dsymonds

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by dsymonds 7mo ago
Humanity made no meaningful progress in getting "to the stars" for thousands of years too, then in the space of a few decades we did.
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by dsymonds 1y ago
It's usually done in bulk, so the overall payoff is the combination of value and number of targets, but the effort is typically sublinear with the targets. Something easier to attack but relatively low in number is not as juicy as some
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by dsymonds 1y ago
and 90s versions like Me No Fry ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsgdT8YYwJo )
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by dsymonds 2y ago
It's low with CPR alone, but getting an AED involved (which should be accessible in most urban places these days) raises the chances to 50-70%.
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by dsymonds 2y ago
It's because units up to hours are of a fixed size, but days in most places are only 24h for ~363/365 days of the year, with some being 23h and some being 25h. (This is ignoring leap seconds, since the trend is to smear those rath
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by dsymonds 2y ago
If the author reads this, you have a misspelling of "diaspora" in the first sentence.
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by dsymonds 2y ago
The map iteration order was always "random", but imperfectly so prior to Go 1.3. From memory, it picked a random initial bucket, but then always iterated over that bucket in order, so small maps (e.g. only a handful of elements) a
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Preview of AWS Aurora Limitless Database(aws.amazon.com)
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by dsymonds 6y ago
Did you read Part 2, linked from the bottom? It has plenty of technical details.
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by dsymonds 6y ago
Not a typo. http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/2238/src/slp.c.html#line2238 It's what we'd use `&=` for nowadays. Note that the "B" language had these sorts of operators around the opposite way for h
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by dsymonds 6y ago
That's exactly what the Lions' book is.
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by dsymonds 6y ago
Yeah, there's been a few plans announced: https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come https://blog.golang.org/go2draft https://blog.golang.org/go2-next-steps
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by dsymonds 8y ago
It doesn't have to be a handshake and a nod. Things can still be clearly written down. But formal contracts with consequences take it up a notch. And this isn't about how you "conduct business"; that's a very busine
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by dsymonds 8y ago
An NDA is a legal agreement. It's entirely possible to organise coordinated disclosures without a legal agreement. The folks pushing NDAs, however, don't seem to be interested in other sorts of agreements.
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by dsymonds 8y ago
One big reason for shutdown rules with home PV systems is to keep firefighters safe. If your house is on fire, the firefighters really don't want to be contending with high voltage electricity as well.
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by dsymonds 8y ago
They likely can't, but they can fine EPAG, which is a German domain registrar. The matter at hand is that ICANN was trying to allegedly force EPAG to violate GDPR.
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by dsymonds 8y ago
> To search for anything about Go in your search engine of choice use the word golang rather than go when searching. For example to search for how to open a file I would search for golang open file. This seems to be a recurring chestnut,
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by dsymonds 8y ago
Even then, I think it'd be unlikely that the time-cost wouldn't make it worthwhile. People generally underestimate how much time gets soaked up by managing a computer service.
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by dsymonds 8y ago
Are you sure you fully understand the benefit? $35 is, what, 30 minutes of an engineer's time from a company's perspective? If the management of the service would take any more than that every month (and it easily could!), you&#x2
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by dsymonds 9y ago
context.Context is an interface because it is known there are multiple implementers (several in the context package itself). The sql driver.Value is actually the other way around: the sql package is the consuming package (for the driver).
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by dsymonds 9y ago
That's true, but the standard library also has strictures about backward compatibility that have ossified some bad choices. The crypto examples you give are arguably exactly this; even the later ones are probably a mistake, but are at
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by dsymonds 9y ago
A redback bite generally requires medical attention; though not triple-0 level urgency, it shouldn't be a wait-and-see-how-you-feel treatment.
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by dsymonds 9y ago
Did you actually read the article? It is clear from the background and history sections that the need for versioning was apparent from early on.
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by dsymonds 9y ago
Good to see rustfmt arrive. Sad that it is configurable, though. The biggest benefit of its predecessors such as gofmt is that they are not configurable, leading to a much more uniform formatting style and avoiding endless discussions abo
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by dsymonds 9y ago
In this context, USO means Universal Service Obligations, namely that approximately everyone can get access. https://www.acma.gov.au/Industry/Telco/Carriers-and-service-...
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by dsymonds 10y ago
No, that's not the definition of theft. Theft is the criminal (i.e. against the law) stealing of someone's property without their permission. This situation would have been complying with the law, stupid as it may be. It's mu
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by dsymonds 10y ago
Seems broken. It doesn't implement a proper regular expression engine. http://regexr.com/3f8ge c.f. https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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by dsymonds 10y ago
Doesn't Patreon fit this already? e.g. for one random example: https://www.patreon.com/monkey2
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by dsymonds 10y ago
Your maths seems off. 600 years at, say, 25 years per generation, yields 24 generations. Doubling each generation gives a factor of 2^24, or around 16 million, not 1 billion.
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by dsymonds 10y ago
Bah, the HN markup dropped my asterisks in those types.

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