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by KMag 2y ago
I'm not very tasty to mosquitos to begin with. I used to have the usual reaction to mosquito bites (slight bump, itching). I grew up near a wetland in Minnesota, so I was no stranger to mosquitos, but after getting absolutely mobbed
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by KMag 2y ago
I'm pretty sure they were trying to avoid that exact spoiler by hiding the fact they were talking about the null set. Spoiler alert: do not read parent comment.
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by KMag 2y ago
It's psychoactive, but not euphoric. Promoting wakefulness is a psychoactive property.
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by KMag 2y ago
> .. women reaching out against their abusive male partners. Which IS an issue and IS statistically more likely. Be careful about your phrasing there. I hope the implied subject on both sides of the "and" is different. Women
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by KMag 2y ago
Does your parent need to graduate to be considered a legacy? My dad went to 3 different undergraduate colleges each of his 3 years of undergrad, kicked the MCAT's teeth in, and got into med school without having graduated, went to two
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by KMag 2y ago
Vastly under-estimating the magnitude of the task is how the crazy things get done. Christopher Columbus wasn't unique in believing the world was round, he was rather unique in his vast under-estimation of the distance to Asia. The o
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by KMag 2y ago
Thanks for this. I initially went with xfs back when there were license and quality concerns with zfs on Linux before btrfs was a thing, and moved to btrfs after btrfs was created and matured a bit. These days, I think I would be happier w
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by KMag 2y ago
For the completely randomized algorithm, my initial prototype was to always download the first block if available. After that, if fewer than 4 extents (continuous ranges of available bytes) were downloaded locally, randomly chose any avail
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by KMag 2y ago
But if you have a single board computer with 1 GB of RAM and several TB of ZFS, will it just be slow, or actually not run? Granted, my use case was abnormal, and I was evaluating in the early days when there were both license and quality c
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by KMag 2y ago
How are the memory overheads of ZFS these days? In the old days, I remember balking at the extra memory required to run ZFS on the little ARM board I was using for a NAS.
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by KMag 2y ago
> No serious person designing a filesystem today would say it's okay to misplace your data. Former LimeWire developer here... the LimeWire splash screen at startup was due to experiences with silent data corruption. We got some i
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by KMag 2y ago
> AFAIK the ObjC compiler can do this step even during compilation so that no method string names are included in the binary, but I'm not sure. That would be possible for static binaries, but I don't see how that would work for
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by KMag 2y ago
Taiwanese or the family having emigrated from mainland China prior to the PRC adopting pinyin (which includes possibly prior to the Chinese civil war).
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by KMag 2y ago
I believe one rewrite of Python's dict was the first mainstream use of this sort of hash map as a default implementation. I wish they provided a sort method to re-sort and re-index the vector to change the iteration order without the s
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by KMag 2y ago
I agree with you, but would phrase it differently. You want some indication that any leak of your current password actually hasn't been mitigated. A failure message that your password hasn't actually changed (due to being identi
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by KMag 2y ago
As long as it survives an autoclave and doesn't leave behind any debris in the site, it seems fine.
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by KMag 2y ago
I lost a few GMail accounts because I changed countries and computers since I created them. I tried logging in, Google said my password was correct, but both the device and the IP were unfamiliar. I don't recall exactly what was wro
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by KMag 2y ago
Right. Government-mandated access to proprietary data isn't how the US breaks up monopolies, but somewhat along those lines, it might make sense for some government to provide some similar data. This seems much closer to a European s
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by KMag 2y ago
It was a collaborative algorithmic optimization exercise. There wasn't a "right" answer I was looking for. If they noticed something I hadn't, that would have been great. Collaborative algorithmic optimization has be
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by KMag 2y ago
The problem with Hypercard is that it used an extremely restricted subset of English constructions. Once you got used to the limitations, it was fine, but could be very frustrating for users learning what sorts of phrasing Hypercard expect
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by KMag 2y ago
I used to ask how to find the 10th percentile value from an arbitrarily ordered list as an interview question. Most candidates suggested sorting, and then I'd ask if they could do better. If they got stuck, I'd ask them which so
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by KMag 2y ago
I think it would stabilize via a combination of electron capture and positron emission converting most of the protons into neutrons.
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by KMag 2y ago
Don't forget electron capture and positron emission converting some of those protons into neutrons.
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by KMag 2y ago
Disclaimer, I work for a market-neutral fund, and have close friends high up in prop shops. Presuming all strategies have a curve of diminishing marginal returns as assets under management increase, you would not expect any fund accepting o
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by KMag 2y ago
The extra protection against key reuse requires the attacker to be uncertain of which group is the indicator group. Placing indicator groups at the beginning of the broadcast would prevent that, but would allow agents to better avoid dete
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by KMag 2y ago
I didn't mean to imply that. What I meant to imply is that at the beginning of their appointed hour, they tune in to see if they have a message that day/week.
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by KMag 2y ago
If you add an extra blank line, or add a trailing space to a line, can you really get that back out from a .NET assembly? Normal disassembly at a minimum results in a loss of formatting.
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by KMag 2y ago
I'm not aware how to get byte-for-byte identical source out of a Java class file or .NET assembly. Last I checked, Java AoT compilation precluded runtime re-optimization, though I presume they've fixed that by now. Last I checked,
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by KMag 2y ago
If your hash map uses open addressing, instead of a sparse array of pair<key, value>, you can have a vector<pair<key,value>> and a sparse array holding offsets into the vector. Depending on the sizes of keys, values, and
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by KMag 2y ago
I've long dreamt of a system that compiles to native code, but stores a compressed SSA form (similar to SafeTSA or LLVM bitcode) in the binary for efficient runtime re-optimization based on profiling, somewhat similar to current Androi

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