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by Pitarou 13y ago
I'm curious to know whether this could be offered to M->F transsexuals.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
We're definitely in "works on my machine" territory here. Still it's good for building your confidence as a programmer, no?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The list of MIME types looks weird, too. There's stuff like "image/zip" in the source code.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Confirmed the SIGCLD problem. I had to change it to SIGCHLD to get it to compile on my Mac.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
It's explained further down: After the last byte of the file is sent, the nweb web server web() function stops for one second. This is to enable the file contents to be sent down the socket. If it immediately closes the socket, some o
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by Pitarou 13y ago
This is not intended for real world usage. Its purpose is to help others learn how web servers work.
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Japan’s whaling “not for scientific purposes,” must cease(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Pitarou 13y ago|0 comments
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I tried implementing a Mersenne Twister, and the numbers I got were completely different from that book. Didn't I use enough entropy? Where can I get some from?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
You're interpretation is quite correct, and this solves the "anybody can create a cryptocurrency" problem. Isn't Satoshi Nakamoto's design brillian!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
And the bot doesn't get the details wrong! I mistakenly wrote "Bill Hammond" instead of "Kristian Hammond" in my TL;DR. (Sorry Kristian.)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
TL;DR A Chicago startup called Narrative Science makes scripts that turn raw data feeds such as seismological data or website analytics into accessible natural language reports. Some news outlets are already using them to get out earthquake
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I've never had a problem, even when writing a 5-page composition in an A3 notebooks. But it's possible that the nibs and inks at my local stationery shop, here in Japan, are a little different to the ones where you are.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
A fountain pen. I grew up using pencils and ballpoint pens. I swore off fountain pens after some frustrating, messy experiences. In hindsight, I think I still lacked the fine motor skills necessary to get the best out of a fountain pen. I t
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The jokes are pretty lame, to be honest. But at least the sound stops when you click on another tab.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
While we're on the subject, we should probably be using control code 16 (Data Link Escape) instead of the backslash character to escape strings. The problem is, of course, that we can't see it (no glyph) and we can't "to
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by Pitarou 13y ago
For the indexing the web question (what data structure should an under-resourced web-crawler use to keep track of visited links?) wouldn't a Bloom filter work better than a trie?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Sorry, I'm getting the terminology wrong. I mean "read from".
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by Pitarou 13y ago
You may well be thinking, "Can it really be that hard to figure out how to open stdin ?" Having just attempted it, I can confirm that it's hard. Shockingly hard. I could have easily failed that test. I consider myself a fair
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I take your point about the value of placebos, but homeopathic practitioners don't have a monopoly on the placebo effect. And homeopathy diverts people from effective medical treatment. This kills people. And these safety incidents are
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What's the Primary Cause of Wealth Inequality? Financialization(charleshughsmith.blogspot.jp)
2 points by Pitarou 13y ago|0 comments
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Please share this with your friends. It's a great chance to show people what a dangerous scam homeopathy really is.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
We can combine the two ideas: Print a trademarked image on top, and then print a digitally signed digest of that image (as a barcode) on that same top. The coffee maker verifies the signature, and verifies that the digest matches the image.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Developer Productivity C/C++ is great for low-level and performance sensitive code, but at the cost of ease of use and a potentially slow compile-test-debug cycle. For instance, in a game engine, the Physics and graphics rendering ar
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That made me stop short, too. When do you ever "only need 10"?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Dogs are hunters, not foragers. They spot movement very well indeed, and a squirrel's hop -- pause -- hop -- pause 　movement style is very easy to recognise.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I quite agree. Ultimately, it's all about the resources. Their budget is more than half that of NASA. The "simple" techniques are enabled by some very sophisticated backend stuff that is just taken for granted in these slides
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by Pitarou 13y ago
TL;DR Our target is using a network. We need access to that network. The sysadmin has the keys to the kingdom. The sysadmin uses Facebook. Through QUANTUM INSERT, we own anybody who uses Facebook. So we just need to figure out the IP addres
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by Pitarou 13y ago
TL;DR Never use anything for anything. These guys make the "professional" hacker gangs look like a bunch of clueless amateurs.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Damn! The one time I quote Betteridge's Law (thanks, hemmer), and it turns out the answer is "yes".
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by Pitarou 13y ago
So far this is just hype, speculation, and an "aspiring science journalist" (says so in the byline) trying to make a name for herself. If she's right, big scoop and plaudits to her. If she's wrong, nobody cares. She cove

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