andrewcooke

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by andrewcooke 13y ago
no, not amusing at all. do you have any suggestions for something better (i mainly lurk unless i can answer something obvious)?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
exercise for the reader. compare the information density in this paper to the months and months of useless pissing in the wind on this subject in cryptography@metzdowd.com
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
maybe he'd just like being made to laugh, somehow? i mean - be nice to him, love him. when you are ill, there are times when you are angry and want to fight. and then a friend with ideas on what else to try is useful. but there are
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
"Most people familiar with Roslyn understand that it marks the first real change in compilers in recent memory." and then goes on to describe llvm...
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
is <dm> talking to him(?)self? [edit: i know what bash.org is. but that appears to be a conversation between multiple people all with the same nick.]
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
I've made a conscious effort recently to make more mistakes (my apologies to the people on julia-users). I feel it's improved the rate at which I learn things. And I feel validated by "Antifragile" which I've just
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
do they also have the openbsd ditties? [edit: nope; at least searching for openbsd reveals nothing for your delight: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html ]
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
great! thanks for digging that up.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i use their api to construct my own playlists and am worried too...
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
absolutely nothing on the future of the public api.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
shrug. placebos are pretty powerful. it's a useful tool. since starting meditating regularly i use it quite practically. it helps when you're in an environment with screaming kids, for example. i don't really care if it&
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
"left feet" :o) this is why i can't run fast! also "lose" not "loose", sigh...
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i think she's track? as i said in my comment, every ms patient is different, but in my experience you need to be running on pretty flat ground because you're basically relying on rhythm (it says this in the article too - restarti
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
huh. i have ms and run. i have not noticed this, although i do have problems "restarting" (when you stop and then need to start running again, it's hard when you're tired). i admit i've never pushed myself to the
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i guess maybe now is a good time to repeat this request - does anyone know of a good, recent book that describes how to write correct, modern c++ using the latest standards and staying with the subset of the language that expert users recog
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
assuming you know what a vm is... vagrant is a manager for vms. it lets you manage vms (by default on virtualbox, but you can use other vm hosts too). docker is a manager for linux containers. linux containers are linux only and a bit lik
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i thought the leak had been happening for years? wouldn't they already be laundered? and hasn't this happened already? someone did steal coins and was tracked for a while. how did that work out?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
> thousands of lives have been destroyed is this sarcasm? i don't understand the tone. that part seems to be sarcastic yet the rest seems to be straight.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
what kind of meditation needs (or is helped) by this? i kind-of do mindful meditation (i'm no expert) and this would be just one more piece of sensory data to acknowledge and then largely ignore. if you're doing "concentrativ
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Finite Fields in Julia (Defining Your Own Number Type) (acooke.org)
6 points by andrewcooke 13y ago|1 comments
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i posted this in another thread, but just as it slipped off front page. http://feministing.com/2014/02/20/toward-a-nuanced-feminist-... it's a good description of what's happening (i know this is HN
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
if anyone is still reading this thread, i found this link had a pretty good description of what i happening (i don't live in venezuela, but i do live in chile and the link below sounds reasonably consistent with the kind of thing i hav
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
just leave. i did, a few months back, and i have more free time and less stress. really; it's not worth the aggro.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
that's not really what he's saying. he's saying that adding structure for speed also tends to add structure for breaking. practical, modern crypto (in my limited understanding) seems to be increasingly about choosing the rig
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i feel for you. all those people who aren't exactly like me drive me crazy too.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
why is uneven roasting bad? if you want complexity in the coffee wouldn't a variety of roasts give variety / depth of flavours? is there some technical reason while all beans should be roasted the same?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
wish i'd known about this earlier. when i didn't get something i assumed i had to work harder. didn't realise i was supposed to blame the teacher. damn.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
why is osx support necessary on the path to 1.0? i'd rather have a simple, small, 1.0 release i can trust than all these "bells and whistles".
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
it's like a vm, but it's much lighter (runs faster / uses less cpu, memory and disk). it does that by re-using the host kernel. so you are forced to have the same kernel in your client as in your host, and that has to be li
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
can someone please send me my payment? thanks.

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