The simple math behind the extraordinary benefit of 8 sided dice for diceware

Posted on Thu 14 May 2020 in tech • Tagged with unix, diceware, security, programming

Most diceware implementations use 6-sided dice or D6. It would be easy to knee jerk assume that the marginal difference between 6 and 8 sided dice is negligible. However, in that case, one would be forgetting that we are dealing with exponential counting here and small numbers really add up …


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Perceval Lowell

Posted on Mon 11 May 2020 in art • Tagged with science, poetry

PERCEVAL LOWELL

Your mercurial way,

Charmed us.

Your insight stunned us,

Here we are!

Release us from darkness.

J Cairns


History: Paleolithic

Posted on Sun 10 May 2020 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

Paleolithic refers to the era 2,500,00- 10,000 BCE. In the Greek language pleolithic translates as "old stone age."


To Go On

Posted on Wed 06 May 2020 in art • Tagged with survival, literal translation, poetry

TO GO ON! (Literal)

Do not give up, do not be beaten,

Do not feel like a slave, not even a slave;

Tremor of dread, think bravo,

And lash out fiercely, already badly wounded

Have the tenacity of the moldy nail,

That old and mean again becomes a nail;

Not …


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The thundering line...

Posted on Mon 04 May 2020 in art • Tagged with museinarms, militaryhistory, poetry

The Thundering Line


Announcing RPN

Posted on Sun 03 May 2020 in tech • Tagged with calculator, GPLv3, lex, yacc, c++, programming

RPN is a reverse polish command line calculator and repl. It is written in C++ with Lex and Yacc generated grammar. RPN provides a similar syntax as classic reverse polish calculators. I have just released it under the GNU GPLv3 on my github page.