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by arh68 12y ago
Lisp... doesn't really have syntax. S-expressions have syntax: parens, whitespace, symbols, comments. S-expressions are for data. Lisp is a subset of the sexps. Lisp adds just one rule: a Lisp program is an sexp whose root node is a
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by arh68 12y ago
Who's going to maintain the uh, brownlist ?
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by arh68 12y ago
Seems like statements can have both verity (truthiness) and falsity in varying quantities. They might sum to 0, 1, or anything at all. Whether a statement has meaning seems important, too. '2020 will be a rainy year.' does not
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by arh68 12y ago
Remember the days before PNG, before JPEG, when GIFs loaded several times over ? That sure was fun, watching the image get slightly clearer and clearer and then just stop, leaving you wondering about that final level of detail. Back then
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by arh68 12y ago
> Are you arguing that no one saw and thus there was no impact when Wikipedia ran the anti-SOPA blackout? Wikipedia was a notable exception, sure, but OP's got a point: does this have a hope on the Alexa topsites? Comcast's m
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by arh68 12y ago
First you'd want to steal their traffic, then you'd want to steal their customers. You're going to want a few things: a free modern webmail app, a fast & useful map application, a good search tool of course. Reinvent Ad
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by arh68 12y ago
I partly agree. I use 2 microwave buttons: popcorn & +1 minute. I kept my old microwave that had 1 dial (since it's half the controls, same machinery) but I can't put it over the stove. My Vitamix has great controls: a gia
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by arh68 12y ago
I'll cheat and throw out a tip I haven't used yet: apparently if you read man bash long enough, you get to the built-in TCP/UDP sockets! [1] bash$ cat </dev/tcp/time.nist.gov/13 53082 04-03
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by arh68 13y ago
I used to live near the Mixing Bowl [1] (not exactly an inspiration in city planning), so I just wonder how these would hold up under congestion. The mixing bowl proves you can do anything with ramps (& no lights!), but building flat i
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by arh68 13y ago
So I tried installing this on a debian box, did anyone else have issues compiling? I apt-got sbcl, flex, but make failed with "asdf-linguist" not found until I swapped lines 46/47 in the Makefile. Now it looks okay [s
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by arh68 13y ago
I do that too as far as Reddit, but I agree w/ OP. Reddit-style collapsing is useful for reading & skimming but it doesn't persist across browsing sessions. On the other hand, the 4chan UI will hide a thread and all its upd
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by arh68 13y ago
I think the author pretty clearly explained the connection: the arrow of time does not seem to follow from the underlying laws of physics, which work the same going forward in time as in reverse. By those laws, it seemed that
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by arh68 13y ago
How would this have been in the documents? Didn't the documents come first? This came later, I thought. EDIT: ...might've come later. exact timeline probably unknowable.
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by arh68 13y ago
> bulk data collection Including whatever the McDonald's free wi-fi might store? I'm not insinuating they were an actor, but is that how simple it could've been? Anything communicated over unsecure/not-secure-enou
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by arh68 13y ago
> Can a dependent type system catch all type errors at compile time? I'm probably not clever enough, but someone could probably prove that'd be equivalent to solving the halting problem. It seems impossible. > because th
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by arh68 13y ago
That seems like a great idea. Timing attacks work when code tries to be fast, taking shortcuts where possible. There's a reason we talk big-O instead of big-Theta: we gladly accept when an algorithm finishes early. This is, in this
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by arh68 13y ago
Re: low battery, what's that circuit look like? I can imagine a real simple RC discharge/charge circuit (ping/delay) that would behave like that. Of course anything quartz-based would behave very differently.
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by arh68 13y ago
... his take on Impostor syndrome is a bit backwards, too (: > Constantly seeking to produce better work, he apparently exclaimed on his deathbed, "If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years,
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by arh68 13y ago
> From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-
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by arh68 13y ago
Use PwdHash, it only improves the situation. [1] Even a bad password like "123456" turns into "rY9RHtJZ" (for HN). Turning computers off seems weird, but if that computer's got your ssh keys or your cached passwor
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by arh68 13y ago
Stateless programming is what the craze is all about. A lot of programmers grew up on C-style "x = 3;" kind of programming, so to write 500 good lines of code without an assignment operator can be a bit like walking down the st
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by arh68 13y ago
> programming is our way of encoding thought such that the computer can help us with it. I really liked this. But I think we're encoding work , not thought . If I could add to the list of hard problems: cache invalidation, nami
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by arh68 13y ago
Whoa now, if it's evolution, what's the fitness function? It's not fully endogenous. It's market-driven. Network effects & cooperation mean plan9 just ain't gonna see much screen time anymore.
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by arh68 13y ago
If his hosting/dns provider offered a Bitcoin/Dogecoin address you could dump $ 0.02 into, you think that's a step in the right direction? I understand mining fees might not be negligible. Of course Kickstarter is much better
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by arh68 13y ago
Auto-fill-mode and follow-mode are useful. If you write Unicode characters (and don't have a mac) C-x 8 <Enter> is useful, too (tab completion!).
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by arh68 13y ago
I think you're right. I wonder how productive I'd be cancelling my ISP subscription. No flavors of the month, just me, my bookshelf, my compiler. What's frustrating is the complete lack of historical context to most things
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by arh68 13y ago
> I am sorry I've never liked when people lie like that. > your research -- again, your, not mine I presume his/her name appears nowhere on the research papers, then?
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by arh68 13y ago
Business is political. Non-profits are political. That's the connection. What do you see as the difference here?
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by arh68 13y ago
Ah, yes. The TV Cop. They're never wrong, never excessively violent, never need permission to " do their job ", work happily with any TLA, have affairs with coworkers, glamorize the dirty cop, ... I don't think I&#x2
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by arh68 13y ago
If I could rerun this afternoon, what test case should I use? What is a good hash test? Mike says [Typical hash table accesses use a) string keys with b) a high temporal correlation and c) they usually have a high hit-rate or a high miss

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