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by rfw 11y ago
I believe that the insulin spike theory has been mostly debunked: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21245879 You shouldn't swear off artificial sweeteners because of the stigma around them, especially since there
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by rfw 11y ago
I guess it finds fixed points over a functor without requiring you to have a reference to the functor (having about the same usefulness as `fix`).
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by rfw 11y ago
Tangentially, the Löb function over (Haskell) functors implements spreadsheet-like computations in an unexpected way: https://github.com/quchen/articles/blob/master/loeb-moeb.md ex. loeb [const 1,
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by rfw 11y ago
A fixed-point combinator would work just as well here (with the added bonus of not reaching around and digging in Python internals) :) def fix(g): return (lambda f: g(lambda *args, **kwargs: f(f)(*args, **kwargs)))( lamb
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by rfw 11y ago
Reading through N4447, correct me if I'm mistaken, but it seems to be more about compile-time metaprogramming than it does runtime reflection? It does talk about class.for_name(std::string) but kind of handwaves about how it would work
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by rfw 12y ago
Google did use reCAPTCHA to recognize Street View house numbers and street names, so I think there are (somewhat) more innocuous reasons than just wholesale data collection.
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by rfw 12y ago
The issue here isn't so much the ads as it is being able to authenticate that the remote party is who you think it is – if your browser trusts the MITMed certificate, you no longer have the guarantee that your banking website is actual
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by rfw 12y ago
It seems odd that ActiveRecord even has the methods #first through to #fifth...
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by rfw 13y ago
Ah thanks, that makes a lot more sense.
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by rfw 13y ago
Huh, looking at https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/issues/581 : "Ciphertext retrieval by joining from non-Cryptocat clients" -- isn't that just expected behavior, or am I missing something h
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by rfw 13y ago
As I posted before the outage, I don't think leaking un-exported elements is actually that broken either -- Haskell gets by fine with it (you can omit the type and its constructor in the module export list and have types "leak&quo
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by rfw 13y ago
Or maybe you'll just get more work done ;)