BlackFingolfin

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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
I've recently given Linux another try, for use on a machine meant as a media server, and also to drive my family "video call station" (i.e., combine big TV, webcam and a bluetooth audio widget with mic and speakers so that th
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
According to a comment elsewhere in this HN discussion, it seems there are rather something like <200 draws a week. That gets us to just a 3% chance of this happening in a given year. That's still quite a bit more than one might int
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
At least those I know in Europe and US are weekly...
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Actually, Homebrew developers have been working on this for months (in their spare time, too, given that they are all volunteers); but the reality is that this is a gargantuan task, 6 months simply wasn't enough. So no, I don't th
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Thanks for the link! Yeah, that's basically the numbers I also found -- although the number of instructions decoded per clock cycle is a different metric from the number of µop that can be issued, so that feels a bit like moving the go
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
OK, I could see how one could implement a variable width instruction decoder (e.g. "if there are 8 one-byte instructions in a row, handle them, otherwise fallback to 4-way decoding" -- of course much more sophisticated approach co
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
What do you mean with "8-wide instructions", and what does that have to do with multiple decoders?
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Could you explain what you mean with "8-wide decode in many places " ? How is that possible, isn't instruction coding kinda always the same? I.e. always 4-wide or always 8-wide, but not sometimes this and sometimes that. All
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
/me raises hand Yes, they do. And then they complain to you that this broke something: they split our package, from the main package A they split off parts into separate packages B, C, ... that depend on A. And then complained to us th
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
> It's not fine, but when the upstream authors do not regard or consider requirements of downstream projects, what can you do? Well, as one of those upstream authors whose code was patched: I was never contacted about it, so I never
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Thrussh is not a "remake" of a ssh, it is simply yet another implementation, and I don't find that particularly unusual or problematic; if one is working on a Rust based project, IMO it makes a lot of sense to work on a Rust
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying this, I think it's much better if this paragraph doesn't distract people from the great work you are doing on Pijul. And being plagiarized totally sucks, as someone who has found his own GPL'ed code i
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Hm, right at the start in the "Warning about licenses" they seem to try to make the GPL apply to a concept, an abstract algorithm -- kinda like a patent? But I don't think that's how licenses like the GPL work? And hence
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Relevant blog post: https://pineapplemonacle.blogspot.com/2014/10/dig-dug-vs-mr-...
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Why? Is there a reduction from EC DLP to FF DLP?
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
The article is about discrete logarithms in binary finite fields, though, not in elliptic curves; so are the references you give (other than Wikipedia). Perhaps elaborate how you draw conclusions about ECC from this? (I am not saying I disa
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
I doubt that Julia 1.6.0 will be released next week. There were no rc (release candidates) not even an alpha or beta release.
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Boon was/is part of Wirecard, which blew up last month as major fraud came to light; see e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-german-fintech-d... or just google for "Wirecard"
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Actually I don't think you can paint that on a sphere without overlap... you'll need to paint it on a torus ;-)
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
AFAIK it still tries to stay mostly compatible with regards to how it is controlled, doesn't it? So while the internals are perhaps new, the frontend is not. But I think Kakoune https://kakoune.org would fit the bill
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AWS Graviton2 (ARM64 CPU) support comes to Travis CI(blog.travis-ci.com)
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
There is no standard that says quo/rem or div/mod should mean one or the other. And in fact there are more than just two choices for how to implement these. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operat
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
While I don’t have that particular issue, I have other issues related to external screens, with 10.14 and 2018 MBP: I usually run the laptop with closed lid and an external screen at work and at home; and use it in “laptop mode” during my c
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
Actually O(2n) did not convey this for me at all, all it did for me was cause confusion. If this ("turn it into two not nested loops") was indeed intended, I'd suggest to spell it out, not abuse notation
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
But they have major drawbacks, too. Like: no encryption and authentication. And that means that e.g. critical medical data about a lot of people can be trivially snooped from the airwaves. This is not just hypothetical, it really works, an
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
I think that's a misconception. Mathematicians are keenly aware that there are plenty examples in history were many people "believed" (hoped? expected?) that some result might be true because it would be "beautiful"
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
They don't need to allow browsing it; but at least have a minimal page which shows the presence of the repository, and allow cloning it.
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
But that first comparison function is usually not what you want, you want lexicographic ordering. This very example is in fact discussed in the article, as an example to how people often mess this up...
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
Is it just me or are most of the navigation links on http://code.call-cc.org broken? I.e., "Download" at the top (which should simply link back to that page) links to https://codecall-ccorg/ , "Egg
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
OK, so, I also hate to be "that guy", but, despite the admirable effort put into creating this by the author, I am sad to say I don't see why some people are excited about this... Because unfortunately after just looking at a

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