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871.
by wnoise 15y ago
> with N if it's a power of 2. with N if it's highly composite. See, e.g. http://www.fftw.org/ which works fairly well even for non-powers of 2.
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by wnoise 15y ago
Lobbying gets the laws passed for those that enjoy them. The players help create the game, so it is perfectly appropriate to hate them.
873.
by wnoise 15y ago
Unreadable without javascript.
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by wnoise 15y ago
CAs will continue to be broken into, or be pressured by governments. If the trust model doesn't change, nothing else will matter. The best suggestion I've seen is to allow certs to be signed by multiple CAs (currently the X.509 certificat
875.
by wnoise 15y ago
This might make it slightly easier for some of you to read this. The document is in UTF-8. There are two places in the document that say it's in UTF-8. Yet the server currently reports the charset as iso-8859-1. So that's what Chrome's
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by wnoise 15y ago
"Either a proposition or its negation" is the logical principle of the excluded middle, which is not a fallacy. The fallacy of the excluded middle is considering only a small subset of possibilities. It applies here, not with what was expl
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by wnoise 15y ago
See also Erlang, where one commonly encouraged way of handling errors is to crash a process, and let another process restart it.
878.
by wnoise 15y ago
(My guess is wrong. They really did have a hardcoded 3 octet pseudo-characterset. Ugh.)
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by wnoise 15y ago
4 octets of UTF-8 suffice to cover all Unicode characters. Unicode is essentially 21-bit (U+0 to U+10FFFF), not 32-bit. The BMP is 16 bits, U+0 to U+FFFF. 3 octets suffice for it. It's useful to know that MySQL support outside the BMP do
880.
by wnoise 15y ago
Corporations are creatures of the state and do not exist "naturally"
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by wnoise 15y ago
> Even more surprising is that they would use the terminology of prior and posterior probabilities and the like, applied correctly. It gives one the impression that the author knows what he is talking about. Well, the author of the revi
882.
by wnoise 15y ago
Decent illustration of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_paradox
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by wnoise 15y ago
Oy. Every single allocation of surplus is Pareto efficient, and every single allocation can result from the right Nash equilibrium. The 50/50 split of surplus is in no way anymore justified then any other. You have to reach outside game
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by wnoise 15y ago
In other words, the current situation.
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by wnoise 15y ago
Sure. But assuming "necessary" is a problem even when put in that context. It's trade-offs and cost-benefit analysis. The benefits are easily seen from the business side. The costs may not be obvious. A couple of days for an intern is
886.
by wnoise 15y ago
Saying it's necessary is begging the question.
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by wnoise 15y ago
2^(bitsize) == 0. Edit: Yes, 1 << bitsize is undefined. But unsigned integers actually do have well-defined semantics on overflow, and multiplying by 2 enough times really does produce zero.
888.
by wnoise 15y ago
The ambiguity is that the law (or at least the system) is unjust. The patent system is supposed to promote innovation by granting a limited monopoly to truly revolutionary ideas, in order to encourage people to spread knowledge of these re
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by wnoise 15y ago
LulzSec are vandals and dicks. But Anonymous has done some good things as well... > [1]: I have browsed thru /b/ many times, and the behavior of people there truly is the worst I've seen ever. I was in the middle of the SF Giants riots
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by wnoise 15y ago
"Blog" is a verb as well as a noun. In this case it is just the usual rule of "-ing" taking a verb into its present participle (adjective) or gerund (noun) denoting the action or process of the verb.
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by wnoise 15y ago
Different people learn best in different ways. Undoubtedly Khan Academy isn't going to work for everyone. Neither does the standard classroom. Diversity in education is a good thing, so long as people can find out what works for them and
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by wnoise 15y ago
Everybody is at risk for federal prosecution. Everybody. http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/... http://www.threefelonies.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx
893.
by wnoise 15y ago
So what can be done to change the incentives so a different Nash equilibrium is selected? Would it be possible to change the professor ranking rules so that the reviews of cheaters do not count for the average rating? A bounty per cheater
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by wnoise 15y ago
I don't think most downvotes are about agreement. An honest opinion need not be an opinion worth reading. I want to read honest, informed, insightful, and justified opinions especially when I disagree, not honest, but knee-jerk opinions, e
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by wnoise 15y ago
This could alternately be described as "a client used its old address until it could contact the DHCP server".
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by wnoise 15y ago
> seems a little overkill at this stage Better to correct earlier than later. > no reason to take umbrage. I don't see umbrage, just a desire to have something fixed.
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by wnoise 15y ago
I'm wondering about the tax consequences of perks as opposed to equivalent salary bumps...
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by wnoise 15y ago
See also "Probabilistic Functional Programming" at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Probabilistic_Functional_... A Haskell embedding seems easier than adding new syntax to R, though you don't get all the nice algorithms that are already
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by wnoise 15y ago
Minors: the last minority it's still okay (and legally mandated) to discriminate against.
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by wnoise 15y ago
COPPA is a US law that applies to US corporations. It's not enforced on the child, it's enforced on Google. The nationality and location of the child is irrelevant (legally).

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