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by chronial 10y ago
> I was with the author until … It seems excessive to dismiss the whole article just because you disagree on this side-note.
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by chronial 10y ago
The thing that has the shape of a quadtree is the callgraph. That means there is one call for every instance of the data class, which makes it easy to reason about the code. See also my answer to the parent: https://news.ycombina
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by chronial 10y ago
I am following the mathmatical definiton of isomorphism: The two sets are Quadtree instances and calls of `myself`. The map from calls to instances is "instance that was given as argument". This map is obviously bijective. The str
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by chronial 10y ago
There is a modern game with similar gameplay: http://store.steampowered.com/app/303430/
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by chronial 10y ago
I would argue that the thing in your home that's listening to all your conversations is quite clearly closer to a spouse than a friend. But that is a different topic. A murder suspect is just very different from someone who has take
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by chronial 10y ago
> […] that if you're going to take up murder as a hobby […] and right there is the problem. Nowhere in the article does it say that anybody has committed a murder. You are not proposing to strip privacy away from a criminal, but fro
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by chronial 10y ago
Missing in the article: the deposit for PET bottles is 25 eurocents. I am living in Germany and I love the fact that it's rather high. I want to recycle, but I'm also lazy :). Getting an euro for 4 bottles brought back is a nice i
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by chronial 10y ago
I guess it's too late now, but the solution to your Problem would have been to run an X server on your host and connect the gvim in your VM to that.
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by chronial 10y ago
Word 2010 supports ligatures, old-style and lining numbers, kerning and rare and historical letters and ligatures: http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/435x597x...
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by chronial 10y ago
If you can, you should switch to elliptic curve keys – they are less than 256 bytes.
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by chronial 10y ago
90fps gives you 11ms per frame. I have a 20 ms ping to the closest internet servers to me.
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by chronial 10y ago
And it's also why https everywhere is important. If your bank/shop/confidential whatever website isn't accessed via https, you should leave immediately. Once https is close to 100%, browsers could display a warning: &quo
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by chronial 10y ago
Good news, that standard actually exists: http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf
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by chronial 10y ago
https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools solves this by providing pip-sync, which will uninstall removed packages.
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by chronial 10y ago
apt is not cross-platform.
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by chronial 10y ago
That is not the correct question. The correct question is: How much of a percentage do gaming rigs actually constitute of high-end CPU sales. Gamers are willing to pay three times the price for hardware just to get a few percent more perfor
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by chronial 10y ago
You absolutely should – the music made this a lot more awesome :).
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by chronial 10y ago
No, not anything of value: https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/261.html The definition of "money" in that article is simply "any object" :).
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by chronial 10y ago
See wikipedia: > Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a method of computer access control in which a user is only granted access after successfully presenting several separate pieces of evidence to an authentication mechanism - typically
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by chronial 10y ago
If you are not on mobile, you can just select the url and drag it between two tabs on your tab bar to open it.
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by chronial 10y ago
You are probably looking for http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847...
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by chronial 10y ago
But pi isn't a slice of pie – it's half a pie, right?
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by chronial 10y ago
I though that too at first, but they are correct. It looks like this because these are circles on a globe. The outline of a very big circle around a location is the same as the outline of a small circle around the point on the opposite side
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by chronial 10y ago
Even more OT, but: This script is not new at all: https://github.com/git/git/commits/master/contrib/diff-highl...
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by chronial 10y ago
> Everyone has their own strategy of how to place items onto the line to slow down the cashier at just the right moment. I am German and and I've never heard of this ^^. You just put the items on the belt in the order that they shou
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by chronial 10y ago
Couldn't we fix the vestibular mismatch with a tilting chair? Isn't the problem more that the direction of acceleration is incorrect than its magnitude?
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Police chiefs answer to strong encryption row(zdnet.com)
3 points by chronial 10y ago|0 comments
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by chronial 10y ago
How do you randomly generate these passwords?
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by chronial 10y ago
What is new about this, is that it is none of the three things that your quote listed as possibilities. The new thing is a remote storage that has a smartly synchronized local "cache".
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by chronial 10y ago
Yes, that is true. See here for a full explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAnCL3vhVIs

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