ncw33

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by ncw33 8y ago
The difference is that most/all sugars are not inherently harmful, and we believe that they can be consumed safely at reasonable doses. A bit of glucose or fructose won't kill you, and is a (small) natural component of your diet.
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by ncw33 9y ago
What rewrite? Switching to python3 is a quick (almost entirely automated) process. It's really not a big problem.
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by ncw33 9y ago
How dedicated to keep it going so long! Maintenance this long-term is a time-sucking activity.
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by ncw33 9y ago
Very impressive stuff. We should see more and more of this sort of assistive technology, to alleviate and improve on the manual labour of programming. This isn't a language issue, although perhaps this sort of branch annotation in prod
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by ncw33 9y ago
That's a different field entirely. Just because some American hospitals have trouble organising medical ethics reviews, does not mean that European or even American CompSci researchers will run into the same problems. Indeed, Daniel is
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by ncw33 9y ago
Good work, Daniel. A laboriously-gathered overview of current practice, and discussion of how to determine whether uses of illegally-obtained data are justified.
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by ncw33 9y ago
Brilliant spot! I hadn't read that in the local papers - there was simply criticism of the 'boxy' design. I live right by that station, and used it for the first time this weekend (only a few days after it opened) and my wife
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by ncw33 9y ago
Why should it bundle the kitchen sink - I wouldn't expect all codecs to come with their own container format! You can put it in Ogg or use its own more-limited native metadata handling.
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by ncw33 10y ago
It's good for the library to be robust, but four code cleanliness issues (not triggerable remotely) hardly counts as news in the world of vulnerabilities! Keep them coming, I'm glad that so many of us who use mbedTLS are reporting
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by ncw33 10y ago
It is possible already - you can do `command 2>&4` to separate the output from one command in a pipeline into its own stream, then do `command2 <&4` to pull from the further down the pipeline.
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by ncw33 10y ago
I agree, Cassandra is doing here exactly what I (as a user) would expect. When using a DB like C*, you always have to ask yourself, "does this update happen before or after this one - have I done anything to ensure that's the case
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by ncw33 10y ago
Not much! Just a few bytes for each packet. Running a NAT service requires a big table of all the active connections, ie. it's stateful - IPv6 with no NAT needs no per-connection state in the router so that's a big space-saving.
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by ncw33 10y ago
If Thomas has enough time to finish it (bearing in mind the hundreds of hours it will take to bring it to production quality) - and if he has time to maintain it over the years - and if he is able to commit to years' worth of future m
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by ncw33 10y ago
In no so many words, the article is pointing out that O(n) + O(1) is not necessarily quicker than O(n) + O(n): both add to O(n) (since only the highest-order factor matters), and the constant factor is unsurprisingly better for array lists.
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by ncw33 10y ago
Insertion into an array list at a uniformly-distributed location is always O(n): you can't avoid moving half the list. Appending is amortized O(1).
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by ncw33 11y ago
Indeed, I clicked on the link because I thought, "That's interesting, I wonder what a Q-tip is". Then I found it was just another name for a cotton bud, and was disappointed: I'm sure there are more bizarre items than th
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by ncw33 11y ago
Actually, the patch was announced before the details of the bug: I subscribe to the libpng mailing list, and got about a day's notice to ship the patch out before the CVE and associated details were widely publicised. They did a good j
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by ncw33 11y ago
Nice, but I'm still waiting for 64-bit integer arithmetic! For our use case, what I like about this is that we can continue to use emscripten and the technology will come to us, rather than requiring app developers to invest in yet ano
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by ncw33 12y ago
So basically, lots of big publishers are really upset that they don't know where their traffic is coming from. They were previously uncategorised because clicking on links from the Facebook app doesn't add a Referer. Then someone
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by ncw33 12y ago
Why post a link to that here? systemd is not perfect, but it's a well-designed and competent piece of work that makes things better for users, developers, and admins. It's been adopted by most distributions now, which must indicat
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by ncw33 12y ago
I have to say, without knowing any people involved with Apache, hindering projects from moving to git for any reason is hard to fathom. Why _wouldn't_ a new project use git? In the old days of subversion, anyone wanting to commit to a