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New comment by elbybasolis in "Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium"

elbybasolis — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:41:38 +0000

Attempting to open an issue yields this message:

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New comment by elbybasolis in "Rocky Mountain Basic"

elbybasolis — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:44:19 +0000

After college I was doing some consulting and working on few very different projects. One of which was helping a company maintain an estimating program written by their founding engineer written in RMB. The software would prompt the user for various information and produce an estimate for labor, materials, equipment, and time.

It was pretty simple, well commented code, and for a while I was able to make small changes with a VM and HTBasic (http://www.techsoft.de/documents/htbasic.html). They weren't using any of the advanced features of the language. It was essentially a cli.

Eventually we ported it to TypeScript with a modern frontend. Now they can do estimates in the field and integrate it with loads of other software they adopted recently for invoicing, scheduling etc.

New comment by elbybasolis in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

elbybasolis — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 01:20:44 +0000

Kali linux certainly has the pointiest sticks.

New comment by elbybasolis in "Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?"

elbybasolis — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:33:15 +0000

Fallout 1&2. These games are classic, and without GOG, basically relics of the past. The isometric turn-based gameplay would be perfect for a mobile port. It would be great to add new assets and content. It would be quite fun to design sprites in the 90’s style the games have. I’d be happy if Bethesda made a mobile edition, assuming they had the publishing rights to it. I’d pay whatever the going rate for a good mobile game is now adays (without micro transaction). The trademark of Fallout is probably too valuable for anyone to be able to get away with making a ground-up port to a modern system in an open source fashion.

New comment by elbybasolis in "Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet"

elbybasolis — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:04:58 +0000

I see this playing out similarly to the Y2K situation. There will be a race to upgrade all cryptographic security measures currently in place to handle the new power in computation. In the beginning however those who would have access to such power would make a mint supplying a service (AWS and the like) to compute these products.

New comment by elbybasolis in "Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet"

elbybasolis — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 09:49:23 +0000

In that case can we start computing cryptographic products with quantum computers such that there is no gap? If we reduce the time complexity of factoring a prime number to linear wouldn’t we be able to produce larger cryptographic products? Effectively going back to where we started but with more computing power? Surely this would require easy access to quantum computation to be practical and thus a gap in power, but necessity would drive the market to make this type of power more mainstream.

New comment by elbybasolis in "Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet"

elbybasolis — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 09:40:27 +0000

I’m concerned with the ability of conventional computers to keep up with cryptography in the quantum age of computation. But can’t we just jack up the current algorithms to have higher order problem sets to solve? In other words can’t we turn something like a SHA-256 into a SHA-2048 and take a hit on the time complexity to generate such cryptographic (in this case a hashing algorithm) products? Can’t we just scale up the problem size and assume that the solution will be exponentially more difficult to solve?