TheLoneWolfling

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1. 961.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   You can bring it back as a liquid. (Classical, not superfluid) Boil-off would be a problem, however. (If you want to get fancy, you bring back a He4 tank and a refrigerator, keeping the He3 liquid by boiling He4 into space) Liquid He4 has a
2. 962.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   Well... you cannot call free on them, unless I'm mistaken. But other than that it's as normal. (This could be a problem if you want to call library code that frees a supplied pointer)
3. 963.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   Certificate pinning helps with Github, but doesn't help with <random website that I've never visited before>. (Still doesn't help if the software package itself - that is the canonical copy - is malicious - but prevents
4. 964.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   If you're going to use a parallel port, use a resistor ladder and make a crude DAC out of it.
5. 965.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   ...Piping wget into bash? Really? NO. (I mean, at least it's HTTPS, but still.)
6. 966.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   I think that you'd end up with neurological effects before the electrons were ripped out of atoms. I mean, our nervous system is effectively controlled ionic exchange.
7. 967.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   And this is one of the major reasons why Java is regarded as verbose. There's a simple solution (have the compiler transparently rewrite references to x.foo to x.getFoo / x.setFoo and transparently add getFoo/setFoo - the JVM
8. 968.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   > Oops, the user entered their email as [email protected] instead of [email protected]? Or [email protected] instead of [email protected]? ... > when presented with a login dialog, like to rapidly type > [email protected], tab, p4
9. 969.▲
   by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

   Checksum issue?
10. 970.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    > Out of 79 valid style properties (not counting vendor prefixes) the author found 372 in use What were the most common invalid style properties?
11. 971.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    At which point the thief takes the phone into a basement of an office complex or something. Somewhere with no cell reception. Even wrapping the phone in (grounded) tinfoil would probably work.
12. 972.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    Ditto with coil whine on laptops. (Not same brand.) My laptop is noticeably whiny a large chunk of the time. Seems to predominantly occur when scrolling image-heavy webpages, or graphics demos with no framerate limiters, but happens other t
13. 973.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    Also: adding features that expand the range of potential hacking attempts. I'm looking at you, wireless credit cards and cars with cellular phone connections. Airgaps are not the be-all and end-all, but they certainly help. (I have a f
14. 974.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    Expert mode: Make the discrete-component circuit to do this inside the logic gate. (Especially hard as there are components that physically cannot be made small enough (large caps / inductors, etc))
15. 975.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    "Just" use a hex grid. (And then have fun with your raycasting)
16. 976.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    >>> True = False SyntaxError: can't assign to keyword ...
17. 977.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    At least tests 3, 4, 5, 6, the first 3 cases of test 7, the first and third cases of test 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 cases 1 and 2, 22, the first two cases of 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 tests 2 and 4, 30, and 32 can be optimized without this is
18. 978.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    These all seem like simple peephole optimizations to me. So why doesn't the Python compiler (and yes, Python has a compiler) do these optimizations? (I am aware that some of these are not in fact equivalent, but at least some of them a
19. 979.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    Yep, you can do that 8 more times, total. And you can't reuse a fingerprint if an account that you use a fingerprint as the user account for has been compromised.
20. 980.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    That would work, iff there was not a way to show that a particular person owned a particular username. However, I cannot think of any way to prevent that. ...But given the ease of getting someone's fingerprint I'm not sure if this
21. 981.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    You won't be able to carry over games purchased, true. But you can create a new account. You can't even do that much with fingerprints.
22. 982.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    It's not even a good username. You can change usernames as often as you wish. Kind of hard to do that with your fingerprint.
23. 983.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    I see no indication of uptime on that page? > Detected OS = Windows 7 or 8 > HTTP client = Firefox 10.x or newer (User-Agent string seems legit) > Network link = DSL > Distance = 10 > Language = English
24. 984.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    CISC is rapidly becoming a requirement, however. Power requirements scale as the square of the frequency, and also, perhaps even more importantly, leakage power, and hence, heat generated per unit area, increases as the process size decreas
25. 985.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    In which case, as I said, just use a lookup table, which is constant-time under those same constraints, and has the bonus of automatically caching frequently used values for you. And as the Fibonacci sequence is exponential, any lookup tabl
26. 986.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    (Slightly tangential) > I have recently read an article about calculating the Nth Fibonacci number in O(log N) arithmetic operations. Either you assume fixed-precision integers, in which case you just use a lookup table and call it O(1),
27. 987.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    Salts can mitigate brute-force attacks in the specific case that the salt is stored separately from the hash (and only one is leaked).
28. 988.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    So where does one find robotics programming jobs? Because that mostly sounds familiar.
29. 989.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    Regarding 1, although a single data point does not a trend make, I will say that I switched away from Firefox due to multiple UI changes and removing customization options. I switched to Pale Moon. In other words, personally, you are incorr
30. 990.▲
    by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

    Or worse, until it reaches a certain temperature you did simulate and exhibits a bug only at that temperature.