Good luck with that. He pissed away $44B buying and running Twitter into the ground and now expects others to invest? Especially this area—-Musk was so certain OpenAI was doing it wrong and too slowly. How’d that position work out?
Brings back fond memories. I was at JSC in Houston and took on a consulting job to convert a massive data manipulation and statistical analysis program that ran in COBOL on an IBM 370 to run on an IBM PC. I did a portion of the code in Turbo Pascal just for fun on a bet that it would run faster (in terms of user wait time) and it did—-45 minutes down to 5. Then I wrote the rest of the code, optimized, and got my first 80286-based PC and we got sub-minute processing times. At that point I convinced my friend that we could dispense with the collection of the massive data set via bubble scan sheets filled out in the field with an early laptop computer. We went through multiple iterations and improvements over a few years and the system ran for 15+ years, albeit on much improved hardware as time went on.
You CANNOT deactivate an email with one click. If you delete an email address you would expect it to be dead. Not so—-if an email is sent to the address it is re-activated. I’ve reported this annoying behavior multiple times to no avail.
Assuming you meant a 128-bit hash with all bits set to '1' (i.e., '0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff'), it would still be extremely difficult, if not practically impossible, to find a string that hashes to this specific value. The MD5 algorithm is designed to produce seemingly random output for small changes in input, and there are no known methods to easily reverse-engineer an MD5 hash.
That being said, MD5 is no longer considered cryptographically secure due to vulnerabilities discovered over the years, such as hash collisions. But finding a specific hash, like the one you mentioned, would still require a brute-force attack or an advanced cryptanalytic method, neither of which is guaranteed to succeed.
Really? This is a ridiculous statement and sounds like we're worried about bandwidth consumption from the time when a US Robotics modem was a luxury.