Banana699

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by Banana699 4y ago
Modulo summation is a good hash function to teach non-CS people what hash functions are in principle. But, judging by my experience in learning about how Bitcoin works, is not sufficient to see why it's a secure currency (and PoW expla
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by Banana699 4y ago
Any person who thinks that a computer is going through symbolic formulas and selecting which one to substitute in to find a hash function nonce doesn't know a whole lot about what a blockchain fundamentally is and how computers make it
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by Banana699 4y ago
This is a lot of words to say that PoW involves an inverse-hash problem being solved. Inverse-hash is a mathematical problem. Finding the nonce is solving it.
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by Banana699 4y ago
>This is not my position. My position is "Some Women Affected". Ok. I think you're honest, but the people you're defending are not. If 'some' women are affected, then women deserve only 'some' of t
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by Banana699 4y ago
>An enormous amount of women have faced unfair (or worse) situations with negative (or worse) personal outcomes for just the fact of being women. You can replace 'women' in this statment by any number of other group tags and st
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by Banana699 4y ago
Because it's one-sided and unscientific. The kind of feminist-infected soft fields that make up those terms and agendas (HR, "Communication Studies",...) only really care about women, and by 'caring' about women I
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by Banana699 4y ago
No, actually. JS wasn't designed to be generally and minimally embeddable, it was a hack designed to be a embedded in a proprietary program with lots of bells and whistles. You can say that a thing doesn't have to be designed fo
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by Banana699 4y ago
Indeed, Abstract Interpretation is powerful and beautiful as heck. Type Systems can be seen as just a special case of general Abstract Interpretation, where the types are the abstract values computed from each expression. The problem is tha
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by Banana699 4y ago
>This is only feasible if the program takes no input, or a very limited set. One of the insights that people making tools for dynamic languages discover over and over again is that most uses of dynamic features is highly static and con
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by Banana699 4y ago
Why is becoming a Scottish Lord desirable in the first place ? explained for someone who doesn't live in Scotland or any of the neighbouring Isles ?
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by Banana699 4y ago
I think dynamic analysis is incredibly powerful and criminally underused in IDEs and other dev tools. I have thought of an idea about 6 months ago that has been fermenting in my mind since then : what if (e.g.) a Python VM had a mode where
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by Banana699 4y ago
But "people" isn't just a single thing, it's a distributed system of many interdependent but ultimately independent agents. If you only grind your own axe, yes many people will be indeed swept in, but a lot of other peop
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by Banana699 4y ago
None of those are AI-generated (therefore don't have the potential massive automated scale) or auto-play.
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Testing is not a substitute for thinking (2010)(reprog.wordpress.com)
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by Banana699 4y ago
GP was talking about loading JS, adding JS to a webpage doesn't affect its rendering (unless the loaded JS is DOM-manipulating) does it ?
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by Banana699 4y ago
As with all arguments about "not really innovation", the problem seems to be in drawing boundaries around ideas. If people in the 1980s and the 1990s were all really reinventing Kay and Mccarthy, then why weren't Kay and Mcca
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by Banana699 4y ago
>there is a very real sense in which programming languages haven’t really progressed since the early 80s. Can this be made any more precise to somebody who doesn't share the feeling? As a programming language aficionado, my attitude
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Approval and acceptance in the tech community (2014)(lukeplant.me.uk)
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by Banana699 4y ago
The only thing lisp seems to have not figured out yet is this small thing we call "Syntax", which the PL community mostly figured out 50 years ago : you write terse notations and the compiler builds up the tree for you, you don&#x
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by Banana699 4y ago
The 'S' in iot stands for security.
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by Banana699 4y ago
This is one of the areas where piracy is good and moral, as a low-cost vigilante solution to harass corporations who have grown safe and fat. Piracy is a fresh slap on the backside to wake those kind of people up. And this is why all this &
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by Banana699 4y ago
Configuration doesn't have to be declarative, for example see https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/less-powerful-languages/ , in particular the section about python configuration, where an imperative config
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by Banana699 4y ago
There is an argument to be made that if a word has a very widely-known meaning, and a very niche meaning, then the niche usage requires clarification even among the niche group that invented the niche meaning. For example, when there is a c
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by Banana699 4y ago
>the probability of change in each system might not be high, but overall probability of general change is much higher - because it's multiplication of individual probabilities. I get what the author is trying to say, but they had th
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by Banana699 4y ago
PS: This is hilariously dumb and brain-dead. I can't stop re-reading it back and laughing like a maniac. My followup question would be : what is your IQ, and that of the woman you asked?
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by Banana699 4y ago
By that metric, all programming languages including assembly have exactly 0 consumers, since nothing human-readable actually runs on computers. Look at that, I have saved programming from language popularity contests, no need to thank me. I
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by Banana699 4y ago
I think you're (perhaps intentionally) overestimating the hate the JVM gets to paint Java critics as unreasonable, but the fact of the matter is that the JVM and Java the language are light years apart in quality and (subsequently) the
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by Banana699 4y ago
So men are the only people who comment without revealing their gender? What about trans individuals? Does that mean I can reliably mask my gender by deciding whether or not I mention it in my comments and posts? And this still doesn't
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The Pastry AI That Learned to Fight Cancer(newyorker.com)
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>For the same result You're assuming that the "result" data structure is only a single boolean, is_task_done. That's not how most things work, GP's bubble sort will pretty damn well show up in locked-up UIs and i

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