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The random number generator in signal is fully predictable. There is no need for a back door -- when the front door has no lock.

:sigh:


That is a pretty damming accusation. Can you provide more details? This should be the sort of thing you should be hearing from a disclosure or ideally a vendor advisory - not an HN comment thread on a vaguely related article. Failures of randomness are almost always fatal to a cryptosystem.

Do you have a source for that?

Of course he doesn't have a source for that

Source: made it up

Source: Read and understood the original whitepaper. Plus verified it in the (probably fake) source code.

You can do it too. Might take a decade or two depending on your mathematical background.


Why would I need to spend two decades? You already did it. Congratulations on probably one of the biggest exposés of this decade. Ignore the haters with their "delusions of grandeur" insults. You will soon have global fame. So, when are you publishing your bombastic exposé? Or do you plan to sell it for it's minimum $1 billion value? Either way, great job!

Google has been ruining the internet since 1998. So no news here.


Hi @not_me_ever

I know this is totally unrelated and probably won't see it, but I read your comment about German solar farms sometime ago and I was wondering if you could throw light on that. I can't find any email to contact you by except the one you shared like a year ago (hnr@webhome.de) which I figured belongs to your friend. Please, what's a good email where I can reach you? Mine's in my profile. Thanks and hoping to hear back.


Funny how "journalists" who spend their day in a text editor, or at least should, keep saying that 8GB is not enough, while award winning AAA game developers are fully ok with 8GB.

Yes, 16GB (or currently 18GB) is nice, but it only means I can leave chrome & slack open forever; And has no impact on my actual work whatsoever.


What AAA devs are okay with 8GB? It's really common to hear devs complain about RAM limitations on the Xbox Series S which has 10GB of RAM.


Hi @not_me_ever

I know this is totally unrelated and probably won't see it, but I read your comment about German solar farms sometime ago and I was wondering if you could throw light on that. I can't find any email to contact you by except the one you shared like a year ago (hnr@webhome.de) which I figured belongs to your friend. Please, what's a good email where I can reach you? Mine's in my profile. Thanks and hoping to hear back.


ML is quite ok at answering questions, but it is very bad at asking the right questions.

Engineering is about asking questions.

Looks like we are at least 50 years out from "AI" replacing entry level engineers. I'll let me grand children worry about that, and use this glorified auto completion until then.


Hence my question was about programming rather than engineering. Composition could, for a long time, be a task humans do whereas the components are generated by AI.


It's genius.

And finally my $1/month 50.000 free worldwide texts burner phone is earning some $$$. Well $$$$$ to be exact.


In other words you're violating the provider's terms and conditions. I fully expect either you to get kicked out by them or the product to change.


And that's why it won't be $1 in a few months. But you earned your buck, good job. Tragedy of the commons courtesy of telegram + not_me_ever


which provider are you using, out of curiosity?


Broken software might crash -- no news move on


Wait, they write to protected memory, and get killed.

:tripplefacepalm:

Somebody hire some engineers at Oracle.


Sarcasm only works when you are actually smart and know what you are talking about.


To finish validating a request and then start executing it creates a race condition. That's why execution always needed to fail in a recoverable way.


JavaScript A Nightmare


My GF earns more money selling her hand made weaves than the average senior SWE at google.

When did they come for the weavers?


Assuming a senior SWE there probably makes around $500T I guess your GF would need to sell one woven item for $2,000 every week day for the whole year to come close to that? That seems like an amazing amount of work, is she a spider perhaps? ;)


Nope.

It's nice at implementing simple stuff at a first semester CS student, after somebody over specified it, but that's it.

Code monkeys might want to start looking for a new job in 10-20 years, but you asked about SWEs. And less than 1-10% of our job is to actually type code.


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