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It is hard to imagine that "modern" encryption would be susceptible to known plaintext attacks, please provide some citations.
Which is ironic given where this is posted. Do all startups yield a net result? Either to the VCs or the humanity?
Re:Python's new t-strings on Monday April 21, 2025 @10:33AM (#43752466)
Such library functions tend to also accept a string as a valid input. E.g. db.execute from the GP usually works with strings to allow non-parametrized SQL queries.
Re:One-Way Traffic on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:04AM (#41517764)
It's difficult to call Madhava's work calculus as we know it. He and his school certainly made huge contributions to analysis of infinite series, but they did not develop that into a unifying framework. It's important to note that no mathematics is done in a vacuum, if Newton/Leibniz "invented" Calculus, it's by building on top of hundreds of years of work done throughout the world.
Re:Fixing a memory leak of xmlEntityPtr in librsvg on Monday June 24, 2024 @01:44AM (#40772907)
This is a classic problem you can make in any language. If you were doing Java, and forgot to use `finally` for a resource, you'd have a leak due to an exception.

I do not know what metric you use to define "better"

Re:Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:23AM (#38731804)
There was no connection made, GP merely pointed out their observation based on what he has done so far
Re:Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for on Saturday December 09, 2023 @07:50AM (#38581549)
Are the stars on the website just made up?

I also find the phrasing rather odd. The open source movement is about "free as in speech, not beer".

Maybe it's meant to list "free alternatives" which is completely valid thing to do.

Why do you even need systems if you're using docker-compose? As long as your docker daemon starts up, docker compose can do the rest
Re:Origin of the Term Database “Sharding” on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:32AM (#35480141)
Fixed the typo, sorry!
Re:Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:30AM (#33372666)
Re:qpwgraph – PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface on Saturday October 22, 2022 @09:06AM (#33298004)
I love this! It makes it trivial to route audio to/from any devices and programs. Does anyone know anything similar for Windows?
Observer effect while applicable is distinct from Quantum Weirdness aka Heisenberg Uncertainty
Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:17AM (#31749383)
>Why should so few individuals have outsized social, political and economic power over the whole country?

You just answered the question. Because they are the elected representatives. If you didn't trust them, why did you elect them in the first place?