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by finnw 15y ago
I'd like to see it on an updated version of this chart: https://www.xkcd.com/radiation/ (side note: I have the HTTPS version on my clipboard because I hesitated before typing "radiation dosage" into google, and decided to load up Tor to s
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by finnw 15y ago
Wouldn't it be a shame if your shop got broken into, looted and set on fire? Is the above sentence a threat? Of course it is. Not literally (I did not directly say that I would send thugs to loot your shop if you refused to pay me prote
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by finnw 15y ago
There's a simple explanation - the authorities' main priority is to prevent copycat attacks . The most embarassing thisg possible for TSA would be an exact repeat of 9/11 - same weapons (wasn't it box cutters?) etc. So that's what they ta
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by finnw 15y ago
From the article: > The speedy Cheetah robot can lope along at a brisk 18mph, making it a record breaker when it comes to robots I was slightly shocked to read that. Is that really the fastest legged robot? (I couldn't see any refer
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by finnw 15y ago
The same technique for dividing by 9 in base 10, also works for dividing by 255 in base 256, so you can quickly calculate N % 255 by adding the bytes of N together. Useful for algorithms like this: http://stackoverflow.com/q/295579/12048
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by finnw 15y ago
I have only twice thought one of my problems was due to a compiler bug, and I was right one of those times (and that was because my company was stuck with a 4-year old version of the compiler; The bug had already been fixed in the latest
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by finnw 15y ago
If I send a reply, it comes from a different address (which is not published and is unaffected by the procmail recipe)
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by finnw 15y ago
There's an older trick that still works for me: a passphrase in the subject line. You can even include the passphrase in the mailto: uri. E-mail harvesters usually discard it, but a user who clicks the link (e.g. to compose a message in Th
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by finnw 15y ago
But does anyone use the task list? I never have, and have never found such a thing necessary. My "task list" consists of the following (in order): * Compiler errors * Unit test failures * Compiler warnings * FindBugs warnings * Bug tracke
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by finnw 15y ago
Interesting - that means if I manufacture & package my own pills, with my own logo, but print "contains Sildenafil" on the box when it doesn't, that does not qualify as counterfeiting?
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by finnw 15y ago
I would be interested to know if the author approves or disapproves of buying used CDs and DVDs I remember some bloggers recommending it around the time the DMCA was introduced. (The idea being that MPAA/RIAA cannot make money from it but
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by finnw 15y ago
> With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, I think you mean Internet-censoring legislation
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by finnw 15y ago
He could never prove that he had the cash in his pocket. But you can prove that the bitcoins existed and had not been spent.
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by finnw 15y ago
Like NameCoin? ( http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page )
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by finnw 15y ago
Probably not quite what the designers intended, but... I plan to put one in an aluminium box with some SRAM and an anti-tamper switch, store keys in the SRAM and use it to back up TrueCrypted thumb drives. Should be more secure than mountin
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by finnw 15y ago
According to the blog at raspberrypi.org (currently offline) they are limiting orders to 1 per customer. So it will be interesting to see if this order goes through.
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by finnw 15y ago
I think you would have to already have an account with one of the distributors to stand a chance. It's hard enough to get one page to load, but I would guess registering and placing an order would involve at least 5 clicks.
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by finnw 15y ago
Curious - if the announcement is going to be "the store is now open" why don't they just say now "the store will be open on Wednesday at 6am?"
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by finnw 15y ago
Similar, but without specialised hardware: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html
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by finnw 15y ago
You could try going away for 2 weeks. It won't result in them washing the whole pile, but they will be forced to wash something and realise that it doesn't hurt that much. There will still be a pile of dirty plates (plus the boxes from
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by finnw 15y ago
Was it possible to initialise a local array with literals like that (e.g. Q5) in C89? If not then the version of C in the examples (assuming it is consistent) must be at least C99, which suggests that sizeof(int)==2 is due to the target
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by finnw 15y ago
Edit : I was wrong - see cygx's reply --- I'm a bit rusty on the C spec, but I think the author is wrong about #4. The answer refers to an exception for a pointer that points one past the end of an array. And &a[5] would be valid based
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by finnw 15y ago
The integer overflow bug? It depends on the quality of the test. It makes sense to test with the same types you intend to use in production, and to cover a wide range of values within each type (the array [1,2,3] for example would not be
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by finnw 15y ago
Saying "here are next week's lottery numbers" would not convince me. Suppose I am outside the box and the AI is inside the box, the AI cannot have a perfect model of the lottery machine or of me. At best it has seen photographs. All photo
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by finnw 15y ago
I disagree with the bit about test-driven development. It is not necessary to add tests specifically for type errors. Unit tests for basic functionality will usually catch them.
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by finnw 15y ago
I didn't realise it had been on HN already. I just saw it because Sam Saffron tweeted it. I guess I should search more thorougly (I just searched for "cheat" and checked the first page.)
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Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? (blog.benstrong.com)
177 points by finnw 15y ago|31 comments
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by finnw 15y ago
Durable too. Mine have lasted 8 years so far.
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by finnw 15y ago
I solved it. Clue: break the synchronization
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by finnw 15y ago
I'm in the UK. Until a few years ago I didn't really mind ads - I would happily sit through them until my show came back. Then in mid-2009 gocompare.com launched their ad campaign (with Wynne Evans singing.) They pushed it really hard - it

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