Sniffnoy

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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Exactly. I mean, I don't know the exact history of when the name "a.out" got transferred to the format, but I have to assume that it wasn't until there was something to contrast it with.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
No, you've got it backwards. The format is called that because it was the format of the a.out file.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/1101917885100945409
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The point is that refusing to trade with someone because they said something you don't like is not a good way to make money, and as such, one way or another, companies wouldn't take such measures were it not for the government&#x2
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
But it's not Chinese companies that go around making these threats -- it's the Chinese government with their ability to control those companies or cut off access to them. Same old monopoly on violence that's doing this, just
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I really don't like the interface here. It is way too easy to accidentally hit the wrong button and spoil what you're doing. I had to delete my cookies for the page in order to get around the "no going back" after I ac
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Closed form O(1) solution? Using Binet's formula, if that's what you mean, is not O(1), for a number of reasons. Firstly, exponentiation is not constant-time. Secondly, how are you going to do it to the necessary precision? Ar
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Yup, he meant 10 milliKelvin: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4121#comment-1804067
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Huh, usually I've seen "M" used to refer to MUMPS. But this appears to be something else -- I guess something proprietary, like you said. I have to wonder where one would look it up, as I imagine searching for information o
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Huh, I hadn't heard of these fish table games before. For anyone else who also hadn't, here's an interesting article on them that explains them: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/znm8zx/w
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
This is a confusion. One's own decisions are part of the physics that relate the present to the future. Basically you're doing a half-correction here; you're taking the naive view that one's decisions are something s
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Apologies for being flip, but: The future isn't hypothetical. It's very real. It just isn't here yet.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/particle-physics-ma...
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Do you know what changed regarding 23, 25, and 35, and why it was at the time considered correct to pass them, but now considered correct to fail them?
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Note that legally speaking you didn't actually need to do that -- if they're there with your consent, it's not adverse possession.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I think the question is intended to be, "How does the owner presently receive farm subsidies if the land isn't registered and we don't know who owns it?"
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The dictionary will tell you only tell you about words, not the reality that the words are meant to reflect. You cannot deduce, from what word a thing is called, whether that thing is good or bad. You must address the thing itself, and no
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
As other commenters have pointed out, this is backwards. The unsolvability of the halting problem says that there is no one algorithm that can tell you whether an arbitrary Turing machine will halt. But for special types of Turing machi
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Note, this comment could really use the context option: https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/ace2m3/...
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Well, I can't tell you low-hanging fruit that's still out there, because if I knew it, I'd be working on it instead of telling you. :) But I can tell you some low-hanging fruit that I've done! I'll stick to just on
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I'm not sure how much the fine print matters if it fails basic fit-for-purpose standards. Regarding irrationality -- see e.g. this[0] Shamus Young post about the video game industry. IMO, this general sort of irrationality is everywhe
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
That argument seems to rely on the existence of a principal-agent problem that isn't present in the case of consumers buying cars, though.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I mean, it's cleaner if you do it not for real numbers but rather for sets of whole numbers (which are of course in bijection with the reals). Then you can offload all such fiddliness to that one bijection, rather than dealing with it
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Yes. "Meagre" means small. Which is what a first-category set is, but the name "first category" doesn't tell you that (how is one supposed to remember which of first and second category is which?). And then after
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
A terminology note, I think "first category"/"second category"/"residual" have largely been replaced by the clearer "meagre"/"non-meagre"/"comeagre". Or at lea
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
What this article doesn't answer is, when it talks about the green soldermask being physically superior, is that only because it's had more R&D put into it due to being popular, or would it actually be the best regardless?
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I mean, these are related. If Tesla cars aren't safe for the people inside, people won't buy them. If they're not safe for others, lawsuits will follow. Bad for these are bad for shareholders too. But certain people will
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Yeah, but this is Larry Ellison we're talking about. Do you want to trust his idea of "good for shareholders"?
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I think the grandparent comment just switched some words around. I think it's meant to be read as "To operate even a 100% mobile business...". I.e., these restrictions apply even if your business is 100% mobile.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Arriv%C3%A9e_d'un_train_en_g...

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