mik1998

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by mik1998 2y ago
"Europe" is not USA. I don't know why the author wants it to be. Germany and Spain are different countries, even if we have some degree of a unified market. > From consumer markets, languages, laws, education systems, taxe
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by mik1998 2y ago
Really only a thing in the USA due to the ridiculous American rule wrt. attorney fees.
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by mik1998 2y ago
> linked lists invariably result in terrible cache locality With a compacting GC (ie most of the relevant ones) lists often provide better memory locality than arrays. They only lose at a large scale due to having +8 bytes of memory, whi
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by mik1998 2y ago
> Traditionally, middle-grade book discovery happens via parents, librarians, and—most crucially—peers. At recess, your best friend tells you that you have got to read the Baby-Sitters Club, and boom, you’re hooked I've never experi
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by mik1998 2y ago
In Poland, admission to public universities is only based on your standardized test score. People grading standardized tests don't know your name or anything beyond a number, so discrimination is simply impossible.
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by mik1998 2y ago
I recall thinking it was a compass before. They should've chosen a more complicated Chinese character if that is what they wanted to portray.
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by mik1998 2y ago
I personally had no idea that icon let you change the language of articles (a concept I explicitly looked for before). Still confused at what the icon is actually supposed to mean.
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by mik1998 2y ago
> it makes the process of retroactively changing the sequence in which these tokens are delimited impossible Is the author claiming you cannot write a reader macro for postfix code? Am I understanding that correctly? I don't persona
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by mik1998 2y ago
> Russia has attacked basically every neighboring country in Europe that is not in NATO. What are you talking about? Russia hasn't invaded anyone in Europe except Ukraine since WW2
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by mik1998 2y ago
Calendars is a part of why I've been wearing Casio digital watches for a long time.
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by mik1998 2y ago
It's a bill of attainder, which is unconstitutional in the USA. May or may not be struck down in court.
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by mik1998 2y ago
Reads very nicely but I can't imagine someone checking the dictionary for every verb or noun they use in order to determine whether it is approved.
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by mik1998 3y ago
Because disk manufacturers can produce less drives per TB if they simply change the measurement. Not to mention they have a whole army of useful idiots who are willing to fight for their profits.
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by mik1998 3y ago
Telling people they need to find you more attractive or else they're racist and evil is a comically idiotic thing to advocate for.
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by mik1998 3y ago
7z is an archive format, it just uses LZMA2 compression I believe.
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by mik1998 3y ago
I don't know about holidays but Israel uses the same daylight savings as the mentioned Eastern Europe countries, ie switching from UTC+0200 to +0300 at around the same time - only difference is that they start daylight savings on Frida
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by mik1998 3y ago
I don't think he was from Eastern Europe, but if you want to look at UTC+0200/+0300, in Europe this only includes Finland, Baltics, Ukraine, Romania, Moldavia, and Greece. But notably if you look a bit down it also includes a good
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by mik1998 3y ago
> that the hacker's activity is mostly in Southeast Asia working hours (read GMT+8) Opposite is true. His activity is focused around midnight in UTC+0800, with significant activity at 2AM in that timezone.
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by mik1998 3y ago
It's a nice analysis but he misses the fact that the Eastern Europe timezone doesn't match office hours, in particular it'd mean he worked around evenings primarily (see this graph https://files.catbox.moe/4it
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by mik1998 3y ago
I used the git repo at https://git.phial.org/d6/xz-analysis-mirror/commits/branch/m... and simply did git log --format=%cd --author="Jia Tan" and then processed it a bit with gnuplot. S
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by mik1998 3y ago
I did my own research. If you look at the git repository commit log and some mailing list messages, you will see that the author ("Jia Tan", fake name) speaks impeccable English (already lessens the chance of being a Chinese opera
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by mik1998 3y ago
Personally, I use lzip ever since I read https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Seems like the complexity of XZ has backfired severely, as expected.
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by mik1998 3y ago
"could", theoretically. In practice, there has never been an observed exploitation of the supposed vulnerability. mitigations=off
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by mik1998 3y ago
I'm not sure I would come to this conclusion. R has some adoption, but it's also really not used as a generic programming language, which most Lisp dialects are.
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by mik1998 3y ago
People who produce IP either by work for hire or by selling their copyright rights. I've had people "steal" IP by sending me a PDF of a paper they wrote whose copyright resides with their university. Not the typical image of
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by mik1998 3y ago
Absurd, presumably anecdotal claim. My own anecdotal experience is that it has no relation and I know many people who have violated the copyright on the IP they themselves produced.
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by mik1998 3y ago
I often use a Thinkpad X220 (which still works for a lot of my usage and I'm not too concerned about it being stolen or damaged) and the JS web is terrible to use on it. Mostly resulted in my preference of using native software (non-el
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by mik1998 3y ago
I mean... most European countries (modulo some exceptions like Germany) existed (non-continuously) for at least a thousand years.
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by mik1998 3y ago
It's an infinity% more than what I paid for university in Poland
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by mik1998 3y ago
Frankly, I never understood the anti-homework crowd. In university, I enjoyed homework - I am too stupid to do exercises quickly/during class, and homework lets me think about things for a lot longer. Doing homework has correlated very

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