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flyingmutant

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    Comment #40233486

    This algorithm produces biased result with probability 1/2^(32-bitwidth(N)). Using 64 or 128 random bits can make the bias practically undetectable. Comprehensive overview of the a…

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    Comment #29694781

    This issue contains simple code that is claimed to be >300x faster: https://github.com/czbiohub/xicor/issues/17

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    Comment #11244396

    If you are interested in this, [Data Structures for Text Sequences]( https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf ) by Charles Crowley is an excellent paper to study.

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    Comment #10654283

    There is http://rollupjs.org/ , which is quite young though.

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    Comment #10554466

    Is there finally a way to renew the certificate without taking down the web server listening on :443? This was the major thing missing from being able to deploy it in production.

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    Comment #10432253

    Cmus does cache all the metadata — in the file named, unsurprisingly, «cache». You can restart cmus, and notice that the startup will be instant (even on an HDD with 100+GiB of mus…

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    Comment #10431242

    Please give the latest version a try. I am not aware of any segfaults that have not been fixed upstream. Debian packages a really ancient version of cmus for some reason.

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    Comment #10431105

    About «backgrounding» — please see https://github.com/cmus/cmus/wiki/detachable-cmus . Carbon components warning is because cmus currently uses libao for the sound output on OS X b…

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    Comment #10431055

    Oh wow, did not expect this here! I am the current maintainer (not the original author) of cmus, and can answer some questions, if they'll come up.

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    Comment #9414398

    There is an ES6 label for tracking these issues: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/labels/ES6

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    Comment #6815638

    While that undoubtedly sounds very impressive, IMO tests should not be what you use to ensure that your software is correct — in my opinion, they can be actively a bit harmful by g…

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    Comment #6613365

    Since people are mentioning various other HN interfaces they use, I'd highly recommend to check out Georgify — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...