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by thyrsus 10y ago
I'm delighted with the slides for "String Theory". For some reason, my web searches have never found how the UTF-8 coding works, but their explanation is crystal clear. I'm going to have to buy the mug.
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Anonymous activist who helped expose Steubenville rape pleads not guilty(mic.com)
1 points by thyrsus 10y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 10y ago
I understand nothing past Mickey Mouse will ever be public domain, but how can this conceivably not be subject to expired copyright? Or is this merely a matter of some special claim of authorization by the Beinecke library? The article do
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by thyrsus 10y ago
As a sysadmin busy automating my own job (perhaps a "devop", but the developers in my organization - a tiny minority - use a different infrastructure), it appears the only roadblock to being automated away is #6 - clear rules for
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by thyrsus 10y ago
My understanding is that fuzz testing uses pseudo-random variation of the seed code; given a different seed to the PRNG, how common is it for the same fuzz test to identify different flaws?
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by thyrsus 10y ago
Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut: “It’s hard for me to imagine how just having a bunch of numbers, cellphones and emails would in any way affect the election,” he said. “It wasn’t totally unexpected.” “Someone could cause a lot of da
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Hacker Releases More Democratic Party Documents(nytimes.com)
71 points by thyrsus 10y ago|51 comments
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by thyrsus 10y ago
Perhaps for some people, but certainly not for me. I experience my vision like an old television set between channels, but with an extremely high pixel density (though perhaps a similar frame rate). When there's sufficient light, the
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Configuration Languages(edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk)
2 points by thyrsus 10y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 10y ago
"...show theoretically..." That's great (no sarcasm!). How difficult will experimental confirmation be - or is it in the article to which I don't currently have access?
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by thyrsus 10y ago
"Perry also warns that a regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could occur—with devastating global impacts."
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by thyrsus 10y ago
[Citation needed]
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by thyrsus 10y ago
"The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike, in Chapter 8, builds a compiler for a four function calculator using yacc, to which they then add variables, flow control, and functions. Pretty amazing in a breezy <60
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by thyrsus 10y ago
I'd bet that, because the erlang family (erlang, elixir, erlang flavored lisp, ....) introduces important concepts when multiprocessing is involved, that they lead to a non-linear increases in productivity when multiprocessing is rele
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by thyrsus 10y ago
"...QFT...does not work when space-time curvature is important". Forgive the probable confusion of an ignoramus, but is there significant space-time curvature in the vicinity of a gold atom nucleus? I ask because I remember thes
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by thyrsus 11y ago
Wasn't Homer called "the blind poet"? Of course, that doesn't address the other texts considered.
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by thyrsus 11y ago
But who will provide employment to the newly idle folks as H&R Block, Intuit(TurboTax) and others? And what would happen to their campaign contributions? And what about the primary opponents who will lambaste this million dollar expan
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by thyrsus 11y ago
Please help the ignorant and provide a link to a description of those best practices.
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I think this is useful; the next step in usefulness would be an automated test suite that looked for these vulnerabilities; and the next level in usefulness would be a chart describing common ways these problems get into code - I don't
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by thyrsus 11y ago
If I read this book, would it be practical to build an Erlang VM targeting GPUs? The Erlang GPU work I've seen provides access via NIFs, but as I understand it, those are going to continue to hit the PCI-E bottleneck. I'm specul
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I'm very comfortable with President Obama's broad policies an intentions, but when it comes to privacy rights, I have one question: What would Richard Nixon do?
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by thyrsus 11y ago
This is a fruitful example: the vast majority of those opposed to abortion will concede that a zygote has no conciousness or intellectual capacity, yet most of them will nonetheless insist on the zygote's personhood and right to life.
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I once proposed that the way to express one's attraction to a person was to treat the person nicely, e.g., holding a door for them. My interlocutor responded "So, flirt with them." I suddenly had no idea was "flirting&
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I favor minimal restriction on immigration: let in anyone who has a job or who has immediate family with a job. As a result, there's lots of young people paying into Social Security. Unlike the federal government, the states currentl
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I have often wondered at linearity problems. E.g., why is the BMI formula based on weight divided by a square of height when geometry says that weight is proportional to the cube of (similarly proportioned) height? Probably, in the re
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by thyrsus 11y ago
Does factor analysis/principal component analysis help any? The article begins by talking about how looking at a single variable (vitamin E) that is strongly correlated with a bunch of other variables (healthy lifestyle) points one in
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I happily paid a premium to System76 for their Linux laptop. Then I took a calculated risk and replaced their Ubuntu distribution with CentOS 7. I've had small hardware troubles (the biggest being video initialization during boot - s
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by thyrsus 11y ago
What does it look like when Chinese authorities deem it appropriate to have a presence on your internal company network, e.g., to possess your VPN keys? Do you get a polite letter telling you with whom to "negotiate" the issue?
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I was the one that found the IBM link. The notability skeptic liked it, but not enough to think that was sufficient for notability. After I gave up, someone with more influence came along and bigfooted the issue. I have no visibility int
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by thyrsus 11y ago
I found myself so enraged at what Wikipedia privileged editors considered non-notable that I haven't had the energy to contribute in the past few years. I'm not talking about my 2nd cousin's garage band: see the talk page on

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