mjw1007

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by mjw1007 9y ago
Still PROPOSED STANDARD, eleven years on. Though that says as much about the IETF as that particular RFC.
932.
by mjw1007 9y ago
That's a good way to make sure that people with significantly different amounts of money don't socialise together.
933.
by mjw1007 9y ago
Also: yet another problem caused by NAT.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
The UK equivalent of Minitel was Prestel, which used the same display system as Teletext.
935.
by mjw1007 9y ago
That aspect of adduser, at least on my system, is explicitly configurable via /etc/adduser.conf . I don't think systemd (which is after all attempting to be universally deployed) is entitled to assume that the system administ
936.
by mjw1007 9y ago
It could treat all-digit values differently to values that just start with a digit.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I think you're a bit too harsh. If you maintain widely-used software, you're going to get a lot of bug reports which are in fact user error, and you don't have a great deal of time to spend on each report. So it's easy t
938.
by mjw1007 9y ago
In this case there seem to be three bad design decisions: systemd rejects usernames starting with a digit even though they exist in the wild; systemd ignores config lines containing values it considers invalid, rather than failing the whole
939.
by mjw1007 9y ago
In that case the systemd developers ought to have been thinking «usernames beginning with digits do exist in the wild on linux systems, therefore we should support them».
940.
by mjw1007 9y ago
The bit rrggrr is complaining about is underneath «even if we assume that petitioners have adequately demonstrated standing».
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Sure, Norvig knew how to solve the problem from the start. But that's another reason why the "TDD Sudoku Fiasco" blogpost isn't a terribly useful source of information (or, from another point of view, why it isn't a
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by mjw1007 9y ago
The 'Fiasco' is a bit of an unfair comparison, because Jeffries is deliberately providing a 'stream of consciousness' writeup while Norvig's is a cleaned-up version with false starts removed. (You can tell Norvig&#x
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I don't mind Intel keeping very quiet about fixed-in-microcode bugs that don't directly affect valid userspace programs, like « Instruction Fetch May Cause Machine Check if Page Size and Memory Type Was Changed Without Invalidatio
944.
by mjw1007 9y ago
It's painful to have to read text like « select Intel Pentium processor models ». If Intel used marketing names that were more closely related to technical reality, then when something like this happens they wouldn't have so many
945.
by mjw1007 9y ago
I don't think that's as bad as it looks. Part of the point of inventing concise notation for mathematics is so that you can "let the formalism carry you through"; a great deal of the time you can write down the next line
946.
by mjw1007 9y ago
I think TeX came pretty close. I think the Exim spec is pretty much the gold standard for reference documentation, but they need a separate user-friendly introduction too (there was a separate paper book at one point).
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by mjw1007 9y ago
That page describes ways to manually recount votes that were cast. But the article suggests that the tampering might have been in the voter registration databases, so that people would wrongly be refused the opportunity to cast a vote.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
It's for when you want to update more than one column with values from the same record in another table, eg: UPDATE books SET (title, isbn) = ( SELECT title, isbn FROM other_books WHERE other_books.foo = books.bar); Y
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Microsoft may put a great deal of effort into supporting old APIs and old ABIs, but it turns out that that effort has not been enough for us to be able to tell everyone "Yes, go ahead and upgrade to a new Windows version, nothing will
950.
by mjw1007 9y ago
I observe that mathematicians in my country often have informed (and strong) opinions on mathematical education. As does the author of "A Mathematician's Lament". Maybe I have a mistaken impression of how significant "ne
951.
by mjw1007 9y ago
They may be, but I'm still interested to know what they think. I already know what non-mathematicians-in-general think.
952.
by mjw1007 9y ago
Out of interest (I think this forum is not short of people who are in a position to answer): what is the general opinion among US mathematicians about that "new math" experiment? I know that it has a terrible reputation, but was i
953.
by mjw1007 9y ago
There's no need to go around telling people anything. We could just stop believing that « capitalism is just another way of saying "what people want" ».
954.
by mjw1007 9y ago
The patent describes something very like Moom's "Grid" feature (I think the «select more than one selectable region» bit is the key restriction). So if the patent stands up, I suppose they'd have the option of just remov
955.
by mjw1007 9y ago
I forgot that « sell personal interest profiles to retailers » line was there. As a futurologist he's not bad at all.
956.
by mjw1007 9y ago
The article says « Microsoft no longer supplies security patches for those versions of Windows. The software giant today made an exception to that policy » From what https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05
957.
by mjw1007 9y ago
I see no justification for the arm of that 'iff' which is equivalent to "if what the plaintiff says is not true, then it is not the case that a contract probably exists".
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I hope you don't really mean 'iff' there.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I agree. Two other effects which are often large: First: suppose a task takes an hour and I do it once a month. If I can automate it so that it takes a few seconds, I don't just save an hour a month, I also have the option of doing it
960.
by mjw1007 9y ago
«Edge» was a terrible name, because in Microsoft-world it already had a different technical meaning in the context of: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> (which has now become unnecessaril

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