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by chowells 8y ago
Of course it wouldn't have. None of them died from counting votes.
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by chowells 8y ago
I see a flaw with that prng scheme. Since AES is reversible, the 128-bit blocks that make up the output cannot repeat. The output is a permutation of distinct 128-bit blocks. Early in the sequence that only matters a tiny bit, but the longe
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by chowells 8y ago
Does it contain itself?
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by chowells 8y ago
There are rattlesnakes everywhere in areas I've lived all my life. I've never seen a live one. They do not seek human interaction. About the only way you'll get bitten by one is if you reach into a hole one is trying to sl
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by chowells 8y ago
OK, I read your link. I don't see anything in it matching your claims. What I see is a list of dogwhistles being called out as dogwhistles. If you have a complaint based on actual behaviors, they'll still investigate it. What they
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by chowells 8y ago
> The problem with codes of conduct is that many of them contain pro-harassment carve-outs, for vaguely defined groups like "marginalized peoples". They specifically enshrine harassment against by some groups onto other groups.
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by chowells 8y ago
No. "deep state" is a conspiracy fantasy used by some voters to blame someone else for the obvious consequences of voting for people and policies which destroy things they were relying on to survive. It's not possible that
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by chowells 8y ago
Haskell's type system still isn't sound. It just elimates that particular class of errors. A lack of soundness is closely related to the Turing completeness, especially in languages based on HM. In an ideal world you would want a
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by chowells 8y ago
It's why MSR has employed him for almost as long as he's been working on GHC. Not specifically to work on Excel, but to have him help integrate ideas from GHC into Microsoft products. And I've got to say, they made a great c
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by chowells 8y ago
That's not how interviews work. You are not alone in the room being judged by an all-seeing eye. You are talking to a human, and each of you is evaluating whether you want to work with the other. As an interviewer, I'm always happ
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by chowells 8y ago
> > How many people can actually write BFS on the spot, without preparing for it in advance? > Ughhh, should I tell him? Yeah, that's where I stopped reading. This isnt specialized knowledge. If you know how to program, you ca
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by chowells 8y ago
That's not true in the US, anymore. You can just hit enter when prompted for a PIN, and everything proceeds as if you provided the correct PIN. Try it out next time you go shopping! I wish I could find the news story that alerted me to
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by chowells 8y ago
gmp is not exact. It's just arbitrary-precision. There's a very large difference. Exact arithmetic handles numbers like pi with infinite precision. When you use gmp, you pre-select select a constant for pi with a precision k
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by chowells 8y ago
In fact, as discussed in another thread, it's the optimal representation for many purposes. The only problems are that some languages over-privilege them to the point where it's difficult to use alternatives, and some programmers
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by chowells 8y ago
That's generally a good complaint about "just fork it", but there are some additional factors here. One - every Ethereum update is a soft fork of the protocol Two - they are required to be soft forks by the very existence of
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by chowells 8y ago
If the miners ever have a serious disagreement with the core developers, they can always remove the difficulty bomb in a fork. The purpose of the difficulty bomb is to force some update, not to force the core developers' preferred upda
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by chowells 8y ago
I have an idea to test, but I don't have the kind of electronics background to construct the necessary rig affordably. Or possibly to identify it if one exists already. Here's my thought: connect a laser to a high frequency switch
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by chowells 8y ago
Wow. There's some truth in there, but a lot of nonsense. Especially in the analogies. If you can't see the difference between 60Hz and 144Hz when a small object (mouse pointer) is moving quickly against a static background, you&#x
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by chowells 8y ago
Oh, not the button it offers to try again. That button is junk. Hit reload on your browser. That works every time, at least in my experience.
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by chowells 8y ago
That rate limit isn't about pay walls. It's just twitter's desire to force mobile users to use their app. Every single time a mobile user goes to a non-mobile Twitter url, they will hit that "error". Given that it&#
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by chowells 8y ago
The correct sort for that situation is a most-significant-digit-first variant of a radix sort. Arrange the documents into 10 piles based on hundreds digit. Pile up all of them except the zeroes, then sort the zeroes recursively. Then pull t
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by chowells 8y ago
Well, yes, those first couple paragraphs are the data. Everyone, even those who disagree with you, are aware of that. But people who disagree with you have considered other things, too. One such thing is the question of whether income is ge
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by chowells 8y ago
What part of "anyone can force you to do business with them" sounds like freedom to you? Don't payment vendors and hosting platforms have freedom? Part of freedom is the responsibility to accept consequences of your actions.
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by chowells 8y ago
It's a tradeoff. You get that advantage, but then you open yourself up to phishing attacks that browser plugins avoid by checking the domain. My ideal would be a browser plugin that sends the domain, and nothing more, to a standalone
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by chowells 8y ago
I wonder if the author realizes Turing machines can be partial halting oracles. SAT/SMT solvers do that job pretty well over most of the same problem space as humans. And any technique humans invent can be added to a solver to use as w
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by chowells 8y ago
Types are really good documentation. I can tell I'm not deluded by thinking so because I can sit down with a Haskell library containing zero examples and write code that uses it . If your assertion was correct, that would be impossibl
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by chowells 8y ago
Only if you assume that the classical counterparts of it are optimal. There's no proof of that.
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by chowells 8y ago
One release of the GHC Haskell compiler, long ago, had a bug where it put all your source files in the list of build artifacts it had created. When GHC ran into a type error, it deleted all its build artifacts from the current run. There ar
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by chowells 8y ago
Enumerating all badness is an impossible task. Ask anyone who's worked on any security product. You have 3 options. 1. Try anyway. End result - you are overrun by rules-lawyer trolls. 2. Try to enumerate good things instead. End result
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by chowells 8y ago
Americans use the letter 'u' for the 'u' sound. (Hahaha, contradicted myself within one word.) Anyway, I am reminded of an exchange in the comments of Language Log. A British actor wanted to practice American rhotic acc

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