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by hughw 9y ago
It's unevenly distributed
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by hughw 9y ago
That's pretty good. I guess the idea that you would want cross-site identity is, really, tracking. The only benefit to the user would be some universal name and photo that remains the same across all sites. But that's a really mar
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by hughw 9y ago
Oh off the top of my head: - You have to persist comments right? 12 lines of JS? - You generally want some sort of (cross-site) user management - Spam - Moderation Seems a bit more complex than 12 lines of js. [Edited to add 'cross-sit
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by hughw 9y ago
A non-tracking, embeddable comments widget would be a Good Thing. I wonder if anyone would pay $12 a year for that service, and whether that would be enough to support it.
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by hughw 9y ago
Evidently, most people don't have a problem with it, because that describes the situation at U.S. airports very well.
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by hughw 9y ago
Why even permit people to have secrets of any kind? The real "problem" is not encryption, but people keeping secrets. Encryption is just one way of keeping a secret. With a law banning private secrets, they could throw anyone in j
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by hughw 9y ago
I can also imagine a front-door approach where they legalize encryption only if you let the the government cosign the message with their own private key, say, through a web service. Not saying that's practical but it is possible.
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FAFSA Hacker Targeted Trump Tax Info(diverseeducation.com)
1 points by hughw 9y ago|0 comments
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by hughw 9y ago
That's the reason. We are unable. Somehow we aren't able to process this subtle notion you have revealed to us. Even now, I find myself unable to grasp this nuance.
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by hughw 9y ago
And along with cost: maintenance. The failure of a sensor could have far more dangerous consequences than a worn-out catalytic converter. You'll have to keep your car's sensors in much fitter trim. That will be impossible for lots
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by hughw 9y ago
In rural Texas I am lucky to have the one choice I have, and it's 12 Mbps ADSL+. Most out here can't get that.
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by hughw 9y ago
You can (should) check the SHA hash of the .dmg file you download against the ones here: https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/wiki/Checksums
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by hughw 10y ago
Halliburton (34.0.0.0) and Ford (19.0.0.0) too.
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by hughw 10y ago
To what, if any, extent is Chrome itself collecting user browsing data? That is part of Brave's business model -- there are many things about your behavior only the browser can know. Is Chrome doing the same?
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by hughw 10y ago
> Google should take Burger King to court via the computer fraud and abuse act It certainly is unauthorized use of a computer... not a stretch at all.
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Razer servers went down; users could not use their peripherals(reddit.com)
3 points by hughw 10y ago|0 comments
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by hughw 10y ago
Byng's execution is referred to in Voltaire's novel Candide with the line "Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres" – "In this country, it is wise to kill an admir
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by hughw 10y ago
"...pour encourager les autres"
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by hughw 10y ago
that's gonna be the next guy who looks at this code i'm writing... Edit: Clarification, I am not actually having myself to do original metaprogramming, but in order to diagnose problems implementing the custom iterators, I have ne
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by hughw 10y ago
Oh -- and enable_if, and SFINAE -- these are terms I've learned only in the last three weeks, but yes, I would count having to learn even those concepts, to successfully use the language, as an obstacle and not for the faint of heart,
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by hughw 10y ago
Additionally: I needed to make a program to join two tables by a common subset of their columns. It's desirable in CUDA, to enhance caching locality, to work with structs of arrays rather than arrays of structs. So a pattern in Thrust
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by hughw 10y ago
I needed to create a custom iterator for Thrust, a STL/Boost-like library for CUDA.
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by hughw 10y ago
I recently came back to write a small experiment in C++. I programmed it professionally for a decade, ending in 2002, and was pretty good at it. After the last 16 years working in Java, Scala, Clojure, and Javascript, I have two observation
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by hughw 10y ago
A nice table from the book at [1]. For block length 1024, CT radix 2 requires ~20k multiplies and ~30k adds. Block length 1008 Winograd requires ~4k multiplies and ~35k adds. [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=8sbS2Bi4BmI
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by hughw 10y ago
The Claerbout book also gives a 27-line Fortran program to perform an FFT.
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by hughw 10y ago
I recommend Fast Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing, by Blahut, 1985 for a mind-expanding survey of all the work in this area up to that time. Winograd FFT is even lower complexity than C-T. And the book spends a lot of time on fast D
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by hughw 10y ago
I missed this subthread before posting my comment -- it was Vern Herbert in 1962, according to a book by Jon Claerbout. Details in my other comment.
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by hughw 10y ago
In computational seismology we've long had our own creation story for the FFT: "The first machine computation with this algorithm known to the author was done by Vern Herbert, who used it extensively in the interpretation of refle
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by hughw 10y ago
I had to do something like this a year or so ago -- built a malloc in js for managing WebGL memory blocks.
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by hughw 10y ago
I might need you to build something listy on disk, and I would say, "you can give the records two-element headers and make it work like a doubly linked list"... you would know exactly how to do that.

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