So, my spouse was a CPU designer at AMD for many years and now does secure computing work for, well, the US government. I showed her your comment. She laughed. A lot. This is all completely wrong.
Otherwise, HDF5 offers every single advantage that zarray has and is much more mature, stable, better documented, and has better support. Absolutely not. HDF5 is an awful format with terrible implementations. For…
What's the plan for when grandma develops dementia? The paranoia will make her unwilling to part with her beloved firearm...do we just wait until she murders a family member or home health aid? That seems like a much…
I worked at FB briefly so maybe I can explain. FB has a corporate culture that really discourages critique. When things are broken, especially internal things, people look at you funny if you speak up about it. A big…
> When it comes to exceptions, it's generally true on x64 that you don't pay for what you don't use (there's no performance penalty to exception handling if you don't throw) although that hasn't always been true for all…
(1) I love your writing. (2) Even reducing it to runtime costs, it seems a bit nonsensical. Are C++ exceptions a zero cost abstraction? All the googlers I argued with about them would insist that they have unacceptably…
To clarify: of course they like simplicity when it costs nothing. But they consistently value other goods over simplicity. For example: maintaining backwards compatibility. The community believes that it is more…
I think that's dependent on language culture. Because the C++ community doesn't take language simplicity or comprehensibility seriously, there are lots of C++ developers who can't use or reason about surprisingly large…
Japan is intensely racist. My spouse lived there for a year. When she went about her business outside, small children who saw her would literally burst into tears screaming to their parents about gaijin.
Another good resource from Google is [1] which focuses more on operational impacts after you deploy a system that relies on ML (I'm a coauthor). [2], which was written by my boss, is also great. [1]…
Around 2003 at MIT I spoke with a guy who told me about a home lighting system that the French were using. Basically, you take an entire wall in a house and sandwich thin conductive layers between insulator layers. Then…
A good friend of mine works for a major electronics manufacturer (trust me, you'd recognize the name) where some employees exfiltrated 200,000 internal design documents/artifacts to a competitor that they were planning…
Literally every single C programmer in the world is writing x86 or arm machine code. C programmers have this bizarre blind spot where they don't realize that though. Isn't that weird?
I'm not sure about that; the paper talks about parallel machines that can search out many keys at once. Its focus is on known plaintext attacks against AES, but it seems like the techniques described could apply to IFP…
Is it really $10M per key? DJB points out that if you're willing to spend a lot of money building parallel hardware, you can get some surprising performance benefits allowing you to crack large numbers of keys at once.…
What can Snowden promise them, anyway, that they would make this deal? They don't know exactly how much he has and the government has some interest in securing the data that he hasn't released.
And what happens when someone whom you voted as shows up to vote? I mean, if this is going to happen on a large enough scale to affect the outcome of an election, that event has to happen many times. Which means poll…
I think you should do some research on voting in the US. You can start by looking at web pages like this: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleifv/howreg.htm
I don't think photo ID's are an effective certificate for proving identity. So why are we even talking about them? Photo IDs are the solution being discussed here, not some theoretical has-yet-to-be-invented technology…
And currently, some form of ID is needed. That's just not true. I vote without showing any ID at all.
Why do we keep excusing people from having a basic mechanism to prove who they say they are? Given that bored teenagers in search of beer can easily forge IDs, what makes you think current photo ID cards are an…
It was my father in law, not me. And of course they were bigots. That's the point: there are a lot of bigots in the US. He thought it wasn't worth the effort to report them, and frankly, I kind of agree. Who wants to…
We know that voter id requirements are based in voter suppression because those requirements are targeted to preventing an attack that is economically infeasible and they don't even effectively mitigate the attack. Look…
Sure, you could maybe read a name...and then you have to show up later in front of the same election worker who checked you in earlier. Don't you think they'd recognize you? When I vote, I have to make eye contact and…
Let's say I show up at the polling place and try to vote in someone else's name. If they've already voted, then I'm in deep trouble. In fact, my polling place often has a police officer hanging out on election day. If…
So, my spouse was a CPU designer at AMD for many years and now does secure computing work for, well, the US government. I showed her your comment. She laughed. A lot. This is all completely wrong.
