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by fazzone 5y ago
The Linux kernel can be configured at build time to expose its own headers as /proc/kheaders.tar.xz. Not sure if distribution kernels generally have this option enabled or not.
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by fazzone 7y ago
This is pretty much how clojure atoms [0] work. It's basically a Clojure wrapper around a Java AtomicReference, but Clojure's immutable data structures make an atomic reference type really useful because it is very cheap to read
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by fazzone 7y ago
The problem is that the condition is parsed as (user=671156 AND permission=16 AND org=101) OR 102 The right way is to use something like org IN (101, 102)
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by fazzone 7y ago
Some years ago I worked at a technology-oriented summer camp where I personally taught several bright young children to program. Minecraft mods were an incredibly popular project and a big driver of interest for many of the kids. Many of
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by fazzone 8y ago
This sounds like sort of reasonably OK layman's explanation of Weak DH https://weakdh.org/
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by fazzone 8y ago
In Clojure unresolved names are a compile failure, and Spec would not be involved. Spec is just a nice library for writing runtime assertions about data. An example would be calling a third-party API and then validating the response with
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by fazzone 8y ago
Wow, I really can't imagine an acquisition that I would less rather learn about than FB hypothetically buying reddit. Considering how FB has all the money in the world it is probably wise to start editing/deleting all my reddit c
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by fazzone 9y ago
To expand on the debugging bit, Datomic knows and can tell you the exact transaction responsible for every piece of data in the database. You can also see the complete state of the DB as of any transaction, but the complete history is more
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by fazzone 9y ago
I think the strongest point in the article is this: "After the next breakthrough [in AI], we still won’t know how many more breakthroughs are needed, leaving us in pretty much the same epistemic state as before." That means that
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by fazzone 9y ago
Paredit is great but it is not the same as AST editing, it even describes itself as a 'cheesy imitation,' see https://github.com/takeoutweight/paredit/blob/master/CREDITS
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by fazzone 9y ago
Isn't this what IncrediBuild does on Windows?
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by fazzone 9y ago
I am playing around with an idea like this for editing Clojure in Emacs with cider-mode. You have to manually build the 'thread' that such a code unravel-er would return, but then you can read and edit functions from many files i
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by fazzone 9y ago
A guideline like "three arguments to a function" says nothing about the type of those three arguments. You are right that there are many jobs that require 8 or more pieces of information, but often those parameters can be grouped
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by fazzone 10y ago
I think that Google's TPUs (Tensor Processing Unit) use Altera FPGAs (speculation based on [1]). I'm sure there's some degree of collaboration if Google is filling cabinets with high-end FPGAs. [1] https://twitter
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by fazzone 10y ago
My point is that they far over-prioritized fuel economy. If you actually drive like that you will be spending a lot more time changing gears than necessary, and that almost any acceleration will require a downshift. I wouldn't recomm
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by fazzone 10y ago
>gear-shift indicator in the dash. My VW has this. It's useless, I never look at it. It is very simple and clearly intended only to give the best results on the controlled gas mileage testing - I believe that if a manual car has a
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by fazzone 10y ago
There's probably no reason to restrict the computer the below human pro players (200-300 APM). My guess is the engine just wasn't designed with superhuman APM in mind and could be exploited. If that's the case then the AI w
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by fazzone 10y ago
I have seen this reported as a rumour with circumstantial evidence to back it up (why would they release a brand-new flagship product with a 2-year-old chip). Has it been confirmed anywhere yet?
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by fazzone 10y ago
Well, a lot of the papers published in the field present results like "We designed a neural net to perform <task> and achieved X% accuracy." The design of the net is novel and interesting enough to merit its own publication
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by fazzone 10y ago
Quick, name three uses for this technology that aren't annoying advertisements!
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by fazzone 10y ago
Have any of Altman's critics taken a step back and realized that they are telling him that he is morally obligated to terminate a productive business relationship over political differences? Are they suggesting that half the country s
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by fazzone 10y ago
I thought your thesis was that there was no actual collusion between politicians and the media, just aligned incentives. I agree with your point about the incentives, but don't you agree that this email shows that there was in fact ac
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by fazzone 10y ago
It's not in an obvious place, and for some reason it's not listed on their YouTube channel, but they do have a timelapse video showing the logo from the main video being cut from start to finish. ( https://www.youtube.c
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by fazzone 10y ago
I agree that 5x10 is small and hard to read, but what use would a bitmapped font have for subpixel rendering?
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by fazzone 10y ago
Re: #3, I think when Reddit first implemented comment tree collapsing they also put the button on the right, but I saw a thread where someone pointed out that since the length of usernames is variable, putting the button on the left makes i
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by fazzone 11y ago
The way I see it, it is certainly possible for one entity to gain enough computing power to control 51% of the Bitcoin network. However, once you do that, if you actually do any of the bad things that you could do, people will notice, and
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by fazzone 11y ago
Pascal-style strings have the length stored in the first byte, so a string can only be 255 characters long. Netstrings have the length in text at the front of the string instead, so you need only preallocate a buffer of 20 characters to st
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by fazzone 12y ago
I agree. In fact, it is almost like the market has figured out 'a way for both countries to work on what they're really good at' (paraphrasing TFA). "Governments that at least partially cooperate," on the other ha
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by fazzone 13y ago
If you are interested in that sort of thing, I highly recommend the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - it is partly about the activities of a joint British/American counterintelligence unit whose mission is to make sure the Axis
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by fazzone 13y ago
Parametric type means to take the type as a parameter; parent was probably asked to use Generics in C# or Java or C++ templates.

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