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by rmasters 3y ago
That ruling was overturned on appeal. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/citigroup-wins-appeal-ove...
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When Are Lexer Modes Useful? (2017)(oilshell.org)
2 points by rmasters 3y ago|0 comments
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by rmasters 3y ago
I found this video to be quite informative and addresses a relationship between the information incorporated into a chemical process and its function. Nobel laureate Jack Szostak from University of Chicago delivered the Eyring General Lectu
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by rmasters 3y ago
This kind of ambiguity is rampant in technical writing. Example: "There are situations where developers do X instead of Y which is the wrong thing to do." Wait, is X wrong or Y?! You go ahead and assume X is wrong and then figure
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by rmasters 3y ago
If this is a Severance reference, it's doubly hilarious.
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by rmasters 4y ago
> Also why not just go 10 days in a row and pull out 1k? In the US, this could be considered "structuring" to avoid reporting requirements which is a federal crime with a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.
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by rmasters 4y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but if I rephrase your question to "Then why do some places with low crime have less police?", then the answer just seems to be common sense.
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by rmasters 4y ago
In some encodings? One zero is sufficient for UTF-8.
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by rmasters 4y ago
Thank you. This is pretty much the comment that I was going to write but you saved me the time. There are judges in Seattle that appear to disagree with the notion that serious violent criminals should be punished with serious jail time. Ho
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by rmasters 4y ago
Brings back memories. I was a MS support engineer on CompuServe around 1989. I supported Windows/286 and 386, Excel, and Word for Windows. I posted around 25 to 30 messages a day. I had a partner named Bassam, if I recall correctly. It
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by rmasters 4y ago
This project compliments the stage0 project (featured on the HN front page earlier today) which builds a C compiler using an assembler that is bootstrapped from hex. However, those bootstraps require an existing kernel. You are required to
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Show HN: A 3K Posix bootstrap kernel written in hex(github.com)
5 points by rmasters 4y ago|1 comments
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by rmasters 4y ago
I appreciate the extra context. For what it's worth, I was not aware of the previous discussion and I just thought it was an interesting post. (I really don't have any feelings about golang one way or another.) I can appreciate yo
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by rmasters 4y ago
Are those issues really so egregious? There is a tremendous amount of content geared towards "informing the reader" and I'd prefer to draw my own conclusions about the author's intent rather than having a censor (who is
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by rmasters 4y ago
Flagging this post strikes me as shameful censorship of an unpopular opinion. You may say it's the snark/anger/frustration that got flagged, but I suspect it would not have been flagged if the topic were different. Presuming
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by rmasters 4y ago
Yeah, I'm avoiding modern interfaces due to my peculiar bootstrapping requirements (e.g. must run on old HW; no SW dependencies). virtio is probably a better choice for anyone trying to build something practical. On the other hand, it
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by rmasters 4y ago
From the PDF: "It is true: in our quest to make full use of the CPU, we must abandon all of those helpful routines provided by BIOS. As we will see when we look in more detail at the 32-bit protected mode switch-over, BIOS routines, ha
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by rmasters 5y ago
I worked with Nick's brother Paul for many years at F5. Several years ago I asked him if Nick was Satoshi and he said Nick denied being Satoshi and Paul also added that it wouldn't make sense because "He still owes me money!&
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by rmasters 5y ago
The link below is a relatively simple example of differential fuzzing between implementations in different programming languages using AFL. It works by reading and writing to a second process it spawns and aborting on differences. Before wr
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by rmasters 6y ago
If you are willing to adapt to a different structure and workflow, you can filter the scope of git down dramatically with sparse checkouts (as @WorldMaker also mentioned). https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-d
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by rmasters 6y ago
Tree-sitter uses JS for grammars and I'm sure there are others: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/creating-parsers#t...
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by rmasters 6y ago
I have a similar impression as you but I also found this quote illuminating: "I never read the Pricipia Mathematica; almost no one has. You know it's not really traditional in Physics to go back and read the original papers of the
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by rmasters 6y ago
I agree that loss of focus can put someone in the danger zone of looking for other options without really resolving the underlying problem. However, I think the article is implying that deep thinking about your values and interests when you
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by rmasters 6y ago
I think its great. IELR is a straightforward optimization that just makes sense to use when building an LR family parser. You can think of LALR(1) as just taking an LR(1) state graph and merging together nodes that are compatible (in that t