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by jepler 8y ago
http(s) URLs are NOT necessarily directories. From RFC1738, no doubt superseded by some other wordier RFC, referring specifically to the HTTP protocol: Within the <path> and <searchpart> components, "/", &
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by jepler 8y ago
The front page is Japanese, and autotranslation to English didn't reveal any references to compression. But it briefly made me nostalgic for '90s usenet where unfounded compression claims were not uncommon -- enough so that it ins
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by jepler 8y ago
Sadly, C++11 (and C++03, really) is too complicated for a typical "ordinary programmer" to grasp all the bits of it and how they potentially interrelate. [source: I am posing as an "ordinary programmer" for the purposes
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by jepler 8y ago
good point.
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by jepler 8y ago
At a minimum, it is a testament to the difficulty of using the gnupg commandline interface (and/or its API; does it have a C API?) properly. For instance, you might ask why the default is to print any of the plaintext of a message that
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by jepler 8y ago
When something is neither obvious (like, say, the axioms of planar geometry) nor subject to geometric or mathematical proof (like, say, the infinitude of primes) or experimentation (the atomic theory of matter), it's interesting at a p
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by jepler 8y ago
.. it's not intended to be a puzzle, so let me also show what memoize_impl ends up looking like: proc memoize_impl {pargs lambda} { set cmd [info level 1] if {[info exists ::MEM($cmd)]} { return $::MEM($cmd) }
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by jepler 8y ago
A great start. One weakness is that decorators are not composable in this sketch: you can't have `@memoize @auto_index proc foo`. I don't see an easy way to remedy this within the framework presented here. In my personal Tcl sty
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by jepler 8y ago
I think the author intends to say something like: You'd never† run across such a program by uniform random sampling of programs of the appropriate length . † or, rather, you'd have a vanishingly small probability of doing so
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by jepler 8y ago
The power budget is impressive to impossible. They show 4 cells of unknown specifications. Let's suppose they're 32650s, the largest listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes#List_of_...
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by jepler 9y ago
Thank you! I was intuitively sure this was the case (i.e., that you couldn't do markedly better than doubles when working with a fixed size of 64 bits) but I didn't see how to construct the pathological sequence like you did.
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by jepler 9y ago
At risk of sounding like those armchair physicists on the internet (oh wait, that's exactly how this post sounds!) it's "obvious" that a black hole cannot form. The standard lay explanation of what an observer outside a
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by jepler 9y ago
Ship of Theseus still in use after hundreds of years! With long-lived sofware like this, I often wonder what fraction of the old source stays untouched for that long. At my day job, we have the distant descendant of a 35+ year old software
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by jepler 9y ago
I'm wrong, or else I misspoke. You can go from Ubuntu LTS to the following LTS, which gives you 2 years off from disruptive updates. Compared to the 6 month treadmill of non-LTS Ubuntu versions, this sounds great. But Debian has had
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by jepler 9y ago
Better than what? There was a time when I favored Ubuntu LTS releases over Debian, because of the extended support period and the ability to migrate from one LTS to the next. Time spent migrating from OS release to OS release is time serve
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by jepler 9y ago
From that thread, as a snarky aside: "I know from dealing with Let's Encrypt users that people can get some ideas about what's going on with the Web PKI that bear no resemblance to reality, and although we have no formal duty
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by jepler 9y ago
correct URL is http://cwoodall.com/blog/2018/02/24/using-clang-and-python-t...
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by jepler 9y ago
It sounds like your line of thinking leads to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
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by jepler 9y ago
1. They developed tools to synthesize side channel exploits based on an architectural model + threat model. 2. They developed distinct variants of Spectre and Meltdown that use remote cache line invalidation (activity on core 1 can cause li
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by jepler 9y ago
why not link directly to the paper instead? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03802.pdf .. brb, digesting...
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by jepler 9y ago
While we tend to think of them as unchanging, perfect slabs, integrated circuits change over their lifetimes and eventually fail. Unsurprisingly, these effects are greater when feature sizes are smaller. Here are some links I dug up on th
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by jepler 9y ago
[needs 1990s ASCII usenet checklist of why your calendar reform idea won't work]
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by jepler 9y ago
nice
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by jepler 9y ago
Doesn't properly quote shell metacharacters. but at least it is a website for generating an 'openssl req' command, not a site which generates key/csr files! Edited to add: The best way to quote shell characters for any
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by jepler 9y ago
See my little test program at https://godbolt.org/g/53SAMq I believe this program properly handles carry from the low to high part. The 96- and 128-bit code have the same number of instructions, but the 128-bit code ha
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by jepler 9y ago
It's good to be reminded that the state of the art WRT program stability has improved, though it's nearly 30 years later and things still aren't "perfect"... also, I didn't realize "fuzzing" as a term
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by jepler 9y ago
"We demonstrate that on random graphs that fit DW, no quantum speedup can be observed compared with the classical algorithms" However, if you choose special graphs whose structure happens to be similar to DW ("chimera graphs&
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by jepler 9y ago
I agree with your line of thinking, but since they give 1/30 fps frame as 23520000 flicks, I get 1 NTSC frame = 23520000 * (1001 / 1000) flicks = 23543520 flicks. I was all set to file a doc PR but noticed you have to file a CLA.
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by jepler 9y ago
They won't make any friends at intel with that logo https://skyfallattack.com/apple-touch-icon.png
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by jepler 9y ago
And here is a C program annotated for the C Bounded Model Checker to find a counterexample of associativity for floats: #include <math.h> extern float nondet_float(); // works equally well (quick) for double in

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