ssadler

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by ssadler 7y ago
Presumably because how would it differentiate between a legit "already installed" extension with a signature that cannot be verified, and an extension installed by malware that also cannot be verified?
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by ssadler 8y ago
We have a technical method to do so, but the site has not been created, that I know of. For example: * A domain name like ipfs://nytimesmirror.com that mirrors nytimes articles (at the same relative URLs) * Some kind of crowdsourc
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by ssadler 8y ago
Comparison is not accurate, not picking up junk on craigslist takes 0 time, tech event takes >0 time.
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by ssadler 8y ago
See also: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3294
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by ssadler 8y ago
Polynomial long division in Haskell: https://github.com/libscott/math/blob/master/src/Math/Polyno...
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by ssadler 12y ago
Would that apply to any craft?
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by ssadler 13y ago
They couldn't, because Javascript etc are turing complete, so you can't predict if they're going to end (halting problem). With bitcoin you know that the script will end and that the running time will correlate loosely with t
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by ssadler 13y ago
I find it suspicious that Java or Scala didn't make the list. Java may not be sexy but it checks many boxes... And I suspect that Scala would have been a serious contender in brevity too.
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by ssadler 13y ago
Author here. You're right, "Awk in Haskell" is perhaps a bit misleading. The intention is not to replace Awk for the masses, but mainly to provide an Awk-like tool for programers who are more familiar with Haskell. Similar to
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by ssadler 16y ago
Because it's a standard and not a hack, because you wont have to do workarounds like utf8 encoding unicode objects, and because it's also easy.
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by ssadler 16y ago
No, but Python can.
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by ssadler 16y ago
Why hack around this when you can use JSON?
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by ssadler 16y ago
Would it work to store all the state in a python C module?