mehrdadn

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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   Thanks but I'm confused, how is that relevant to the article?
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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   How do compasses work on aircraft? Don't the (varying across space/time?) magnetic fields from everything on the aircraft overwhelm whatever tiny variation there is from Earth's surface?
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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   Not saying you're wrong (I don't know), but it's not a straightforward implication is it? I'd assume private investors would want high profit, whereas the government just wants drugs in response to the pandemic to get ma
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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   Anybody know how BDs fare?
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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   I haven't noticed GCC being slower, though I admittedly haven't measured. Which build of GCC do you use? MinGW64? or MSYS or something else? If you use the versions that are Cygwin derivatives, they will probably be slower, but th
6. 666.▲
   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   WSL 2 just makes VirtualBox unusable for me in practice so I can't really use it. And honestly if I wanted a VM I'd just use VirtualBox.
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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   Try underclocking your CPU to like 30% of its max speed and see if your programs still run comfortably. This would've made sense in a world where programs didn't become more bloated and slower over time, but it would have visible
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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   > As wasm cant do any more than computing you simply contain the library, it cant anymore open any files, make network calls, etc. I wish the world was that simple.
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   by mehrdadn 6y ago

   Yeah I almost mentioned multiparty transactions too, but thought I'd keep it simple since I got the crux of it :) thanks!
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    Ah okay thanks a ton! I think that clears it up. So basically: - The idea is that every source/destination ("node") of funds keeps their own account for every node they deal with. And every transaction ("directed edge&
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I still don't get it, sorry. So I worked and earned $200 for my work. It (obviously) came from somewhere—that "somewhere" being the pocket of the dude that paid me. But why is that relevant here? Am I not doing accounting pro
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I think you're confused on what I'm confused about. The positive or negative sign isn't the issue. You could flip all the signs and I'd still have the same problem. > Literally the only 'weirdness' is that m
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I don't understand where the negative comes from. I just gained $200. Why would my bank balance go down by $200?! If you're talking about the bank's perspective, why is that relevant to me? I'm just asking about how to
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    > assets + liabilities + equity = 0 So how does this actually work? Say I worked for 8 hours at $25/hr. I get a $200 deposit in my checking account; that increases my assets. How is the sum still zero?
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I kind of expected to see a good, pragmatic explanation of why double-entry accounting is useful, the kinds of mistakes it catches, etc... kind of weird to see almost no emphasis on the double-entry nature at all.
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    Dumb question but what is the benefit? I imagine pilots will still need to be there to take over during an emergency, so it won't save on pilot costs, right? And they can already lay back and relax during most of the flight so it won&#
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I imagine they didn't start using "libre" due to a sheer lack of problems with "free". > The loan adjective "libre" is often used to avoid the ambiguity of the word "free" in English language,
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I feel like the fact that their very first sentence [1] has to say this: > Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. is pretty good evidence they themselves are to blame for poorly picking the terminology. You can&#x2
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I take this to mean that you can actually go visit the site shown in the photo? The only pictures I recall ever seeing of Machu Picchu have been the ones overlooking it from far away (like in the article). For some reason I thought normal p
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    Page sizes are easy to lower bound when you're compiling. You know the target system you're compiling for. This most definitely is not in the "compiler heroics" camp.
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    What I'm saying is that the compiler can generate code that examines the memory address and looks ahead only when it's safe to do so.
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    > What if `size` was enormous and the first character was negative? One extra byte of lookahead might SIGSEGV! So it must gingerly step one byte at a time. Pages aren't 1 byte each, they're 4KiB. You can't just segfault at
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    Question: how do experts tell something like this might be a tool? As a layman it looks like a rock to me: https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-020-02...
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    You might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way_string-matching_algori...
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    Not entirely, there's also a debug directory embedded inside executables that gets stripped.
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    They could've just said "...as this is not possible" or something like that. I wasn't suggesting they need to drop in acronyms like PBKDF2 or whatever. They go out of their way to say "through the tools used in the
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    > Attackers were not able to view previous account passwords, as those are not stored in plain text or available through the tools used in the attack. They so carefully avoiding mentioning how they do store passwords that I have to won
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    If you don't like the display scaling, you can try running this in the browser console: document.body.style.zoom = 1 / window.devicePixelRatio
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    I understand statutes of limitations are about blocking prosecution of past infringement, not granting a legal right to continuous infringement.
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    by mehrdadn 6y ago

    If you agree, the logical takeaway from > I history class was wasted on me in high school because I was a kid and didn't have much life experience. But years later with a better grasp on human nature I think I would have had a bette