Otherwise, HDF5 offers every single advantage that zarray has and is much more mature, stable, better documented, and has better support. Absolutely not. HDF5 is an awful format with terrible implementations. For…
What's the plan for when grandma develops dementia? The paranoia will make her unwilling to part with her beloved firearm...do we just wait until she murders a family member or home health aid? That seems like a much…
I worked at FB briefly so maybe I can explain. FB has a corporate culture that really discourages critique. When things are broken, especially internal things, people look at you funny if you speak up about it. A big…
> When it comes to exceptions, it's generally true on x64 that you don't pay for what you don't use (there's no performance penalty to exception handling if you don't throw) although that hasn't always been true for all…
(1) I love your writing. (2) Even reducing it to runtime costs, it seems a bit nonsensical. Are C++ exceptions a zero cost abstraction? All the googlers I argued with about them would insist that they have unacceptably…
To clarify: of course they like simplicity when it costs nothing. But they consistently value other goods over simplicity. For example: maintaining backwards compatibility. The community believes that it is more…
I think that's dependent on language culture. Because the C++ community doesn't take language simplicity or comprehensibility seriously, there are lots of C++ developers who can't use or reason about surprisingly large…
Japan is intensely racist. My spouse lived there for a year. When she went about her business outside, small children who saw her would literally burst into tears screaming to their parents about gaijin.
Another good resource from Google is [1] which focuses more on operational impacts after you deploy a system that relies on ML (I'm a coauthor). [2], which was written by my boss, is also great. [1]…
Around 2003 at MIT I spoke with a guy who told me about a home lighting system that the French were using. Basically, you take an entire wall in a house and sandwich thin conductive layers between insulator layers. Then…
A good friend of mine works for a major electronics manufacturer (trust me, you'd recognize the name) where some employees exfiltrated 200,000 internal design documents/artifacts to a competitor that they were planning…
Literally every single C programmer in the world is writing x86 or arm machine code. C programmers have this bizarre blind spot where they don't realize that though. Isn't that weird?
I'm not sure about that; the paper talks about parallel machines that can search out many keys at once. Its focus is on known plaintext attacks against AES, but it seems like the techniques described could apply to IFP…
Is it really $10M per key? DJB points out that if you're willing to spend a lot of money building parallel hardware, you can get some surprising performance benefits allowing you to crack large numbers of keys at once.…
What can Snowden promise them, anyway, that they would make this deal? They don't know exactly how much he has and the government has some interest in securing the data that he hasn't released.
And what happens when someone whom you voted as shows up to vote? I mean, if this is going to happen on a large enough scale to affect the outcome of an election, that event has to happen many times. Which means poll…
I think you should do some research on voting in the US. You can start by looking at web pages like this: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleifv/howreg.htm
I don't think photo ID's are an effective certificate for proving identity. So why are we even talking about them? Photo IDs are the solution being discussed here, not some theoretical has-yet-to-be-invented technology…
And currently, some form of ID is needed. That's just not true. I vote without showing any ID at all.
Why do we keep excusing people from having a basic mechanism to prove who they say they are? Given that bored teenagers in search of beer can easily forge IDs, what makes you think current photo ID cards are an…
It was my father in law, not me. And of course they were bigots. That's the point: there are a lot of bigots in the US. He thought it wasn't worth the effort to report them, and frankly, I kind of agree. Who wants to…
We know that voter id requirements are based in voter suppression because those requirements are targeted to preventing an attack that is economically infeasible and they don't even effectively mitigate the attack. Look…
Sure, you could maybe read a name...and then you have to show up later in front of the same election worker who checked you in earlier. Don't you think they'd recognize you? When I vote, I have to make eye contact and…
Let's say I show up at the polling place and try to vote in someone else's name. If they've already voted, then I'm in deep trouble. In fact, my polling place often has a police officer hanging out on election day. If…