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In a similar vein, this is an encoding I designed specifically for 256 bit keys; my design includes checksumming and some consideration to consistent verbalization: https://github.…

I have been using a technique that's almost identical to this for years, based simply on observing that the roots are symmetric around the min/maximum: differentiate, set to zero, …

This doesn't invalidate the point you're making, but saying that it's 'basically impossible to play a wrong note on a diatonic harmonica' is simply false, as anyone hearing me play…

> I don’t think the government did anything wrong. I think that rather depends on whether you regard the role of government here to assist its (future) citizens, or censure them (n…

> For AR though we need multiple apps to share the same 3D space all running at the same time This is something that I've given some practical thought to. The approach that I consi…

> Perhaps, but if anything the UK's own government and press were major offenders in this regard. It's quite possible that this behaviour by the UK political classes is what hasten…

I'm not sure I understand this, and I'm genuinely interested in why it would be. I find zero indexing logical: zero is the first natural number and is thus a fine candidate for bei…

I have to concede that I still talk in this now outmoded manner. I have to make a conscious effort to switch to modern gender neutral language (eg. they) when speaking or writing t…

> The solution to this paradox was to use a set of axioms (most commonly the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms) which do not allow the construction of such a contradictory set ... Or one can…

That's a fair comment. I hadn't considered that perspective. I'm aware of several TLDs that require evidence of residency/trade within the geographic region for the purpose of regi…

I don't think that is true. From section 2 of the commission's notice: ... as of the withdrawal date ... the Registry for .eu will be entitled to revoke such domain name on its own…

Those who want the UK to remain in the EU will see this as just one damaging consequence of the UK's decision to leave. Conversely, Brexiteers will see this as an example of maladm…

Having quickly read the paper, the deletion guarantees seem slightly weak. An item's position in the table is derived from two things: a fingerprint (a constant-sized hash) and sec…

I'm familiar with both cuckoo hashing and Bloom filters but had not until now seen a demonstration of cuckoo filters; they look very useful. But there is one stated fact that I'm f…

It took me hours to beat that game, I often had to leave it running while I got on with other tasks, but I enjoyed it greatly, though I didn't have the appetite to play through the…

In Java there are libraries for this (as with most things): https://github.com/tomgibara/permute

> Most public transport revenue also comes from the capital This is incorrect. 40% of 'Transport for London' (TfL) spending comes from fares, and approx. 27% from government [0]. T…

My own observation is that programmers have a marked tendency to assume that because two methods have similar or identical behaviour, that this implies they should share an impleme…

I broadly agree with this, but draw a slightly different conclusion: that the imperative when growing a large code base is proper tooling/planning for dependency management. If goo…

The problem with this analysis is that, if such a course of "ever-extending copyright protections" were pursued, it would run the 'well of creativity' dry. The 'creative commons' i…

I don't accepts axiom 1 as valid. 1. The mapping between DOM content and Visible content should be well-behaved. I don't see why the same edit, applied to two documents with visual…

I have experience of developing large software systems for both government and corporations, in the UK. Large IT systems fail in many ways, small and large and I don't think it's p…

IANAL but I've been chewing my way through the ~300 pages of the published draft bill. What catches my attention is that the bill appears does not appear to sufficiently constrain …