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961.
by simiones 3y ago
There are certain classes of problems where (theoretical) QCs show an exponential speed-up over classical computers. These generally have to do with certain statistical properties of (theoretical) qbits (mainly related to the stronger-than-
962.
by simiones 3y ago
> It uses advanced cryptography to do this without creating any new tracking vectors. Sounds like something which is designed to create hard to detect tracking vectors.
963.
by simiones 3y ago
Of all the "IP" laws, trademark laws actually serve a necessary role in society, and their applicability is actually pretty well limited. Trademarks exist to make it clear who is actually selling a piece of merchandise you are buy
964.
by simiones 3y ago
Isn't Microsoft sitting on a huge pile of cash? It seems that having a piece of the AI pie if it's truly going to explode as much as everyone seems to be expecting, plus free access to their APIs, would be reason enough.
965.
by simiones 3y ago
Normally not, but: to make the MITM work, your PC is pre-configured to trust the company's certificate authority as a trusted root. This is not a per-connection setting, it's a global setting in your browser(s) & OS. So, IF th
966.
by simiones 3y ago
C++ doesn't support something like: int a, b; int arr[a][b]; // ERROR: all array dimensions except for the first must be constant //or even: auto arr = new int[a][b]; // ERROR: error: array
967.
by simiones 3y ago
I should note that VLAs are no longer a guaranteed feature of even a standards-compliant C compiler (they were made an optional feature in C2011).
968.
by simiones 3y ago
It's pretty common for corporate networks to have MITM devices snooping on all traffic by default (usually exceptions are made for known medical sites and for high-bandwidth traffic like YT). This is a big enough use-case that special
969.
by simiones 4y ago
Yes, French has some remnants of a base-20 system that was there in one of the languages that went before. Interestingly, this only manifests for numbers greater than 60; so while numbering from 0 to 60 looks mostly like in English, the num
970.
by simiones 4y ago
Isn't what you're describing for Hindi just base-100 numbers?
971.
by simiones 4y ago
Very possibly, which is why I was only saying that the article is positing such a slippery slope, not that they have proved it in any way.
972.
by simiones 4y ago
> There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up. We know for a fact that this is false. For example, the Egyptians were building the pyramids and worshipping their
973.
by simiones 4y ago
And yet, people from those countries openly supporting various US candidates have not been similarly charged - I believe this is GP's point.
974.
by simiones 4y ago
First of all, from a purely legal perspective, the first ammendment has nothing to say on whether a private company can or can't censor speech. Secondly, the article is saying that tech companies are starting to censor speech in the US
975.
by simiones 4y ago
> I kind of intuitively know this, and mostly disregard the opinions of those saying that there is impending doom. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truthiness > It will be interesting to see if I'm
976.
by simiones 4y ago
I suspect you are using "constexpr code/function" in a strange way. I believe most people use it to refer to code that is constexpr-qualified, such as "constexpr void foo() {...}". You seem to be using to refer to c
977.
by simiones 4y ago
The problem though is that this desire is incompatible with the existing definition of Free Software. The principle that users are free to use the code however they see fit, and distribute it to others as long as they extend this right to o
978.
by simiones 4y ago
How would an Affero LGPL (a weaker license than the AGPL) help in any way with the reason ES moved to a more restrictive license than the AGPL (as did MongoDB, for example)?
979.
by simiones 4y ago
That is a complete misunderstanding. A constexpr function can very well take an input, and it can invoke UB based on the runtime value of that input. What the standard prohibits is compile-time evaluation of an expression which invokes UB
980.
by simiones 4y ago
The point is that the code is only checked for UB with the arguments it is given at compile time. There is no guarantee that it can't invoke UB with other arguments it might receive at runtime. For example, here is a modification of th
981.
by simiones 4y ago
That only works if you know the values at compile-time though: constexpr int foo(int x) { return 1024*1024*1024*x; } int main() { int y; std::cin >> y; static_assert(foo(1)); //all good foo(
982.
by simiones 4y ago
If they had extended this program only to 20+ year old books (or whatever they deem fair), I would agree with you, but the sharing program included any book they had archived whatsoever, as far as I have read about this.
983.
by simiones 4y ago
I had no idea, I had only heard about it from the bill... Thank you for correcting me!
984.
by simiones 4y ago
Edit: please disregard, the California senate bill seems to actually be a reference to the number's existing use. Given that it's a reference to a specific California prop, I don't think this is a problem in any way.
985.
by simiones 4y ago
If this was a strategy from the IA, it has all but failed, hasn't it? And given that the vast majority predicted it would fail, I wouldn't even call this hindsight being 20/20.
986.
by simiones 4y ago
It's really not. The copyright system essentially has two serious issues: the extraordinary length, and DMCA takedown notices that are too easy to abuse. But what IA did infringes even on a hypothetically repaired copyright system wher
987.
by simiones 4y ago
I don't think so at all: the IA has little to do with what is normally termed "high culture", and much more to do with "low culture" (lots and lots of internet trivia that would mostly be of interest to archeologist
988.
by simiones 4y ago
> Also that the strong force holding the nucleus together is actually mostly magnetism. If that were the case, you would expect protons to tear apart in the presence of strong electric fields. The fact that this seems impossible suggest
989.
by simiones 4y ago
Note that "charge", when used without a qualifier, typically refers to the electric charge (which is the origin of the term). Color charge and weak charge are named "charge" only by analogy - there is no physical mechani
990.
by simiones 4y ago
It's also common to write XXI century, it's not meant to look archaic. It is only a textual convention for centuries.

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