nialo

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by nialo 10y ago
I am pretty sure I'm living in an apartment that's smaller than my parent's house was when I was born in 1988, despite having three incomes instead of two to spend on it. I also think that a pretty big fraction of all the ext
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by nialo 10y ago
I was a mechanical engineer for five years, now in software: The way programmers tend to default "engineer" to meaning "software engineer" bothers me sometimes too. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised by a m
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by nialo 10y ago
it is a lot like an HMAC. The advantage of something like SipHash is just that it's faster for the same security, not that it's fundamentally different from HMAC.
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by nialo 10y ago
I think you are making false assumptions about the way other people's brains work. We can't all remember to do things later, no matter how badly we want to. Would you say the same thing about someone who kept a small notepad in t
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by nialo 10y ago
It turns out that it is, in fact, at least mostly possible to implement a condition type system in Clojure. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0OEDcAro0 I did a little bit of googling for Clojure libraries that do this:
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by nialo 10y ago
I think this sort of thing is where unions come from.
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by nialo 10y ago
I've recently started carrying earplugs on my keychain for basically this reason, everything just sounds much better. The only tricky thing is remembering to speak loudly enough so that everyone else can hear me.
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by nialo 10y ago
do you know anything about the wire temperature in these things? I looked at both links and didn't see any numbers outside the paywall. Another comment mentions a vapor temperature of <260C, but nothing about the wire temperatures
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by nialo 10y ago
For whatever little it's worth, and appologies if you knew this already: Kanthal wire should be generally more 'inert' than stainless at high temperatures. The aluminum in Kanthal forms a tougher and more temperature resist
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by nialo 10y ago
Probably "3 way handshake", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#...
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by nialo 10y ago
How is the crash rate? I used to use Inventor professionally, and that had a MTBF of perhaps 4 hours. I haven't needed a CAD program since then, but one of the things that'd make me try Solvespace first is that whitequark appears
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by nialo 10y ago
I don't work on Solvespace and therefore don't know for sure, but I suspect they're not linear. In particular, a significant fraction of all constraints in a CAD system like that are of the form "the distance between th
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by nialo 10y ago
mostly curiosity: why a stack vm in particular? (is it because you then need to write the compiler for it?)
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by nialo 10y ago
I think this actually has the opposite implication from the one you seem to be trying to draw. If different teams finding the same bugs was common, then someone else probably would have found this one sometime in the last 14 years and repo
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by nialo 10y ago
I agree with this pretty much completely, although I wonder a little how it works at places like my current one, with 4 total programmers. I just wanted to add that probably every 'human problem' or 'people problem' at t
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by nialo 10y ago
http://research.swtch.com/zip is a neat article about quines, worth reading if you haven't heard of them before.
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by nialo 10y ago
Common Lisp variables are not even a little bit immutable by default. setf is the opposite of immutable values, you can mutate any place in a way that's visible everywhere regardless of any sort of scoping. Immutable by default might
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by nialo 10y ago
fwiw, Starfighter (probably mostly Erin/Thomas? hard to tell from the outside) got me a job that I love and certainly couldn't have gotten without them. It sucks that the business didn't work out, but it certainly wasn't
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by nialo 10y ago
KeepassHttp is not even a little bit secure if run over a network, see for example: https://github.com/pfn/keepasshttp/issues/258 It's probably fine so long as both your 'client' and 'serv
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by nialo 10y ago
Why is OFB worse than CTR? Admittedly I'm just glancing at the wikipedia block cipher modes of operation page, but it is totally non-obvious to me that OFB with SHA1(msg) as an IV is worse than CTR with SHA1(msg) as the 'nonce&#x
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by nialo 10y ago
The simple obvious first guess is, "Shopify makes a much larger margin, so there is more money available to pay for fraud detection" Or maybe Shopify knows more about their clients or something like that. Regardless, the margins
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by nialo 10y ago
I don't have an opinion on this particular compiler, or really any other similar one, but: Can't one make the same argument about a compiler from C++ to x86 machine code? C++ and x86 certainly don't have anything like a 1:1
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by nialo 10y ago
Can you explain what you mean by JSON being an edge labeled tree in more detail? I don't understand and would really like to.
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by nialo 10y ago
I recently wrote a first pass at an RSS feed parser for podcasts, but couldn't find examples of interestingly malformed podcast feeds to test against. Do you have examples of sites with badly formed RSS feeds?
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by nialo 10y ago
The parent is taking the error numbers as something like 1 standard deviation on a normal distribution, rather than an absolute limit. so, x = 6±3.5m means something like "x is equal to 6 + a random number taken from a normal distribu
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by nialo 10y ago
I notice my preferences tending slowly towards more 'extreme' versions of a particular set of kinks over time. I suspect, but obviously cannot prove, that this would happen even more slowly if the porn for those tightly targeted
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by nialo 10y ago
It seems like there must be some way to indicate that a particular start+/repeat+ pair are connected, even just an edge in a different color seems like it'd be a big help.
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by nialo 10y ago
Note that this probably means that designing contracts of this sort of "friendly AI complete" in some sense, and therefore not a good thing to be betting on in the short term.
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by nialo 10y ago
I personally am in no rush for this, all my discretionary coding time is currently going to a work sample for an opportunity Starfighter found me at the moment.
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by nialo 10y ago
I want typing "load foo.cg" and hitting enter in the debugger to print _something_, almost anything. Ideally it would print different things depending on whether foo.cg actually exists and is a valid file to try to load or not.

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