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the question is: do you know approximately a well known plaintext from a ciphertext?

yes but no endianness, we have about 121,000 plain->cipher. Well we are not that sure that it was des or 3des:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25302558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27611436


Nice little short story. Reminds me of Juicero, which has to be the flagship of this kind of product.


A surprising good read


Hey! This was good!


wasn't there recently another game that was starting with mosfet/pmos?


I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but Zachtronics has a minigame in its game "Last Call BBS" where you have to build ICs at the silicon level.

www.zachtronics.com


after discovering most of my content has been scraped thousands of times, I don't have any willingness to continue posting my blog. Well, yes, I was expecting that (you know.. by publishing content on the net, everyone could read it -- and profit off!). I've some content for some months, including some analysis.

I wish somebody could motivate me to publish them anyway.


Would you feel the same way about creating open source software that had been forked 1,000's of times and used without your knowledge? Are you interested in living in a world where everyone only does things if they feel they can directly capture the majority of the value created?


There's a whole world of software that people are expected to pay for, one way or another. Some programmers choose to release their work for free. And some people use the paid software without paying. We call those people "pirates".

Are you interested in living in a world where nobody can make a living off of their creative work?


I am interested in living in a world where creative works were not motivated by money and influenced by the incentives that come with that.


We already live in that world because of corporations.


There's a difference between giving your neighbors eggs from the chicken you raise, and the local chain hotel including them in their breakfast buffet.

Even if the output is free, you might enjoy the community, the gratitude or other indirect rewards.


Most people do actually feel that way when Amazon forks their software and monetizes it. They respond by relicensing as SSPL but it's too late and everyone uses the Amazon fork. This happens regularly.


I don’t think it is majority of the value created, but it might have to be a significant portion of the value expended to make it worthwhile at all.


When those forkers are large corporations then it probably should make most people think twice.


Why should anyone motivate you if what you have is just interchangeable "content"?


Is it possible to achieve such level of precision of building something so complex without being worried around safety?


It's flabbergasting how this story is close to the reality. Bookmarked, I would love to see it printed.


I'm playing with it and it is impressive that is starting to have less and less problems than few years ago


I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX


Microsoft wrote their own replacement and it's better-integrated into Office than the old editor was. Search for "insert equation" in the Office search box. The new one supports both the old editor's style of input and actual LaTeX inputs. Heed the dates on articles talking about it: TFA is from 2018 before they wrote the new editor.


There was an interesting paper on how the newer equation editor handles math using just Unicode math symbols: https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....


In PowerPoint, I am a happy user of IguanaTex [1].

There are also some other PlugIns like TeXsword. But I have not tested them. And newer MS Office versions seem to support Latex macros directly. [2]

[1] https://github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/IguanaTex

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/linear-format-equ...


How about Eric Lengyel's equation editor: https://radicalpie.com


There are also many suitable web versions such as https://editor.codecogs.com/

You can then download the image. The only thing I think they should add is the equation string as a comment to the images so you can upload and continue editing without a proprietary file format.


> the equation string as a comment to the images

Yes some diagramming tools do this when exporting to PNG, this is a great feature


if anyone ever reads about this comment, please start to think about how to fuzz your software in a fast way. You don't need to correct or patch every bug, you just need to find where the algorithm A, B, C doesn't perform well, or where you have an allocation of 2 MBs for a linked list that should have been half of it.

I'm not a daily user of jetbrains product, but please. If there's any engineering/developers, start to use afl/cargo fuzz or whatever your fuzzer is, and spot bottlenecks, issues. I started to write software because I was looking at the quality of the very first softwares that were being fuzzed and it opened me some doors.


cool idea


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