psykotic

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by psykotic 16y ago
> These never catch on, and never will. Though I'm no great fan of Mr. Wolfram, I would have to say Mathematica has caught on quite well. Mathematica isn't a Lisp (its semantics are based on term rewriting) but it freely intermixes S-ex
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by psykotic 16y ago
> Part of the reason I never bothered with them - IMHO a company who heavily bases their hiring choices on school grades is not someone I want to work for. I worked for NVIDIA in a key group on key projects, and I never even finished my
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Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU(youtube.com)
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by psykotic 16y ago
> This is a great talk; Bernstein is a surprisingly excellent public speaker with solid timing. If you haven't seen him speak before, you might enjoy these old MSRI videos: Fast Multiplication - http://angelina.msri.org/IA/TalkDetail?f
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by psykotic 16y ago
BTW, you can read more in Cliff Click's USENIX paper from 2005: https://www.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p46-click.pd...
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by psykotic 16y ago
Marking is concurrent. The read barrier trap only has to mark the immediate reference. If the mutator that triggered the trap proceeds to reference one of the reference's children before the marker thread has gotten around to it, that will
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by psykotic 16y ago
> HAIFA is a response to MD that (among other things) eliminates length-extension attacks. Sorry to reply belatedly, but after reading the HAIFA paper I'm a little confused. When the message is a multiple of the block length, doesn't HA
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by psykotic 16y ago
Oh, I know. I was saying that it would be doable to implement.
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by psykotic 16y ago
That's a pretty lame excuse. There also isn't a simple line for line relationship between C code and x86 code or C# code and MSIL code. But there's a standard solution to this problem when debugging: let the compilers generate mapping infor
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by psykotic 16y ago
IMO, a better pattern is to use lexical closures in continuation-passing style to share state: function sleep(time, continuation) { setTimeout(continuation, time); } function start_process(x) { var y = foo(x);
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by psykotic 16y ago
What a great opportunity for you. Have a blast! Are you planning on writing up a trip report on your blog?
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by psykotic 17y ago
You are in effect making the argument that "tough learning" has no place in the curriculum. It's absolutely crucial that students are confronted with learning curves that are discontinuous compared to what they have previously faced. The ot
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by psykotic 17y ago
What makes me most skeptical about his claims in that blog post is the time frame and the simultaneous loss of body fat in absolute rather than relative terms. When I first started training Olympic weight lifting seriously I gained nearly f
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by psykotic 17y ago
Not a Feriss fan but it's not at all impossible to gain way more than ten pounds of muscle in a relatively short time if you aren't already very strong. His exact numbers sound excessive but I suspect he's gone up and down with that muscle
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by psykotic 17y ago
The OED has quotations going back as far as 1953: 1953 Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation VII. 73 With the advent of large-scale high-speed digital computers, there arises the question of their possible use in the solution of prob
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by psykotic 18y ago
And arguably neither is Rothbard, who is much closer in his view on ethics to Rand than to von Mises.
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by psykotic 18y ago
My understanding is that income tax as well as NIC contributions go towards funding the NHS. Anyone is eligible for NHS treatment, even foreigners, so it seems inaccurate to say that your contribution to the NIC is what pays for your health