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by gngeal 13y ago
Well, journalists will have to come up with a way of having people send them scoop without revealing who the scoop senders are.
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by gngeal 13y ago
This was the best part: "when an Indian Navy helicopter tried to recover them from the beach, the Sentinelese fought it off with bows and arrows" Indian Navy should feel ashamed! :D
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by gngeal 13y ago
Funny thing is, when he suggested splitting the key, I assumed that this is what he had in mind.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I don't buy that "people" need to swear any more than they need to lie, or that the result of swearing is somehow less damaging/more productive than lying. Lying is dishonorable, counterproductive in context of multipl
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by gngeal 13y ago
Emulating a Gameboy is fine, but emulating a large-scale scientific computation may be just a little bit more demanding, I'm afraid. :/
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by gngeal 13y ago
How are all these VMs going to react if people switch, say, to desktops with ARMv8, or whatever comes next?
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by gngeal 13y ago
All? I'm sure Alan Kay would disagree. The problem with OpenDoc is that it emerged at an unfortunate time and asked you to work with vastly inferior languages than what you'd actually need to make this work without getting insane
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by gngeal 13y ago
I would say the downside of this 'rich' environment is that your tools tend to become language dependent. That does not necessarily have to be the case. Just like you have abstract collections capable of handling values of any t
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by gngeal 13y ago
I may be mistaken, but don't ATLAS, BLAS, LINPACK etc. only operate on single and double precision floats? What if the elements you're operating on are, say, rationals or polynomials? Somehow it seemed to me that linear algebra is
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by gngeal 13y ago
ATLAS and BLAS are What you probably meant was that ATLAS and BLAS are implementations of the right way, not the way itself. Because the alternative would be really, really sad.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I've never had much success with Indo-Europeans Did you compose this text with the help of Google Translate, then?
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by gngeal 13y ago
I think what he means is that what people actually spoke every day was as different from our bookish notions of what Sanskrit is as the language of a poor farmer or a slave in Ancient Rome was from the writings of Cicero. You really can&#x2
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by gngeal 13y ago
English is not popular because it is "easy to copy" or any nonsense like that. English may not be easy to copy but it's comparatively "bland". "Bland" in this case means "has a smaller number of mar
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by gngeal 13y ago
How come that "the theory that made up an imaginary language" correctly predicted the existence of laryngeal phonemes in the Hittite language before the Hittite language was even known to exist? Stroke of luck, that a group of unk
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by gngeal 13y ago
To sum it up, the writer probably has the mentality of William Jones: sort of romantic, but essentially flawed.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Hmm. Haven't thought of that. Comparatively simple, yet also compact at the same time. Thanks, nice!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Too mechanical. I'm afraid I like my bubble idea more. Unless I get my hands on some suitable radioisotope, that is.
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by gngeal 13y ago
If you are super paranoid, you'll need to find a hardware random generator which you've built yourself --- and hopefully you are competent enough to actually build a real HWRNG, and not something which is sampling 60 Hz hum (or 5
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by gngeal 13y ago
No. It makes it easier for parsers. Not even that. It's about making thing easiest for metaprogrammers.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Any reason why you're still only using AES-128? What else would you suggest?
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by gngeal 13y ago
I think it helps a lot if you have a plausible explanation for the chain of causes. For example, the correlation of dead people in houses with shitty stoves and furnaces in those houses is interesting, but once you discover that said stoves
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by gngeal 13y ago
In particular, a query like the one in the original blog post will evaluate multiple intermediate lists that then need to be thrown away. Why not fuse the operations, if the values are immutable?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Ironically, expressing this in something like SQL actually speaks to the expressivity of the language because the solution was produced entirely with syntactic forms. What? Pure untyped lambda calculus does things "only with syntacti
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by gngeal 13y ago
You should always be able to do non-destructive editing even when pretending to work destructively, by keeping around the original sources (which you keep around anyway in most cases) and the graph of operations applied (which isn't mu
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by gngeal 13y ago
the Secret Service hasn't really been ordered to release anything other than a stack of black pieces of paper. Wouldn't that de facto qualify as a contempt of court?
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by gngeal 13y ago
If you're, for example, rewriting an obviously correct but slow piece of code X into a faster but not obvious code Y, how do you know if the two are functionally identical without at least some knowledge of program algebra?
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by gngeal 13y ago
the mid to long term outcome will benefit the whole world anyway Here, fixed that for you. (Pilot projects on a large scale are useful to all of us. Someone has to finally do it.)
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by gngeal 13y ago
We should see a obvious trend students heading to engineering majors. Yes, especially people with childhood dreams of studying history or art will be turned on by the prospect of designing airliners and nuclear reactors.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Who's written anything worthy of that treatment? Almost - not who but _why.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I won't even try to guess what's the code for Peruvian or Colombian military planes is.

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