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by oofabz 13y ago
There are a few, the most realistic is the Bohm interpretation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory The basic idea is that observed decoherence is not caused by wave collapse, but is caused by interaction with nois
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by oofabz 13y ago
This is not a one-time pad. It uses a key that contains less information than the message. It is still possible to brute-force the key if you have enough data. It is a great way to make the key hard to copy, which is how encryption is usual
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by oofabz 13y ago
How about continued fractions? Unlike floating point, they can represent any rational number in finite memory. Using generators, you can even represent many irrational numbers, like square roots and pi, in finite memory. Richard Schroeppel
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by oofabz 13y ago
I used OpenBSD a lot ten years ago but I don't anymore. Two things have changed: OpenGL and filesystems. I use Linux on GUI machines because it has good GPU support. I use FreeBSD on servers because it has ZFS.
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by oofabz 14y ago
I like serifs so I use Luxi Mono. It used to be the RedHat console font and it was inspired by the Sun console font. On Debian it's in the ttf-xfree86-nonfree package.
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by oofabz 14y ago
If Apple needs a better filesystem, they should consider HAMMER from DragonflyBSD. It's BSD-licensed, unencumbered by patents, and way more sophisticated than HFS+.
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by oofabz 14y ago
I am guilty of upvoting every Go post. But my work has nothing to do with Google. I just really love the language and want it to succeed. Go maps very closely to how I think about programming. It has more useful features than other language
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by oofabz 14y ago
Getting the length of a string is a bad idea. Usually you do this because you want to iterate over the string one character at a time. But getting the character at a particular index is an O(n) operation, so iterating over a string this way
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by oofabz 14y ago
CompareAndSwap implementations use a memory barrier on ARM. That should be sufficient to guarantee correctness.
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by oofabz 14y ago
Install fail2ban to protect against these scans. With its default settings, it will ban an IP for ten minutes if it fails to login six times. That doesn't inconvenience real users but it makes it impractical to brute-force a password. It's
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by oofabz 14y ago
There was no System 7.2 or 7.3.5. They went from 7.1.2 to 7.5. You may be thinking of 7.1.2 (the first PowerPC release) or 7.5.3 (the last full version posted as a free download).
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by oofabz 14y ago
This Lebbeus Woods has some great artwork. I'd never heard of him before but I found these two pieces by him: http://historyofourworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/lw-iii.... http://www.krobarch.com/images/winners/2012/entry3353.jpg
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by oofabz 14y ago
It's really impressive how their sophisticated image processing algorithms are only a few lines long. If I wrote an algorithm to detect rivers, it would be hundreds of lines long and less effective. These guys tackle it mathematically and i
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by oofabz 14y ago
It sounds like you are referring to "Hackers" by Steven Levy. It's a great book and that's a great story. I've posted it here: http://frammish.org/used_up.html
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by oofabz 14y ago
The digital signature was created with GnuPG 1.2.1, released in October 2002. GnuPG 1.2.2 was released in May 2003.
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by oofabz 14y ago
At the time, Microsoft's hegemony over the web browser market was at its peak. Firefox was the only real competitor. If web pages checked the user agent, they probably only accounted for these two browsers. Anything else fell back to legacy
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by oofabz 14y ago
Copperplate is a poor choice of typeface for a contract.
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by oofabz 14y ago
I was hoping for a downloadable single-image version but he doesn't have one. I made one myself by compositing his tiles. Image: http://frammish.org/dots.png Code: http://pastie.org/5602534
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by oofabz 14y ago
I want to go back to the system where musicians are not rock stars trying to sell you a product, they are ordinary people with a day job who enjoy making and sharing music for their own entertainment.
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by oofabz 14y ago
Thank you, I stand corrected. I believe they are still both Scandinavian. Proto-Germanic, which all of these languages descended from, was spoken primarily in Denmark and Sweden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language
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by oofabz 14y ago
It's not sensational to claim that English is Scandinavian. German and English are both descended from Norse, so they are both Scandinavian if you go back 1500 years. What this linguist is saying is that modern English is more Scandinavian
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by oofabz 14y ago
DRM before 1990 typically involved non-standard floppy disk formats that a home computer could not duplicate. You can read about one such scheme here: http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/210
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by oofabz 14y ago
This is why UTF-8 is great. If it works for any Unicode character it will work for them all. Surrogate pairs are rare enough that they are poorly tested. With UTF-8, if there are issues with multi-byte characters, they are obvious enough to
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by oofabz 14y ago
Yes, that is what I'm saying. Security: Adding a layer of security on a per-filesystem basis is not sufficient or necessary. It is only conceivably useful as a backup plan when the actual security system has failed, and at that point it is
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by oofabz 14y ago
>their fork is designed to allow a system to be started even if the /usr/ directory hasn't been mounted yet. What a terrible reason to fork. This feature is useless. Putting /usr/ on a separate filesystem made sense 20 years ago when st
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by oofabz 14y ago
Thanks, that looks like a good way to handle errors. Go does have a panic() function for your situation. It takes an argument of any type. You can catch it with recover(), or the application crashes. It's like throwing an exception except y
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by oofabz 14y ago
>Idiommatic Go is to have several lines of boilerplate after every single function invocation which can possibly fail. This is an issue in every language. If you want to do something that might fail, you have to handle the possibility o
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by oofabz 14y ago
Why? People have been voting third party for more than a hundred years and it hasn't worked. The duopoly is still in power, ignoring you with impunity. All you're doing is giving up your chance to affect the election. If you want more optio
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by oofabz 14y ago
A FET that handles that much power requires substantial heat sinking. You could make a hole in the seal for the sink, so the switch is inside and the heatsink is outside, but then you have to worry about how this will affect the integrity o
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by oofabz 14y ago
Looks pretty cool but the pawn rules are a hack. Since "forward" is no longer a well defined direction, I propose allowing pawns to move to any adjacent square, and capture to any diagonal square.

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