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Swift the transport company? See What I FUBARed Today, Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking, Sure Wish I Finished Training, etc? Please never give them aircraft.
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Swift the transport company? See What I FUBARed Today, Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking, Sure Wish I Finished Training, etc? Please never give them aircraft.
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I'm old enough to have taken typing class in High School, so a 10-word Diceware phrase is only a few seconds to type. Hunt-and-peck typers would have a much worse experience in the normal case, thus Bitlocker's design using a TPM.
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BitLocker's design is nice in the "happy path": no user interaction needed to boot, no user data unlocked until user enters ther PIN or passphrase. But if you need a recovery key, it's a PITA. With Cryptsetup I enter a 10-word passphrase every boot, but I remember it because I enter it every boot.
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For unknown callers, no. Let them leave a voicemail for the voice-to-text transcription service.
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I'd guess they'll argue that the constitution doesn't give congress the aythority to create independent executive agencies; that power would require an amendment. Sadly this will probably succeed with SCOTUS.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Interesting, my gas boiler does need electricity. Has to run a thermostat, controller & circulation pump. What models do you have that don't need electricity?
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, wood stoves work without power. But we're discussing reasons to use natural gas. My question is "other than a whole-house standby generator with automatic transfer switch, what other uses of gas don't require electricity to operate?" with a side of "which uses is gas better for?".
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Those still usually use electricity for the controller. Unless it's old enough to have no temperature control, just a pilot light & manual gas valve.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair standby gas generators & automatic transfer switches exist, so if you've spent the 5-10 thousand dollars to get one of those installed you can run your gas furnace in a power outage. But you can also use one to run your heat pump in an outage…
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Gas powered automatic generators seem nice, if you have unreliable electric service & already have a gas line on the property. But for heat & cooking I don't like them much. Particularly now that induction ranges with knobs instead of shitty touch controls are a thing.
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What's a model of gas heat source that works without electric power for a circulation pump, fan, and/or control system? I've not yet seen one, even though people keep repeating this "backup heat source" line.
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All the gas furnaces need electric power to run a pump and/or fan, not to mention the thermostat. I've never seen one that works without electric power. What's the make & model of yours?
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They left the already-public info. Redacted only derived info, even if it's trivial to derive.
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Northern Cardinals, House Finches, and several other birds also extract various carotenoids from food and concentrate them in their feathers. Even non-pink/red foods can contain these compounds. E.g. sunflower seeds (8.4mcg/oz). I'd guess they can extract more from foods with more to start though.
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Carotenoid compounds are brown/red/orange/pink and various similar shades. Depending on concentration and which specific carotenoids are present the color can vary: less compound for less saturated color, etc. Flamingo digestion extracts some compounds and concentrates them in the feathers.
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Gotcha. It's how one measures declination (variation) in the first place. I haven't found a reference to a "variometer" with the same purpose (there's an aircraft instrument by that name but it measures Δaltitude). I'm guessing "variation" is a newer term, there are declinometers from the 1800s.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, variation is another word for declination. One question: what do you call a declinometer?
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Variation is also used by some people. But deviation seems extremely uncommon.
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They mean declination. You have to know the difference in position between magnetic north & true north to calculate the angle to offset your compass's dial. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneti... NOAA has a calculator & compass www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/calcu...
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The hype is exponential capability growth. The reality is certainly sigmoidal capability growth. Those are two different curves, even though they are both going up right now.
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That one's obvious: they are the same side. Why the Republican party decided to become white supremacist is slightly more interesting, but the "Southern Strategy" is hardly news.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
If you stop counting the illegal immigrants, then there won't be any illegal immigrants. Just like COVID-19 cases in his first term.
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Everything's a failed RICO case if your lawyer is dumb enough.
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They're both usable as primitives to build the other. You can use a stream cipher as a block cipher by defining a block length and incrementing the IV for each block. ChaCha can be looked at as a PRF in CTR mode to create a stream cipher. It's easier to analyze fixed-length block operations.
