IsTom

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by IsTom 15y ago
Long live the UL-class computations!
752.
by IsTom 15y ago
As for current architectures, humans are really bad at writing assembly. Advanced compilers like gcc are much better at it.
753.
by IsTom 15y ago
I can't find it right now, but some time ago I've read in a darcs vs git comparison that depending on orders of patches git can sometimes yield two different results. Perhaps in future correctness in huge procjects will be an issue.
754.
by IsTom 15y ago
Steam for Linux is one thing, but how many games will you be able to run?
755.
by IsTom 15y ago
I'm not sure about the current version of Oracle, but the one I used did not support nested WITH clauses. Pain in the lower part of the back if you want to compose and optimize queries. PostgreSQL has no such silly trouble.
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by IsTom 15y ago
Regolite, the material of the moon's surface is a lot of pain. It's like sand, except with razor-sharp edges and it's much finer. It gets everywhere and destroys everything -- think about how much maintenace a car on a desert needs and mult
757.
by IsTom 15y ago
Did the Brits publicly apologize for what was done to him yet?
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by IsTom 15y ago
CPS is best suited for intermediate code, it's not something to be written/read by humans as it's basically the same as goto.
759.
by IsTom 15y ago
I dunno, last time I talked to a guy at Techland he said it's 8 hours a day unless it's close to release. They have to play games for an hour too.
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by IsTom 15y ago
Checking extensional equality of programs is a task that is impossible to perform. If code is not well written, there ARE bugs lurking in the sourcefiles that just are unnoticed. Only computer scientists and mathematicians seem to understan
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by IsTom 15y ago
There is a lot of hype around quantum computing, but as far as I know there are serious hints that it might be never possible -- for example they require expotentially small precision, which is unheard of in the world of physics (a quantum
762.
by IsTom 15y ago
That's what I've thought for a long time too, until I realized that the person writing http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right... has a point.
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by IsTom 15y ago
I haven't heard of this before, so I might be wrong, but I don't think it makes finding collisions any harder. It introduces expotentially many collisions in length of pepper. For example let's take xyzw and abcd such that h(xyzw) = h(abcd)
764.
by IsTom 15y ago
Salt should be user-specific, requiring construction of many rainbow tables turning this kind of attack ineffective.
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by IsTom 15y ago
That's false. Nobody is ever saying that h(x) is unique, only probability that h(x) = y for any y should be about 1/size of y choice space.