SAI_Peregrinus

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by SAI_Peregrinus 12y ago
It's already open-source.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 12y ago
Most of my "internal monologue" is visual. I see things. Language enters into it when needed, but it's much less common for me.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 12y ago
You claim that the existence of minds is just a hypothesis. If that's so, what thought the thoughts which lead to your post? An entity capable of thought IS a mind, and the existence of thought is the only certain thing. Something is t
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by SAI_Peregrinus 12y ago
Either way the limits are so far out from the computational capability of humans in the forseeable future (next few hundred years) that they're both massive overkill. When you really NEED that much security you have to worry about the
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by SAI_Peregrinus 12y ago
This does not need an article. "It leaked out of Satan's pustules." is plenty.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13y ago
IANAL, but I'd take that as a non-legally binding statement, as it merely specifies that the documentation should be specific enough to make a clean-room implementation possible, not that such implementations are allowed.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13y ago
True, but there are some algorithms that allow you to combine a domain name with a single password and get a good unique password out. Unfortunately it's hard to compute bcrypt hashes in your head.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13y ago
Especially because /dev/random's ability to block when it doesn't have enough entropy is dependent on accurate entropy estimation. Since the entropy estimator isn't accurate (it can't be, it's an undecidab
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13y ago
While the original phrase was FUBARed, the common use of "foo" and "bar" as placeholder variables has lead to programmers using foobar instead. Of course foo and bar come from FUBAR, just using 3 letters for each.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13y ago
One of my favorite programming tutorials is "Write Yourself A Scheme." It's not "Here's the language, here's the API, etc" it's "Let's accomplish this task. Here's some documentation. H
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13y ago
Hey! They also have Baroque and Renaissance music, not just classical!