridge to "nowhere" just ends in another building which Google doesn't lease space to, so it is more of a "skylounge"; open at one end to Google, closed at the other, suspen…

Yes, SQLite has robust multiprocess locking and transaction support. https://sqlite.org/faq.html#q5