archgoon

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by archgoon 6y ago
I suspect that there is a transition, that happens after high school for some people, where the world goes from a bewildering set of disjointed arbitrary facts that need to be memorized, into comprehensible system that can be understood and
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by archgoon 6y ago
Unfortunately, vim macros don't tend to get implemented when other editors implement keybindings. This is unfortunate, vim macros are fantastic for reformatting text.
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by archgoon 6y ago
Have you tried https://github.com/bootleg/ret-sync ?
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by archgoon 6y ago
You can break a 160 bit EC with a 1000 qubit quantum machine. An equivalent 1024 RSA bit key needs about 2000 qbuits. (The following paper has a cool table and formula for working out how many you need for each) https://arxiv.org
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by archgoon 6y ago
That comment goes off the rails once it starts talking about quantum computers breaking encryption (and only ECC, not RSA). Yes, (real) Quantum computers can break ECC and RSA encryption. I have no idea why they think the NSA (and apparentl
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by archgoon 6y ago
Perhaps. What is your reasoning or evidence?
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by archgoon 6y ago
The General Number Field Sieve[1], referenced in the paper, is believed to have a better asymptotic runtime performance (and has a number of efficient implementations), but it's runtime is not proven. ECM [2](also referenced in the pa
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by archgoon 6y ago
The abstract is correct. A positive integer N is log(N) bits long. If X = log(N), than a algorithm that runs in N^(1/5) will run in 2^(X/5) time.
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by archgoon 6y ago
> with each step it goes towards 0.124999999999 Also known as .125. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999 ...
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by archgoon 6y ago
One option is to simply write end to end tests, and not bother with unit tests at all. This does mean that you don't know if tests are failing because of a new code change or if the world has changed from underneath you. If you want to
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by archgoon 6y ago
If the test was downloading a video; it's not a unit test. I know that the definition gets stretched, but at the very least, a unit test should be deterministic. A test relying on a network communication with a third party system stret
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by archgoon 6y ago
Sounds like they made some significant workflow breaking changes in 2.8. How'd the community react when they rolled out the changes?
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by archgoon 6y ago
> "It's impossible to round up all of them. It's like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble," said Kevin Scheers, of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research. What? why don't they just... > Be
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by archgoon 6y ago
From the abstract: > The sensor consists of three components: (i) a small potentiostat device, (ii) an interface allowing connection to a smartphone for monitoring and control, and (iii) the sensor (an N-doped GrNPs/ePAD and detecti
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by archgoon 6y ago
When the twitter bitcoin attack happened; the attackers deliberately avoided going after the president. Most people know better than to try and kick that beehive.
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by archgoon 6y ago
Isn't this the same problem that money laundering laws have to solve? It's hard, but its not insurmountable.
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by archgoon 6y ago
suyash is basically correct; usage of GPL (any version) licensed software is very heavily scrutinized at Amazon. Explicit exceptions need to be filed for, and are rarely granted. Unless you can make a very strong business case for the softw
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by archgoon 6y ago
> nothing magic about even or odd, just forcing that final check-over to make sure everything adds up. Ah; so a no brown M&M's rule.
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by archgoon 6y ago
> A similar scenario is sceen in India where most antibiotics are available OTC, something "unthinkable" in the US. That seems very dangerous, and extremely bad public health policy. There are major concerns with anti-biotic re
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by archgoon 6y ago
May I be cursed with failures as bad as git.
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by archgoon 6y ago
Also, because it badly models how the error occurred in the first place. It wasn't any one developer who made a mistake, as a comment in the thread makes clear, it was a series of mistakes, made by different people, coupled with poor d
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by archgoon 6y ago
If everyone except the IAU decided to keep calling Pluto a planet, that's just a divergence between technical definitions and popular ones (the latter of which is not well defined). This happens all the time, and it's not particul
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by archgoon 6y ago
This is an odd criticism. JSON, the popular alternative, also has this 'issue'. In fact, almost any non binary solution, like protobufs, will have this issue, as it's a text , not byte, encoding. The reason for outlawing the
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by archgoon 6y ago
> The point of tax evasion is to not break the laws, otherwise it would be called tax fraud. This is not true. Tax Evasion is an illegal activity. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/taxevasion.asp I believe t
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by archgoon 6y ago
Or properly authenticate (and audit) access.
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by archgoon 6y ago
> curious about why a browser based editor is smoother than a native mac one Turns out that browsers have gotten somewhat good at rendering formatted text ;). But yes, a deep dive into the exact rendering pipelines would be quite interes
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by archgoon 6y ago
Apparently; when ARM was first sold to Softbank, Softbank made several guarantees to the UK. Nvidia has made no agreement to continue those guarantees. > At that time, Softbank announced it had agreed to legally binding commitments to in
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by archgoon 6y ago
> Typing 'exit' or 'quit' both result in messages that make it clear that the interpreter knows what you want to do but won't comply out of spite. The interpreter knows no such thing. Both quit and exit are regul
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by archgoon 6y ago
This is largely due to conditioning of over 30+ years of bad error messages. The program exited with error code -2 Error MS1337 occurred Something went wrong. Contact your Administrator Ideally; error codes should provide informa
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by archgoon 6y ago
Looks like they wussed out on coming up with something for 'Q' last year. https://9to5google.com/2019/08/22/android-10-dessert-name/

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