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by residualmind 4y ago
> Investment engine upgraded, expected profit/loss ratio now 0.5800000000000001| Wonderful!
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by residualmind 4y ago
Even human-written content has become so bad it's sometimes hard to tell it apart from a Mark V. Shaney or Racter implementation. I mean, aren't our brains' language capabilites not just Markov chains on steroids, with billio
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by residualmind 4y ago
from a gen-xer: yawn it's so incredibly naive, shortsighted, hypocritical and foremost childish to blame everything that's gone wrong on everybody before (except?) you. because you'll do better, sure, lol. people are people,
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by residualmind 4y ago
Watched the new Quantum Leap yesterday (it's not great) and there was this really cringeworthy moment when something goes wrong with their awesome supercomputer and the screen flashes a giant "INTERNAL SYNTAX ERROR". Apparent
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by residualmind 4y ago
Actually reading (and understanding, acting upon) error messages seems to be part of the learning process of every developer. And while more senior devs usually do read error messages, even they sometimes, rather than reading it will jump t
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by residualmind 4y ago
It doesn't seem to be the same situation with tor exit nodes, where your node is automatically on the system. Here, it looks like people have to actively use your proxy; it tells people who run a proxy to share a URL with their friends
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by residualmind 4y ago
Counter Intuition
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by residualmind 4y ago
Hooray for hypertext and the QT links in the article. An insomniac morning turned into brain gymnastics. Especially when I got to Superdeterminism, things started to make sense again, some waves collapsing on me. I have yet to encounter one
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by residualmind 4y ago
Or it could all match up - aren't several dimensions the very core of e.g. field theory? No idea, really, as you can tell I'm not an expert, just throwing around random words in a thread that is ultimately based on a SF story.
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by residualmind 4y ago
And? Exactly my point, nothing spooky about it. At first you look at it in 4d, then 5, then 6..
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by residualmind 4y ago
I guess then causality will be broken if some external force introduces FTL/time travel to our handful of dimensions. Looking at our 4D hypercube of space time, any point in that x|y|z|t space becomes mutable, whats the problem? ;) (I
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by residualmind 4y ago
I was unprofitable when I was 20, too.
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by residualmind 4y ago
Point taken, I might have to look at a different debugger supporting loglines for my current setup. Still, the time it takes to execute would be a concern for me. But I am going to check out other debuggers.. hope they're snappy. I do
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by residualmind 4y ago
Some debuggers take longer(1-3 secs) to spin up than it takes me to add a print, compile and run and see my theory confirmed or not. If I want a debugger and see e.g. the complete variable scope at a breakpoint, I'll use a debugger. If
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by residualmind 4y ago
Sorry to hijack without being asked. I totally agree with the original piece and this comment. For me the most important part is: no matter how complex your requirements are, how you deal with complexity and abstraction in your codebase and
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by residualmind 4y ago
Thanks, I needed to hear that, be reminded of it.
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by residualmind 4y ago
That explains this smell.
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Web outages possibly linked to the Ukraine invasion
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by residualmind 5y ago
Yeah because the algo is known, it is SHA256. The thing is you don't know the length of the password. It could be more than the number of hydrogen atoms in the universe, or 12. You still have to brute force or look up one possible solu
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by residualmind 5y ago
Are you sure thats how evenly distributed hash algorithms work? change one letter of your string, or just make it longer or shorter - none of your green fields will stay.
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by residualmind 5y ago
[ @some-sober-math-guy insert probabilities ]
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by residualmind 5y ago
How does that help you when any of your inputs' digest is not related to any other's, not even knowing the target length of the original message? what am i missing?
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by residualmind 5y ago
Easy: can't backdoor a fax based system.
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by residualmind 5y ago
For me it was actually a relief to see that not everything is being over-explained, a sickness many modern movies suffer from. Where is the fun if after the movie you don't talk about it, look things up, maybe even read the book?
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by residualmind 5y ago
Finally something useful!
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by residualmind 5y ago
I like this! Could this be a digital implementation of the analog Spaghetti Sort? [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort ]
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by residualmind 5y ago
https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Chekhov_Gun
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by residualmind 5y ago
I'm sure I've encountered several Pfeilstorchs working on software. Finding out edge-cases in complex behavior by accident - while trying to fix bug A, indroducing bug B which then leads to discovering unrelated unexpected behavio
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by residualmind 5y ago
While scientifically-minded folks are excited for a new object of study, or simply something awesome in the night sky - I can't wait until I see the first doomsday predictions by people with a different mindset... In a way it is also
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by residualmind 5y ago
For some reason, this story made me very happy. Thank you for sharing.

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