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by giomasce 4y ago
It also fails on multithdreaded programs, unless you add even more assumptions on the allocator.
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by giomasce 4y ago
One solution I've sometimes seen or the wild is to mandate that the library allocates just one big malloc chunk and arranges pointers inside that chunk. So the caller has to free just one thing. It's more inconvenient for the libr
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by giomasce 4y ago
This means that you will need another comparison, if any. For other people it totally makes sense to restrict the comparison to products where you can install the operating system you want.
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by giomasce 4y ago
You mean a USB wifi dongle?
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by giomasce 4y ago
> When a mathematician says infinity they mean a repeatable process that we can keep doing forever. I don't think many mathematicians would agree. The real numbers are an infinite set, but I don't think is commonly thought as s
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by giomasce 4y ago
That's actually often used as the definition of an infinite set.
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by giomasce 4y ago
There are manifolds that are flat and compact (i.e., not "infinite"). For example, flat tori.
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by giomasce 4y ago
Except that developers do not take advantage of that, and here I am reversing UE Blueprint bytecode to make games working on Wine.
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by giomasce 4y ago
In addition to what has already bern written, notice that children and teenagers often need to test limits to define their own identity and independency. So there are good chances that prohibiting something is going to make it even more app
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by giomasce 4y ago
Who do you trust as an authority?
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by giomasce 4y ago
It paid off: Microsoft's software is well-known to avoid bloat and be transparent to the user. /s
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by giomasce 4y ago
As someone curious with formal proof systems, I am not sure it's a good idea to start from there if you still need to grasp elementary concepts. They are really technical stuff. It's like working on an advanced optimizing compiler
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by giomasce 4y ago
Suppose you have three finite sets A, B and C, each with a, b and c elements. Let A->B be the set of functions from A to B. Then it has b^a elements. Let AxB the set of couples with the first element in A and the second on B. Then it has
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by giomasce 4y ago
The point is not reducing input per se, but reducing entitled input that doesn't give back anything to the community.
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by giomasce 4y ago
I love this complex-engineering-thing-you-thought-it-was-trivial-but-it-doesn't-even-try-to-be kind of articles!
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by giomasce 4y ago
Neither would I. Though every now and then I wouldn't dislike to be bound to rules that I can evaluate in advance, without having to bet on what a judge's a posteriori interpretation will be.
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by giomasce 4y ago
Notice that "Capitalised" and "Proper" are adjectives and "Me" is a pronoun, so they're not capitalised in German.
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by giomasce 4y ago
Twenty dollars for a transfer? I think my bank is expensive because I pay transfers 0.25 euro...
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by giomasce 4y ago
Few things give the pure joy that this kind of useless stuff does.
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by giomasce 4y ago
My government does that: I can have a smart card that, with the appropriate protocols, can issue a cryptographic legally recognized proof that I am who I am.
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by giomasce 4y ago
So I'm a liar for predicting that eventually it will rain if I can't tell you precisely when?,
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by giomasce 4y ago
> Emails will not come from the domain of the company that sent them and companies will call you and ask for your SSN, and often you have no choice but to comply with these or not use those services, because they simply offer no other op
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by giomasce 4y ago
In a functional analysis class ("analisi funzionale" in Italian, shortened "anal fun") our professor suggested us to complete an exercise using one of the most relevant theorems in the field: the dominated convergence th
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by giomasce 4y ago
Apparently security bugs and privacy violations too.
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by giomasce 4y ago
Any suggestion on a (possibly self-hosted) web application to manage GTD lists?
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by giomasce 4y ago
Not sure it is a good idea. It might be more flexible when you issue an invoice and have to modify it, but first it would enable fraud, and second it would mean that you have to monitor incoming invoices to see if anything changed and accou
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by giomasce 4y ago
Yes, you do. At least, I do, and if you don't I'll be happy to eat yours too. I love Parmigiano. It's not really the reason why I ended up living in Parma, but it's a great coincidence nonetheless.
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by giomasce 4y ago
In Italy too. They specifically developed an XML format for that, and each time you issue an invoice you have to (well, with some exceptions, but they are gradually removing all of them) send a copy to the revenue agency, which will forward
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by giomasce 4y ago
A parent working at NASA is a great advantage for entering tech not because they could open a door for you, but because they would help you creating a receptive mindset much before you'd actually start reading books. Or maybe it wasn&#
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by giomasce 4y ago
I'm surprised Bezos is not writing on setting decent wages for his workers...

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