Merovius

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Why context.Value matters and how to improve it(blog.merovius.de)
2 points by Merovius 9y ago|0 comments
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by Merovius 9y ago
Given that I regularly see my Facebook account name and photo on third party websites, without giving them any permission to see those, I find it hard to believe that Facebook cares about this…
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by Merovius 9y ago
Your interpretation of that statement makes no sense. With that interpretation: a) the bar isn't lowered in any sense of the word, as that would imply less qualified people getting in, b) you'd claim that for unexplained reasons,
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What I want from a logging API(blog.merovius.de)
2 points by Merovius 9y ago|0 comments
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by Merovius 9y ago
Yes, but we wouldn't actually walking the whole snake, just as we are not walking the whole Hilbert curve. We are walking the point cloud in the order dictated by either, and those will, in general, differ.
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by Merovius 9y ago
I tried describing here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6oxra8/using_h... why I think that this is theoretically a TSP problem, I don't consider that necessarily the best way to trea
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by Merovius 9y ago
Yes. Crash-course complexity theory: This is easy to understand with integer factorization: It is very hard to factor large integers. Yet, if I where to give you two numbers, it is very easy to verify that their product is the integer you w
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by Merovius 9y ago
If it isn't, I'm invoking my right to English incorrectly, given that it's not my native language ;) (yes, I'm being toung-in-cheek by using "English" as a verb here :) )
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by Merovius 9y ago
This is really interesting, thanks for linking :)
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by Merovius 9y ago
As this was only about efficiently enumerating the missing locations, not walking them, that's fine. I.e. I had to find the ~5 needles in the haystack of hundreds that I needed to visit. Given that sparseness, it was most efficient to
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by Merovius 9y ago
I have added a section about this question to the post. Let me know what you think :)
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by Merovius 9y ago
Given that this wasn't about actually walking the map, but about just finding the locations still missing (and those locations where few and sparse), this really isn't necessary. It would be, if you'd want to do a speedrun,
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by Merovius 9y ago
Basically, what others have replied is true. But, in essence, yes, I now believe that this would've worked too, if you choose an appropriate discretization of the grid. Hilbert Curves probably were simply the Hammer I had lying around.
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by Merovius 9y ago
I have seen JSONP. But I'm not a frontend dev and in my experience the web suffers from a persistent overspecialization of terms. I didn't mention the term JSONP, because I didn't want to end up calling something JSONP just t
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Using Hilbert Curves to 100% Zelda(blog.merovius.de)
164 points by Merovius 9y ago|61 comments
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by Merovius 9y ago
I was referring to this sentence: > The only risk I can think of is: if you push too hard, it can have the opposite effect of making the child hate it. That seems like a weird "risk".
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by Merovius 9y ago
No, I'm suggesting that we shouldn't push for kindergarten kids to read and analyze Shakespeare, because reading is so important (and in the process de-emphasize other subjects). I'm saying that the level of math education ha
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by Merovius 9y ago
I find that a pretty strange approach to parenting. IMO you should optimize for happiness of your child, not for carefully manipulating them into the path you laid out for them. My perception of a good parent is to encourage your child to d
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by Merovius 9y ago
> First, 16 is still pretty young. Depends on what we are talking about. The post I was responding to was talking about "the first years of education" and with 16, we are way past that.
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by Merovius 9y ago
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I have always believed that if you want people to be good at math, it's their first years of education which are important, not the last ones. In other worlds, push for STEM should be present in kindergar
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by Merovius 9y ago
It would be fair if WSJ would be asking for that. I agree, that if I already pay for a subscription, the results should be ranked accordingly for me. There is probably a simple, technical way to implement that. But AIUI this is not what WSJ
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by Merovius 9y ago
As a user, if I search for something, I want to get the information I was searching for, not an offer to buy that information. A link to a page where I can buy your product is not a search result; it's an ad. And it's totally fair
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by Merovius 9y ago
Of course they have that carte blanche, at least if you are not a citizen (and since you are travelling internationally, I'd assume that you're not a citizen on at least one of the legs). Normally, they can ask whatever the eff th
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by Merovius 9y ago
> In 2016, Philip Koopman of CMU discusses that there are non-trivial engineering challenges of achieving safety in NHTSA Level 4 vehicle automation: That seems like the most obvious statement I've read in the last year or so at lea
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by Merovius 9y ago
I don't know. I'm annoyed by sites doing that too, but I don't think the author appreciates the complexity of the issue. Two examples: They choose Google search results as an example; but when I'm in the Netherlands, I d
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by Merovius 9y ago
> Switzerland is trilingual. *quadrolingual Don't forget about that pesky Romansh ;)
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by Merovius 10y ago
No, it wouldn't require special-case syntax. It could just pass it's argument to '/bin/sh -c'. You'd have to shell-escape the pipeline, though.
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by Merovius 10y ago
But it makes a philosophical difference to the involvement of the company, of the people working on it and also a practical difference, because products and non-products have very different launch-requirements. You are perceiving Google a
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by Merovius 10y ago
There is a difference between "a Google Product" and "Code to which Google holds copyright". Most importantly, the latter may include all code written by any Google Employee during their employment.
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by Merovius 10y ago
Several questions, some minor, some major: AIUI, the keyserver is centralized in two regards: a) if it's down, I can't access anyone's data and b) it centralizes trust, key.upspin.io has complete control over which key belong

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