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by nsajko 5y ago
> I found some discussion here[2] where it's suggested it has some fatal flaws as well The described flaws are not really flaws. The author of the blog post has a strange perspective on what a PRNG should be. > obvious patterns i
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by nsajko 5y ago
Titanium dioxide is also widely used in cosmetics because it blocks ultraviolet light. Together with zinc oxide, it's the basis of sunscreen. As a pigment, titanium dioxide also seems like it's currently the go-to less toxic rep
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by nsajko 5y ago
Both are merely joke licenses.
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If Ukraine's NATO member neighbors aren't sending their own armies to attack Putin or defend Ukraine, why do you think a neighboring country would let the Ukrainian military attack from their soil? I'm not saying it couldn&#x
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by nsajko 5y ago
Don't forget about the infectious diseases that the Europeans brought with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smallp
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by nsajko 5y ago
Your idea is unfair and would be illegal to carry out. Because it's racist, obviously. Furthermore, I live in the Balkans area (Croatia) and it so happens that companies from this area do employ people of varied ethnicity, and those do
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by nsajko 5y ago
Regular languages are an element included in Chomsky's hierarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language
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by nsajko 5y ago
A must-read paper in this space is the 1998 paper by Charles Crowley, Data Structures for Text Sequences : https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.48... It explores the space from a different angle:
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by nsajko 5y ago
This is nonsense. In this context, safety is a term whose meaning is implied by Rust's design, i.e. it refers to code that's not unsafe. This doesn't translate to much of anything in the world outside of Rust, and it boggle
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by nsajko 5y ago
> rather than hard-coding inputs you simply always generate them Why not both? In any case, a rudimentary implementation is actually in Go's standard library already for a long time: https://pkg.go.dev/testing/q
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by nsajko 5y ago
> VPS (with your preferred cloud service provider), which if not logged into in say 40 days, sends an SMS or Email to your Wife or Next of Kin with your secrets, pins, passwords and locations to anything physical. Perhaps even better: on
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by nsajko 5y ago
I recently learned that proof of work was actually invented long before Bitcoin to combat spam, but the idea didn't take off, sadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by nsajko 5y ago
Video seems to be affected by a false copyright claim: > Video unavailable > This video contains content from LDS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds LDS "suggests" I watch "Michael McIntyre On Chri
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by nsajko 5y ago
Refs: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based-and-redpilled
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Phonemic Orthography(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nsajko 5y ago
You're confusing old with normal and your conclusion attempts to "appeal to nature" (a well known error of logic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
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by nsajko 5y ago
Isn't OOP mostly just a buzzword?
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by nsajko 5y ago
Podcasts are entertainment, they're a wildly inappropriate medium for rational argumentation or giving evidence or anything similar. Put another way, you can't expect me to spend my time listening to a podcast just to be able to g
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by nsajko 5y ago
Trump tried doing something like that in a predictably half-assed, illegal and obviously inappropriate manner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok_v._Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tru
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by nsajko 5y ago
> I got a warning about the missing return statement in that function, but didn't think there could be a connection to my bug. This is the whole story, really.
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This sounds horrid.
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by nsajko 5y ago
Relevant Wikipedia pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminalia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management Relevant HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by nsajko 5y ago
1. I say "There's simply no way to implement one of those strictly on Wayland.". 2. You respond by giving a bunch of examples that align with my statement, but you don't seem to realize this. 3. I clarify. 4. Suddenly I
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by nsajko 5y ago
HN guidelines forbid changing the title. I proposed changing this once, but the post didn't get traction. There was more traction for that years ago though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300126
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Fragmentation galore, pretty sure you're actually reinforcing my point with these examples. Can one rely upon any of these hacks, extensions and third-party APIs working for all systems with a Wayland compositor? Some of these are comp
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by nsajko 5y ago
> there's really not much difference between using gnome on wayland and gnome on X11 Yes, looking just at big DEs there's not much difference. Consider, however, the problems Wayland causes for the ecosystem. Take screen grabbi
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by nsajko 5y ago
Sorry for calling you a troll. That wasn't fair to you, and also isn't good for the discussion. > fragmentation No, Wayland introduces new sources of fragmentation that did not exist before. Imagine trying to write a screenshot
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by nsajko 5y ago
TBH I remember your other comments about Wayland across many threads, and most of them have a quality of being confused in such a manner as to provoke long answers and derail the discussion. > a protocol with multiple implementations - w
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by nsajko 5y ago
> what is flawed with Wayland? The protocol doesn't support most essential features, leaving them up to "compositors" to implement mutually incompatibly. Screenshots, accessibility, etc. Thus Wayland promotes fragmentation
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by nsajko 5y ago
> The difficulty arise from the complexity of the problems to solve. What problems are those exactly? It's my impression that Wayland (the protocol) just creates problems without solving any. > Wayland is just one part of the big

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