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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Given that this is a 16-bit computer (rather than, say, an 18-bit one), why are they describing things in octal rather than hex...?
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
That's not what's being discussed here; the above comments talk about whether it's guaranteed that the first click is not a mine , not that it's not adjacent to a mine. As far as I'm aware, just about every vers
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Mister Softee famously has a trademark on its jingle and will sue other ice cream trucks using it; I wonder if they get their music boxes from elsewhere or whether they just have Nichols make them a special box?
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Thanks, that answers the question.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
A question I've had for a while: Is there some reason the entire set of Unicode reference glyphs can't be used as a last-resort font? Sure, this would render various things wrong (e.g. Arabic, although Arabic is common enough tha
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
What is the new rule, for those of us not familiar?
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Hm, wouldn't the proper way to defend against such mutation attacks be to run parse-then-serialize in a loop until the output stabilizes? And throw some sort of error if it takes too many iterations. Only after stabilization would yo
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
This isn't the browser's network timeouts, this is the JavaScript function setTimeout() which can be used in scripts and which, as mentioned, takes an argument in milliseconds. Chrome needs to be able to support whatever setTimeo
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Oh ha. That is like, just about the latest that could happen, I imagine...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
When did this happen? It's hard to imagine this happening anytime in, say, the past 15 years...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Question: Is there some reason the entire set of Unicode reference glyphs can't be used as a fallback font? Sure, this would render various things wrong (e.g. Arabic, although Arabic is common enough that you're likely to have a
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
More straightforwardly, you can escape it with a backslash, pretty sure.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
It's much simpler than that. (Also, you appear to have a few concepts mixed up. For instance, one doesn't execute smart contracts, but rather transactions. Smart contracts just sit there until someone sends a transaction to one
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
It encodes two bytes per code point; the encoding of that code point may be longer than two bytes. (Indeed it mentions that it's optimized for UTF-32.) It accomplishes having the full 2^16, while only using safe characters, by not re
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Non-mobile link: https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/pqc-...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
It really bugs me that people refer to this glitch as a wrongwarp even though it's ACE, not a wrongwarp...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Yes, pill bugs are also isopods.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
There's no pseudocode in the article. There's Solidity (what the contracts are written in) and there's Javascript (what the rescue script is written in).
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
> In the 2017 eclipse, changes in light intensity were attributed to bees going temporarily still. This sentence is backwards...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Non-mobile link: https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Anyone know when this article was written? I'm pretty sure I've read it before, but there's no date on it. Edit: Checking the Wayback machine, it seems to be from 2016.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Hm, wouldn't this require an overturning of Atari vs. Nintendo[0] or something like that? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_... .
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
> You're assuming that women and men are on equal footing, physically. When you politely ask someone to stop invading your space, it's backed by your ability to push them out of it. Disagre; it's generally backed by one&#x
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
One bit of awfulness the article missed: Rather than scanning for the username and then checking whether the password is correct, it scans for a match on both username and password. So if you have the right username but the wrong passwor
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I'm confused though -- how can the plant possibly shift this?
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I'm confused though -- how can the plant possibly vary this?
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
That's only worse than random chance if the base rate of having bombs (among people ending up in Guantanamo Bay, anyway) is more than 1/3. Were you assuming it would be 1/2 or something? I don't see any reason to concl
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
But this suggests a way to defeat the cloak -- run your input through image similarity search, then run your facial recognition software on the hits. This won't work in full generality, not every picture is on the internet like that,
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I'm confused -- how do I flag? Right-clicking seems to just bring up the right-click menu. Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. You click on the flag up top to switch between flagging and clearing.

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