kurin

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by kurin 15y ago
I can't read the article now, but in my opinion the fact that it's so difficult to write robust shell scripts above a very basic level of complexity (e.g. do this, then do that, then do that, then quit) really means you should be scripting
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by kurin 15y ago
As someone who can't draw a thing, there's a phenomenon I've noticed that might apply. Every time I need to draw something out, I try to hold it clearly in my head, where it looks so complete, but of course it never works. My suspicion is
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by kurin 15y ago
I know there are some asshole IP contracts out there, but I think even so a company would have a hard time claiming ownership of a project an employee did for someone else, in his own time.
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by kurin 16y ago
> I wouldn't say the signup is prohibitive in any way I would. I didn't sign up. The concept looked interesting, but there was no real information on this side of the sign-up wall. For me, there really is a mental effort in establish
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by kurin 16y ago
Are these people deluding themselves, or just scamming?
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by kurin 16y ago
If a user logs in, and their work factor is the low one, authenticate them, and then calculate the new hash with the higher work factor, and save the new hash and work factor.
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by kurin 16y ago
I guess "local optimum" wasn't the right word. I got suck in a configuration in which my breed() method couldn't get closer to the goal, because it was just shuffling around characters that existed at the start. (I had started with 1001 r
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by kurin 16y ago
Okay. It helps if you sort your fitness correctly. Also it looks like if you keep mutations too low, you'll get stuck in a local maximum.
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by kurin 16y ago
Geez. Tried to do this myself. 10k generations in and still not a recognizable string.
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by kurin 16y ago
Yuck. portsnap fetch extract (yet more awesome software from cpersiva)