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Every word in any language can be an English "loan word" if enough people start using it.
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GCM is good. OCB (RFC 7253) is good now that Rogaway gave up the patent. GCM-SIV is sometimes needed, but if it is you probably have other problems. Also ChaPoly is good. Any AEAD is better than unauthenticated encryption, since IND-CPA security is insufficient for most real-world uses.
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Do districts need to be contiguous? Or are they going to Banach-Tarski their gerrymander?
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Monsters in Human Flesh: Palestinians' Refusal to Remove Hamas Causes Their Own Children's Starvation - The New York Times
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
The other cheery song about school shootings works too! All you bully orcs, with your hook-end swords, best ye run, best ye run, outrun our gun…
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, I didn't say he never did it, just that he wasn't a moron about it! Unlike these legislators.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
They're like Cnut & the sea, proclaiming that even kings have no power over nature? > So jumping back, the king cried, "Let all the world know that the power of kings is empty and worthless, and there is no king worthy of the name save Him by whose will heaven, earth and the sea obey eternal laws."
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Republican policy seems to have shifted to a two-world solution: Israelites in this world, Palestinians in the afterlife.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Quanta Magazine generally gives just enough info to spark curiosity, without risking the reader actually learning anything useful from their articles.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Anti-American. The American mindset is nearly defined by a love of convenience & willingness to pay for it. Opposition to public transit is largely because it's less convenient. Fast food? Convenience. Streaming killing theaters? Convenient. Print news dying to online? Convenience. Etc.
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And yet some people still wonder why I don't take FIPS-140 compliance to indicate security…
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They'll just claim Catholics aren't real christians. Only Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879 believers are real Christians, they want the rest to get pushed off the bridge by Emo Phillips.
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Fuck the fucking fucker, Fuck the fucking fucker, Fuck the fucking fucker he's a Fucking child-fucker, Fuck the fucking pres-i-dent!
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To be fair to the moron, Will Ramos does an incredible "possessed by demons" routine. If demons were real they'd listen to Lorna Shore for inspiration!
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Ring-billed gull, lake Erie, 2021-11. #TeamGull
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Ring-billed gull, Lake Erie 2021-11.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
It's also more than 3 syllables, and has definitions other than the one about fabrications caused by brain damage or dementia. But "brain damaged intern with a pile of drugs and an internet connection" is a good model for LLM behavior.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
It confabulates. It has no awareness that the statements it makes are false, so it's not lying.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't assume that a white supremacist accepts non-whites as humans. Dehumanizing people is a classic tactic to create an acceptance of genocide.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
They use "human dignity" deliberately, to exclude non-humans. And they don't accept non-whites as humans.
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ISO 8601 allows nonsense like 2025W3D2. RFC 3339 is superior!
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably created a noticeable increase in the quality of the writing.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
As an upper-class Roman, Caesar spoke Greek to his peers. Ancient sources indicate he either said nothing or "καὶ σύ, τέκνον" ("and you, [my] child‽"). Shakespeare made it *less* familiar by using Brutus' name.
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Very. They've scammed millions from investors.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
That too. But the purpose of voting is to get the people to agree to a peaceful transfer of power through an understandable, fair-enough system. Black-box in the middle undermines that. Even if we were perfict at computers it'd still defeat the premise voting relies on.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
And part of why electronic voting systems are such a bad idea.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
He preferred feature-complete, release-ready males.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
"Melt ICE", "Crush ICE", etc.
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Mentioned it in the Youtube comments, but "laser" headlights are point-source fluorescent lamps. Itty bitty phosphor dot, incredible cosmic light output. Mike's Electric Stuff has a good video: youtu.be/DZJoPbk53ug
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Comparison checklists suck. Checklists-as-metrics fall to Goodhart's Law, and thus suck. But checklists as a way to remember what needs doing are *great*. Aviation & surgery use checklists-as-memory-aids to great effect. Corporate security teams use checklists-as-metrics, and ruin their security.
