z3phyr

21 ms·

241.
by z3phyr 7y ago
The first triangle is still in 3d space but the z coordinates are set to 0
242.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Yes. But it does not matter. We do not do science for some high level goal of "Benefit for humanity". I love stars, I like astronomy, and when I study the stars, I do not think about how my study would impact humanity. I just stud
243.
by z3phyr 7y ago
>So how does the scientific community decide which are the theories that is worth spending time on to prove them and which are not? Four primary variables: 1) Collective interest of the researchers in the topic of attack 2) Collective in
244.
by z3phyr 7y ago
> How do you decide something is scientific? Science is a method of making a claim, testing it with vivid experiments, testing it more, recording observations, wait for other people to test the claim with their own experiments, and if th
245.
Ask HN: Resources for Systems Programming in Lisp
4 points by z3phyr 7y ago|2 comments
246.
by z3phyr 7y ago
> "Dialect of" Programming languages are not natural languages. The usual definition (which is loose) of a dialect in natural languages does not actually apply on "programming languages", which I repeat do not even cl
247.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Garbage collection was developed for Lisp. That way, any language with GC borrows directly from Lisp. Lisp introduced the notion of Symbols, which is just String Interning. That way, any language with String Interning borrows from Lisp. REP
248.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Are people hacking smartphones like those closed source microcomputers were hacked as described in Hackers: Heroes of Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy?
249.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Install it and try it. It might surprise you.
250.
by z3phyr 7y ago
The population was too high and the institutions were robust. The institutions were also loosely identical to the other entities of the old world, and therefor designed to survive imperial institutions of similar kind. This is similar to th
251.
by z3phyr 7y ago
> There was enough trade to exchange disease between Europe and Asia If you look at the long term history, there was widespread and massive instances of migrations too.
252.
by z3phyr 7y ago
I am all in to form a peer group to study RE (Windows or Linux) I am more interested in memory patching and binary modification of software (including games) than malware analysis
253.
by z3phyr 7y ago
I do not have a security background but I would love to study with you!
254.
by z3phyr 7y ago
What is bro humor? Just see random memes on initial google search.
255.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Writeups like this are helpful for people who find compiler theory books a bit dry. This is great!
256.
by z3phyr 7y ago
I believe, initially only Romero and Carmack had such kind of experiance. Adrian Carmack did not have experiance with video games and Tom Hall had only some bare experiance.
257.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Games allow people to try out things that are not possible for most people in real life. It includes doing a medieval quest, becoming an action mercenary, becoming a ninja, managing a top football team, building a city, building a theme par
258.
by z3phyr 7y ago
On a fundamental problem solving level, open source spoils the part of the fun. I only need the executable file, and part of the fun is figuring out how it works and how can I morph that file to make it do other things, or completely change
259.
by z3phyr 7y ago
> The author also calls out Unity as part of the problem I am sorry, where does he do that?
260.
by z3phyr 7y ago
> "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" Your premise is wrong. Hacking is making things do stuff which was thought to be not possible before (like making an 8 color machine produce 16 color output by wizardry
261.
by z3phyr 7y ago
> Hannibal's trick to encircle and kill many roman troops in a single battle was never going to be repeated I would argue that the Romans allowed themselves to be surrounded in the Battle of Carrhae by forming into a block. They got
262.
by z3phyr 7y ago
They lacked physical firepower, but they had metaphysical/magical firepower. I imagine they purposefully filled gondorian soldier's mind with dread and misery using their powers (think fighter planes with capabilities of high end
263.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Then the energy spent creating the machine is always higher
264.
by z3phyr 7y ago
The research in AI directly coincided with the development of early computer systems. Lisp and friends (and small but important ideas that come with it ranging from string interning to garbage collection to the macro system to the fundament
265.
by z3phyr 7y ago
All AI waves have been very productive. The last ones gave us huge advancements in programming language design, operating systems, networking, hci, spawned a few programming paradigms. .. It does not really translate to the final objective
266.
by z3phyr 7y ago
I guess gearbox owns the character??
267.
by z3phyr 7y ago
> I don't think its target audience is hardcore gamers They are marketing to hardcore gamers
268.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Hangouts as in afk?
269.
by z3phyr 7y ago
Software itself is not the primary product though. I argue that Open Source has paved the way for advertisement and services companies (traditionally non tech companies) to call themselves tech companies and gain an advantage in their respe
270.
by z3phyr 7y ago
It would be fun if they ad lib

More ›