algorias

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by algorias 14y ago
The name means double-ended queue. That's the reason behind the strange pronunciation.
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by algorias 14y ago
His argument isn't under question here, his civility is. The original quote was a perfect example in that regard.
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by algorias 15y ago
>there's a significant portion of the population who would like to keep it "Swiss." s/significant/vocal and you're closer to the mark. The right wing party here routinely attempts to shift blame of every conceivable problem to the fact
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by algorias 15y ago
>there are non-regular languages that pass the pumping lemma test Can you give an example of that? You may be right, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a language that is not regular but fulfils the pumping lemma.
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by algorias 15y ago
Cpython lists are self-resizing arrays IIRC. That makes lookups O(1), insert / remove at the end O(1) amortized, insert / remove anywhere else O(n). In short: append, extend and pop methods are efficient.
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by algorias 15y ago
Killing a worker early is subject to compound interest, so that 17% (or 10% more realistically) of an early worker kill is going to grow exponentially all game long.
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by algorias 15y ago
Putting it that way without mentioning that it's only 1.4% of the 2073600 pixels available on those same displays is a bit misleading, don't you think?
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by algorias 15y ago
>Using a megabit rates of cryptographically strong random numbers to seed a PRNG would be fine for most purposes. And that's exactly what the hardware described in the article does for you.
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by algorias 15y ago
Would be interesting to try sending in a book with notes on the margins, see if they get preserved.
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by algorias 15y ago
> I understand what you are trying to say, but I don't think it is entirely accurate to say that being able to define any point by a single coordinate is what makes it "one-dimensional." You're missing the fact that several different de
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by algorias 15y ago
Possibly because there's enough of it that it would affect statistical algorithms involving language processing (e.g. google translate)
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by algorias 15y ago
Just to ground the 1M figure in reality: how many users does Dropbox have? How many of those are Linux users?
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by algorias 15y ago
Would be even more interesting to know when the US will be learning from their own mistakes
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by algorias 15y ago
I think we'd be talking about seconds here, not minutes. 1K units might be a lot to update in real time while doing a bunch of rendering etc, but a dedicated sync pause shouldn't really take very long in isolation.
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by algorias 15y ago
Subtle trolling always works best
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by algorias 15y ago
I can attest to that. When I was 9, we moved to another country and I had to learn Spanish from scratch. A year or so later, I still couldn't speak without an accent and still had a small vocabulary, but I vastly outperformed most of my cla
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by algorias 16y ago
...which does not, in fact, suddenly make it acceptable for others to follow suit.
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by algorias 16y ago
I wonder about the usefulness of this. Doesn't the python generator syntax take care pretty well of most use-cases? The first example could have been written like this, which is much simpler and easier to read than both the prefix and infix
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by algorias 16y ago
~$150 billion at its current scarcity-based valuation, you mean.
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by algorias 16y ago
Looks promising, but I'm unsure about the security angle. Google has just added a way for anyone to "DDos" competing websites into oblivion. I hope there are measures in place to prevent that.
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by algorias 16y ago
exec is useful to create a scripting environment inside a GUI application, without the need for separate processes/interpreters. Not without its issues, but works well enough for relatively simple needs.
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by algorias 16y ago
It's interesting (if not disturbing) to see just how big of a gamble Americans are forced to make with their college decision. I'm lucky to live in a country (Switzerland) where college is practically free, making the whole thing a non-issu
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by algorias 16y ago
What about overwriting it with random data?
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by algorias 16y ago
For those interested in creating their own fractals, I've written a GUI editor in python for doing just that: https://launchpad.net/fr0st
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by algorias 16y ago
Which don't work well at all. It's a hard problem, and not nearly close to being solved.
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by algorias 16y ago
Humans will produce culture and luxury instead. We're already halfway there: Think of the percentage of people directly involved in producing first necessities compared to a thousand years ago.
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by algorias 16y ago
> If simple searches yield crappy results, then the user spends more time on the search page revising the search terms and therefore looking at keyword based ads, clicks through a sponsored link, or clicks through to a site filled with
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by algorias 16y ago
Which implies that they're actually taking the SO dumps and adding legitimate value to them.
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by algorias 16y ago
That phone might be doing what I think is a much more obvious solution: Upscaling the actual measurement (clipping at 100% of course)
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PyPy 1.4.1 released(morepypy.blogspot.com)
46 points by algorias 16y ago|6 comments

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