xyience

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by xyience 10y ago
#5 and #7 are great, I too don't like the anti-intellectualism a lot of degree seekers seem to have. But the typical tuition these days is a large price to pay for intellectualism. I paid a high price for my CE degree, which I entered
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by xyience 10y ago
I wasn't talking about verifying a password for every action, but simply having more than one user of your service at once.
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by xyience 10y ago
Weak passwords are still weak, but things like bcrypt buy you time. A bcrypt configuration might have hashing take 250ms on a server's Xeon CPU (as opposed to nanoseconds with a sha-based hash). You can try the password 'password&
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by xyience 10y ago
Your schedule just needs fixing. Designate one parent as the "put kids to bed" and the "household maintenance" for the day, that gives the other an extra 2 hours. Exercising every other day is practically as good or bett
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by xyience 10y ago
Another aspect most of the "just exercise" folks don't get is what it feels like to be 300+ lbs and weak. Get out and walk for 30 minutes? Why, so I can expose my gross body to the world? Running? Cycling? Haha, get out of he
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by xyience 10y ago
Video games have been filling this niche quite well. I felt a lot more accomplished after mastering Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 than after I got up to a 315 lb dead lift.
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by xyience 10y ago
It's only unparalleled if you've never heard of the C99 'restrict' keyword. The major reason is like every other legacy system still in wide use, inertia. LAPACK alone will guarantee Fortan's life for decades to com
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by xyience 10y ago
http://ageofem.com/
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by xyience 10y ago
Sometime in the 2020s, Elon Musk sends the first team of 5 astronauts to Mars... guess what, Mars is now overpopulated. Ng might not want to worry about it but be thankful other people are, lives are on the line.
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by xyience 10y ago
Addendum to your nitpick: Also don't even leave it at just "C++" unless you really are a master of everything in C++98 plus all the new stuff in C++14.
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by xyience 10y ago
> but what you can you do. Not make sweeping generalizations based on one benchmark you didn't write?
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by xyience 10y ago
This is basically why I ditched Rust as soon as I found out about Nim. No mental gymnastics making me feel like I should be part of a group mind, super fast, super small binaries, optional GC, and memory unsafe stuff allowed with standard p
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by xyience 10y ago
What are your thoughts on things like https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement ?
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by xyience 10y ago
As a US citizen, I go to my company's Canadian office every so often. I have no issues saying it's for business -- the first time ever I was a noob and was asked to park and go inside for more questioning but once I clarified that
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by xyience 10y ago
Oh wow, is that where that meme started? (All I know about Ender's Game is from https://web.archive.org/web/20110319084212/http://plover.net... )
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by xyience 10y ago
Where's your 4^32 coming from? There are only 2^32 ipv4 addresses. You may be right that the first wave would just target port 22 and the second 2222 and so on, an actual attack would probably have some interesting implementation detai
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by xyience 10y ago
Not every port, but maybe you remember this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/guerilla-researcher-... The article also details an earlier cataloging where a researcher probed 18 ports 3-4 times a day o
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by xyience 10y ago
Do any of the companies have blogs or GDC talks where they discuss bits of it?
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by xyience 10y ago
Seriously. I was looking at DB usage statistics recently and was appalled MongoDB is still so popular. I thought it was done, nail in the coffin, when https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs came out 6 years ago, I have
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by xyience 10y ago
Have you seen any data-oriented 3D engines anywhere? Even the few engines I've looked at for e.g. Clojure are just needlessly OO on top of some Java stuff.
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by xyience 10y ago
You might not get compromised in the first wave of IP scanners that try the 0day on port 22, port 2222, and maybe a few other common alternatives. This first wave will pass in about 5 minutes. Subsequent waves will just try every port. This
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by xyience 10y ago
In these situations I like to link to https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glantons-law/
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by xyience 10y ago
This sort of thing shouldn't even be a browser-level extension anyway, but a user script loaded with Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey.
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by xyience 10y ago
As I understand it it's not even purely race mixing that's a problem but race replacing. I wish every white nationalist would get their DNA sampled so they can see how pure they really are, even just among white people! But anyway
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by xyience 10y ago
What type of white? Slavic is different from Anglo-Saxon is different from Germanic is etc., not too long ago all the various white groups in American had their own gangs and gang wars because "white" as a broad term wasn't g
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by xyience 10y ago
Take a week or two off. Come back and find out what went to hell without you around. Delegate those duties to your underlings, or quickly hire underlings well suited for those duties if you don't have any yet.
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by xyience 10y ago
I hate that pixels made a comeback. They are a total pain in the era of multiple resolution sizes, aspect ratios, orientations, and densities.
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by xyience 10y ago
The appification of the web is what went "wrong". For non-app sites, a bloated DOM-grid is probably a bad choice (though there was a lot of interesting experimentation with Compass/Blueprint like a decade ago). For webapps, i
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by xyience 10y ago
A diagram helps when you start getting into read/compile time discussions, see slides 13 through 17 of http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/clojure-an-introduction-... to see how the evaluation model for Clojure (w
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by xyience 10y ago
Yes, I think most people don't bring predictability into it at all. Free will is about the feeling of "I could do, or could have done, X instead of Y", but your search space only ever included X, Y, and Z. Just knowing your s

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