alextgordon

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by alextgordon 10y ago
Literally the definition of the integers is that (x + 1) != x. Wrapping is bad enough, but at least tends to makes failures noticeable. Saturating arithmetic makes it really hard to see that a failure has occurred. Depending on the performa
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by alextgordon 10y ago
It also lacks what you might call 'forward secrecy'. If someone gets access to my master password and an old 1password backup, then they get all the passwords in the backup. But with this, if someone gets access to my master passw
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by alextgordon 10y ago
The use of != there is very confusing but what they mean is stores a precision along each number, not that -0 != -0.0 e.g. in Python: >>> from decimal import Decimal as D >>> 2 * D("1.0") Decimal(&#
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by alextgordon 10y ago
Maybe it is a failure of imagination, but I don't get how nest can be more efficient than manual control. Cold? Switch the heating on. Hot? Switching the heating off. Why'd you need a learning algorithm for that? The website says
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by alextgordon 10y ago
You're right, but I guess you're being downvoted because nobody wants to hear it. JavaScript will never get anything like numpy, because it doesn't have integers. Doing mathematics without integers is like driving a car witho
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by alextgordon 10y ago
It's interesting that you give the example of Breivik. Don't you think that a far-right nutcase like him would relish the reinstatement of the death penalty?
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by alextgordon 10y ago
I don't bother reversing decks. It's more efficient to do more repetitions of Native->Foreign than it is to do equal repetitions of N->F and F->N. i.e. if you can respond that the French for cat is "chat", then
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by alextgordon 10y ago
The average person isn't even aware that VLC is an illegal circumvention tool in the United States under the DMCA. I fail to see how restrictions on encryption software would have a different outcome. Encryption is built into so many
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by alextgordon 10y ago
The comment system on HN discourages discussion of the article, because threads cannot be collapsed and so there is only space for 2 or 3 top-level comments to get much attention. The top comment is often a poor quality one, expressing some
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by alextgordon 10y ago
kik = a messaging app kike = a jewish person
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by alextgordon 10y ago
And there's at least tens of millions of people who only have one name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononymous_person#Modern_times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names#Mononymic_na
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by alextgordon 10y ago
The curse of oil.
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by alextgordon 10y ago
This has the same problem as hyperloop, then. Sure the main part of the journey is quicker, but if you have to take a connecting flight from New York to Boston, and a train from Luton to London, it's overall slower than a subsonic pl
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by alextgordon 10y ago
If he wants to control where people get his software, he should have published it under a proprietary license. Not saying he does, though.
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by alextgordon 10y ago
People are only trying to help. Better now than when the press hears about it and starts taking the piss out of them.
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by alextgordon 10y ago
Xcode works fine for me. I can't say the same for Android Studio, which seems to require a machine more powerful than a top-of-the-line MBP.
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by alextgordon 10y ago
I don't think I understand. If they could rehabilitate unsuitable donor organs and didn't have to worry about rejection, there wouldn't be a shortage. Isn't that the end game?
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Still, Uber knows who you are. If you damage their car they can invoice you. Presumably they will have CCTV in these things?
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Useless clickbait. Nobody ever claimed that the one and only benefit of standing is to "burn excess calories". Personally I had developed back pain from too much sitting. When I stand, I have better posture and so I don't get
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by alextgordon 11y ago
On OS X, Adium, Textual and Colloquy are predominantly built in HTML. It's hardly groundbreaking.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Or fruit juices. Orange juice has almost as much sugar as coca cola.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
They could use multiple signing keys. One in America, one in Hong Kong, one in Germany, etc. If a firmware update is not signed in all (or N of M) jurisdictions, the secure enclave simply rejects it.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Totally awesome! I was just about to make exactly this tomorrow, now I don't need to. My problem is that I would like to generate wrappers for an API, in a variety of popular languages. I could just implement each wrapper separately
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by alextgordon 11y ago
What is our purpose if computers can do everything better than us? It feels like computers have taken one aspect of humanness: logic. Computers could do arithmetic, do algebra, play chess, and now they can play go. It hurts because logic is
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by alextgordon 11y ago
…as is Swift with NSOperation/GCD. Apple's process isolation tech (XPC) is built upon their multithreading tech (GCD). The two are complementary, not antagonistic.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
jQuery is an 86kB static resource that almost certainly already exists in the browser's cache. You can choose to use it, or not, but you can't get stop it from being there! So I'm unsure what kind of complexity you're ad
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The workshop is free to use (it's on Google CDN), but the hammer and nails cost money. Seems like a no brainer to use the workshop. If the hammer and nails were actually better, then fine. But there's nothing actually wrong with $
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by alextgordon 11y ago
> Unless you’re working on a legacy application or have 3rd party libraries that depend on it, there’s no reason to include it. That means you need to replace $.ajax. > I like to keep it simple and just use fetch. It’s promise based,
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by alextgordon 11y ago
This is what I struggle with. Are they evil, blind, or both? The Conservatives are firmly in power now. Labour, the Lib Dems and even UKIP have been neutered. Corbyn is not going to lead Labour to victory in 2020. You would think that the
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by alextgordon 11y ago
How am I supposed to contribute to your project if the files required to build it are in one place (the tarball) but patches have to be made in another (the git repo)? If your best practices require you to make potential users and contribut

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