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by lysium 16y ago
Even if reposted with fancy graphs, the data do not get better. Basically, they are from a nuclear lobby site. The referenced data on the lobby site lists 0.04-0.23 deaths per TWh for the coal fuel chain and 0.01-0.65 for nuclear. I don't s
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by lysium 16y ago
Why do you think the source looks good? It's from a nuclear lobby site. The referenced data lists 0.04-0.23 deaths per TWh for coal fuel chain and 0.01-0.65. The number 160 deaths/TWh for is made up from very rough estimates of WHO that 1 m
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by lysium 16y ago
IMHO, `&&` and `try` are conditionals, even if they lack the word `if`. :-)
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by lysium 16y ago
How is 'goto repeat' not a loop? You've just 'spelled out' a for-loop, I think. :-)
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by lysium 16y ago
The original question is unclear. What is a 'loop' and what is a 'conditional'? Tail-recursive calls (like the linked solution uses, though C compilers usually do not implement 'proper' tail calls) or short-cut conditionals might not look l
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by lysium 16y ago
There's an alternative, just click the provided link: http://challenge.greplin.com/static/nophone.html
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by lysium 16y ago
Very impressive. Not only are the distances in proportion, but also the sizes and the sizes to the distances. Didn't know this was possible.
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by lysium 16y ago
The reverse Jughandle is the standard way to change Autobahns in Germany, driving many miles if you miss the intersection included. But hey: no speed limit!
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by lysium 16y ago
Wow, that's unbelievable. Almost any phone number in 24hourplaces.com is that Dallas number. How come the owner of that website never noticed?
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by lysium 16y ago
I'd like to point out the disclaimer of that webpage ( http://aiju.phicode.de/b/ ), just in case: > HOLY SHIT DON'T TAKE ANYTHING IN THIS SECTION SERIOUSLY (emphasis as in original)
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by lysium 16y ago
Interestingly, it mentions that a whole range of double strings is affected, not only a single number. I don't know how many floating points can actually be represented in that range, though. Might be only one.
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by lysium 16y ago
You don't mention issues and your advantages are only marginal for specific use cases such as Asian languages. "UTF-16 is better": but 'only' for Asian languages; most code is still written in ASCII "need to commit to 16-bit char width": th
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by lysium 16y ago
That PEP only refers to the encoding of the source (code) file, not to the encoding on how strings are stored in Python. Edit: Your question might be answered at SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1838170/what-is-internal-...
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by lysium 16y ago
But UTF-16 is variable encoding, too?
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by lysium 16y ago
I have the impression the author does not understand a lot about TLD, so his proposal isn't well thought through either. First, TLD cannot be changed freely but are fixed, mostly assigned to countries. Second, we now do have TLDs and I do
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by lysium 16y ago
Doesn't git operate on a DAG rather than a tree? I mean, you have merges.
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by lysium 16y ago
Good point; to be fair, the parable starts off saying "how you might design one such version control system (VCS)".
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by lysium 16y ago
What's wrong with storing passwords encrypted with a key you know but don't store the key on the server? Yes, the attacker could read the key out of the running server, but that requires way more sophistication than just dumping a databas
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by lysium 16y ago
A good idea to explain git from its historic perspective! I wonder, though, if some graphics would not have helped. People who hesitate to use VCS or who barely understand SVN will have a hard time understanding git without any graphic expl
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by lysium 16y ago
That side effect of posting on SO that you improve your writing is interesting. Never thought about that but it's so true: it's good if you an answer but it's better if you can tell anybody about it such that they understand. Nice layout of
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by lysium 16y ago
Why should Google show other evidence? The evidence they have provided is enough for me to be suspicious: How could Bing possibly come up with the same odd spell correction without copying from Google? Yes, it could be a side effect of some
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by lysium 16y ago
Google shows only 50 pages out of about 300 and provides several links to buy that book, including to Microsoft Press. So that 'excellent point' only shows that Google even promotes products of its competitor. I don't think it says anything
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by lysium 16y ago
It's clear that search engine use user 'feedback' to improve their search results. But if " Bing even sent Google synthetic and organic search terms, to analyze and make use of the results ", I would suggest they add 'powered by Google' to
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by lysium 16y ago
While I find the thought interesting, that Microsoft may have google-specific code to filter out redirects, I don't like the notion that Google should not complain because it allegedly ignores copyrights. I see a difference between aggregat
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by lysium 16y ago
Interesting point that Microsoft may have special code to filter out google redirects. On the other hand, do we know the percentage of searches that actually get redirects as results? The 'honeypot' was rather small, so the redirects just m
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by lysium 16y ago
> require the user to do different meaningless activities, which serve no purpose other than waste time. Isn't that the real purpose of gambling (besides dreaming about what to do with the money if you win)? The same could be said about
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by lysium 16y ago
It's actually pretty analogous to actual scratch cards, as mwg66 pointed out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174506
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by lysium 16y ago
It's almost analogous to actual scratch cards: while on actual scratch cards the printed numbers are given, online the order in which the ('printed') numbers appear is given.
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by lysium 16y ago
It would be utterly futile, if you'll _never_ see a winning scratch card. However, the fact that the 'randomness' has already taken place when you receive your card (vs. happening while you scratch), makes no difference concerning your chan
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by lysium 16y ago
Maybe jpwagner was just joking from the very beginning and we didn't get it?

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