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There are also reasons outside infosec concerns. For example where such PKs would be directly related to your revenue, such as orders in an e-commerce platform. You wouldn't want competitors to have an estimate of your daily volume, that kind of thing.

Summary > Latency section [1]

https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-fastest-messaging-system...

> (I remember an article from HN about how bash had to be written by someone who hadn't seen the unix shell code or something like that).

I believe you're referring to Clean Room Design[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Today I Found Out has an episode on it too [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/CPERnfB-q3o

> It'd be demotivating if someone thinks they can do your project better than you can, right?

This would be valid thinking though should the project go inactive.

A relevant post, "Open Source is Not About You" by Rich Hickey.

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

> Enter username to play for free directly in your browser

I was so happy after seeing this thinking, "so amazing of them to let me check it out without having to register" only to discover that it led to a register form :(

Possibly coincidence but started around today's google outage, spamming multiple issues per minute, first one at 1358 CET.

Edit: fix typo

Another really good reading about distributed systems is Kyle Kingsbury's (aphyr) distsys-class notes:

https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class

It has joins, so no ;)

too soon

Smaller nitpick, it was Cypher.

This is reminiscent of

    int getRandomNumber()
    {
        return 4;  // chosen by fair dice roll.
                   // guaranteed to be random.
    }

Related to your comment, here's the paper [0] and Because Science recently made a video about how such a game would look like [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA

Yes, it did work only for a short duration.

Video from the creator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgmNQ5zPuSQ

I love metrics that are essentially irrelevant but sound very cool like "our BETA users have burned two million calories collectively and lifted 500,000 tonnes".

Sensationalist title; from article:

> “End-to-end encryption” sounds nice — but if anyone can get into your phone’s operating system, they will be able to read your messages without having to decrypt them.

To be clear, only one amateur rocketry team (the one in the link) ever made it to space.

This is something definitely worth automating in my experience.

Can you not solve this by not closing your essential programs and putting your device to sleep instead of powering it off?

PS: Don't do this without battery/ups fallback.

Yes but until that's decided in court, is this not confessing to a crime?

> We contacted one app user at random who, albeit surprised and startled by the findings, confirmed to TechCrunch that the coordinates found under their record were accurate.

So they accessed the database as well as personal information of users? Is this not a crime whether or not the database was unprotected?

Here is an answer from SE https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/318734

Perhaps I was unclear, I was asking if they can confiscate your stuff and send you back without it.

Can they deny entry to a non citizen and hold their stuff?

There was also this 9 years old kid who applied for planetary protection officer position :)

https://www.businessinsider.de/child-applies-nasa-planetary-...

> Let's break it down then. The first paragraph...

Can we have this as a service? Fluff-to-meat-ratio feature is a requirement though.

"I believed in ... for ... years" is not an argument, it provides no facts, it serves as a tool to psychologically influence the reader.

> Before I begin, I want to say that I’ve spent around 10 years curating this opinion.

I don't know what to make of this. Did it require 10 years to write this article? Or is it just "I know what I'm talking about, I've spent 10 years having this opinion"?