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Hilbert-Like Curves on a Hexagonal Grid and a Realization Using Crochet (2014) [pdf](toroidalsnark.net)
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by superjan 5y ago
There has been work done one optimizing regular base64 using SSE: http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/sse-base64/
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by superjan 5y ago
Now I see, you’re right. Posted this just before bedtime, so I saw the comment only this morning. This uses the debian language benchmarks, in search of what it was that was different I falsely concluded this must be about compilation speed
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by superjan 5y ago
This is a really strange benchmark to use. Compiler speed is not an issue for these 100ish line standalone benchmarks. The question is how fast it is for a million-line project or worse. I doubt c or c++ do good there with their header file
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by superjan 5y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd
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by superjan 5y ago
I clicked the link, curious what the what the power reading would be now. Now I feel guilty.
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by superjan 5y ago
I can imagine the maintainers being scared of silently breaking the workflow and monitoring for some users. If you change this feature to opt-in, you may silently break the alerting system users built on top of this feature, and then you ge
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by superjan 5y ago
Admitting mistakes is one thing. Admitting that what the organization has set out to do is unachievable is another.
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by superjan 5y ago
Beyond the fraud allegations, the idea that an organisation can just print extra money as they see fit, doesn’t that go against the principles of crypto finance? I am genuinely curious why people think that is a sustainable idea.
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by superjan 5y ago
Nice to know repair is still possible in this generation of the product. I repaired a trackman marble the same way some 10 years ago. It’s nevertheless sad that the design is flawed like that.
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by superjan 5y ago
I concur. This removed the auto play trailers on my parent’s TV.
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by superjan 5y ago
The article glosses over one thing: you should have at least one backup that is not accessible through the company network. A different site connected to the same network is accessible by ransomware gangs once they are in.
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by superjan 5y ago
Yeah there’s a difference in techniques used for lossy vs lossless. But my point was that in compression research, runtime performance was much less important than compression performance, that was no different for lossy compression.
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by superjan 5y ago
Traditional compression research usually prioritized compression ratio, so more images would fit on your floppy disks and were faster to download over 28.8k modems. It usually means increased complexity. Png has it’s own story as it’s #1 de
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by superjan 5y ago
Seems I was wrong. Sorry. This defies the imagination!
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by superjan 5y ago
I read that differently: the list on the phone itself wasn’t modified, but the lithuanian report about it, presumably under pressure from china.
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by superjan 5y ago
For renewable energy, low efficiency is not a problem per se: you can make as much as you want. The article also mentions that they don’t need rare materials for the electrolyser, which means it will be cheaper. Lithium, that modern batteri
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by superjan 5y ago
In the article the author said that his “cleaner” version had less duplicate code, but was harder to adapt to new usecases. His point is that clean looking code is sometimes harder to change, because while cleaning people introduce abstract
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by superjan 5y ago
If you scan in color/grayscale, it can’t use JBIG2 compression. The machine will likely use JPEG for lossy compression, could result in less crisp scans, but it eliminates this risk.
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by superjan 5y ago
Thanks. I suppose that there is value in expressing the operations in a form that all agree is well defined.
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by superjan 5y ago
The code has a CRC code embedded. Why is it that every article mentioning CRC codes brings up that you can write them as polynomials? AFAICT it never makes a difference in implementation. What am I missing?
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by superjan 5y ago
The dutch privacy authority, with GDPR in hand, can fine them up to 2-4% of their annual revenue for not disclosing the data breach: such disclosures are a GDPR requirement.
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by superjan 5y ago
Most, but not all of the team were young, and the DB schema was designed by themselves. I did not intend to throw blame. It is more the kind of situation where a sensible decision (at first glance) creates a footgun down the road.
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by superjan 5y ago
At my previous job, a particular database was designed using ascii strings fields for a particular field rather than unicode. If you then query with a string in unicode format, the database decided that the comparison should be done in unic
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by superjan 5y ago
You are right. The games need updates. This is just intel presenting a non-solution (scroll-lock, come on) to a problem they have no control over.
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by superjan 5y ago
Ok. I recall that it used to be an issue, great if it is no longer.
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by superjan 5y ago
Isn’t my phone already broadcasting a list of my favourite WiFi SSID’s?
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by superjan 5y ago
Only in programs that invoke it on hacker controlled data.
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by superjan 5y ago
If someone publishes info on how your API’s work that should not be a security problem unless you “implement security” client side. That would also explain the request to takedown the github repo, as well as why the API suddenly changes.
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by superjan 5y ago
A plus for the benchmarks. One more complication of xor xx,xx goes unmentioned: xor also (partially) affects the flags register. That should get renamed as well.

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