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Re:Unreal Numbers on Sunday February 22, 2026 @02:56PM (#47114074)
For bijection, the path through the rationals can just jump over and skip any numbers that have already been visited by the path.
Re:Leaving Google on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:32PM (#43955876)
What benefits does this have over a standard VecDeque?
Re:Numbering should start at zero: E.W. Dijkstra on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:28PM (#43440452)
> C gives pointers one past the end of an array meaningful semantics

Nelson Elhage wrote about an alternate interpretation: https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/08/indices-point-between-eleme...

Re:When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster [C++] on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:52AM (#42906630)
A potential issue with that is needing to adjust the distribution of either X or Y, since if X and Y remain uniform, then there will be a lot of points packed into the sides of the circle with higher density than the center column.
Re:See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:42PM (#39656768)
Then how would you know if the original random numbers were affected?
> kitchen knives were made impossible to use for homicide

Can't wait for kitchen knives that immediately self-destruct if you use them on items that didn't come from the knife manufacturer's grocery store.

Probably not, since there will be a warning screen displayed on boot if the bootloader is unlocked.
Re:Remote Attestation is coming back on Saturday July 30, 2022 @02:34PM (#32289165)
See: https://xkcd.com/488/

Also, since a lot of different movie streaming services (e.g. Hulu, Disney+) have launched, a lot of content has moved off of Netflix, leading to a higher piracy rate.

Re:Remote Attestation is coming back on Friday July 29, 2022 @09:05PM (#32283382)
The emulated TPM will not contain the TPM manufacturer's private key that is used to sign responses.