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by slavik81 7y ago
There's more to living than not dying.
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by slavik81 7y ago
Mike Hughes' PR rep stated that they made up the flat Earth angle to get more publicity: “He did have some governmental conspiracy theories. But don’t confuse it with that flat Earth thing. That was a PR stunt we dreamed up.” https:&#
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by slavik81 7y ago
You occasionally see Richard Guy walking around our mathematics department with hiking poles. The man hiked a mountain in his 90s, but he's 103 now and it seems those days are past. It reminds me to watch where I'm going, lest I e
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by slavik81 7y ago
I went looking for an obituary, and discovered that his Wikipedia page is quite well-written [1]. Long ago, I enabled showdead to read Terry's comments. They didn't always make sense, but occasionally there'd be one that was
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by slavik81 7y ago
That equal population map looks decent enough for the US, but it's pretty poor for Canada. Arbitrary political boundaries vastly distort the size of regions. Northern Alberta, for example, is barely more populated than the Northwest Te
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by slavik81 7y ago
The SIGGRAPH 2015 presentation for Dreams was amazing[1]. They started by experimenting with some very outlandish ideas for modelling and rendering their worlds. It was a very ambitious project. Hopefully Dreams finds success, because I wou
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by slavik81 7y ago
Consider computer graphics and computer vision. If you had a photorealistic renderer, it could be useful for generating training data for a vision algorithm. However, you can't just run your rendering pipeline backwards to create a sce
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by slavik81 7y ago
I appreciate it's just an example, but it should be mentioned that this is a really bad class. If you write a custom destructor, you must also specify the move/copy constructors and move/assignment operators. Otherwise, the
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by slavik81 7y ago
They've been losing money, but it seems both their revenue and their staff has doubled in the past few years. I was surprised, but they actually look reasonably healthy.
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by slavik81 7y ago
It's unclear if you can fulfill the LGPL license requirements on locked down platforms like iOS. I don't think the complaints there are well-justified. Buy the proprietary license for proprietary platforms. If you're already
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by slavik81 7y ago
I tried out a relative's Subaru on a 6h drive over the holidays. I really liked the adaptive cruise control for following behind folks who were not keeping a consistent speed. I just set it to a reasonable value at the maximum followin
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by slavik81 7y ago
I'm very confused. The definition of LSP is: > Subtype Requirement: Let ϕ(x) be a property provable about objects x of type T. Then ϕ(y) should be true for objects y of type S where S is a subtype of T. Why is the exact value of the
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by slavik81 7y ago
Not just similar. All provable properties must be the same. As I understand it, Java's Object.toString() is an example of an LSP violation because different subtypes of Object return different strings.
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by slavik81 7y ago
I worked for several years on a team that championed SOLID and DDD, and while it was better than the multi-process, shared-memory, stringly-typed horror that it replaced, efficient is not the word I'd use to describe it. The single res
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by slavik81 7y ago
My brother once told me a story about an auto plant in Ontario and their industrial-sized bins. They had a huge metal recycling bin, big enough to fit a few cars inside, and a smaller garbage bin, maybe two-thirds that size. One day, after
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by slavik81 7y ago
Whoops. You're right. That was about the first time he was required to turn over his computer and the contempt charge is about the second. Wikipedia is not a great primary source (especially on subjects like this), but that bit comes f
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by slavik81 7y ago
I have a hard time believing that the New York Bar suspended him for winning a lawsuit.
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by slavik81 7y ago
He lost the appeal. From Wikipedia: > In March 2014, a United States district court judge ruled that the Ecuadorian plaintiff's lead US attorney, Steven Donziger, had used "corrupt means," including payment of almost US$30
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A History of Mathematics: Euler, Lagrange and Laplace(en.wikisource.org)
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Politics have been part of the peer review process for a very, very long time. It's not all about the money, either: > Fourier was interested in heat propagation, and presented a paper in 1807 to the Institut de France on the use of
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by slavik81 7y ago
If the wave is big enough, bow-first won't save you. If you go over the wave, half your ship ends up cantilevered over the peak. A ship isn't built to hold half its weight in the air like that. It will break. If you go through the
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by slavik81 7y ago
Let's say everyone replaced their current cars with self-driving vehicles and they never killed anyone ever again. If normal vehicle usage continued and fifty years passed without a single traffic death, your claim suggests we'd s
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by slavik81 7y ago
They've been hiring developers to work on ROCm, so it seems they're investing in improving that situation.
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Stroustrup has written quite a bit fighting against complexity: > There are two fundamental ways of approaching the unavoidable uncertainty in a design: > • add “improvements” until everybody feels well served > • cut until there i
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My favourite Stroustrup quote on the design of C++ is probably from "How can you be so certain?": > One of my fundamental aims for C++ is (from the very start in 1979) to provide equally good support for user-defined and built-
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by slavik81 7y ago
Type punning through unions is not defined behaviour in the C++ standard, but is a common compiler extension.
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To be O(N), the time required for the lookup would have to continue to grow indefinitely. This has an upper bound.
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Google has these sorts of problems too. It fails at correctly parsing examples straight out of the Canada Post Addressing Guidelines. [1] Put in "10-123 Main St, Montreal QC H3Z 2Y7" into Google Maps and it will take you to "
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by slavik81 7y ago
It's also not defined whether the executable code is in RO memory or RW memory. By your argument, we should also be concerned that the attacker could modify the code directly.
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by slavik81 7y ago
> With regards to LTS binaries, it is unfortunate I think this actually applies to LTS sources as well, which is even more unfortunate. Though, their response to this question on the mailing list was rather unclear.

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