Obscurity in a sentence as a noun

It fades into obscurity. My suggestion is that what your looking for isn't a web site its friends.

I don't waste my time on "the next hotness" just to watch it tank in obscurity three months later. I'm good at understanding what infrastructure is important and what isn't.

I'll just continue to toil in obscurity; self-respect intact.

Most the communication protocols just use security though obscurity. If you tell a gear box to shift form 1st to snip it'll do it, and break everything.

If it disappears into obscurity, that's much more difficult to accept. When I create content now, my promotion strategy is 99% focused on that first stage.

Many who are published deserve obscurity. And some who have obscurity deserve more funding.

The best part of the the internet's short term memory is how quickly this image found it's way into obscurity; to be completely forgotten. No ill harm to my wife's nor my reputation.

As someone who has seen dozens of Woz-founder-only startups march into the meatgrinder of obscurity, I can tell you that if you have to be one or the other, you're better off being Jobs. Not that you have much choice about it though.

Otherwise, the hole's obscurity won't prevent people from distributing exploit kits. A subtly broken sandbox is almost exactly as secure as no sandbox at all.

The database delivered to you relies on security through obscurity, in that few people are even aware of its existence these days.

Saying they aren't because others toil in obscurity is some hopeless romanticism about hacker culture. A heart warmer, maybe?

Then after a while, CLA-Y becomes the norm and CLA-X fades into infinite obscurity. CLA-Y is unquestioned, unexamined.

Deal with thousands of lines of uncommented C written by someone who specifically enjoyed obscurity" hard. 2.

I will also from time to time see various articles or comments written in my name which is him trying to lure me out of obscurity to resume our epic battle of the ages.

If obscurity is useless, then why does the Army camouflage tanks? Why not just paint them blazing orange/pink and let them stand on their own defenses? There is a place for obscurity in security and the endless parroting of "security through obscurity is useless" should stop.

- As for his assertion that bad code and obscure file formats are job security through obscurity, I'm going to call ********. For many years, the field lacked people with real CS training, so you got a lot of biologists reading a perl book in their spare time and hacking together some ugly, but functional solutions.

I don't know or care what the abuse mechanisms being tripped are --- I buy into the idea that in this case, obscurity is making some baseline level of security cost-effective for Graham and his team. But it's important to know that whatever mechanical process is banning people for abuse, it's imperfect.

So impassioned arguments about "security through obscurity" and "the futility of trying to hide protocols" aren't adding much to the discussion. Everybody understands those things.

There are bona fide geniuses working in poverty and obscurity, there are utterly mediocre programmers doing amazingly useful and important work. Github is overflowing with brilliant, painstaking solutions to problems that just don't matter.

I had the good fortune of timing it so that after a year and a half of toil and obscurity we hit the wave of the dotcom boom, and I was able to establish myself as a proven serial entrepreneur and have been able to found a series of moderately successful tech companies over the years. I'm 42 now, and I'm currently getting a new startup off the ground with three other co-founders who are also in their early forties.

Wow, you think, these assholes mathematicians are really trying to keep their knowledge in an ivory tower of obscurity. But, since you only made it through the few paragraphs of the paper, you missed an intuitive explanation that's right there on that page from an paper reproduced by that blog post: Stated informally, the k-means procedure consists of simply starting with k groups each of which consists of a single random point, and thereafter adding each new point to the group whose mean the new point is nearest.

Obscurity definitions

noun

the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

See also: obscureness abstruseness reconditeness

noun

an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"

noun

the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

See also: obscureness