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by drostie 9y ago
That's 100% accurate but the parent post is clearly about EV certs attempting to provide added trust/identity beyond what's needed for the privacy provided by TLS, and it's skeptical that that's happening. A more-SS
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by drostie 9y ago
This is really funny, but it's a bit of a time investment and the early sections don't really hint at the awesomeness to come. The most emotionally gripping anecdote for me, in short form: they got really cocky and promised the mo
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by drostie 9y ago
For what it's worth, it prevents you from negotiating an agreement that you were not going to win anyways. ISPs are an oligopoly in their present state. If they weren't, then it might make sense to deregulate, but since they are,
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by drostie 9y ago
The L1 point is a saddle point in the local effective potential: it is therefore not stable enough for an object to stay there without station-keeping. So yes, the goal here would indeed be to detect life capable of creating large structure
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by drostie 9y ago
There are indeed a lot of competing ones. Highly recommended: • CIS 194 @ UPenn, https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/ • Haskell Programming from first principles, http://haskellbook.com/ • R
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by drostie 9y ago
A block chain is a similarly verifiable append-only log and map. However, block chains loosen the restriction of "trust this other singular party but verify what they have done" and broaden that to, "trust the majority of nod
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by drostie 9y ago
I think that will be the tasting necessary to prove this pudding. I would also point out that you do have parse errors in your scheme (incorrect indentation errors) and that parse errors are not actually a bad thing (if you think about stat
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by drostie 9y ago
ES6 is JavaScript.
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by drostie 9y ago
It's the latter. The JSON encoding example is actually a really bad example for this language because there is a huge class of JSON which it cannot easily be seen to encode, though you can probably make some exceptions. An example of t
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by drostie 9y ago
I... think some humility would serve you well. You are making some very audacious claims about the data structures, -- rose tree storing data on internal nodes rather than leaves data AugmentedRoseTree x = ART {node :: x, children
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by drostie 9y ago
I think that the original article made it clear that it was a correlation, not a causation. There is probably some underlying cause to both trends, something like "there are people who tend to be really ticked off about 'this oper
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by drostie 9y ago
Yes. Oh my god yes. So there is this HUGE part of biophysics that we completely isolate all of the undergraduate students from, with these pretty videos where one machine magically swims out to exactly where it's supposed to go and the
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by drostie 9y ago
I did something similar with a project for Node.js called nermal[1], which comes with an example called `tagaloop` that I still use to store my passwords. Even though it had a bit larger of a scope (it is a library for encrypting/decry
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by drostie 9y ago
This is a solid question and it's worth an answer. There's kind of four things I want to get to: 1. the hardware is highly varied; 2. there are some fundamental operations which any hardware is going to have to be a quantum comput
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by drostie 9y ago
"String theory."
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by drostie 9y ago
TeX is a joke. I mean, it's not a joke for its intended purpose; that's fine. It typesets the #$@! out of documents. But TeX is a joke for mathematical notation in particular. Put another way: the best way to understand what an ar
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by drostie 9y ago
So the transform is what we'd write as a matrix as: [-4 -6] [ 3 5] This matrix corresponds to the following linear transform: if you hand in the pair (x, y) it gives you the pair T(x, y) = (-4x - 6y, 3x + 5y). The word
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by drostie 9y ago
As mentioned beneath, the comment was secretly fixated on the 'stored procedures' side and not the 'prepared statements' side. Stored procedures have many costs associated to them; for example, they don't get versio
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by drostie 9y ago
I asked the ##math chat room on Freenode about cohomology recently, more precisely I expressed that it was for me the scariest math-word-that-I-don't-know-yet, and I received the explanation "it isn't that scary once you get
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by drostie 9y ago
I think you're maybe expecting much more than you should, which is why you think that "the language of bugs also serves to mask what the issue is" (it doesn't; both are deep-dives into the causation of unexpected behavio
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by drostie 9y ago
The word "this" is key, and the reasoning why it's this unknown, and not, say, our unknowns about the arrow of time or whatever -- see also my comments below. If you're going to stay in the realm of normal conventional
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by drostie 9y ago
Your frustration in your first sentence I would equate to a general human frustration that we all feel when we see our own sins reflected in others -- you don't back up your claim so you get mad at me for not backing up my claim. I cou
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by drostie 9y ago
That's kind of the modus operandi of physics, I suppose. Max Planck started from a specific conclusion, that the spectrum of the Sun is limited at high frequencies in ways that Maxwell's theory clearly is not, and then searched
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by drostie 9y ago
Downvoted because Penrose does not actually commit this fallacy, therefore naming it after him is something of a cheap shot, an excuse to not actually engage with his ideas.
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by drostie 9y ago
To be a bit playful, there is a sort of "Magic: the Gathering" version of this dissent, if it helps people. So a Conviction is basically a type of enchantment which says you have 3 fewer life points and trouble getting a job. Now
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by drostie 9y ago
You're not wrong, if the only verb is `c.expand()`. In Haskell you would write: -- omitting the definitions as trivial... cmdline (Suite box (Compiler cmd _ out_opt) (Test binary sources)) = intercalate " "
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by drostie 9y ago
It seems like the wheel problem could be solved by a dowel rod that would keep things rolling along until they fell over? I suppose that unfortunately gives another way for the thing to get clogged up? I'm surprised that this strategy
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by drostie 9y ago
Yep, you got it. The trick happens entirely during that fan-out of cards that Penn and Teller are inserting into. The trick is that Kostya's bottom hand is not a passive receptacle but is actively reaching out underneath the deck to gr
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by drostie 9y ago
Oh man, that is devious . You can just barely see the finger-work from the camera's perspective; but Penn and Teller didn't stand a chance.
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by drostie 10y ago
Right, in text adventure games it is very easy to code a one-way door (e.g. "your brother Ralph has been kidnapped!") and a door which requires a key (e.g. "if you have the voodoo doll you can give it to Alice, who will then

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