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by todd8 6y ago
Just today my new config for Emacs refused to build libgit. I could see the CMake error, but rather than figuring out how to fix it I just commented out that part of my config (resulting in slightly more overhead in magic). Even with many y
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by todd8 6y ago
I once had a partner that was a serious orchestra player. She had a technical degree but chose to work in an industry that was exceptionally stressful and paid poorly. She once asked a New York Philharmonic player what would happen if he mi
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by todd8 6y ago
Yes, counter mode wasn’t novel at the time. The actual idea was related to encryption of network traffic. Back then, networks ran faster than encryption (processors didn’t have encryption hardware support). Since many networks have bursts o
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by todd8 6y ago
I'm 70 this year, older and slower but still interested in CS. Everyone will have a different background, but here are some things that have helped me. I keep most of my books. I now have a technical library of several thousand books a
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by todd8 6y ago
Back in the 80's I worked for IBM and invented a counter-mode based stream cipher. I did it to speed up overall network throughput in the presence of bursty traffic. The lawyers wanted it patented, so I agreed to meet with them and in
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by todd8 6y ago
> ... the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries What about Phthalocyanine Blue, a very widely used highly regarded synthetic blue first industrially produced in 1935? This is what Wikipedia says about Phthalocyanine Blue: "It is h
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by todd8 6y ago
The inverse correlation between parasitic infections and autoimmune disease is interesting and is explored in Parasitic worms and inflammatory diseases , P. Zaccone et. al. [1]. In parts of the world, for example USA, Canada, Australia, E
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by todd8 6y ago
I had to pay a large (too large) an amount to purchase an extra parking space when I bought my condo. I personally didn't need the space all the time, but guests to the condo didn't have to hunt for parking on the street in an are
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by todd8 6y ago
Yes it does seem too good to be true, but remember only the Apple laptops currently have a touch bar so applications must already support user interfaces that don't require the touch bar.
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I was going to simply upvote this comment, but I'm chiming in to agree with you because I want to complement Jason for being the kind of developer that I really respect. He provides a tool that so valuable to so many and does so while
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by todd8 6y ago
> but using that No True Scotsman line of thinking, literally nothing will change your mind I disagree, many forms of “simple” evidence would sway most people’s opinions and almost everyone would be persuaded by replicated clear detailed
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by todd8 6y ago
Perhaps, but I would say what people believe is right is subjective. So should we burn books that we disagreed with? The book burners are TRYING to do something to help in their view.
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by todd8 6y ago
In World War II, navy code books were bound with lead covers to make it easy to safely jettison the books overboard if necessary. Such code books where a bit like dictionaries containing random alphanumeric sequences for each useful plainte
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by todd8 6y ago
One time pads are difficult to use in Military settings because rarely is communication going on between just two participants. With the number of units needing to communicate some foolproof means for not using overlapping sequences of the
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by todd8 6y ago
Nice, I've seen large Egyptian exhibits at the Louvre and the King Tut traveling exhibit in San Fransisco. Very impressive indeed. The same day I saw the King Tut exhibit I also saw an exhibit from feudal Japan. The workmanship of the
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by todd8 6y ago
Oh that brings back a memory, I looked at that space just after renovation as a place for our new office.
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by todd8 6y ago
I've lived and worked in many places, from shortest to longest duration: London area, Stockholm, and Munich Marin County in the SF Bay area (my family lives in Sonoma) Dallas, Texas Boston, Massachusetts Des Moines, Iowa Detroit, Michi
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by todd8 6y ago
Could you describe an example of such?
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Experiment on Go Lang, C++ and Java which is the fast (YouTube)(youtube.com)
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Over the many years, I've taken over 25 university math courses. There are a handful that I feel I would not have missed as a programmer. I've been a computer scientist and software engineer for over 45 years, here are the mathema
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Instagram‘s New Terms of Service – Not Sketchy at All (YouTube)(youtube.com)
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by todd8 6y ago
I like music. I find almost all forms of music entertaining and sometimes quite moving: rock, pop, jazz, hip hop, country, classical and even occasionally opera. However, there is one common form of music I can’t tolerate, background music.
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by todd8 6y ago
The federal government does something worse, you pay federal income tax on all income no matter where it is made and what country you are living in (with the exception of some deductions for income taxes paid to other countries one is livin
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An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries(phys.org)
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by todd8 6y ago
Many years ago I adopted the personal convention of using a slash for the number zero and a little curly cue at the top of the capital letter O. By using both in my handwriting where they could be confused, I was free to use just an unadorn
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by todd8 6y ago
In the 60's there was no consistent standard for this. I remember this being written about in the CACM 1967. Those with access to old copies of the Communications of the ACM can take a look at [1]. Here is the title and abstract: To
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by todd8 6y ago
Two other unusual and clever language constructions are xkcd's Up Goer Five a description of a Saturn 5 rocket using only words contained in the 1000 words of basic English, see [1], and Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright, a novel of
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by todd8 6y ago
As a customer, I’ve simply been given the wrong change and been told that I paid with a $10 and not a $20. Most of the time I take their word for it, but once I was actually paying attention and had a manager come over and count down the ti
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by todd8 6y ago
There are some endgame basics that new players need to learn, K&Q against K, K&R against K, K & 2 Bishops against K, how to catch a passed pawn and some others. These aren’t difficult to learn, and once you reach these basic pos
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CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Mitigate the Compromise of Solarwinds Orion(cisa.gov)
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