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by swolchok 10y ago
On the other hand, if you're in CA and subject to a 50% marginal tax rate, saving $1 has the same impact as making an additional $2.
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by swolchok 10y ago
> silos, clicks, and favoritism In case this wasn't a phonetic typo and you're really not aware, the word you are looking for is "cliques". Cheers!
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by swolchok 10y ago
Seems like this would be really bad business just from a transportation perspective. Giant worms take up transit space that could be filled with kvass instead. A quick Google for "giant worms" finds a few that are a couple centime
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by swolchok 10y ago
VNC passwords being limited to 8 characters isn't a software bug, it's a VNC specification bug. From https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6143.txt : > To form the key, the password is truncated to eight characters
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by swolchok 11y ago
On a reasonable machine (e.g., x86, x86_64, ARM, ARM64), in a reasonable context (i.e., not the very tippy top stack frame), the one-past-the-end read is harmless. The value is unused, and the read itself is not going to segfault because it
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by swolchok 11y ago
What would the GC scan? What do pointers look like? At the assembly layer, you have the flexibility to not have a C runtime (and therefore no C stack), and you might be doing fun things like having tagged pointers that the GC would have to
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by swolchok 11y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to differentiate between reading assembly produced by a compiler and handwriting assembly. I do the former several times a month and the latter almost never.
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by swolchok 11y ago
Modern processors don't handle self-modifying code efficiently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code#Interactio...
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by swolchok 11y ago
Sounds bad, but I would like to know if there is a technical benefit excluding Listen Before Talk in some countries. Why would an engineer possibly want to turn it off, given that the support has to be developed for those countries that req
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by swolchok 11y ago
even SpaceX launches cost over 50 million dollars ( https://www.google.com/search?q=spacex+launch+cost has a big pullquote to that effect, for example)
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by swolchok 11y ago
> It's merely a rehash of the Weak DH attack that was made public in May of this year Just to clarify (because I was confused when I read your comment), the weak DH attack was made public by the same people who wrote this post and
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by swolchok 11y ago
Re: predicting the Rise of JavaScript, it's a lot easier to be right if you know about V8 a year before public release. From "Rule #3: Performance" on http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big
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by swolchok 11y ago
crema/tests/fail/ includes several tests relating to recursion, including the obvious mutual recursion workaround attempt. Given that they're in the fail subdirectory, I conclude that it's testing that they're
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by swolchok 11y ago
> For different reasons, volatile and const are also ignored. Yikes.
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by swolchok 11y ago
That link says "This video is private".
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by swolchok 11y ago
Try OBJC_PRINT_REPLACED_METHODS sometime. It's frightening. ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9466732/in-objective-c-ho... )
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by swolchok 11y ago
Objective-C categories are a land mine. 1) You have no way of knowing that your category method isn't going to collide with another method. That method could be one of Apple's private ones, or it could be a method from a category
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by swolchok 11y ago
> I've never been sure uglify and other minification was actually a great idea for this reason. The gains are marginal if you're using gzip Smaller JS parses faster. gzip doesn't affect parse time.
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The double life of Hasidic atheists(aeon.co)
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by swolchok 11y ago
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode is clearly less featureful, but might work for less advanced use cases.
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by swolchok 12y ago
The Obj-C function call [foo doSomething] compiles to the equivalent of objc_msgSend(foo, "doSomething"); (for the pedantic, I'm intentionally simplifying and leaving out objc_selfrefs) The first thing objc_msgSend does is ch
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by swolchok 12y ago
Hi, I co-wrote this paper. Did not expect to see renewed interest! FWIW, ClearView, the crawler used in the paper, almost certainly would not work unmodified today. The Vuze folks implemented Sybil attack defenses after our predecessor to t
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by swolchok 12y ago
AFAIK, p4p2p is unrelated to the source code from this paper. A very quick skim of its github seems to confirm this.
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by swolchok 14y ago
Speaking of resilience, I wrote a paper [1] 3 years ago about how to rebuild torrent sites (like TPB) within a couple hours of a denial of service (legal or otherwise) using the Vuze client's DHT. There was some similar concurrent work [2]
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by swolchok 14y ago
mod 8?
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by swolchok 14y ago
so...is there an incentive to deviate from "clomper picks 1, opponent picks 0, first clomper wins?"
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by swolchok 15y ago
For both of you, were your solutions 100% reliable? I ended up with an exploit that required a little brute forcing (i.e., just run it a hundred times or whatever).
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by swolchok 15y ago
It's nearly impossible to debug my should-be-reliable-but-doesn't-work-at-all-and-by-the-way-gdb-affects-memory-layout solution with all the brute forcing going on though. :(
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by swolchok 15y ago
> What I meant, however, is that the problem has been solved in practice. When you ask Google how to drive from SF to NY, it'll give pretty good answer in milliseconds. Is it an optimal answer? It might be, it might be not, but it's a v
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by swolchok 15y ago
Had you checked the first google result for United States debt, you would have found where the confusion is coming from: the national debt is 14.5 trillion, and the total debt is 54 trillion (Source: http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ). I'm gues

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