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by haberman 7y ago
I just ran Bloaty ( https://github.com/google/bloaty ) on /usr/bin/touch from Catalina, and I got this: $ bloaty `which touch` -d segments,sections --domain=file FILE SIZE ---------------
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by haberman 7y ago
> He now holds eight licenses with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), allowing him to own military machine guns and cannons, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition to fire through them. I'm very curious what the
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by haberman 7y ago
Is there some technical innovation here enabling this, or had nobody ever tried it before? What are possible applications?
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by haberman 7y ago
There is a Chrome extension for maintaining your own personal block list: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
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by haberman 7y ago
I genuinely enjoyed Other M. I've always preferred the third-person platformer style for the franchise (Super Metroid is still the best installment in the series) and I thought Other M was faithful to this heritage while adding some mo
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by haberman 7y ago
As a (part-time) C programmer, I wouldn't really consider a "C replacement" that can't compile to C. Part of the appeal of C is that it's easy to integrate into other projects, regardless of the build system or obs
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by haberman 7y ago
It exists in C++ too: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...
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by haberman 7y ago
I would love to see a high level overview and compare/contrast between different container and virtualization technologies out there. For those if us who have a good understanding of operating systems and hardware, but haven't bee
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by haberman 7y ago
Sort of related: one time a scammer conned my grandma out of thousands of dollars by calling her and pretending to be me in distress. She wired the money to my name (I think it was Western Union or something), in a foreign country, and some
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by haberman 7y ago
That remark surprised me too. I remember reading about a study about dogs vs. wolves, and that dogs were more inclined to look to a human when they needed help solving a problem. They seem to have an innate predisposition towards human fa
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by haberman 7y ago
Oh my goodness, this whole thread is deja vu from some code I wrote to parse my bank statements. I arrived at exactly the same solution of "pdftotext -layout" followed by a custom parser in Python. And ran into the same difficul
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by haberman 7y ago
That makes sense. I was thinking of this more as a fun algorithms optimization challenge, not something to actually put into a production setting with real users. I agree that for real users you would especially not want to skip the last
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by haberman 7y ago
There are 555,278,657 passwords in the database. With a Bloom Filter, you could quickly rule out potential inputs. Even better, there is no need to hash the input, because... it's already a cryptographic hash. The input SHA-1 provide
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by haberman 7y ago
> You'd only try that if you haven't read the documentation for mmap, just like a bunch of Rust programmers did. They started on 64-bit machines and never noticed that mmap is limited to a ~256MB window on most 32-bit architect
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by haberman 7y ago
I love the premise and design vision of SILE, so I played with it a bit. I reported an issue with the show-off document (not the manual), and it led to an interesting discussion: https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile
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by haberman 7y ago
Are there c compilers for the smallest subsets of RISC-V (no floating point, system calls, atomics, etc).
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by haberman 7y ago
If the jump to the next opcode is a tail call, wouldn't an arbitrarily long sequence of instructions take arbitrarily much stack space?
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by haberman 7y ago
These are impressive performance numbers. > Because operations end with a call to the next function, the C compiler will tail-call optimize most operations. It appears that this relies on tail-call optimization to avoid overflowing the s
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by haberman 7y ago
I didn't realize you could implement a red-black tree with this little code. The code shown here seems to indicate that insert has at least four cases, and delete has six: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93
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by haberman 7y ago
I've wanted this for a while. For example, every time I have a conversation with a contractor, CS rep, etc. I wish I could add a quick note about what was discussed and attach any supporting documents. I want to enter these chronologi
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by haberman 7y ago
I thought the SoundTransit car tabs were only paid inside the SoundTransit area? Are Eastern Washington voters really paying $500 car tabs to build light rail hundreds of miles away? That would be shocking to me if true.
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by haberman 7y ago
Yes, I agree with that; my experiences lead me to strongly believe that 24/7 parenting is not for me. Right now, I like kids in small doses. The question I'm attempting to answer with data is: how likely is it that I would experi
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by haberman 7y ago
As someone who has wrestled a lot with the question of whether I ever want kids, I've sought out data. One thing I came across was this: https://www.salon.com/2017/05/09/google-confessional-your-se... &
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by haberman 7y ago
Is there any way that tweet could have been written that would have satisfied you, without actually agreeing to change course right away? To me the tweet's tone says that they honestly care and don't want people to be inconvenienc
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by haberman 7y ago
The test for overfitting is whether the model holds up for data outside the training set. If the biases are consistent with other real-world data, then it's not overfitting.
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by haberman 7y ago
How many of those nationalizations involved the workers "taking over the factories"? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/seattle-councilwoman-urge...
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by haberman 7y ago
Kshama Sawant was just elected to her third term on the Seattle City Council. Here is the Wikipedia section about her economic policy: > Sawant has advocated the nationalization of large Washington State corporations such as Boeing, Mic
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by haberman 7y ago
I find that very worryingly vague. In my reading though, that only applies to YouTube itself ("the Service"). It seems to be saying that your Google account can lose access to YouTube, not that you can lose access to your Google
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by haberman 7y ago
I can't speak to City Journal at all, but I find Coleman Hughes to be a very fair-minded person who certainly has no love for Trumpism.
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by haberman 7y ago
If you cherry-pick data, you can advance a narrative even if there are lots of counter-examples. Coleman Hughes argues that Kendi cherry-picks data quite a lot: https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist

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