glurgh

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by glurgh 13y ago
Which seems like a or as much of a function of administrative, rather than geographic boundaries so we're completing some sort of talmudic nerdgument circle here and I still don't quite understand why Manhattan is a better or even
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by glurgh 13y ago
You're right, it sounds completely crazy to me. Nobody really bombed or shot Timothy McVeigh. Or the RAF. Or the Brigate Rosse. They did all their shooting and bombing all by themselves, at the cost of hundreds upon hundreds of innocen
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's about as practical as asking people to kindly stop flying planes into buildings or blowing up buildings with day-care centers in them.
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by glurgh 13y ago
I guess I don't quite follow what the difference is. Moving from Williamsburg to Jamaica (Queens) is as big a deal, if not bigger. But we've sort of tangented off, what I meant was 'Agree with you but Manhattan is such an out
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think the fact the constraints happen to be geographical is kind of moot. Brooklyn can't start assimilating the rest of Long Island any more than SF can start building octopus's gardens in the Bay or housing in Daly City.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Brooklyn's probably a better example that won't elicit the 'ZOMG I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN MANHATTAN' response. Twice the density of SF and no heavens-darkening skyline.
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by glurgh 13y ago
I'm actually imagining it more like running with a constant background - not the Benny Hill music but Harry Belafonte's number 'Matilda' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-DShN82mc "Matilda, she take
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's sort of the point of sieverts, though.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Suspend, leave emacs!?! Blasphemy and apostasy!
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by glurgh 13y ago
He's in Hong Kong talking about US intelligence operations in Hong Kong. Short of the government not charging him for that specific thing (say, to avoid talking about it altogether), there's doesn't seem to be any way to avoi
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by glurgh 13y ago
Well, yes. Soldiers are very much supposed to disobey unlawful orders - following unlawful orders is what can get you courtmartialed and 'I was just following orders' isn't going to be an effective defense. Of course, this is
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by glurgh 13y ago
Carmack's famous games were not developed solo - he developed the breakthrough enabling technology that made the game possible - full-screen sidescrolling on a PC, 3D stuff, etc. Mechner's games stand out in part because he seems
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by glurgh 13y ago
Yep, it looks like it requires a 128KB Apple //e and up. In the comments of the blog, Mechner mentions he couldn't get anyone interested in porting it to the C64 at the time as the system was considered too old. I guess by &#
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by glurgh 13y ago
Ok, that is the craziest (in a good way) thing I've seen in some time. I'd have thought PoP had been ported to the C64 at the time - Karateka was ported just about everything. So in 2011, starting with the Apple source, disassembl
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by glurgh 13y ago
I love reading Sanglard's stuff I hope he's encouraged by the comments on his site to complete this - the bulk of it so far is on details of the Apple ][ architecture. It'd be great if he decides to take apart the actual game
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by glurgh 13y ago
I didn't get that impression but that's neither here nor there. If you're convinced discussion with someone is a lost cause, the best thing to do is likely something other than flying into a mouthfrothing nerdrage at them. Su
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by glurgh 13y ago
So, hang on, the person has an opinion and lists the facts they believe support it. You call them a pedant, hateworthy, that nobody cares and that they ought to 'go away' because of 'the global surveillance state' or som
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by glurgh 13y ago
Yes. These are part of the collection of the National Security Archive at GWU. The summaries in the first link give some better context on what this actually is (especially the one on Document 5, at the end) http://www.gwu.edu&#x
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by glurgh 13y ago
I don't know who these reasonable readers are given how few facts are available about PRISM surveillance - so few that it's next to impossible to reasonably conclude much about it. As to the 'it's not a democracy, it&#x2
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by glurgh 13y ago
As you're concerned with the spirit of laws - your parallel is much in the spirit of 'Godwin's law' and ahistorical to the point of being specious. The USSR was a totalitarian single-party state that engaged in many deca
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by glurgh 13y ago
Definitely a Von Neumann joke, the only unusual thing about it is that the terms themselves weren't infinite series. Did you end up releasing your Coffeescript implementation? There's stuff like Golly but not a great deal in the w
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by glurgh 13y ago
Is this a cliche you've actually encountered? I have a hard time imagining anyone actually believes such a ridiculous generalization. Although if you worry about such things, you probably want to give a second thought about how you gen
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by glurgh 13y ago
To be fair, that was not a crypto bug in the sense of "got the crypto wrong" -- you can see that in earlier versions of the code I had it right. It was a dumb software bug introduced by refactoring, with catastrophic consequences
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by glurgh 13y ago
Can't cryptography be both a science (or branch of mathematics) and an engineering discipline? The science part of it will continue to provide methods of greater robustness and security, laden with increasingly better and broader secur
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by glurgh 13y ago
I suppose my confusion arises from the fact that pretty much any practical compression scheme is essentially 'content adaptive' rather than 'standard codebooky'. In the lossy cases, add whatever magical filtering to toss
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by glurgh 13y ago
No doubt, but that's also why the concern that he may be turning himself from 'effective' to 'ineffectual' is so much greater. I guess the simplest way I can put it is - I wish he'd stop taking his cues from jo
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by glurgh 13y ago
If you limit yourself to the first 64k words, you have a much larger vocabulary, still limited, and still fitting within two bytes per word. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying but if you're compressing adaptively
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by glurgh 13y ago
I suppose I'd expect him to conduct himself like, well, just about every other whistleblower before him. Just yesterday three high level NSA whistleblowers gave a joint interview to USA Today. All three still in the US and none in pris
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by glurgh 13y ago
The creativity bit was about the conspiracy theories of others, not things that he's said. I do think that things he's said and things he's done actually undermine his stated cause. He started out by portraying himself as a c
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by glurgh 13y ago
If you're particularly bothered by this you can just make your query interfaces uniformly return iterables. Which is what already typically happens in your average low-level DB API, in languages lambdaful and lambdaless.

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