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Regex-constrained GPT, what is a mnemonic for pi? > It's a word, a short statement or phrase which you learn. Can you make a good one? > Man, I wish I could recommend an answer. Yo…

If you are familiar with that paper, I'm a little confused by the results section. If I'm reading p01 from figure 7 correctly, the "before" is x&(x-1) and the "after" is a single i…

TMDS will reduce the number of crossings, but 10110110 will still have more crossings than 0. It'll be some pseudo-random mapping, not "greyscale", but it'll still be readable. Loo…

The type looks a little insane, but it's just a combination of three mundane hacks that also exist in other languages. The first: If you need a serializer/deserializer in a simple …

Before you start rearchitecting your app, be sure to check if the only reason you're seeing preflights on GET is that someone added a dumb X-Requested-By header. (You can even do P…

'by a char or two', they said.

Pray tell, what is the size of a wchar_t on your system?

wchar_t *value = (wchar_t *)malloc(length); // The documentation says that if the string for some reason was not stored with zero-termination, we need to manually terminate it. Sig…

Isn't that how fundraising works? You make people commit to "supporting your cause" with a trivial pledge, so that when you ask for actual money they can't back out without losing …

Java has all the security logic INSIDE THE VM . That's the big difference.

"You can't compress noise." Well, humans can't tell the difference between two snippets of white noise. It'll be fun. Remember jbig? (can't find the source, but iirc "most of what …

Yes, that's the point. If you need to parse a JPEG, you spawn a VM to do so. It is allowed to use n seconds of CPU, k bytes of memory, and send a bitmap back to the caller. (Sure, …

Why are the examples for P≟NP always so bad? "Solving TSP", "planning airlines better", "get the $1M bounty"? Why not SAT? There's a $200,000 bounty paid out every ten minutes for …

I assume it was flagged because unless you're already a true believer, "look! this falling building is falling according to the laws of physics" is not a very strong argument.

The very first code snippet is a reimplementation of 'chunk' that is at least quadratic. Run away.

This sentence sums up the paper: "Turing machines can only compute what can be modelled mathematically, and since we cannot model human dialogues mathematically, it follows that Tu…

It's very rare for something to scale sublinearly in the number of bits :-) complexity(2∗∗1024)/complexity(2∗∗762) comes out to about 1500x more work.

> The clear passwords present in jmxremote.password file will now be over-written by their SHA3-512 hash by the JMX agent I must be misreading this. As far as I can tell the abilit…

"It's just a normal function." No, it has magical access to the lexical scope.

Secure payments? If you hook up a display to the secure enclave, suddenly it's really expensive for malware to steal your money. (Sorry, replied to the wrong comment and apparently…

They're allowed to ask "does anything on this system handle yelp:// URLs?".