pwdisswordfish

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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Saying it's unnecessary is incorrect, and I don't agree about it being cumbersome either. On the first point, how would you disambiguate between reading from an attribute and reading from a global (or non-local) variable? How woul
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
And my axe!
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> decimal positive binary numbers Make up your mind.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> Let X be infinite. That assumption is unnecessary. Cantor's theorem works just as well for finite sets: it's simply the statement that 2ⁿ > n.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> 1. byte Actually 'code unit', which may have any number of bits, depending on the encoding. Otherwise spot on.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> However, having read a decent amount of the code myself, it is pretty crappy/sketchy. Have a look at vvfat.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Not quite. See https://zneak.github.io/fcd/2017/02/19/divisions.html — it was posted here some time ago.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Kerckhoffs' principle: security should depend on the secrecy of the keys, not of the algorithm. Do you object to PGP or PKCS#7 because they attach metadata to the encrypted data, so that the attacker knows which cipher/key they sh
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> In Australian aboriginal mythology, ? is a god of earthly knowledge and physical might, created by Altjira to ensure that people did not get too arrogant or self-conceited. [Jar'Edo Wens] > Correct!
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
If it's mostly underwater, why not call it Atlantis?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
What does it have to do with static typing? Function pointers are perfectly valid types. Also, can't you just use a debugger?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
On the contrary: Wikipedia users are just as much (if not more) subject to their own wishful thinking and dirty politics when writing internal policy pages as they are when writing regular articles. Especially that there is no requirement t
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content Are you seriously trying to persuade someone who has doubts about the accuracy of Wikipedia content with a link to a Wikipedia page?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
As Tycho Brahe[0] once said: 'because I don’t have time to babysit the Internet'. Maybe because the moment he would try to actually go and even, say, enforce the verifiability policies that already exist , an angry crowd of self-
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
First you vote once, and then you vote again.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
This appears to be just a web wrapper around http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ , and not a very slick one either. For one, it could use the <audio> element instead of forcing me to download the sound file.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
IIRC the former is basically what D does. The keyword is `function`.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
>>> 'おはようございます'[::-1] Why do people keep using this as an example? A character is not a necessarily a single code point; reversing code points is not any more meaningful than reversing bytes. And reversing strin
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
I actually quite like this syntax for deleting remote branches. You can think of it as a special case of git push $remote $local_commit:$remote_branch which updates the remote ref $remote_branch so that it points to $local_commit;
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
To be honest, this is the first criticism of Git I've read that I can see making concrete, coherent, actionable points. And I actually agree with some of them. Most other complaints about git I've seen seem to be of the vague &#
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Limited indeed. If nothing else, I'd suggest reading < http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/> . In short: > there are some apparently NP-complete problems that are P for a quantum process The definition
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
n² - 1 = (n - 1)(n + 1)
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> Since when was argument passing ever done with DDE? Umm... Windows 3.1, I think? It could use DDE to pass the path to the file opened in the File Manager to the program specified in the Registry.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Unix got something right in that you can unambiguously pass a list of separate strings to launched processes. However, it does nothing to ensure unambiguous meaning of those strings. This is for example why you should avoid giving your fi
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> Sometimes, you can't avoid the shell. What circumstances have you got in mind?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Well, the real problem here is that there's not really a 'standard' you can rely on in the first place. And while it's true that text isn't a necessary part of the general problem, in my experience text-based fo
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
This is a quite good example of the kind of problems you run into when you follow the philosophy of representing all data in informally-specified ad-hoc text formats. Everyone thinks they can just roll their own parser/serialiser, whic
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
There was, technically, but it was quite sketchy. For example, in Windows 95 the zero page was mapped to physical memory in order to workaround an ancient CPU bug... for which CPU support was later dropped anyway[0][1]; as far as I know, Wi
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> Every falsehood that is true Hmm.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
FreeDOS doesn't work on computers without a PC BIOS ; there's a difference. Look up 'Compatibility Support Module'.

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