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by giomasce 8y ago
It strikes me that the System V amd64 ABI is not defined on such an (apparently) obvious point as padding of values smaller than a word. Is there a reason why it does not get fixed?
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by giomasce 8y ago
"The mental model for Git is needlessly complex". I still cannot understand this one. I find Git terribly simple: you just have a hash DAG of commits, each of which has an associated hash tree of files. Branches and tags are just
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by giomasce 8y ago
Maybe you should acknowledge the fact that others may have different tastes than yours, instead of calling for "system issues" because you do not like the mainstream tool (which is perfectly fine, in itself).
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by giomasce 8y ago
The author itself admits in the postscript that he has embellished a bit the article, but allow me to take it at its face value: to me, it seems that the article confuses mathematics with its notation (and the same for computer science, but
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by giomasce 8y ago
Generally speaking, I consider the combination of overly strict rules and relaxed rule application one of the most dangerous manifestations of authority abuse, because it leaves to the single person in charge of applying the rules the decis
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by giomasce 8y ago
I suppose people thought the same of classical computers when the ordinary way to carry out computations was to deliver them to arrays of people sitting at desks. Now, history is not forced to repeat itself, but it has happened frequently e
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by giomasce 8y ago
I like the idea, but I must admit that (with my background of a mathematics researcher, but almost completely ignorant of quantum physics and quantum physicists' notations) it is rather difficult to understand. In particular the bra-ke
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by giomasce 8y ago
Fully agree. All authentication operations should always be completely explicit and clearly display the identity you are authenticating to. An email link implicitly logging you in looks like completely unacceptable. The email to recover you
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by giomasce 8y ago
Unless they use pre compiled headers.
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by giomasce 8y ago
It seems to me that the author is confusing what the actual point of FP is. I do not think it is about writing less, more concise or more understandable code: the examples they bring are of different length mostly because they use languages
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by giomasce 9y ago
This "toilet water" part really reminds me of the movie Idiocracy...
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by giomasce 9y ago
SciHub is unfortunately rather opaque on its internals (and that is definitely something that I would like to see changed), but it seems that the Telegram bot is blessed by the official Twitter account. In practice, I have often found it mo
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by giomasce 9y ago
You install Telegram, you contact the bot https://t.me/scihubbot , you send him a DOI and it will answer with the PDF (if it has it). Sometimes it says (in Russian) there is an error fetching the paper: I understand that in
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by giomasce 9y ago
I use the Telegram bot. Very quick, always on, keeps a history, available on all devices.
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by giomasce 9y ago
It seems to me that this form of "public spanking" would really earn the opposite of what you claim for: when you leave the judgement to the crowd, you are basically fomenting hatred and revenge (because for some psychological rea
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by giomasce 9y ago
This is still the easy path. Sometimes you have to hope that the article you need was translated from Russian to English, find which is its translated title, search the title, understand that you could not find anything because you have to
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by giomasce 9y ago
The thing I love of git is that its internal structure is very simple and transparent, so for any given repository it is possible (although not necessarily easy, if things are well messed-up) to understand what is going on. It is true that
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Paperbackup: backup secret keys on a PDF of QR codes(github.com)
2 points by giomasce 9y ago|0 comments
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by giomasce 9y ago
Did not happen to me, but it's really baffling! https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by giomasce 9y ago
It's not about believing everything or nothing, I think: it is more about how to filter things you believe. Believing something is a way to be part of a group, and it seems to me that most humans (including me) tend to feel better when
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by giomasce 9y ago
Not an expert, but I do not think that you need an evolutionary explanation: birds are often not stupid, and can simply observe that nests with more cigarettes have less parasites.
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by giomasce 9y ago
I have been wanting to switch to FF for a lot of time, but insufficient performance used to hold me back. With FF 57 there are no excuses anymore, it's fantastic!
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by giomasce 9y ago
Very good, as long as it works. There have been cases in the past when people did not find the innovation they needed at some point, and have experienced extinction or close extinction. I would like to not risk that again, also because that
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by giomasce 9y ago
I am curious of that too; however, given that it does not happen yet (or, at least, so I think), I am brought to believe that it is not that easy, or at least not easier than mining ores (which still requires some degree of purification). T
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by giomasce 9y ago
You cannot even assume that innovation can automatically fix supply issues: unconventional oil extraction is possible because unconventional oil is there in the first place. This might not happen with other minerals.
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by giomasce 9y ago
One thing manufacturers could do to reduce waste would be to make phones less locked in the first place.
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by giomasce 9y ago
Which other ZFC axiom would be "realistic"?
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by giomasce 9y ago
That was the Bananach space...
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by giomasce 9y ago
If you could provide some way to construct the WO we could ditch AC. I guess it is not happening soon...
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by giomasce 9y ago
The rule of avoiding "security through obscurity" is not 1) "you should let a potential attacker known everything about your system", but 2) "your system must be designed so that even if an attacker knows everything

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