Chinjut

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by Chinjut 10y ago
> isn't private property itself essentially enforced by government coercion? Yes. Absolutely. This point (which was first made so clear to me by Matt Bruenig) needs to be repeated over and over, loudly, over the delusions of the lib
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Huh. Their website ( http://soixante-neuf.homosexual.horse/veritas/ ) does seem at least somewhat satirical, and yet, if they are trolling, they are quite committed to it. They do seem to post a lot on reddit about Brown
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I had originally heuristically reasoned in a similar but opposite way, to the wrong answer. To wit: 1. P_{1/6} = 1/6 [when rolling one die, you have a 1/6 chance of getting more than 1/6 many sixes] 2. P_n -> 1/2
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The dismissive mention of "gender-studies rants" as canonically not fit for Hacker News disappoints, but does not surprise, me.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
> Not exactly sure why this is a Hacker News thing but... This sort of comment pops up anytime an article on anything other than straight-up apps/coding/business/whatnot is posted, but the answer is always the same: Anythi
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Perhaps 10, 20, and 100 years ago, it was also a tragedy that so much effort was directed toward the minor desires of the reasonably well-off and so comparatively little into addressing the needs of those with little disposable income.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
This mode of thinking is apparently common, and yet so alien to me... When you're 80 looking back, are you really going to wish you'd put in more hours making Dorsey or Brin & Page or whoever more money? At the expense of your
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by Chinjut 10y ago
This is not the best wording, but it's what I have for now: Label the top, left, bottom, and right edges of the square T, L, B, and R, respectively (so T and L are the ones which must be glued to each other, in suitable fashion). Cut t
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by Chinjut 10y ago
A Mobius strip.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Yup. Note that the method of specifically being fed the input sequentially, one by one, means that, for example, "Strings of odd length whose middle character is 'X'" does not comprise a regular language, even though one
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The value i can take an a priori unbounded amount of memory. It should be noted, so can the value n, but in defining regular languages in this way, we allow our O(1) memory algorithms to be fed the characters of an a priori unbounded input
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Are you suggesting this is a healthy dynamic that all married couples share?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I'm not blaming any abuse victim for being in their position; I'm just saying "Hey, I'm sorry you're in that position. Maybe you've been led to believe that kind of relationship is normal and healthy, but I wan
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Oh, just as opposed to unary. Writing numbers in the ordinary way in any ordinary base, which is to say, bases greater than 1; base 2, base 3, base ten, whatever.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The vote total on this went quite a bit up, and now has crashed all the way down. It'd be cool to see upvote/downvote splits instead of having to deduce them by paying frequent enough attention to track history in this way.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Ah, yeah, I see now that that is indeed probably what they meant; thanks! In that case, yes, I'm sympathetic to that, using regex to just mean "Anything that ultimately describes a regular language".
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The commenter several up in this thread mentioned the threat of a beating from their wife so casually, like it was no big thing, like of course their wife would beat them for talking to other women. I presume it was just colorful language o
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Right. My point (which may not be a particularly great point, but it was what I was trying to convey) is that the lay definition doesn't have any particular tight borders; presumably different regex libraries are capable of matching di
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I'll say to you what I said above, but even moreso: Er... I'm not sure what you're saying here, so I'll clarify what I was saying. What I mean is, we all agree on what DFAs are, and so we all agree on what regular langua
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Er... I'm not sure what you're saying here, in that it doesn't seem to be engaging with what I was saying, or trying to say, so I'll clarify what I was saying. What I mean is, we all agree on what DFAs are, and so we all
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Well, sure, but "whatever can be straightforwardly tacked on" is highly subjective, no?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Is there a standard for which additional features one can add on top of regular expressions in the original limited sense and still be considered a regex?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Presumably, they thought of A as in front of B in the expression "AB" rather than in the expression "BA". (Which is also how I would normally think of "in front", for what it's worth!)
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Sure, for a fixed arbitrary integer M. (Supposing the input is fed in in big-endian order, you just keep track of the remainder modulo M as each new bit comes in, updating it by turning r into (r * 2 + new bit) mod M. Since this only requir
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Hell, more than a divorce, if the beating is literal. No one should be beating anyone.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
We SHOULD be outraged at entities that, because they are purely out to make money, end up shaping the world in ways we'd rather it not be. That's a perfectly natural thing to be outraged by; that they are in fact incentivized to d
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Y'all have some super-paranoid jealous partners, if you can't even talk to a colleague of a particular gender, purely as colleagues. I hope both for your partner and for you that they stop being that way someday.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
For some things, looks matter a lot. For other things, gender matters a lot. Of course, the way we evaluate looks is itself highly gendered. These are all things worth talking about! That at some particular time, someone wants to discuss on
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I'm short and skinny. (I wouldn't normally describe myself as ugly, but, who knows? I guess that's not up to me to say...). It seems to me there are a ton of short skinny guys in the software engineering industry, so I rarely
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Boy oh boy, so many. Any time a woman dares to lament how maybe her experiences in tech are colored by that minority status, Hacker News pounces en masse with little self-awareness. Not everyone on HN, of course. But, overall, threads like

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