Perseids

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by Perseids 13y ago
That definitely is a more clean way to look at the matter, yes. Nonetheless I've seen the definition I stated above a few times and the merit is that you do not have to take an implicit indirection every time you state something like &
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by Perseids 13y ago
It depends on where you are coming from. If your context are ordinal numbers then you are right and a typical definition of 0 is {} and of s(x) is x∪{x}. But if you working with finite fields for example then you only have an addition opera
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by Perseids 13y ago
It is not a devolution. The discussion whether 1+1=2 is a definition, an axiom, or a theorem is very similar to the discussion of "0^0=1". In each case we are looking at different way to construct a useful mathematic out of differ
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by Perseids 13y ago
It is because you started your part of the discussion with: >> Could I reproduce this patented system without ever reading the patent just by looking at the results of it > This reasoning is deeply flawed. There is a tendency for s
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by Perseids 13y ago
Do you know of any library that generates multiple GETs without some blatant warning in the documentation? I would guess that even though it might be allowed in the RFC it poses no problem in practice.
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by Perseids 13y ago
What I imagine to be a real productivity boost would be a combination of both: A laser tape measure paired via blutooth to take exact measurements and an app using the accelerometer/camera for the general outline. In a best case scenar
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by Perseids 13y ago
You are right but I was talking about the case when no input was there to be read since the call to `read` and also about this specific application: > Blocking when there is no input is completely ok in this use case as there is noth
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by Perseids 13y ago
(You referenced the one byte read function, instead of the multi-byte function used in the OP.) The documentation does not answer how long it blocks. Blocking when there is no input is completely ok in this use case as there is nothing bett
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by Perseids 13y ago
The documentation [1] does not mention any buffering unfortunately. In a quick test on the console it showed line-buffering behavior, so it probably depends on the input file type? [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7&#x
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by Perseids 13y ago
What has "too long, didn't read" come to mean nowadays? Your dl:dr version is not significantly shorter than the 2 lines above and it is also not a summary.
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by Perseids 13y ago
You cannot use that randomness for private key or private data generation, true. But there are less common usage scenarios that need unpredictable randomness that is guaranteed to be generated only after a certain point in time. For two par
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by Perseids 13y ago
> A few blips along the way will happen It is not a few blips. They have consistently shown to be unable to implement any kind of effective cryptography. Take this case as an example. They seem to have tried to prevent such kind of att
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by Perseids 13y ago
How about: "The multiplicative ring operation of ℤ on the elements (((((1+1)+1)+1)+1)+1) and (((1+1)+1)+1)." As a mathematician with a slight focus on algebra when I see such terms the questions that come to my mind are rather: Wh
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Computer Network Exploitation vs. Computer Network Attack(schneier.com)
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by Perseids 13y ago
No no, actually the first s is /s/ i.e. voiceless as in "sea" or "pass", so the complete transcription should be /kʀiːksʃpiːl/. The transition between the /s/ and /ʃ/ is then just
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by Perseids 13y ago
Does anybody know the etymology of "Kriegspiel"? All I find are references to "Kriegsspiel" but nobody explains where the 's' went. Was it just a misspelling by those who popularized it?
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by Perseids 13y ago
( I'm not johnminter btw. :) ) It is not a direct reply to what timr wrote, but to where his/her sentiment leads with lectures that are densely packed with information. I've had quite a few classes where the lecturer "di
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by Perseids 13y ago
Often you have no other choice then to frantically writing it down. jjoonathan argued that point nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363493
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by Perseids 13y ago
> the instructor is not required to make your life easier to earn your attention. On the other hand I find it kind of disrespectful to waste my time writing down the official notes instead of using that time to understand what the lectur
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by Perseids 13y ago
As yet another individual who is hampered by copying down the lecture I'd like to provide some more anecdotal evidence. > There's evidence for note taking, as I previously said. The main difference may have been that you had a
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by Perseids 13y ago
Just a note from the non US world: Please have such keys customizable. z is an especially awkward choice, because with qwertz it is between the t and u and thus far from all the other keys you might use for your gameplay.
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by Perseids 13y ago
> That's what most people care about. I'll make an equally aggressive counter point: Dammit guys and gals, stop using 2.x. Python 3 came out more than 6 years ago. You are holding back and splitting the community. And if you te
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by Perseids 13y ago
> A straightforward lecture delivered directly from a powerpoint is not automatically a bad thing. It might not be bad in itself and if you do it right it can be as good or better than a presentation without the material that is read alo
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by Perseids 13y ago
In mathematics that is still the preferred method, because (latex beamer) slides have far to little space to capture all the stuff you want to view in parallel to e.g. understand a proof. Additionally it forces the lecturer to slow down the
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by Perseids 13y ago
What you would actually want to use in such a case are lecture notes. Or from a different angle, those slides you used have actually degraded into lecture notes and are thus necessarily worse as presentation material.
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by Perseids 13y ago
I would even argue that XML is not even that human-readable. Take a look at this pom: https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#The_Super_POM . Even with syntax highlighting it is extremely difficult to parse visually. Compare that
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by Perseids 13y ago
The difference is that engineers actually know how to build safe bridges. I feel (and am actually) safe living in a house designed by a single competent architect, but I am not secure using a TLS implementation written by a single competent
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by Perseids 13y ago
True. But the stronger argument is that they would also happen at roughly the same time, as hinted by the fact that many ground breaking innovations were found independently by different scientists once the necessary prerequisites were disc
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by Perseids 13y ago
Definitely worth watching. One other point he made is that the investigation necessary for prosecution would be beneficiary to the country, citing the missing investigation after the torture cases during the bush administration.
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by Perseids 13y ago
Have you never heard of the iterated prisoners dilemma [1]? Besides, the prisoners dilemma assumes there are no penalties for betrayal and that certainly is not the case for international politics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&

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