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by eck 15y ago
State machines should be force-fed simply because they are the simplest computational model, and if they are sufficient for a task, to use something more complicated would be illogical. Indeed, in computer science school, they generally a
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by eck 15y ago
It's possible. There are parallels between main memory and disks. A disk seek gets you hundreds or thousands of bytes and requires (blocking for) millions of cpu cycles; a cache line fill gets you 64 (sometimes) bytes and requires (spinni
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by eck 15y ago
Everyone here seems sure that "Black & Berg" is an actual security company that issued a challenge and actually intended to pay someone money. Does anyone have any independent sources on that? Just from the look of the site, it seems s
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by eck 15y ago
I've programmed both, though, not a PIC for many years now... PICs are just weird . The AVR is a pretty typical Harvard RISC: 32 registers, memory load/store, direct/indirect jumps, stack pointer pointing at ram, etc. It's still 8/16 bit,
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by eck 15y ago
I'm a bit confused by the usage of "percolation". Generally speaking that refers to, in a tiered retrieval system, a document being initially indexed in a small temporary index then gradually "percolated" upwards to larger more permanent i
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by eck 15y ago
If it were acceptable to infringe a trademark for a few months and make $130k, and the only consequence was being forced to stop, a lot of people would think (correctly) that doing so is a profitable activity. Apple is demonstrating that i
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by eck 15y ago
He sold a product with the trademarked Apple logo on it without authorization from Apple, and they're protecting their trademark. How is this a story? Is there a trademark exception for being a kid? No. Is there a trademark exception for
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by eck 15y ago
Section 1.1.1: "Data transmitted over a network, whether wired or wireless, is susceptible to passive monitoring." Translation: We don't like those creeps on the other side of the building either.
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by eck 15y ago
I'm confused; in the example, couldn't he avoid the filesort entirely by just adding an key on t2.t1id? Is it really optimal to be sorting the whole table -- no matter how optimally -- on any common serving path?
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by eck 15y ago
To me, the interesting question would be, were a private citizen to build a tracking device and attach it to an FBI vehicle, would they have a problem with that? My guess is they would arrest you and figure out something to charge you with
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by eck 15y ago
Domains seem sort of like property but on some level are really speech. Were the NY Times to write an article that said, "The IP address of www.whatever.com is 1.2.3.4" would DHS try to shut down the presses? Ultimately, conveying that pi