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New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Am I German or Autistic?"

OhMeadhbh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:48:22 +0000

Genau wie ich dachte. Ich bin Deutscher.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "10 Years Ago, Trump Promised to Eliminate the National Debt. It Has Doubled"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:05:27 +0000

ditto. do not look at REASON comments section with remaining eye.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "10 Years Ago, Trump Promised to Eliminate the National Debt. It Has Doubled"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:03:39 +0000

I think a number of people who voted for trump don't trust wonks because for a LONG time (many of) the wonks kept insisting that when we off-shored low paying jobs, high-paying jobs would come back to the united states.

I'm not saying we should try to get every low margin job back in the states, but maybe we should plan out a REASONED tariff policy that protects SOME low margin jobs. Investing in education might not be a bad idea either.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:52:13 +0000

US presidents have a history of saying one thing on the campaign trail and doing another once they're in office. Clinton said he was going to do health care reform during the campaign, but signed the welfare to work, mandatory sentencing and glass-steagall repeal when he was in office.

Although... just looked at the date on that tweet. He was still in office for his first term at the time. So... yeah... modernity is not a place to look for consistent statements from political figures.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:49:54 +0000

So... if I were China... this would be a decent week to invade Taiwan. Everyone seems to be a bit distracted.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:49:04 +0000

Pretty sure it was to get everyone to stop talking about Epstein.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:47:41 +0000

I mean... the Israelis could use their nuke. I don't know how quickly they could move it from Philadelphia, though.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:46:13 +0000

Just saw a comment where someone wondered if Trump explicitly said he would bomb Iran or if he left a little linguistic wiggle room so he could nuke San Francisco if Iran doesn't do what he wants. Modernity is so weird recently, it honestly wouldn't surprise me.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution"

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:39:29 +0000

Posting this because everyone seems to be talking about it. Figured it might be worth it to post a link to the Wikipedia article. I would caution people to try not to diagnose public figures remotely. I'm sure we all have our own opinions regarding the mental health of various political figures.

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution

OhMeadhbh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:37:02 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681034

Points: 24

# Comments: 4

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Ah, peptides. where to begin?"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:15:12 +0000

Funny you mention this... I bumped into a VP of Merck at a conference and that's the exact example he gave: in the US, you can't adjust your own coumadin dosage without a M.D. consult, but here, have 200 doses of insulin to take home with you.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "Peptides: where to begin?"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:11:38 +0000

I think if you're a cloudflare customer they set a cookie in your browser that let's you bypass the waiting period. Just wait until next year when they show ads during the wait.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:24:15 +0000

Oh hey Eric. I think I was wrong saying it was 1.1. It was a middlebox that ignored max fragment negotiation, which I think was introduced in 1.2. IIRC, the middlebox claimed to support it for 1.2 connections, but silently failed by blackholing the connection. They eventually crafted a fix, but it was an annoying year waiting for network operators to upgrade the firmware on their routers.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:00:18 +0000

If only we had a technology where an author could specify a unique identifier and name of another author's paper. Something that could cite a different paper and link to it.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:56:40 +0000

So... In 2013 I was working for Mozilla adding TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support into Firefox. It turns out that some of the extensions common in 1.1, in some instances caused PDUs to grow beyond 16k (or maybe it was 32k, can't remember.). This caused middle boxes to barf. Sure, they shouldn't barf, but they did. We discovered the problem (or rather one of our users discovered the problem) by increasing the key size on server and client certs to push PDU sizes over the limit.

At the very least, you want to start using hybrid legacy / pqc algorithms so engineers at Cisco will know not to limit key sizes in PDUs to 128 bytes.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:45:42 +0000

I missed you at the most recent CRFG meeting.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:40:56 +0000

Damn. It's like I insulted Vault.

Also, I went over Filippo's post again and still can't see where it references the Gutmann / Neuhaus paper. Are we talking about the same post?

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:37:07 +0000

Preach your truth, brother!

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:34:31 +0000

Yeah... I spent the 90s working for RSADSI and Certicom implementing algorithms. Crypto is a vitamin, not an aspirin. Hardly anyone is capable of properly assessing risk in general, much less the technical world of information risk management. Telling someone they should pay you money to reduce the impact of something that may or may not happen in the future is not a sales win.

New comment by OhMeadhbh in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

OhMeadhbh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:29:51 +0000

In rebuttal, Peter Gutmann seems to think the progress towards quantum computing devices which can break commonly used public key crypto systems is not moving especially quickly: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237