jamesdsadler

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by jamesdsadler 6y ago
Git does use diffs extensively its algorithms, just not in its representation of history. Git's "domain model" is blobs, trees, commits, branches and tags. At a lower layer than that (the pack files) it does use binary di
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by jamesdsadler 6y ago
Both of these implementations seem to be missing a call to `free`, or is that something that the caller should be taking care of?
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by jamesdsadler 7y ago
If I recall correctly, there was also no uninstaller (at least on Mac, 2 years ago).
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by jamesdsadler 8y ago
Can anyone recommend some good cryptography books/links for someone that would like get up to speed on best practices for building secure systems? Ideally the full gamut of beginner to advanced. What are the classic/authoritative
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by jamesdsadler 10y ago
If you don't have a stage then you don't get to edit/stage/edit/stage/fix/commit, right? I use that workflow a lot. I generally like incrementally building and refining my next commit. The stage/inde
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by jamesdsadler 10y ago
If the Planck length is Lorentz-invariant but macro-scale objects are not then does that not imply there is a special universal reference frame against which to measure velocity? If I have understood the article correctly one would be able
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by jamesdsadler 10y ago
> There is no "extent" to which CRDTs are conflict free, CRDTs are by definition always 100% conflict free. CRDTs are always conflict-free. I am not disagreeing with that. I was trying to draw attention to the fact that just be
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by jamesdsadler 10y ago
Yes, I think we are in agreement. The algorithm can use heuristics to produce a best-effort pleasing result that captures user intent but if two users want opposite things to happen it has to fall back to a tie breaker. In an extreme exampl
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by jamesdsadler 10y ago
To the extent that CRDTs are conflict-free it only means that two edits can commute (be applied in any order) and every party that has applied the same set of edits will produce the same result. At the low-level that the CRDT is operating o
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by jamesdsadler 10y ago
At some point it will become feasible to capture CO2 on a large scale and reduce CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. So, not screwed yet.
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by jamesdsadler 11y ago
Probably not compared to the local salary, which you will not be paid more than I expect.
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by jamesdsadler 11y ago
You are paid only in food and accommodation. This initially stuck me as terrible, but then I noticed that the company only hooks you up with startups local to where you are travelling. This is not remote work so do not expect 'back h
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by jamesdsadler 11y ago
It seems to me like an accurate reflection of reality though. When governments and corporations propose legislation in secret it is never going to be in citizen's best interests. On the national and international scale democracy al
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by jamesdsadler 11y ago
Please elaborate.
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by jamesdsadler 11y ago
It's a decent course and I appreciate the effort. I'd rather have given my consent to being put on a public leaderboard though.
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by jamesdsadler 11y ago
iTerm2 supports images in the terminal. May as well take this as far as it will go. https://iterm2.com/images.html Edit: even animated gifs
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by jamesdsadler 13y ago
lisant.io is a lightweight full text bookmarking service and a feed reader. The full-text bookmarking works via a bookmarklet that snapshots the DOM of the current page and uses a heuristic content extraction engine to clean up the content
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Lisant.io - searchable full text bookmarks & feed reader(lisant.io)
4 points by jamesdsadler 13y ago|1 comments