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by swolchok 17y ago
Perhaps the point is easier to see if you consider "no alien races" in isolation -- the lack of intelligent extraterrestrial life seems to lead directly to the notion that we humans are special (i.e., the most intelligent form of life in th
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by swolchok 17y ago
Is there a use for unrefined ore in the game other than refining it? Must refined ore be produced by refining unrefined ore? If not, then all you've noticed is that ore refining is a crappy choice of career. If so, then I think you found an
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by swolchok 17y ago
RTOSes can take a bunch of the pain out of managing concurrent tasks and interrupts, and if you bundle all that stuff into an RTOS, it can be reused across multiple projects. (Disclaimer: statement from book knowledge only.)
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by swolchok 17y ago
It's not guaranteed by the language that pointers are as big as or bigger than integers. Some architecture somewhere might die horribly on this. comp.lang.c FAQ on this: http://c-faq.com/ptrs/int2ptr.html
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by swolchok 17y ago
False. Counterexample: Brainfuck. There's nothing about Turing completeness that includes the ability to make system calls.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Social security and welfare cheques are hardly quid pro quo for volunteer work. Of course not.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Every professor I have actually talked to about what constitute a thesis has professed the staple method: you take your best research papers and staple them together. This is an exaggeration, of course, because the document actually has to
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by swolchok 17y ago
Mayo Clinic warns that lobelia "can be toxic" and is not recommended "as a treatment for any condition, including nicotine withdrawal": http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lobelia/AN01877
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by swolchok 17y ago
In Lisp: http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2006s2/func... In Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/H-99:_Ninety-Nine_Haskell... I found that actually solving these in Haskell reduced to "how familiar are you with th
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by swolchok 17y ago
Do you use an alarm clock to wake up? If so, are you sure you're not sleep-deprived? What do you eat for breakfast? I'm usually hungry within 2-3 hours after eating cereal, oatmeal, or a banana. Where do domestic tasks fit in? Weekends only
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by swolchok 17y ago
That does not look like a standard-issue Google monitor, but maybe it's a test machine with very low specs. Not unlikely considering the target market.
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by swolchok 17y ago
What about the placebo effect?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Actually, I sat next to Moxie Marlinspike in a limo. I was referring to attendees in general; a very benign example includes some of my friends who don't really do security but go because it's DEFCON.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Can you cite a source for that cost? That's 35% Windows tax, which would leave the market ripe for Linux boxes to undercut and pocket the difference. In my opinion, we'll take computers as cheap as we can get them and remote to the big iro
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by swolchok 17y ago
C (not C++) can be a secret weapon too, if it absolutely has to be as fast and efficient as possible.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I went to DEFCON. The signal-to-noise ratio is kind of meh.
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by swolchok 17y ago
and, perhaps more pertinently, Friendfeed?
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by swolchok 17y ago
I actually had a lot of trouble with too much ego boost in the days after. I hope I'll handle the next impressive achievement more modestly.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Found remotely-exploitable security vulnerabilities in China's no-longer-mandated Green Dam censorware, resulting in my first Slashdotting: http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6541
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by swolchok 17y ago
On the other hand, it's supposed to be an amount of money that is enough to subsist on. If there's a relatively predictable perception of "subsist" in terms of proportional allocation to categories of goods in a basket, prices for goods in
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by swolchok 17y ago
It depends on how you measure n. The O(log^{6+\epsilon}(n)) quote on Wikipedia is for n being the number to be tested. This is "cheating"; inputs to an algorithm need to be measured by their length, and numbers are exponential in their leng
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by swolchok 17y ago
I don't understand your first paragraph. Taking their own IOUs is equivalent to reducing the debt. The problem is that they effectively want to borrow money against the IOUs for free, by refusing to accept the IOUs as tax payments.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Really? I would naively expect the outcome to matter a lot more. As a PhD, your work product has a lot more transparency than B.S./M.S. degrees, because people will actually hear about your work if it matters (for several different, valid d
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by swolchok 17y ago
log(n!) = Theta(n log n) Proof: let's take it as granted log(n!) = O(n log n). It remains to show that log(n!) = Omega(n log n). log(n!) = sum of log i for i from 1 to n >= sum of log (n/2) for i from n/2 to n (dropping half the terms
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by swolchok 17y ago
I bet those text-based browsers aren't subject to the same level of security audits as the more popular ones. I hope they're sandboxing said browsers properly...
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by swolchok 17y ago
How much power is wasted worldwide by slow code that isn't the bottleneck? Surely, fast habits are better than slow habits, all else being equal.
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by swolchok 17y ago
"Yeah, stupid users. They only saw Word crashing... but wait, Word was crashing. Sounds like there's a bug in the plugin system - just as applications shouldn't crash the OS, plugins shouldn't crash an application." Let's suppose that, for
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by swolchok 17y ago
Post correspondence problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_correspondence_problem ), not phencyclidine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine ).
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by swolchok 17y ago
2-bedroom apartments near the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor can also be had for ~$800-1000/mo, if you're willing to put up with apartments that have had a series of students (i.e., people who are probably less likely t
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by swolchok 17y ago
Yes, but they used the term "fuck-you money". Excerpt: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/text.html

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