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by zingermc 8y ago
You could easily make a root-privileged daemon that listens for requests to install packages from users in a particular group.
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by zingermc 8y ago
You can see the directory by editing the URL: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/ Looks like rms-essays.ps exists, and there are .texi files for individual essays (at least "Right to Read" and "Mis
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by zingermc 9y ago
Breaking Bad would still be a show! Walter White was a chemistry teacher, which implies he had health insurance that would cover chemotherapy. He also has a son with cerebral palsy, who almost certainly has needed medical treatment before.
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by zingermc 9y ago
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by zingermc 9y ago
I'm finding the writing style of this article very strange. Is the author pulling some trick that other linguists would find amusing?
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by zingermc 9y ago
Even simpler, shouldn't the configuration be part of the fuzzed input?
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by zingermc 10y ago
Wow, the two-level grammar concept is incredible! I have some learning to do. Thank you for sharing.
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by zingermc 10y ago
Interesting! I think I am starting to get it. To double check, is running a grammar the same as parsing?
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by zingermc 10y ago
Maybe I'm being too literal, but how can a grammar be Turing complete? The usual definition of Turing completeness is being able to simulate an arbitrary Turing machine. Typical human languages don't do beta reductions like Lambda
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by zingermc 10y ago
Many colleges in the US have (land) Quidditch teams. I've heard they sometimes have horrific injuries because the people on the team are not conventionally athletic.
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by zingermc 10y ago
It's more than nostalgia -- interacting with a physical object is more stimulating than an e-reader. Paper books have a smell, a texture, and a colorful cover. You might remember where something happened in a story because of how man
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by zingermc 10y ago
It's important to remember that the metric of success in evolution is not outsmarting other people. It's how much you can spread your genes!
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by zingermc 10y ago
Soulver is very similar to a project I started working on a few months ago. I guess I didn't do enough market research!
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by zingermc 10y ago
While you're in the terminal, you might as well fire up `bc -l`, etc. I can't stand GUI calculators that don't display the whole formula.
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by zingermc 10y ago
I had a somewhat similar dream where I had an epiphany that everything in the universe is controlled by code, which I had the privileges to edit for some reason. I remember typing some HTML (`<span style="color:red">` and `
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by zingermc 10y ago
You might be interested to hear another point of view. I am one of the people who tells others I'm bad at math, but it is because I struggle with mental arithmetic due to working memory deficits. For example, I struggle to keep two two
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by zingermc 10y ago
Sounds like a good way to turn the galaxy into grey goo.
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by zingermc 10y ago
I'm running Chromium 54 on Arch Linux, which I am assuming is not affected, since that page only names version 53. Interestingly, there is no certificate problem on a Windows machine on the same network.
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by zingermc 10y ago
Anybody else seeing a certificate error on ftc.gov?
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by zingermc 10y ago
Self-driving cars need to support unplanned changes to the road, such as construction zones.
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by zingermc 10y ago
> In 1299, zero was banned in Florence, along with all Arabic numerals, because they were said to encourage fraud. Zero could easily be doctored to become nine, and why not add a few zeros on the end of a receipt to inflate the price? I&
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by zingermc 10y ago
Yes! Propositional logic and conditional/indirect proof strategies should be taught before any kinds of "proofs" are taught to students (I'm looking at you, trigonometry).
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by zingermc 10y ago
My guess is that they are using blockchain, but I cannot find any real details on their site, blog, or FAQs.
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by zingermc 10y ago
I am amazed by the fact that I never accidentally trigger this feature.
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by zingermc 10y ago
This is an extreme case, but if the policy is to slow down and/or stop, then that can be manipulated. Imagine your car takes you through a bad part of town and a group of people want to rob you -- they just have to stand in the car&#x
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by zingermc 10y ago
Maybe serif fonts are more readable on a high-resolution phone screen or "retina" display, but not on my monitor. The edges of the serif font on the New Yorker's site just look blurry to me.
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by zingermc 10y ago
We are still waiting on a proof of the Church-Turing Thesis, so maybe that is next on the agenda.
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by zingermc 10y ago
I tend to agree with all of your points. How do you feel about the 'eshell' mode in emacs? I think it's neat because it's basically a normal shell plus an elisp REPL. I imagine a terminal emulator with access to a large
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by zingermc 10y ago
> With the older systems, the database update logic and the business logic are in the same programs. This is not good. Can you elaborate? Sometimes it seems that business logic must be implemented in SQL, for example, or else you will g
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by zingermc 10y ago
That's a really good point! I have used the CherryPy framework before, but I've never used Python type hints before.

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