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by sharkbot 8y ago
Looks like it prioritized historical locations over nearby locations. The little clock icon usually represents a prior location that was selected. Could be an interesting design approach to know which locations are "fungible". I.e
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by sharkbot 9y ago
I could be wrong, but my understanding of some sound cards is that they have essentially a single memory buffer that they are reading from when instructed to play a sound. Most sound cards let the OS split the buffer into two halves and rai
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by sharkbot 9y ago
There was just a story in CBC News about one of these devices discovered in New Brunswick, Canada in the 50's; http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/thing-in-the-woo... There was a fair bit of cloa
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by sharkbot 10y ago
The Kobo ereaders have had Pocket integration for a while now, and it works great offline. My usual routine is to find interesting articles on Hacker News, and if they are longer than a page or two, click the Pocket button and read them at
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by sharkbot 10y ago
I just picked up WarioWare DIY for my Nintendo (3)DS. It's got a pretty rudimentary rules engine to script the microgames, but some of the tricks you can pull using some clever triggers and stage setup reminded me of the best programmi
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by sharkbot 10y ago
> To be pedantic, a size of char is defined by CHAR_BIT in limits.h. As well as all of the min and max values and lengths in bits for integers. To be even more pedantic: it's the number of bits in a char that is defined by CHAR_BIT.
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by sharkbot 11y ago
This comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann's_agreement_theorem Essentially, two genuine Bayesian rationalists (with some hand wavy preconditions) cannot agree to disagree; ie, they will eventually co
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by sharkbot 11y ago
I would suggest a change to your first sentence: "some stressors methylate genes, and those same genes may be methylated in descendants." It is not a "mutation", at least not in the sense of a stable and heritable gene c
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by sharkbot 11y ago
Far from it; rather, that the simply typed lambda calculus is not Turing complete. One cannot represent a Turing machine in the simply typed lambda calculus, exactly because non terminating programs cannot be expressed. One can add a fix po
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by sharkbot 12y ago
I'm reading "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester, a look at the creation of the Oxford English dictionary and the personalities, challenges, and environment of the people involved in its compilation. I'm al
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by sharkbot 12y ago
There was an older paper discussing using various methods of fault injection (heat, voltage changes, etc) to attack Java smart cards, essentially destroying the type system guarantees and thus opening up an attack surface: "The Sorcere
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by sharkbot 12y ago
I think there is a useful distinction between a fault/error and an exploit. A fault is a break from the "desired" or "expected" semantics of a system, while an exploit is an algorithm to predictably utilize a fault
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by sharkbot 12y ago
You can make a Lua interpreter thread safe by adding a GIL. There is implicit support for this in the code: the interpreter invokes lua_lock/lua_unlock at the proper places, the default Lua implementation just has them NOP'd out.
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by sharkbot 12y ago
Don't forget 'Silence on the Wire' and 'The Tangled Web', two of my personal favorite computer security books.
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by sharkbot 12y ago
I happened to like this write-up a fair bit :) https://web.archive.org/web/20080430162146/http://www.matasa... (The original post on the matasano.com server seems to have been eaten; any chance that coul
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by sharkbot 12y ago
Raymond also answered that question on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/23/60474... WingDings mapped the 'J' character to smiley face; when the email goes
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by sharkbot 12y ago
I wonder if bitap [0] would be a good fit for the 4K search algorithm. It would let you do linear-time regexp matching for relatively short patterns (32 characters on a 32-bit machine, 64 characters on 64-bit, etc). [0] http://en
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by sharkbot 13y ago
That's incorrect. Rupert Sheldrake gave a TEDx talk on his non-scientific opinions, which wasn't considered to be appropriate. The talk is still available, just not under the TEDx label. See here for more details: http:/&#x
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by sharkbot 13y ago
I disagree with you, but you're not wrong. Taking the pragmatic approach to trust is perfectly valid, and the only short to medium term option at present. I personally find it distasteful, but that's my academic bias showing. Howe
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by sharkbot 13y ago
> A and B are also compilers, one of which is known-good. 'Known-good' is exactly the problem Thompson's essay is describing. There is no 'known-good'. Instead, you have decided to root your chain of trust with a
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The Good Web(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by sharkbot 13y ago
Actually, the article specifically mentions Canadians as poor tippers: "So now we have a restaurant industry where African-Americans are demeaned as “Canadians”, in reference to another group which is considered by US servers to be low
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by sharkbot 13y ago
I'm going to be "that guy": -- These are the same: -- ...snip... local function g(x) return math.sin(x) end local g = function (x) return math.sin(x) end According to the Lua Reference Manual [1], this example is
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by sharkbot 14y ago
There are a few surprises in that list. I'd have thought both Coq and Lua would end up further to the left. I suppose the graph shows an interesting dynamic: expressiveness is not just due to a language's semantics, nor syntax, nor librarie
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by sharkbot 14y ago
Check out Adam Chlipala's Coq tutorial, specifically the section on infinite proofs: http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/html/Coinductive.html I'll repeat what szany and xyzzy123 mentioned: you work at a level of abstraction where infinite data
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by sharkbot 14y ago
I see a lot of criticism that lukeprog is "shallow" or "surface-oriented" on the topic of philosophy. While I don't believe he has formal training, the guy had a long-running blog and podcast covering a number of philosophical topics, inclu
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by sharkbot 14y ago
The article also references the probabilistic nature of quantum phenomena. However, quantum mechanics is deterministic under the Many-Worlds interpretation. Observations don't collapse waveforms, our quantum states are deterministically ent
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by sharkbot 14y ago
Agreed. The end of the Bloodhound Gang section is slightly discordant, but I felt that it had an interesting sound and lead well into the final section. Great work.
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by sharkbot 14y ago
"Linkers and Loaders" by John R. Levine is referenced in your paper, and is a great resource: http://linker.iecc.com/ The beta site includes the book in draft form, for those with the patience to deal with the occasional typo...
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by sharkbot 14y ago
This is a bit similar to the "exploration vs. exploitation" problem [1]. Is it better to explore new avenues in hopes of higher returns later, or better to exploit current knowledge of the problem to maximize current returns? [1] http://en

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