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by meastham 16y ago
I've never encountered a Monte Carlo algorithm that required random numbers of this quality. That doesn't mean they don't exist though.
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by meastham 16y ago
Has ARM's design licensing model ever been demonstrated in the high end (server/workstation) CPU market? It seems to me that the amount of engineering expertise required to push that sort of high performance, fully custom design through to
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by meastham 16y ago
That's a good way to describe it. As I was reading the book there were lots of moments where a particular feature seemed very clever and elegant and fun to use, but as I kept reading and the number of features started to pile up it started
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by meastham 16y ago
There are a lot fewer factors in shipping a new firefox for OS X than there are for Linux. On OS X, for the most part, all of the important dynamic libraries are frozen at a single or at one of a small number of versions, everybody is eithe
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by meastham 16y ago
I read this book as part of a reading group during my internship this summer. It's a good read, but I couldn't help but feel like the language designers perhaps could have used a bit more restraint in their design. It is very much a "kitche
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by meastham 16y ago
Why would this necessitate getting rid of the "-dev" packages?
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by meastham 16y ago
Why does this stuff keep showing up on HN? There is nothing that "gratifies one's intelectual curiosity" about printing the fourth amendment on clothing.
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by meastham 16y ago
Like others have mentioned it's rather academic, but also pretty cool. It's a way of introducing recursive functions into the untyped lambda calculus. I think the easiest way to see it is using it in scheme to define an anonymous recursive
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by meastham 16y ago
Came here to say this. The DeCal program is really awesome. I took one titled "Advanced Unix Systems Administration" my first semester that was possibly more valuable than some of the faculty-led courses I was taking at the same time.
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by meastham 16y ago
I didn't know you could define member functions that were declared pure virtual. The more you know..
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by meastham 16y ago
(which, if I understand correctly, won't give them the key, only the ability to use the key while the agent is running) By design, talking to to the ssh-agent should not give you the decrypted key. However, in reality, anybody that could
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by meastham 16y ago
Desktop: Core i7 930 6GB DDR3 DRAM 2x24" ASUS monitors Microsoft Natural Keyboard (On the way) 120 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD Fedora 14 Laptop: ~2007 Core2Duo 15" MBP Phone: HTC Incredible w/ Android 2.2 VPS: 51
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by meastham 16y ago
Even if this were desirable, it would make much more sense for the OS (or C library) to do it rather than have it enforced by the hardware. (edit) or, you could do it yourself. The following works for me on Linux: http://pastie.org/1278260
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by meastham 16y ago
On a related note, I recently watched The Social Network and was surprised by how tolerable the technical dialog was.
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by meastham 16y ago
Topology is a rather widely studied (and important) field of mathematics. Not too sure why it's on the list.. (edit) #5 seems to be a straightforward topology class as well. Something gives me the feeling the author doesn't actually know mu
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by meastham 16y ago
Michael Arrington is no Hunter S. Thompson..
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by meastham 16y ago
I decided to try out 10.10. I used 10.04 this summer at my internship (worked flawlessly), but had never used it on this machine before. The install took nearly an hour, the first time I tried to boot and several times thereafter things wou
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by meastham 16y ago
Everything by my university.
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by meastham 16y ago
You've got a typo in the last screenshot, "direcotry"
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by meastham 16y ago
I get this, but why is there a declaration of the libc mkdir() function inside of a kernel header?
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by meastham 16y ago
There are classes of problems harder than NP. However, the problem of cracking any useful encryption algorithm is always going to be in NP. If it weren't, then decrypting a message would not be possible in polynomial time.
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by meastham 16y ago
If I recall correctly, Hofstatder uses the same principal for developing a formal language for classifying primes in Goedel Escher Bach.
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by meastham 16y ago
The user interface is hardly the most important part of EFI. The system interface is much more important. It includes the GUID partitioning scheme as a replacement for the antiquated MBR scheme and other such modernizations. Look at what t
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by meastham 16y ago
That doesn't mean that they're storing your passwords in the clear. They could simply be keeping hashes of your old passwords around and checking simple variations of the new password you're trying to use.
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Go Language: New Talk and Tutorials(blog.golang.org)
7 points by meastham 16y ago|1 comments
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by meastham 16y ago
An "external halting detector" couldn't correctly tell if the arrangement would halt. If we decide that the input of the program halts, then the wrapper instance loops infinitely and we were wrong. If we decide that the input of the program
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by meastham 16y ago
Did anybody else misinterpret the phrase "creative coding in C++"?
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by meastham 16y ago
They've been doing this with PowerPC CPUs for a while now.
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by meastham 17y ago
I don't think the ksplice article was really about a way to "not segfault" from dereferencing a null pointer, but this ended up being a nice, short exposition on handling signals anyway.
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by meastham 17y ago
Is this for CS164 at Berkeley? It sounds like the 164 project.

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