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IMO we don't. It's a protocol-level concern. Misuse-resistant AEADs are harder to make efficiently committing, so for those (already somewhat special) uses I can see baking it in at this level. But for nAEADs, leave it as a protocol choice. YAGNI is mostly correct.
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The nice thing about CTX is that it essentially wraps an existing nAEAD. I'd personally avoid it unless I knew I needed commitment, but for those rare cases it's a straightforward composition of an existing AEAD & a MAC. Too soon to recommnnd, but easy for libraries to add.
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CTX adds a MAC with the key over the nonce, AAD, and original tag, then uses the MAC as the tag. With small AAD, that's quite cheap. It replaces the original authentication tag, so there's no new timing attack. There's no reason to change (most) existing designs, most protocols don't need it.
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Key & message commitment is easy enough to add on top of a nonce-based AEAD with Chan & Rogaway's CTX¹. Most protocols don't need commitment, those that do can bear the (small) extra cost. It's nice to have in a new AEAD, but why make a new AEAD? ¹https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1260
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She doesn't look a day over 60.
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If it doesn't somehow involve non-standard models of arithmetic I'll be very disappointed. Mostly because I can't see how that would be useful in cryptograph but the math would be very fun, so it'd be very cool to find a practical application.
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I mean dilute acetic acid. Could probably use other acids, but some wouldn't be safe. Fungi don't tolerate acid well at all, vinegar is a readily available acid you can buy in gallon jugs at a grocery store.
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Re-wash, add a cup or so of distilled vinegar with the detergent.
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Typesetting his book, probably!
eufalconimorph.bsky.social (@eufalconimorph.bsky.social) reply parent
Be not like the Hypocrites, who love to pray standing in churches¹ and on street corners where they can be seen by others. ¹συναγωγαῖς (synagōgais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural Strong's 4864: From sunago; an assemblage of persons; specially, a Jewish 'synagogue'; by analogy, a Christian church.
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Sure, it has to get taught, but it should be taught as a component in a larger system context, not as though it's encryption on its own. The RSA operation is just modular multiplication, it's the padding that makes it encryption or signing, or the KDF that makes it a KEM (to simplify a bit).
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100%. I think the way we teach RSA is backwards. Instead of starting with modular multiplication, it'd make sense to start with a big-picture view of a secure hybrid PKE system, then descend into each part in turn. Nobody directly encrypts with RSA, it's slow. So don't teach that!
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Paragraph 2, last sentence, "emphpartial" probably meant "\emph{partial}“.
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The "thing your eyes track doesn't blur" is also what makes fake DoF & motion blur so unrealistic: you can't look around the scene with your eyes, only whatever the virtual camera is focused on. Low-FPS video looks flickery to me, at least with lights on in the room. Eye tracking might help, but $$.
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Dems are a minority in all 3 branches, they can write strongly worded letters. That's always helped in the past!
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Chamfers are what separate us from the animals.
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I'll stick with my Ankarsrum, thanks.
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OAEP is a weird hack where the original security proof was flawed, but then they found an alternate proof that's correct so it's OK. Now it's a standard, and the far nicer RSA-KEM is rare, which rather sucks.
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RSA without padding isn't cryptography, it's just sparkling modular multiplication.
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In the Everettian interpretation. In pilot-wave there's a global hidden wavefunction, and you only get 1 of the 2^128 possibilities followed by the "particle" but can't tell in advance which. So again it's effectively random. Deterministic interpretations make some PRNGs indistinguihable from TRNGs.
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It is totally insecure (whoever is running the PRNG can regenerate any values ever requested easily), deterministic, and will pass all statistical tests you can throw at it.
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That finds catastrophically bad PRNGs, but some merely terrible ones will slip by. E.g. `HMAC-SHA256(fixed_key, sha256(request_id‖counter)` where `request_id` is unique per request and `counter` is incremented for each block of output.
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I often complain that we don't even know whether this universe is deterministic or not! There are deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics fully consistent with experiment, if one of those is correct then there's no such thing as a TRNG, just HWRNGs. Randomness might not exist!