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by sesqu 13y ago
What other userland? Without GNU, Linux might never have even gotten written.
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by sesqu 13y ago
Pretty much, except in coding theory you have to be explicit about your alphabet. Hall took this further, by positing that in television, viewers use individual and heterogeneous decoders. Anyway, the point is that the channel used to commu
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by sesqu 13y ago
> very unlikely to be random. Speaking of word replacements, "random" does not mean "uniformly distributed". An unfair coin toss is still random.
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by sesqu 13y ago
I believe the point of the technique is that it may avoid some heuristics that malware scanners use to identify loaders.
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by sesqu 13y ago
This does qualify as (very poor) encoding, to me - the malicious code is stored in padded ASCII, which has to be decoded to unpadded before being interpreted. It doesn't use metadata, though, and I wouldn't call it steganography,
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by sesqu 13y ago
No. Evolution doesn't involve resets - the hint is in the name.
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by sesqu 13y ago
Range and mode won't save you from the quartet, and they're a red herring in any case (you'd need to add statistics until you go blue in the face).
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by sesqu 13y ago
What's more, half-open intervals are more naturally 1-based, setting the missing point at 0. Dijkstra's arguments are very assailable, despite being trotted out in every discussion as arguments from authority. The crux of the issu
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by sesqu 13y ago
Words of different languages are often suggested for a ban, but fail the real-world test. Countless languages borrow words from one another, especially names. For example, some people argue that calling Marie Skłodowska-Curie simply Curie m
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by sesqu 13y ago
You're ignoring the divisor. For example, √(2·3)÷(2+3) < √(2·2)÷(2+2) but (2·3)÷(2+3) > (2·2)÷(2+2).
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by sesqu 13y ago
The allegation there, from what I can see, was that a someone had a bot controlling five accounts. That's enough to impact even the corrected version of this ranking, and as such is only moderately relevant.
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by sesqu 13y ago
The first downvote pushes the submission down below every positive submission ever, not just below the last 12 hours' worth. It can only recover if upvoted from other views.
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by sesqu 13y ago
Even better would be to sort by deviance: SORT SQRT(ups*downs)/MAX(ups+downs,1) ASCENDING
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by sesqu 13y ago
> And notably, they are sorted oldest first, just as I predicted. This bit is actually misstated. Those posts all have a comparison value of 0 (assuming score is simplistic), and are not affected by the oldest-first ranking of negative
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by sesqu 13y ago
That's not a feature of O; that's simply a feature of leaving stuff out. O is a simplification of a function, but says nothing about how to construct the function. You need to have your (implicit) computational model before you ca
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by sesqu 13y ago
Meanwhile, many of those languages with accented characters have no use for letters like z. It's not really worth mentioning the alphabet when talking about unique features of English.
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by sesqu 13y ago
They mean they haven't put the data received so far into long-term storage, because the feature wasn't considered to be in production. This is consistent with the initial report. So to make this true, they just need to wipe their
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by sesqu 13y ago
The interface is far from PC-centric. It's PC-tolerable, but was clearly designed for consoles. Firaxis initially promised separate interfaces for both platforms, and presumably for touch devices as well, but the differences ended up b
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by sesqu 13y ago
I mean 25€, which is slightly higher than the $25 the article is about.
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by sesqu 13y ago
The new Xbox vs PS article summary is horrible, though: * It's also a great gaming system – it has great games this year. * Ronald Reagan was president, MTV had just launched and choosing a video game system was easy. * "
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by sesqu 13y ago
I would classify XCom: Enemy Unknown as console game, not a PC game. But the important point is that it's not an iPad game, and as such is automatically "worth" more due to having a different anchor.
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by sesqu 13y ago
It's worth noting that this game also has a "high" price point.
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by sesqu 13y ago
There was an incident some time ago when someone got caught in one of those due to a power outage or something. They ended up breaking the glass.
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by sesqu 13y ago
I have read news articles of people getting stuck in those, sometimes for quite long periods of time.
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by sesqu 13y ago
I assumed he was talking about Conrad, the person making this announcement.
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by sesqu 13y ago
Gmail can't, but Exchange and Skype can (and do).
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by sesqu 13y ago
I was actually impressed with how lightly broken it was. Despite including half a dozen scripts, I only needed to explicitly load one - the first party one - to read the article. Many sites in this school fall flat without some fourth-party
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by sesqu 13y ago
>collapse button at the end of the post This one in particular confused me. I get that it's a common pattern, but I thought Google had UX people these days.
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by sesqu 13y ago
The quality that breeds such jerks is simply comfort. When people are comfortable, they make bad jokes, express unpopular opinions, reference subcultures and so on. Whether comfort is a positive thing, sociologically, has occasionally been
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by sesqu 13y ago
Many of those age-restricted videos can still be embedded, and viewed through the embed url without logging in.

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