bograt

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by bograt 7y ago
In a similar vein, this is an encoding I designed specifically for 256 bit keys; my design includes checksumming and some consideration to consistent verbalization: https://github.com/tomgibara/keycode
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by bograt 7y ago
I have been using a technique that's almost identical to this for years, based simply on observing that the roots are symmetric around the min/maximum: differentiate, set to zero, then difference of squares. This cannot be an unre
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by bograt 8y ago
This doesn't invalidate the point you're making, but saying that it's 'basically impossible to play a wrong note on a diatonic harmonica' is simply false, as anyone hearing me play one will attest to.
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by bograt 8y ago
> I don’t think the government did anything wrong. I think that rather depends on whether you regard the role of government here to assist its (future) citizens, or censure them (narrowly avoiding arrest and detention in this case) for w
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by bograt 8y ago
> For AR though we need multiple apps to share the same 3D space all running at the same time This is something that I've given some practical thought to. The approach that I considered was to treat each application process as a cli
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by bograt 8y ago
> Perhaps, but if anything the UK's own government and press were major offenders in this regard. It's quite possible that this behaviour by the UK political classes is what hastened to movement towards Brexit. I personally thi
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by bograt 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand this, and I'm genuinely interested in why it would be. I find zero indexing logical: zero is the first natural number and is thus a fine candidate for being the first ordinal. In my experience most mathem
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by bograt 8y ago
I have to concede that I still talk in this now outmoded manner. I have to make a conscious effort to switch to modern gender neutral language (eg. they) when speaking or writing to anyone outside my family and friends. > English languag
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by bograt 8y ago
> The solution to this paradox was to use a set of axioms (most commonly the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms) which do not allow the construction of such a contradictory set ... Or one can adopt a non-well-founded set theory that admits such a s
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by bograt 9y ago
That's a fair comment. I hadn't considered that perspective. I'm aware of several TLDs that require evidence of residency/trade within the geographic region for the purpose of registration, but I don't think any of
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by bograt 9y ago
I don't think that is true. From section 2 of the commission's notice: ... as of the withdrawal date ... the Registry for .eu will be entitled to revoke such domain name on its own initiative and without submitting the dispute to
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by bograt 9y ago
Those who want the UK to remain in the EU will see this as just one damaging consequence of the UK's decision to leave. Conversely, Brexiteers will see this as an example of maladministration by an EU bureaucracy, and another demonstra
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by bograt 9y ago
Having quickly read the paper, the deletion guarantees seem slightly weak. An item's position in the table is derived from two things: a fingerprint (a constant-sized hash) and second hash (ranging over the table). Nothing prevents two
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by bograt 9y ago
I'm familiar with both cuckoo hashing and Bloom filters but had not until now seen a demonstration of cuckoo filters; they look very useful. But there is one stated fact that I'm finding hard to believe: > Cuckoo filters improv
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by bograt 9y ago
It took me hours to beat that game, I often had to leave it running while I got on with other tasks, but I enjoyed it greatly, though I didn't have the appetite to play through the next universe. The way it leads you in with a simple &
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by bograt 9y ago
In Java there are libraries for this (as with most things): https://github.com/tomgibara/permute
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by bograt 10y ago
> Most public transport revenue also comes from the capital This is incorrect. 40% of 'Transport for London' (TfL) spending comes from fares, and approx. 27% from government [0]. That represents a real cash subsidy of £3.1B per
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by bograt 11y ago
My own observation is that programmers have a marked tendency to assume that because two methods have similar or identical behaviour, that this implies they should share an implementation. In large code bases, its common to find methods tha
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by bograt 11y ago
I broadly agree with this, but draw a slightly different conclusion: that the imperative when growing a large code base is proper tooling/planning for dependency management. If good dependency management is cheap , programmers will
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by bograt 11y ago
The problem with this analysis is that, if such a course of "ever-extending copyright protections" were pursued, it would run the 'well of creativity' dry. The 'creative commons' is a recognition that cultural
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by bograt 11y ago
I don't accepts axiom 1 as valid. 1. The mapping between DOM content and Visible content should be well-behaved. I don't see why the same edit, applied to two documents with visually identical renderings, should again produ
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A Brief History of Microdosing(motherboard.vice.com)
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by bograt 11y ago
I have experience of developing large software systems for both government and corporations, in the UK. Large IT systems fail in many ways, small and large and I don't think it's possible to isolate a single root cause but I do ha
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by bograt 11y ago
IANAL but I've been chewing my way through the ~300 pages of the published draft bill. What catches my attention is that the bill appears does not appear to sufficiently constrain the Secretary of State's powers to oblige a "