tomtomtom777

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by tomtomtom777 2y ago
Isn't the fact that a certain number is a Mersenne prime interesting in itself? Surely it's a great addition to our knowledge of numbers?
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by tomtomtom777 2y ago
A wallet address (where money is sent to) is the public key hashed . This money can than be spent with a transaction containing both the signature and the public key. This is one of the reasons it is advised never to reuse an address. Afte
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by tomtomtom777 3y ago
Nice except that it is an absolute no go to generate these on the server. Why not port to JS and generate it on the client? Should be trivial. Yould should not encourage people to trust you.
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by tomtomtom777 3y ago
It is also a completely different scale. A 11M wind turbine has a 200m (!) rotor diameter. This thing is 12m.
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by tomtomtom777 3y ago
One could argue it's a half-baked quine.
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by tomtomtom777 3y ago
Exactly. The exact amount of sleep needed on average is almost certainly an irrational number. (Because almost every number is irrational)
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by tomtomtom777 3y ago
I don't think much is wasted on encryption. Most is wasted on backwards compatibility in the form of negotiating protocols, algorithm, extenstions, etc. If there would forever be only one encryption algorithm in use we we wouldn&#x27
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by tomtomtom777 3y ago
Because methods to reduce our wasteful consumption, reliance on continuous growth and on the evidently harmful burning of fossil fuel aren't "hard sacrifices". They are progress. Necessary progress.
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. - Oscar Wilde
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
> this means that when new members are invited to a group, the existing members can automatically re-encrypt and securely send the recent message history — which is important for threaded chat, so that conversations aren’t broken. This
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
For me the point of this demo is that even a good commit message is often redundant information. As programmers we learn that adding a comment like: // The limit is 16 to const SOME_LIMIT = 16 is bad because is re
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
It seems correct to me. The map shows the country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK) without separating its constituent countries. This is what most political world maps do. Ireland does border by land to
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
It is explained, but than why is it fuzzy? Isn't the fuzziness part exactly what's missing?
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
Such a tree mostly describes word similarity. But translating words is not what an AI (or more generally a computer) has problems with. It's word ordering and idioms where AIs stand or fall. Things that show very little correlation in
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
Although I am currently tip-toeing on NeoVim, I still feel this is a horrible break-up. Yes, Open Source simply allows you to branch whenever you're unhappy with the original but this comes at a cost for the community. The cost of havi
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by tomtomtom777 4y ago
Same here. And when I got suspicious I stupidly searched for "is DuckDuckGo down". No results.
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
So you would like a website to implement a checkbox to toggle dark mode, in case it doesn't implement dark mode correctly? That doesn't make any sense.
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
It didn't survive because HTML5 came along with very well defined and strict parsing rules. You don't need closing tags for a specification to be strict. As long as you define the parsing rules rigorously as HTML5 does, there is l
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
> That's... not an especially worthwhile goal for a competitor. But it is. Because otherwise we're just embracing monopolies. We can't switch to X because it doesn't accept our input as well as the "main" im
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
The problem arises when other people try to implement a compatible tool. Sure your JSON rules might not be ambiguous, but they are not standard either so every competitor aiming for compatibility will have to adhere to these specific rules.
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
True. It is possible though for a language to avoid these iteration constructs as if they are needless plumbing as well. Consider the elegant type system of the XQuery language: In XQuery, the root type is a flattened sequence. Flattened me
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
I disagree. If you need to know an estimate or guess of certain details that aren't visible in lo-res, this is very useful because the AI is likely much better at inferring these details than a human. Sure, it is still a guess but a be
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
To sum up: The free market is only useful for things in where maximization is the optimum.
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
I think it's a bit odd to call this "net zero". If there are more trees, there's more oxygen. Sure, if a tree dies this is eventually reverted but it also makes room for a new tree (unless humanity claims the land).
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
That is not expected behavior. If you click a link and get a page, one expects back to return to the previous page. A standard HTTP redirect does this right as well as location.replace() The site incorrectly sets a new location by other mea
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
Nitpick: Please don't break the back button.
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
It's a good idea but it seems to me the name will hurt adoption. Phoning home with telemetry data does not by definition imply tracking. Yet a project implementing DO_NOT_TRACK is essentially saying that without it, it is tracking user
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
I think the most important drawback of the function for used once code is that its definition doesn't really map well to linear files. There isn't really a proper place to put such function. In this example, you would like to de
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
> .. millions of transactions per second, which is what El Salvador will be using? Why would that be what El Salvador is using? That is such a weird notion, and one of the reasons Bitcoin is often incorrectly called unscalable. How many
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
KGS was a special place where I've spent many hours not just playing but also kibitzing the pros (and TheCaptain). This doesn't really happen in the same way on the currently popular Go or Chess servers. I am not sure whether its

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