sirclueless

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by sirclueless 8y ago
There is definitely some mental cost. By making lifetimes explicit there are additional barriers in the way of doing certain things that are safe but involve invariants that are too high-level for rust's semantics. For example, taking
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by sirclueless 8y ago
I think part of the point here is that you are not just answering OP's question, which may or may not be an example of an XY problem. You're also answering everyone who searches answers using similar terms to those the OP used. Fo
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by sirclueless 8y ago
I've used PHP and I too make fun of it. It's a silly language made years ago without a lot of attention paid to normal software development practices and it shows. There is a laundry list of facepalm-worthy things the language doe
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by sirclueless 8y ago
That's a terrifying thought. For example the DeepFakes scandal was based on convincingly plastering celebrity's faces onto other video. If you had good data on someone's fingerprints I imagine it's inevitable that at som
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by sirclueless 8y ago
This is not parallel construction, assuming their "other reasons" for suspecting these people are legitimate and disclosed. Parallel construction is when law enforcement receives information about a crime in an illegal way or a wa
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by sirclueless 8y ago
I vaguely remember writing question marks over equality signs when one was using an equals sign as a proposition.
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by sirclueless 8y ago
The point here is not to stop malicious recipients from saving the data. The point is to stop sensitive stuff from showing up in discovery in a lawsuit 3 years from now because a recipient didn't know to delete it.
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by sirclueless 8y ago
The typical way to avoid this particular problem is only to load the content via JavaScript while copy/paste are presumed disabled.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Dealing with companies outside the EU is only covered while you are currently inside the EU, regardless of where you reside.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
No. It only covers residents ("data subjects") who are inside the EU or dealing with companies in the EU. People who aren't in the EU (including EU citizens currently in foreign countries) and are dealing with companies outsi
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now also has a pretty remarkable adaptation in video game format called Spec Ops: The Line. It's the same story premise cast as a modern military shooter. The gameplay is a fairly generic (some say thi
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Because pressing on words involves taking your finger off the keyboard, and the text is anyways often too small to be precise. You can fix it with the control bars on the sides, but it's more finicky and more interaction and requires y
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by sirclueless 9y ago
It sounds like a bandaid to paper over a poorly-conceived program of incentives while they work out something more permanent. They were using their power plant as a loss-leader to attract industry. Which explains why the local factory is &q
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by sirclueless 9y ago
In experimental physics it does. Two recent planned breakthroughs: Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves, and LIGO detected them in 2016. Bell predicted that entangled quantum particles
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I really like this mechanism. It seems like it should be the optimal way to store a set of size k. Out of curiosity, do you know of an efficient way to calculate this without sorting first? Or even better, without knowing k ahead of time? I
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by sirclueless 9y ago
How are you encoding the deltas exactly?
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by sirclueless 9y ago
How is this relevant? A bitmap of size 2^32 is 512MB in size and you only have 2MB of memory.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
You're sort of on the right track, but of course you have to encode those counts very carefully because 1M counts will exceed 2MB of memory unless you work hard.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Can you elaborate on the second part? Are you saying you're going to expand the size of the universe by a factor of 2^(k-1) to use as locations of the "bars"?
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by sirclueless 9y ago
It sounds like you just haven't properly learned to account for the strategy of the game, or are not correctly tracking win conditions and using them to inform decisions. If you just blithely play out a self-centered strategy and are s
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by sirclueless 9y ago
You're living in a fantasy world. You're looking at the status quo: some guy has invented a better floating point circuit, and you think there are two options. 1) The guy releases it to the public for general use, or 2) the guy pa
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I don't think there's any particular reason to apply the label of "bug" to erroneous reasoning that cannot result in erroneous behavior. If you can't in actuality cause a flaw in a program despite the presence of un
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by sirclueless 9y ago
This doesn't really work as a blanket statement. Future proofing and trying to guarantee bug-free code is worth something -- for example if I'm building a space shuttle to go to the moon, I want some degree of certainty that softw
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I suppose it's a sort of shallow reference to keeping a child locked up in a tower away from the world. Not sure it's a great comparison since the woman raising Rapunzel disowns her when she discovers she's been sleeping with
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by sirclueless 9y ago
From an economic standpoint, this doesn't sound very uplifting. Any full time servant you hire is probably going to have less social mobility than you, and less education. And they are necessarily going to earn a fraction of your wages
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I think a lot of people would disagree with you. There are obviously many methods besides proof-of-work to achieve consensus, but a blockchain cannot properly be called a "blockchain" unless there is some consensus protocol. Not e
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Basically, when I load up your ship, I document all the stuff I am loading on to the ship in a Bill of Lading. You agree that all of that stuff is present and you're now responsible for it. At the other end of the shipping route you pr
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by sirclueless 9y ago
They can guarantee that some data that indicates it was recorded yesterday was in fact recorded yesterday and not changed at any point since yesterday. There's literally nothing a blockchain can do that a trusted central database could
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by sirclueless 9y ago
The common consensus for the term "blockchain" is not based on the 1991 paper, but on Bitcoin's use of similar technology to make a distributed ledger. The term itself is relatively recent, and was not used until well after S
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Yes, only one block is the winner. It is whatever the maintainer of the git repository chooses as HEAD. This property is maintained by any number of out-of-band mechanisms such as Github pull requests and company-wide mandates never to &quo

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