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by cuspycode 9y ago
Korolev's contribution is even more impressive when you consider that he was imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag for many years (for political reasons), suffering under living conditions which probably shortened his life. https:/&#x2F
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Great points! I use high-entropy random secrets as passwords in the Basic Authorization header, with their hashes stored in a database. I also use cookies to make the browser experience pleasant and secure. The cookies are based on a HMAC h
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by cuspycode 9y ago
I don't think unshielded nukes in orbit are easy to detect. Back on Earth you need to get up close (within a few meters) in order to distinguish the radiation signature from the background radiation, and in space the background level i
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Historical anecdote: Algol-68 disassociated variable assignment from mutability already 50 years ago. Whenever mutability was desired, a reference to a mutable value holder was used. Example of immutable assignment: int n = 2 Example of r
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Since Facebook users are the company's products rather than their customers, I wonder what Zuckerberg means when he uses the term "our community"?
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by cuspycode 9y ago
What exactly counts as "starting a war"? The Korean war is mentioned here as an example, but that war was started by the Korean communists when they invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. The United States UN-sanctioned involvement
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by cuspycode 9y ago
The article talks about fusion chain reactions in hydrogen bombs, but the fusion in hydrogen bombs isn't an exponential sequence of chain reactions, it's due to very high temperatures caused by fission chain reactions in the pri
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by cuspycode 9y ago
"Lots of tables" is the finite case, for which the AC is a theorem. An infinite set of tables is qualitatively different. An arbitrary f(table) function will have to contain an infinite amount of information, which is beyond anyth
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Yes, that particular example is intuitive. But I don't see how a similar reasoning should apply to arbitrary infinite sets however. That's a huge intuitive leap in my opinion, and it's one that I can't follow.
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Why is the AC necessary for this recursive tree traversal?
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by cuspycode 9y ago
So how does anyone form an intuition for even defining the Cartesian product of infinite sets in general, without assuming the AC in the first place?
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by cuspycode 9y ago
I don't find the AC intuitive at all. It assumes that a choice function exists for any set of non-empty sets, including infinite ones. How can anyone have an intuition for such things? Except of course when the intuition is built upon
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Lacking an exact measure that we can all agree on, "influential" is kind of subjective. So I'll contribute with my subjective opinion: Paul Graham's essays are (collectively) among the highest quality content that I have
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by cuspycode 9y ago
I used Hylang to program an Arduino Yún a few years ago, via cross-compilation. This was a very nice experience, since it allowed me to use the great Python ecosystem without having to be limited by Python the language.
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I agree. My main keyboard is a Microsoft Internet Keyboard that I have been using for many hours daily since 1999, surviving five different computers (all running Linux). It's the most comfortable keyboard I've ever used, and it s
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Isn't ultimate profit the same as moral reasons?
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by cuspycode 9y ago
With all respect to Tim Berners-Lee, I think the principle of least power is overrated. For example, even binary Horn clauses are Turing complete[0]. Whatever configuration language you can come up with (HTML, CSS, or whatever), it's e
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by cuspycode 9y ago
People have always obsessed over "news", since humans are information-hungry by nature. But the modern tech crowd seems to have forgotten that there are two kinds of news: the kind that is objectively new (i.e. recent data), and t
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by cuspycode 10y ago
The theory behind the singularity is all about exponential trends. But most exponential trends tend to turn into some kind of S-curve[1] after a while. This insight goes back to Thomas Malthus, even though he never derived the sigmoid funct
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by cuspycode 10y ago
General relativity also accounts for gravitational/accelerational effects, in addition to the speed-related effects. For example, in the Schwarzschild metric[1], effects such as time dilation are on the order of 1-phi/c^2 where ph
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by cuspycode 10y ago
The article says: "I don't want to worry about per-file passphrases. Everything should be encrypted with/to the same key." To me the above looks like the only differentiating requirement, and in my mind the solution is t
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by cuspycode 10y ago
I wonder where the sweet spot is between a centralized service like Slack, and extremely decentralized scenarios where people just try to cope with a multitude of one-to-one channels? Federation is a given for this hypothetical sweet spot o
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by cuspycode 10y ago
I agree. I have been self-hosting my personal email since 1998, and there was a period when this was difficult due to technical issues related to encryption. But for the past decade or so those issues are gone. The benefits are great. For e
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Yes, a common modus operandi of Holocaust deniers is to make lists of people who were in some camp but never witnessed any gassing. This is then brought forward as a reason to question the existence of any gas chambers anywhere. It's s
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by cuspycode 10y ago
For me, the ease of self-hosting my own source-code hub tipped the balance in favor of Fossil SCM, after I abandoned Subversion. Ironically, the difficulty of self-hosting Git was the raison d'être for why inherently centralized servic
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Anything not enforceable shouldn't be in the contract in the first place. The only purpose of contracts is to enforce earlier promises when people don't agree anymore.
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I have a NUC6i5SYK (Skylake) running Ubuntu 16.04 server, and I too had some serious problems initially. Installing to the SSD worked without issues, but then I got machine check panics during most boots. After a lot of troubleshooting I wa