MrBingley

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by MrBingley 8y ago
Fool me once, same on you. Fool me twice ...
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Off the top of my head I don't really remember, though Brian Greene does devote a whole chapter to the question of detecting other universes in his book, so that might be a good place to look further. At the moment though, this doesn&#
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by MrBingley 9y ago
I think one crucial difference is that this actually has scientific precedence. For example, the Earth lies in an incredible number of "Goldilocks zones", which have just the right conditions for life to develop. For example, the
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Sure. For example, string theory posits the existence of an extra 6 dimensions of space, which need to be wrapped up in something called a Calabi-Yau manifold. The exact properties of this manifold determine some of the basic properties of
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by MrBingley 9y ago
One difference is that the multiverse emerges as a natural extension of many existing physical theories (string theory, inflation, many-worlds, etc). The deist perspective is a more ad-hoc solution: it doesn't have any evidence that su
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by MrBingley 9y ago
I hope they fixed the awful coil whine. I had one so bad it was practically unusable.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Here's another question: should 0 be considered prime? The zero ideal is a prime ideal, but 0 is certainly a different sort of number than the rest of the primes.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
I'm taking a class in coding theory right now, and I've been surprised by how naturally it can be described using abstract algebra. There are also many deep relationships to important results in group theory. For example, the auto
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by MrBingley 9y ago
> Later, the OG PoWHcoin smart contract — that immutable, incredible construction made out of memes and duct tape — was drained completely of its $2 million total, leaving Ponzibot with the loss of over $2.5 million on his hands. > Ho
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The Surreal Madness of Ethereum's Pyramid Schemes(medium.com)
2 points by MrBingley 9y ago|1 comments
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Another problem with the C code, which is perhaps even more subtle, is the usage of `int` for the length, capacity, and loop index. On 64-bit platforms these variables will overflow for very large arrays, which will likely break the entire
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Does this mean good things for RISC-V?
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by MrBingley 9y ago
> Send the Barbarian in First As the barbarian in my group, I can confirm. :)
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by MrBingley 9y ago
I agree. This tradition of writing short overly-clever code in C needs to die off. Screens can display more than 80x24 characters these days; we should use them.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
I was referring more to its use (abuse?) of the word "isomorphic", which already has a well-established meaning in mathematics.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Web dev, the beast that consumes all. Nothing is sacred.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
> Tom Tromey and I have replaced the most performance-sensitive portions of the source-map JavaScript Library’s source map parser with Rust code that is compiled to WebAssembly. The WebAssembly is up to 5.89 times faster than the JavaScr
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Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You (2015)(openbsd.org)
2 points by MrBingley 9y ago|0 comments
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by MrBingley 9y ago
> Solidity reads a bit like Javascript. It has a lot of quirks and pitfalls, though, especially when it comes to moving money around. But isn't that, like, the whole point of the language? It was literally written for moving money
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Lol, the terminal is for plebs. REAL programmers read it straight from the framebuffer.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Hmmm, I don't think converting a 500k codebase in C to C++ has a meaningful cost/benefit ratio, especially for security critical code like this. It might be justified to do in something like Rust, but at that point I think it&#x27
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Can someone explain to me how on earth Ethereum is still a thing? People have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the Ethereum ecosystem, many due to basic flaws in the "Solidity" language. For example, last November $280 mill
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by MrBingley 9y ago
I think you misunderstand the nature of parenting pal.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Should be the name of a movie. "How will the world's hackers react when their source code goes offline? GitHub Down, watch it now!"
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by MrBingley 9y ago
You might want to flash a custom rom. LineageOS is quite popular these days.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Hehe, you'd be suprised. I took an honors linear algebra course in my first year of university, and abstraction was the word of the day. Everything we did was for abstract vector spaces over arbitrary fields. We didn't look at the
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Yup. It was only about a year ago that the undefined behaviour sanitizer stopped segfaulting when I turned it on, despite it being clearly "documented" in the man page. I'm amazed that a company with the resources of Apple ha
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Never forget people, Apple's emphasis on privacy is only a means to an end, that end being "making money". If Apple needs to relax privacy to help its bottom line, it will, as this example so incisively demonstrates.
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Yeah, this laptop was supposed to replace my old MacBook Air. I had that thing for five years, and not once had a problem with it, even after dropping it and damaging the shell. I wanted to get a linux-compatible laptop and switch to it ful
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by MrBingley 9y ago
Coincidentally, I just got my new XPS 13 today. Took it out of the box, booted it up, and was greeted by ... coil whine. Friggin coil whine. I knew this had plagued previous models of the XPS 13, but I figured Dell would have gotten their a

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