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zaitanz

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About zaitanz

Wellington, New Zealand based Software and Security architect. My side projects involve working on scientific modeling platforms for fisheries science.

Spare time I scuba dive, spearfish and do a bit of underwater photography.

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    Comment #48535959

    A X.509 Certificate lifecycle management, and secrets management SaaS designed from the ground up for home labs all the way up to enterprises. Built in PHP/Laravel and Rust. https:…

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    Show HN: TLS Certificate Management and PKI

    Hello! This project is a TLS/X.509 certificate manager and PKI. Designed to provision and install your TLS certificates across public and private endpoints. It's something I create…

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    Comment #40485826

    So this confuses me slightly and I am keen to know the advantage of using this. I work on projects that heavily use auto-differentiation for complex models. The models are defined …

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    Comment #39476566

    The platforms I work on function solely on user defined input files. For unit tests we have example configuration files stored in the application as strings (and #ifdef'd away for …

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    Comment #30155911

    If you have cronjobs/scheduled tasks running every day to try and renew the certificate (as recommended), then you'd not have any issues with them revoking. Any certificates that a…

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    Comment #29374393

    In general, we will always start from a position of considering a developer machine to be infected. This is part of the Zero trust approach to security. We work with defense in dep…

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    Comment #26484355

    Oh that's really interesting and an area I hadn't considered writing about. But forced breeding in animals and the villagers is very much part of setting up the farms and villager …

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    Comment #26484254

    Ahhh yes. The chicken farms where the chickens are flushed down a hole and automatically killed and cooked for you.

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    Comment #25966840

    Thank you for your reply. I'm going to just lift your explanation as it's much better than my own.

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    Comment #25965040

    Most likely. You can check with the pastebin code https://pastebin.com/thTapSgn . Local and Thread outputs should be the same.

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    Comment #25964249

    This is very true. Once upon a time -o3 would enable fast-math. We're very careful to ensure we use test models to verify the outputs of release binaries. Enabling fast-math as you…

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    Comment #25964159

    TBH. I had no idea this was a thing either. I was incredibly confused when I identified a single piece of code that was producing an variation in result.

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    Comment #25964105

    Yes this is technically true, but it manifests itself through use of the MinGW compiler. When I first noticed the problem, there was very little indication as to the cause. TBH I a…

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    Comment #25964094

    Op here. There is a huge amount of scientific code written in C++. Just have a look through https://www.coin-or.org/ This code was specifically C++ because we had the intention of …

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    Comment #25964084

    Op here. Yea this only occurs on Windows with MinGW. Visual C++ and Clang do not have this issue. None of the Linux compilers I tested also had this issue. And yea you're right on …

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    Comment #25964071

    Op Here. Yes you are correct. Been very sleep derived when I wrote this (newborns eh). I'll update this. I didn't want to go too far into the background of floating point math in t…

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    Comment #25962845

    For me, it's always about focusing on proving my idea correct as fast as possible. I think X would be cool. - How quickly can I test if X is cool with quick and dirty tactics. I te…

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    Comment #24670359

    Location: Wellington, New Zealand Remote: Yes, 10 years experience Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Cyber Security Architect, Solution Architect or Software Architect. - PCI-D…