winceschwab

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by winceschwab 8y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too. Treating a byte as eight tally marks misses the point about the combinatorialnature of place settings. It's not 100% wrong, because bit shifting and bit packing are real-world applications used in memory all t
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by winceschwab 8y ago
There's this mythical belief that programmers like to tell themselves: "I'm as good at math as I am programming." It turns out that for many, this idea is far from the truth. The similarities are superficial. The notatio
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by winceschwab 8y ago
This confirms most of what I have always suspected to be true, regarding font snobs.
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by winceschwab 8y ago
So, effectively, three security questions, like this: Favorite color? red Favorite band? yes First vehicle? car In reality, they actually reduce complexity, defeating a 12 character password requirement with numbers, uppercase,
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by winceschwab 8y ago
This headline was very confusing, since Googling S3, for context that doesn't involve AWS is nearly impossible. Favorite search result: https://www.s3integration.com/company/executive-bios/
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by winceschwab 8y ago
“The atom bomb works. Fission makes uranium explode.” See how I didn’t need a citation? It’s because the facts are not only well-understood, but a river of citation is ready to flow for you, and you would have to dig for verifiable evidence
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by winceschwab 8y ago
Actually, if anything, that means everything that happens next matters now more than ever. Put another way, if we think of 1960's era ICBM technology as entry level autonomous warfare, it's the least effective example of this kind
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by winceschwab 8y ago
...as mentioned over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886529
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by winceschwab 8y ago
It doesn’t really “turn to liquid” but really starts behaving according to fluid dynamics. Nothing melts or freezes. More to the point, the motion of the macroscopic objects (rocks, sand, dust, powder) being dumped in by conveyor belt creat
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by winceschwab 8y ago
It’s not a true liquid, but rather solid dust mixed with trace amounts of water. Drier than mud, but powder and rock that can shift in a fluid-like way. It’s like an avalanche or rock slide.
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by winceschwab 8y ago
So, this is kind of similar to the whole corn-starch-and-water non-newtonian solid kind of problem, right? A little different, because this isn’t entirely about mixtures, aqueous solutions or colloidal suspensions, but more about the fundam