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by drostie 10y ago
Because the diagrams for hg are very simple, there is a really simple way to do branching that obviously works and commits a relatively forgivable sin: just `cp -a` the folder. Now, I know that that's in essence an admission of defeat!
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by drostie 10y ago
Ahahahahahaha. You think that works! No. That fails with the following semi-helpful error message: remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master remote: error: By default, updating the current b
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by drostie 10y ago
It's astonishing to me that Git has won out given how much easier it's been for me to explain Hg to other people than to explain Git. To this day, in our SVN workflow at my company, nontechnical people who have merely seen a Hg di
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by drostie 10y ago
The way I read it, the bug is something like this: There are three components, one is a Controller which goes out into the world and calculates how we're oriented, the second is basically just a Model in the MVC sense (the IRU). The fi
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by drostie 10y ago
Thanks for the reference! Sounds like it'd be really fun.
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by drostie 10y ago
I would love to work on old cars if I were not living paycheck-to-paycheck. However if I had the free money, well before I started tinkering with old cars, I would probably start scheduling vacations in eastern Africa. I'm not sure wha
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by drostie 10y ago
I guess "regulation" was the wrong word because that gets into the legal aspect of it; I meant purely the programming side, "we won't give you this certificate unless our web app's counter for you hits 52." &qu
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by drostie 10y ago
So, the difference between a "hacker" and an "engineer" has always been this idea that the engineer is designing something which is principled at all levels, whereas the hacker is putting together something which works i
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by drostie 10y ago
Furthermore, this idea that nobody's studying the number-of-blades problem is bogus too. When I worked abroad as a research assistant in the Wind Energy Project Group at the TU Delft (biggest tech university in the Netherlands), one of
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by drostie 10y ago
The etymology here is actually really interesting. The term "tank" was an Americanism for a swimming pool once upon a time, and the etymology of that is pretty well-known: it was imported from a Portuguese word meaning "pond&
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by drostie 10y ago
One of the things that has really changed my thinking about an entire cluster of related questions, and informs this one, is a Bloomberg article from a law professor about a year and a half ago.[1] If you followed the link, skimmed through
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by drostie 10y ago
Caches: https://web.archive.org/web/20160505153552/http://www.russet... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9BEl9sv...
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by drostie 10y ago
Maybe, but you get five tries before you get locked out, so even if your lawyer pleaded successfully with that, the judge could reasonably order that you try with, say, all the fingers of your right hand, or maybe both thumbs and index fing
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by drostie 10y ago
(a) It means he's got a few hundred million dollars stashed away in BitCoin. (b) He can then claim priority as benevolent dictator for life, with a reasonably good chance that the community will follow him. For example, he could probab
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by drostie 10y ago
Um. Yes it does. If you prove that you are not (not Satoshi), then you prove that you're Satoshi. There is this widespread myth that "you can't prove a negative" when, in fact, you can. You might have been meaning to p
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by drostie 10y ago
Most of the "important details" aren't, as far as I can see. The only big thing that the pool adds is plausible deniability: everything else can be simulated by sufficiently complex tumblers; it's just that the vast majo
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by drostie 10y ago
Can someone else confirm to me that I'm not crazy and the central distinction of this article is totally bogus? Reasoning: BitCoin isn't, to my knowledge, a scheme where some private identifier is stored inside each "coin&quo
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by drostie 10y ago
They will be automatically incorporated. To see why, think about this at a much coarser granularity: just people who operate miners. Suppose a new version of the BitCoin software comes out which makes you lose all of your money. Will you sw
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by drostie 10y ago
This needs to be the top comment in this thread; it precisely gets to the heart of what's being said here. I mean, the other criticism is good too--I was trained as a physicist; I too balk when I see quantum mechanics used this way. (I
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by drostie 10y ago
Right, the point would be for the hash to strip out file info, line numbers, whitespace, comments, any stylistic choices which turn out to be equivalent "under-the-hood" in some straightforward way, and probably even the bound var
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by drostie 10y ago
What I want to see in a language would be a bunch of syntactic sugar which corresponds to a MIR like Rust's by a well-specified reduction that is likely to be consistent from build to build. The reason that this could be really cool is
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by drostie 10y ago
I think the archaeologist almost surely meant this and the reporter completely screwed up the story. It would be functionally insane to think that authoritarianism came fundamentally out of a New World archaeological site that is 3000 years
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by drostie 11y ago
Somehow my brain turned off for the logo & the authors and I just started reading the main text. So somewhere in section 5, I started thinking, "Wow, this is great, it's like several talks I've heard from Alan Kay. ... ..
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by drostie 11y ago
I would guess that from his perspective (which may not be what the court decides is the right perspective, of course) he might be thinking something like, "hey, we started this together, I had these 10 ideas, we parted ways because we
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by drostie 11y ago
To be fair, this is actually a problem with the environment that goes way beyond the individual pieces of content, and is one of the reasons that Alan Kay thought that the Internet was professional but the Web was amateurish. Alan Kay'
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by drostie 11y ago
I've often thought that you could give people a huge leg up on calculus if you could first explain to them the discrete calculus, possibly with a programming language like Haskell. It would look like this: We're going to start thi
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by drostie 11y ago
Furthermore, is Namecheap authorized to copy their clients' data by their terms of service? If not, automatic backups may bypass totally-reasonable expectations that other users have. Backups can potentially be a threat vector, for exa
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by drostie 11y ago
Partly. Tsuyoshi Ito's answer on that page is IMO better than the original: `head` mattered at a time when pattern matching didn't exist; but today the only reason to use `head` is to form some sort of pointfree expression operati
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by drostie 11y ago
So the terms are coming from the Buddhist tradition, where there is a category of Buddhist denominations usually (a) valuing the Lotus Sutra (as sort of a central uniting point and/or shibboleth); (b) believing in celestial buddhas and
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by drostie 11y ago
It is; I think it may have been intended as alt-text rather than a caption. It's precisely the sort of description that you'd give to a blind person to describe "here's what this image is, in case you can't see it.&

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