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by vog 10y ago
You may wish to actually read the article: > “This wonderful news means that we now have the missing ‘ground-truth’ information needed to put Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actuall
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by vog 10y ago
I guess this is simply one of the many incompatibilities between quantum theory and general relativity. There are many attempts to combine these theories into a universal theory (pun intended), but it is hard to check the corner cases where
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by vog 10y ago
This is a great instance of the general pattern that optimization of size (a.k.a. compression) is closely related to artificial intelligence and understanding data. Because the better your program understands the data, the better it can pre
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by vog 10y ago
> however the more nodes that don't engage in such activities, the better for the network overall. I'd argue that it is quite the opposite. The more people are aware that plaintext over Tor is a really, really bad idea [1], t
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by vog 10y ago
I've had a similar experience. I occasionally give talks, and often my best talks were about topics where I didn't have to prepare much, because I'm deeply familar their topic. It's a win-win situation. Preparation mostl
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by vog 10y ago
From the video/screenshots it seems that the software is written "SPoC", not "SPOC".
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by vog 10y ago
Indeed, it should be 307 instead, just to keep the decision revertible.
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by vog 10y ago
> It has no way of knowing, for example, that record ->> 'value_2' = 0 will be true about 50% of the time Can't this be solved by introducing an expression index[1] for "record ->> 'value_2'&qu
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by vog 10y ago
By the way, another related anti-pattern is the introduction of an additional table that has a 1:1 relationship to the original table. Because the original table was "full" of columns, or something, so a second table had to be ope
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by vog 10y ago
I was also wondering about this one. This may make sense if you have custom fields, i.e. the set of keys is user-defined and ever increasing. Apart from that, there is no reason to do this. If it is all about avoiding having "too many&
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by vog 10y ago
Indeed. I would really love to recommend Keepass, but their website is really ugly and makes the impression of a non-polished software - even though Keepass is absolute mature and fine. On the other hand, the PuTTY website is also everythin
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by vog 10y ago
Your overly short comment doesn't make any sense to me. Also, I see no connection to the article. Do you care to elaborate?
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by vog 10y ago
(Spoiler alert: The article itself is a spoiler, and so is my comment.) In their solution for problem 10, the well-known algorithm "Sieve of Eratosthenes" is implemented, but without naming it. Although explaining this algorithm i
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Lessons from the first 12 Euler problems in Rust (Spoiler warning!)(jonathanturner.org)
5 points by vog 10y ago|1 comments
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Bubcon Security: Just Another Nightmare (Google Translate from German)(translate.google.com)
2 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
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My pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus vim for my programming(utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by vog 10y ago|1 comments
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by vog 10y ago
I see. You are sometimes checking for multiple bits at once. Didn't notice that.
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by vog 10y ago
Thanks for making the article available to non Facebook users!
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by vog 10y ago
What about simply replacing all "== 0b..." with "!= 0"? That would already be a good improvement, both in terms of DRY and readability, without the need of adding another dependency.
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by vog 10y ago
From the article: > Which side won? Like any good mutually-assured destruction, we all lost. This is true on so many levels.
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by vog 10y ago
From the article: > But the horrible truth is that this really was how these websites were. They all looked like this, every little one of the fuckers. Well, no. Many websites did not bother to include all that stuff. But these didn&#x
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by vog 10y ago
My big hope in this regard is Rust, which has a very good track record if implementing good, usable, zero-cost abstractions. If they manage to implement zero-cost futures [1][2], maybe they will also implement sime kind of zero-cost error h
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by vog 10y ago
This seems to be closely related to the current development in mathematics / computer science regarding automatic proof systems: It is no longer sufficient that the resulting formula or statement is correct. It is also important that t
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by vog 10y ago
Indeed, they are in the fridge only at home, not in the supermarket.
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by vog 10y ago
Europe? Really? Here in Germany, all people I know put their eggs into the fridge.
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RIPE Atlas(atlas.ripe.net)
3 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
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Nim Game(en.wikipedia.org)
26 points by vog 10y ago|9 comments
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by vog 10y ago
No, the next gen phones will need twice the power anyway, so no change in size. They will probably have real-time rendered 3D graphics in the user interface, and more expensive signal processing of their sensors, because of higher resolutio
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by vog 10y ago
I believe this has already been done extensively. It is called "outsourcing". For many companies this didn't end well. One of the reasons may be the following: It is more expensive to control the results than to control the p
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by vog 10y ago
As I said, I'm happy that Markdown was good enough for the author. But I just would never recommend Markdown in general for text books, given the alternatives.

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