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by wolfgke 8y ago
Counterexample of a non-boring "live" coding demo (OK, it is recorded and played in a faster tempo): Some of Bisqwit's videos. Some of my favorites: OpenGL programming, simple FPS style walking scene (DOS, 256 colors, ditheri
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Taylor Dupuy on Mochizuki’s IUTT Infamous Corollary 3.12(thehighergeometer.wordpress.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> They got Turing completeness in just the MMU. Since the amount of adressable memory on any CPU is finite, while a Turing machine needs in infinite band of memory, such claims of Turing-completeness of processors or in this case the MMU
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> C++ is relatively fast but MSVC’s STL library’s debug performance is abysmal. It’s been like this since at least MSVC 2008 too. I’m not sure why Microsoft doesn’t think it’s a priority to improve. If you want fast performance, you use
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A multifaceted medieval ivory die(twitter.com)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us(technologyreview.com)
61 points by wolfgke 8y ago|33 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> For those out of the loop as I am, what is Urbit? A medium post that attempts to give a high-level overview (and will perhaps confuse you): > https://medium.com/@mattcondon/hot-takes-in-which-i-try-to-e... Anot
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Given that C++ now has a defined memory model, it might very well be that it's now impossible to implement C++ in a standard conforming way on exotic architectures. Also C has a defined memory model since C11 > https:/&#x
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I can't imagine every wanting a touchscreen on a laptop with a keyboard. I used to have one, and it constantly irritated me if I accidentally touched it. I don't own such a device, but I can easily imagine how it could be ver
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Maybe you want to learn why it is true? > Since Euclid, mathematics is about proof i.e. being convinced. If you really understand the material, you see it must be true - and need not blindly accept it. I agree. Learning mathematic
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Isn't this backwards? If you're just accepting the lecturer's word as dogma, I would argue you're not really gaining an education at all. The process of being convinced and having doubts about the material resolved
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The original author has to persuade people, and convince people who aren't familiar with them. The "pedagogical" author later is in a more clear position of authority and doesn't need to work as hard. Or perhaps: Th
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Only by getting feedback from real students can you truly figure out whether a textbook is good. The problem is (also in my experience) that students often cannot grasp the depth of the textbook/topic when they here the lecture. I
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'm not saying there aren't talented developers working in open source. But the sheer breadth of expertise required is unimaginable. In my opinion, the problem rather is that the skills that are helpful/necessary to buil
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Hidden area in Legend of Zelda that 30 years later one player finally opened(businessinsider.de)
22 points by wolfgke 8y ago|4 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's worse than this. Nvidia does not merely not provide open source drivers, they actively preclude work on Nouveau. If the noveau developers had true hacker spirit, they would move nouveau development into the darknet.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The problem, I think, is that the people who are competent enough to figure something out, and then capable enough to explain it well, are spread pretty thin due to all these riches. > SO, if you're one of those incredibly awes
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When a Sponsored Facebook Post Doesn’t Pay Off (2018)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> What prevents three-letter agencies from using software without paying for it? I would argue because the three-letter agencies want that the software continues to be maintained. And perhaps anything illegal that an agency does yields b
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> So is your position that all copyright should be eliminated? Or, that censorship is good but only for a limited amount of time? Or...? I just stated a logical fact. Understanding the interference rules of ZFC does not enable you to pro
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The fair use doctrine provides enough outs that it's not outright censorship. In Germany's analogue to the US-American copyright law (Urheberrecht), there exists no fair use doctrine. EDIT: And even if we ignore this: a litt
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> What is the argument for not protecting copyright? Copyright is censorship.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Such events are relatively rare, but keep many students who are suffering from mental illness from taking the risk of using available resources. Even more: Exactly these kinds of rules lead to a strong incentive to simply commit the su
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> In mostly places there's no difference between calling police or an ambulance. At least in Germany, there historically is/was (even though this is not always the case anymore as far as I am aware). 110 for police and 112 for
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When Good Engineers Write Bad Software(spectrum.ieee.org)
6 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The city has a weird fascination with people called "Otto". Equally revered is Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, who a 1000+ years ago made Magdeburg his city of residence. Also the German comedian Otto Waalkes ( https:/&#x2F
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> No such thing as “Data science” - just a fancy term for trade school computer skills. Thats why. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/ Or as my friend put it: everything is just a trivial special case of either m
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The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention (2017)(blogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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How I accidentally found a clickjacking “feature” in Facebook(malfind.com)
3 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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Central Banks Have Few Options to Deal With Another Crisis(bloomberg.com)
66 points by wolfgke 8y ago|84 comments

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