Kristine1975

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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Security updates perhaps: If e.g. OpenSSL is shared, a single security update will fix all applications using it. And a single update will most likely be out more quickly than updates to a dozen or so applications.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Here's Tim Sweeney of Unreal fame talking about GC: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277#comment-14252 (granted, it's from 2006, but I still think it's relevant) TL;DR: It's not a problem.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Look at the bottom of the article: Category "Eradicated Diseases" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eradicated_diseases )
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>X-ray vision, My cat (at least that's what it feels like sometimes) >frost breath, My cat again. >controlling metal objects, Kitchen magnets. >mind control Cat. ;-)
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Maybe they include anecdotes like this one: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... >Anyway, the story is that one day Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, who had recently transferred to Cupert
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
I think he advocates for crypto implementations that are provably secure. Provably secure = boring, because there are no security holes to be found. (the document gets much easier to read when viewed in single page mode)
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
From the article: >WPV3 has not been detected globally since November 2012 (in Nigeria); the only remaining endemic WPV1 strains are now restricted to Pakistan and Afghanistan. So things are looking good.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Not if the language uses implicit returns, as e.g. Ruby does. Then y * 2 is equivalent to return y * 2 when it is the last statement in the function.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
The list (which would be a lot shorter if duplicates were removed) strikes me highly speculative, i.e. it is not the result of psychological research done in that area. It also ignores that a mental state or behavior only counts as a mental
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
I agree with you. However some people use social justice as an excuse to be awful to others. Combine that with the fact(?) that loud minorities are often generalized to be representative of the whole (especially when that minority confirms
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
The about page says: http://8th-dev.com/about8th.html >As mentioned at the top of this page, Ron had written a Forth-based language called Reva Forth. The word “reva” in Hebrew (רבע) means “one-fourth” and Reva is also “
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
However a JIT can actually optimize the code for the current usage profile, whereas profile-guided optimizations in AOT compilation cannot.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>Either way I'd love to see some form of native IL that can be shipped instead of binaries WebAssembly could fit the bill, although it's still in early development.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Cynical answer: It wouldn't fit the "write once, run anywhere" slogan used to market Java.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>This can apply to x86, too. The Intel C/C++ compiler creates different code paths depending on the CPU's capabilities. So at least there's no duplication of non-cpu-specific code. It also does or at least used to check fo
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
One aspect the author doesn't talk about is emulation: The Wii/GameCube emulator Dolphin uses JIT to translate the console's PPC machine code to x86 machine code. I'm also not sure if "scripting languages" trul
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Shanzhai and the company «Mediatek» mentioned in the article were discussed here last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802414 regarding a presentation about it at the Chaos Communication Congress. The video of the
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
I'd prefer a cheque by Donald Knuth ;-)
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
I think this is a good example of a rant that doesn't come across as hostile, a response to the question "RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags": http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>In Germany we have the term "Empöreria" for people who have nothing better to do than complain about "bad culture" just for the sake of complaining. Not really. Only some Germans use the term. And as far as I underst
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>but you can control how you react internally to what they say. Life would certainly be easier in some situations if humans were this rational. However I don't think they are. FWIW I also don't think it has anything to do with
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>so why can't she just ignore any of those comments or subtexts? Why should she have to?
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>but do you have any other favorite authors who play with concepts like these? Maybe Philip K Dick, although his books are not exactly hard science fiction. But they explore the nature of reality in often mind-bending ways.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
How long until Greg Egan writes a novel based on this concept? It should be right up his alley.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
Maybe it's intended to raise awareness about how e.g. companies use the internet to check out prospective employees. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_reputation_management >70 percent of compan
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
I guess it will take about three seconds before someone realizes you can give a person five stars (making it a "positive review") and then write a horribly negative review about them.
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by Kristine1975 11y ago
>Journey where the only possible interactions between players are positive or helpful. There was a GDC presentation a few years back where the lead designer Jenova Chen talked about how difficult it was to make only positive/helpful